The Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (MFA) will present the first U.S. exhibition to focus solely on the post-Mao generation of Chinese artists that offers a look at how China's mega-development has impacted its youth culture and spawned new art trends. My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, will be on view June 7 through September 21, 2014.

My Generation: Young Chinese Artists is an extended look at the new generation of artists emerging in mainland China since 2000, the year that China opened wide its doors to international artists and that Chinese artists began to command attention on the world’s stage. All of the artists in this exhibition were born after 1976 and the end of the Cultural Revolution. Almost all of them are products of the One Child Policy and have grown up in a country with a high-powered market economy. All of them, whether educated in the West or not, have been exposed to global art movements through the Internet and increasingly liberalized education at China's art academies.

My Generation is the first exhibition in the US and Europe to showcase these emerging artists and is a collaboration between the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. Curated by Barbara Pollack, this exhibition is being conceived as a single show divided between the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, and will be on view at both museums concurrently.

“My Generation allows us to explore the role these emerging Chinese contemporary artists have in a globalized art world,” said Todd D. Smith, executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art. “With its breadth and scope of artists, media, and approaches to art making, The exhibition provides an unprecedented look inside one of the most fascinating developments in the art world today: Chinese art of our time. This exhibition represents a milestone in the life of this institution, and our partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is an important step forward for the nature of regional partnerships.”

A leading arts journalist who has covered the Chinese art scene since the late 1990s, the exhibition’s curator Barbara Pollack states, “Young Chinese artists are breaking out in ways that challenge and defy the styles of an older generation of Chinese artists already known in the west," She interviewed over 100 young artists from every region of China in preparation for this exhibition. "Despite language barriers and cultural differences, these artists work in a truly global vocabulary which will be readily understood by American audiences."

Kent Lydecker, MFA executive director commented, “Contemporary art in China is fascinating and vastly important. The collaboration with the Tampa Museum of Art underscores the mutual commitment in enriching our nation’s understanding of global diversity and engaging museum visitor’s in international dialogue. We are honored to have these artists on view. We are honored to present the work of these exciting young artists.”

This exhibition is made possible with the support of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. It will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art where it will be on view from October 24, 2014 through January 18, 2015.