M Woods Museum is an independent, not-for-profit art museum founded in 2014 by collectors Lin Han and Wanwan Lei, which opened to the public in the autumn of 2014, and is located in Beijing's

798 Art Zone 798 Art Zone (), or Dashanzi Art District, is a complex of 50-year-old decommissioned military factory buildings boasting a unique architectural style that houses a thriving artistic community in Dashanzi, Chaoyang District, Beijing. The area is ...

. The M WOODS 798 site is housed in a former munitions factory in Beijing's 798 art district, and in 2019 M WOODS opened its second museum space, M WOODS Art Community, located in the city's historic Dongcheng district. Regarding the origin of the museum's name, Lin Han told ''Asian Art'' in a 2016 interview that “M is the initial of my mother’s given name, Miao. Woods is a play on the English translation of the Mandarin character for Lin which means wood or forest.” In addition to exhibitions of the M Woods permanent collection, the museum presents a year-round program of exhibitions, performances, music, education, live events and talks that situate contemporary art at the heart of the city and beyond. M Woods was granted official non-profit status by the Chinese government in 2015. Also in 2015, art collector

Michael Xufu Huang Michael Xufu Huang (; born 1994) is a Chinese art collector and socialite. Huang co-founded the M Woods Museum of Beijing's 798 Art Zone in 2015 and the X Museum in the Chaoyang District, Beijing, Chaoyang district of Beijing in 2020. His art col ...

joined as co-founder at the age of 22. In September 2019, Michael Xufu Huang announced his resignation and withdrawal of his collection from M WOODS Museum. Huang will open a separate museum (X Museum) in March 2020. In 2019 Victor Wang was appointed the museum's first Artistic Director and Chief Curator.

Collection

According to an interview with ''Vogue'', the M Woods permanent collection contains over 300 works of classic and contemporary art that include

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statues, tantric paintings, works by Firenze Lai, Ouyang Chun,

Raoul De Keyser Raoul De Keyser (29 August 1930 – 6 October 2012) was a Belgian painter who lived and worked in Deinze, Belgium. Early life and education De Keyser was born in Deinze on 29 August 1930, and lived there all his life. His father was a carp ...

Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, b ...

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, and

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