Selected from a recent major gift of works to the Hammer Contemporary Collection by the Haudeschild family, this presentation focuses on pioneering Chinese photography and video from the 1990a and early 2000s. This exhibition looks as a generation of artists whose work responded to a period of tremendous social, political, and economic change in mainland China. Through strategies of conceptual art, performance, and installation, these artists reflected on and critiqued the vicual culture of a burgeoning new China on the cusp of the 21st century. Cruel Youth Diary was curated and organized by Nicholas Barlow and Aram Mushayedi.