Du Kun (b. 1982, Sichuan) graduated from the 4th Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and now works and lives in Tianjin. 

In 2016, he held a solo exhibition Gods Make a Ruckus at the Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In the same year, his advertising work in collaboration with Saatchi & Saatchi won the Gold Award at the One Show Advertising Awards and the Bronze Cube Award at the 96th ADC Annual Design Awards in New York. In 2016, he participated in the group exhibition The Turn of Time: Art and Reflection in Contemporary Asia at the Spencer Museum of Art in the United States. In 2019, he held a solo exhibition Sceneries of Sumeru at the Mizuma & Kips Gallery in New York, the United States. In 2020, he was shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. His works are collected by the Spencer Museum of Art in the United States.