陈雷 1969年出生于中国长沙，1990年毕业于中国湖南长沙理工大学美术系，1999年赴美国学习工作，现工作生活于北京 陈雷一直致力于中国现当代艺术思潮的推广和实践，在作品的创作过程中力图调动全部的感知力，去挖掘潜意识里的视觉 记忆。他把经过沉淀的生活经验和感受转换成一种超自然的意识流场景，并对符号和形象的原始语境作出改变，成为画面 中独特的元素，希望通过绘画行为来达成自我的认知，在迷幻的世界里一步步走向觉悟之路。
陈雷是80年代末90年代初湖南“新形象”艺术运动的代表人物，也是中国首个双年展——1992年广州双年展(油画部分) 获优秀奖最年轻的艺术家。他的作品被《中国现代美术全集-素描卷》、《中国当代艺术史1990-1999》(吕澎著)、《 中国当代美术1979-1999·油画》(范迪安编)、《20世纪中国艺术史》(吕澎著)等艺术史文献记载，作品多次在美国Wentworth Gallery、Pacific Art Design Center、韩国、中国香港、台湾、北京等艺术机构和国际性艺术博览会展出，被 国内外艺术机构及私人收藏。
Chen Lei 1969: Born in Changsha, Hunan Province1990:Graduated from Changsha University of Science and Technology, Hunan Province, China. 1999 : Studied and worked in the United States, now lives and works in Beijing. Chen Lei has always been committed to the promotion and practice of Chinese modern and contemporary art trends. In the creation process of his works, he tries to mobilize all the perceptive power and tap the visual memory in the subconscious. He transformed the sedimented life experience and feelings into a supernatural stream of conscious- ness scene, and changed the original context of symbols and images to become unique elements in the picture. He is hoping to achieve self-cognition through the act of painting, and to walk step by step on the road of enlightenment in the psychedelic world.
Chen Lei is a representative figure of the "New image" art movement in Hunan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the youngest artist to win the Excellence Award at the 1992 Guangzhou Biennale (Oil painting section), China's first biennale. His works have been recorded in the Complete Collection of Modern Chinese Art - Sketch Volume, Chinese Contemporary Art History 1990-1999 (by Lu Peng), Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-1999· Oil Painting (edited by Fan Di 'an), 20th Century Chinese Art History (by Lu Peng) and other art history documents. His works have been exhibited in Wentworth Gallery, Pacific Art Design Center, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing and other art institutions and international art fairs, and have been collected by domestic and foreign art institutions and private collections.