1992年就从中央美术学院版画系毕业的董梦阳,最初的想法跟他的同学们并没有什么两样:就是要做个艺术家。但毕业后必须要面对的生存问题,却让找工作成为了摆在他艺术梦想之前的第一道现实的门槛。在董梦阳看来,后来自己做“艺术北京”所获得成功的最初缘起,就是当时在找工作时多少有些无奈的“阴差阳错”所埋下的伏笔。“我感觉自己从事这个行业完全是被推上来的,它并不是我自己最初的主动选择,而是 Dong Mengyang, who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1992, had the same initial idea as his classmates: there was to be an artist. However, after graduating, the survival problems that must be faced have made finding a job the threshold of the first reality before his artistic dream. In Dong Meng-yang’s opinion, the initial success of his own ”Art Beijing“ was the foreshadowing of the somewhat helpless ”I feel completely engaged in this industry is pushed up, it is not my first initiative, but