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Ruofan Chen, female, was born in Yichang, Hubei Province in 1996. She is a contemporary Chinese artist. Graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a bachelor’s degree in 2019 and obtained a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in London in 2021. Currently working and living in London.
Chen Ruofan’s creations focus on the changes and flows of human emotions in the technological era, capturing subtle emotions through the combination of natural elements and technological media. His representative works include “White Peach III”, “Unknown Perception XIII”, “Unknown Perception IV”, “Unknown Perception XI”, as well as “Memory Archive” – which takes Shikumen architecture as the carrier and builds an emotional historical word structure system by splicing wood and digital images. “Landscape” uses light and shadow and material collage to handle the relationship between architecture, light and memory. In 2020, he/she was shortlisted for the 11th New Star Art Award. In 2022, he/she participated in the first “Yulu Youth Art Festival” and exhibited the installation video work “Warm trees”. The solo exhibition “Sensitivity to the Wind” in 2023 explores climate change and geographical memory through painting, video and installation. The work “Sensitivity to the Wind” won the first “Path Award”. The original work “Memory Archive” in 2024 was exhibited at the “China Contemporary Art Yearbook Exhibition (Shanghai) 2024”.

Dong Xiaochi was born in 1993. He graduated with a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in the UK and currently lives and works in London and Shanghai. Dong Xiaochi’s artistic practice is based on Chinese classical painting and explores the experimental logic of contemporary painting. As a result, his works possess visual features that harmonize different aesthetic traditions. Artists draw inspiration from artificial landscapes of various scales – classical gardens, modern botanical gardens and micro-ecological tanks – to explore the simulation, imitation and compression of nature by different concepts. Dong Xiaochi’s creations mainly involve painting and comprehensive graphic works. By creating images brimming with hints of light, humidity and atmosphere, the artist aims to give form to contemporary natural scenes.

Du Jingze was born in Yantai, Shandong Province in 1995. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design (BFA) in Ireland in 2017 and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art (MA) in the UK, graduating in 2019. It has received support and sponsorship from many internationally influential awards such as the RHA Studio Programme (2020) Residency Program, the NUI Art and Design (2017) Award, and the NCAD Staff Prize Award. Du Jingze, in an exceptionally personal and peaceful way, freely selects the subjects he is interested in to depict, treating classical, popular, and even synthetic figures equally. This reflects the artist’s own disobedience to the cultural identities and presuppositions bestowed by society or the outside world, and more importantly, his active selection, editing, and rejection of elements that he is more interested in. It’s like a highly free mindset of a new world citizen.

Fang Yuan (born in Shenzhen, China in 1996) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She received a bachelor’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2019 and was awarded the Rhodes Family’s highest Distinguished Achievement Award and several scholarships. Obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2022. Fang Yuan’s abstract painting practice is driven by a self-detachment from the external environment. Growing up and living in a rapidly developing city, along with the constantly changing identity perception and the deformation of the external world, she continuously feels the anxiety and unease projected onto her by the surrounding environment. For her, all changes can be a real and vivid tangible physical experience. As a globally recognized Chinese-American artist born in the 1990s, Fang Yuan’s works have been collected by many well-known institutions. Including the Long Museum, the Galeries Lafayette Foundation in Paris, ICA Miami, the FLAG Foundation in New York, the GreenFamily Foundation in Dallas, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, and Inima de in Brazil Paula Museum, Oren Park Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the X Museum, etc.

Yage Guo (b. 1998, Shanghai) is a contemporary artist lives and works in London. She received both her BFA and MA Fine Art degrees at the Slade School of Fine Art. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Traces of Swords’, PM/AM Gallery, London (2023); ‘At Dawn’, Duo show, Yage Guo & Bo Sun, Sherbet Green Gallery, London (2023). Selected group show include: The Future of Loneliness’, Guts Gallery, London (2024); ‘Orbital’, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok (2024); ‘Moonlit Beings’, Soka Art Centre, Beijing (2023); ‘A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream’, Gene Gallery, Shanghai (2023) ‘A Gauzy Flame’, Herald Street, London (2023); ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’, Kravitz Contemporary, London (2022); ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’, 180 The Strand, London (2022); ‘ASSEMBLE’, V.O. Curations, London (2022); ‘Pathways on Paper’, South Parade, London (2022); ‘Knocking it out of the Park’, Gallery 46, London, (2021); ‘Decadent Gaming’, Linseed Gallery, Shanghai
 
Introduction
Yage Guo’s paintings encompass various techniques, including oil painting on wood panel and canvas, pencil drawing, and bookmaking. Drawing inspiration from literature, nature, mysticism and imagery, Yage paints figures, flowers, and still life with an ethereal and sentimental quality that evokes dreamlike fantasies or hazy memories. Time, nidana, and the use of metaphors are crucial concepts in her practice, which she approaches with a romantic and contemplative attitude.

Education
2017-2020 Slade School of Fine Art BFA (Honours)

2020-2022 Slade School of Fine Art MA (Honours)
 
Solo and Duo Exhibition
2023 Traces of Swords, Solo show, PM/AM Gallery, London
2023 At Dawn, Duo show, Yage Guo & Bo Sun, Sherbet Green Gallery, London
 
Group Exhibition
2024 The Future of Loneliness, Guts Gallery, London
2024 Orbital, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok
2023  Moonlit Beings , Soka Art Centre, Beijing
2023  A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, Gene Gallery, Shanghai
2023  A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, London
2022  Under The Jaguar Sun, Kravitz Contemporary
2022  飲食男女 Eat Drink Man Woman The 180 Strand, London
2022  What Now? PM/AM Gallery, London
2022  EYES, DUSK, PHANTASMAGORIA, Rupture XIBIT, London
2022  A/D D/A, ZERUI Gallery, London
2022  ASSEMBLE, V.O.Curation, London
2022  XENOS, Universe Gallery, London
2022  Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London
2021  Knocking it out of the Park, Gallery 46, London
2021  Slade Summer Shows, London
2021  WALLS ALL AROUND, Fusion, Nottingham
2021  Folie à Deux, Haus Gallery, London
2020  Decadent Gaming, Linseed Gallery, Shanghai
2020  Slade Online Showcase, London
2020  CAR SHOW, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2020  SAVAGE, The Crypt Gallery, London 
2019  MELON CAULI, Asylum Chapel, London
2019  APPROACHES, D Contemporary, Mayfair, London
2019  18/11/1, PMQ, Hong Kong
2018  BRIDGE (SOCHI, RUSSIA), Grand Hyatt Regency, Sochi, Russia
2018  BRIDGE, IZO Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Collection
The Nixon Collection

Publication
2022 Art Maze Mag Issue 29

Han Xinyu was born in Shanghai, China in 1998 and currently lives and works in London. She recently obtained a Master’s degree in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2020.

Han Xinyu’s creative inspiration stems from her observations of individuals’ sense of alienation in urban life and her exploration of the complexity of the relationship between groups and individuals. Her recent works reflect her thoughts on the relationship between rules and order in the social environment and the need for emotional release. Through the depiction of movement and stillness, explore the balanced relationship of mutual restraint between “chaos” and “order” in different situations. Han Xinyu extends time on the canvas. Her works give the audience a sense of “here and now”, and she uses the language of painting to present the simultaneous existence of “occurrence” and “disappearance”.

Han Xinyu’s recent solo and group exhibitions include “Dance of Boundaries”, Mijin Gallery, Shanghai. “Winter Stories”, Kongshan Art Museum, Hangzhou; “Jianghu: The Dispersion of the Center”, An Gallery, Hangzhou, “The Touch of Moss”, Zhou Space, Shanghai.

Nina Yushan Lai’s painting and printmaking practices materialize memories to embrace individuality through understanding repetition and iteration. These works reflect her experience as a growing child living between two different cultures, China and the West. While identifying as an outsider to both cultures, she is always eager to understand the world around her within the framework of cultural heritage and cultural identity. She builds conversations between the past self and present self: from understanding and accepting the differences between her twin sister and herself to capturing the pureness of “language” through applying paint, and now creating family portraits by her own means.

Li Qianyu (b. born in Inner Mongolia in 1995) currently works and lives in London. She successively obtained a bachelor’s degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA (2020) and a master’s degree from Slade College of Art in the UK (2022). Her artistic practice explores the subtle connections among things with an attitude of “dividing into three”, starting from individual experiences and reflecting the differences in perception of reality and its various levels that arise in different regions and cultural experiences. The work is presented in the form of a double painting/installation, expanding the single planar attribute of painting, disrupting the painting space and narrative space, emphasizing the relationship between the two independent parts and their physical relationship with the viewer, enhancing the overall and interactive experience of the work, and providing an open space for imagination and multi-perspective discussion.

The exhibitions she participated in include: Suggested Reading the Exhibition as If It were a Forest (Part 1), Magic Stone Space, Beijing (2022); The Slade Postgraduate Degree Show, Gower Street, London, UK (2022); Chromaphilia/Chromophobia, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, the United States (2020); The Haves and Hae-nots, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA (2020). The awards received include: 727 Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA (2020).

Born in Guangdong in 1997 and raised in Beijing, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York and later pursued a master’s degree in sculpture from the Royal College of Art.

Under the broad theme of sex and gender, the work delves into the author’s childhood experiences and the social background of East Asia, discussing the violence, melancholy and femininity hidden beneath the rigid power structure. Focusing on the “physical body” and “eye contact”, the animal’s body is exaggerated and personified. Depict the power relationship between the attacker and the attacked, as well as the undercurrents of eroticism, with hazy and bold strokes. The animal-like “gaze” builds the connection between the work and the audience, as well as between the artist and the audience. With such doubts as “Can the eyes in the works be used to attack the outside world?” When viewing her works, the encounter of the two gives birth to an inevitable connection and judgment.

Tiantian Ma’s paintings are a celebration of the natural world and its inherent spirituality. Inspired by the Transcendentalist philosophy that sees divinity in nature and the interconnectedness of all living things, Tiantian’s works are a meditation on the universal spirit that animates all creation.

Through her use of color, texture, and form, Tiantian seeks to capture the shining moments of divinity and spirituality that are present in everyday life. Her paintings are a testament to the belief that nature is not just a physical entity, but a spiritual force that can nourish and inspire us. Under the guidance of instinct, Tiantian imagines a world where animism and empathy, as her favorite poem: “I am integral with you…. I too am of one phase and of all phases.” (By Walt Whitman, Song of Myself)

Throughout her paintings, Tiantian’s use of acrylic resin adds a sense of depth, movement, and flow to her works. The choice of materials adds to the spiritual and nature-inspired themes of Tiantian’s paintings, as the use of texture and layers mimics the complexity of the natural world. By layering, building up, and altering the different effects of the material, her works depict an exploration of the energy, rhythms, and emotions that flow through the natural world.

Taken as a whole, Tiantian’s paintings are a testament to the power of nature to inspire and uplift us. Tiantian’s paintings are a celebration of the beauty, diversity, and spirituality of the natural world, and an invitation to the viewer to join her in exploring the mysteries and wonders of creation. As Tiantian herself puts in, “I believe that harmonizing and resonating with nature is my ‘bliss point’. Through my paintings, I hope to share that sense of harmony and resonance with others, and to inspire a deeper appreciation for the nature world that surrounds us all.”

Qian Qian was born in Jiangxi, China in 1990. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018. Currently, she works and lives in London, UK. She is a multi-media artist, poet and mother. Since childhood, Qian Qian has been fascinated by the contemplation of divinity and the present world – what is the universe? Where does time come from? Where do people stand in the world and what is the connection with mysticism? And carry forward these thoughts to subsequent creative practices. Qian Qian fuses rational reality with an imaginative world of thinking, incorporating complex cellular structures, contemporary physical theories, vast and boundless galaxies, Western alchemy, and Eastern religious scriptures into her paintings. She creates works that are rooted in reality yet transcendent, constructing a universe where science and myth coexist and complement each other, guiding viewers step by step into the illusions within the paintings. Dive into the fringes of self-awareness to explore the topics of life energy and cultural integration, and rethink our relationship with the world we live in.

Qian Qian held solo exhibitions at institutions such as Litchi One and Richard Salthun Gallery after 2023. Subsequently, she has also participated in numerous significant contemporary art exhibitions worldwide, including the Westminster Reference Library, Leiden Gallery, Sinowood Experimental Space, Zabludovich Collection, and X Museum. The works have been collected by institutions such as the Michael Weisman Collection, the Marcel Joseph Collection, and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Art Collection.

Meng Sun (b. 1995) is born in Hubei, based in Shanghai now. She draws and paints following emotional impulses, to recall moments of muddiness and subtlety in memory.
Group Exhibition:
2023 “Map of Dusk”, Jinjiang Hotel Junling Building, Shanghai
2021 “Guerrilla No.5”,Pararailing, Shanghai
2021 “Tabula Rasa Tablet”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, online exhibition

Sun Manon was born in Paris, France. In 2012, She settled in China with her family. She graduated from the High School Attached to China Academy of Art (CAA) in 2015, Studio 3 of the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2019, and Studio 3 of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2022. She likes to depict children, capturing some insignificant things from life, looking for certain emotions exuded by the characters themselves and amplifying them in the process of painting. Her works are often done flat on the ground, using various
media as brushes. Imposing the uncomfortable on her practice, the paintings create an atmosphere which seems both free and out-ofcontrol.

Her recent exhibitions include: “Papoter” (Lychee Gallery, Beijing, 2024); “Era of Encore” (Times Art Museum, Beijing, 2024); “Friend’s friend” (Cai Jin Space, Beijing, 2023); “Les Mômes” (Star Gallery, Beijing, 2023); “Sharp Edge—The Invitational Exhibition of CAFA Graduates First Round” (Meet You Museum Jing’an, Shanghai, 2022); “Topo-Urbanism” (WA Art. Architecture Museum, Beijing, 2021); “Migratory Birds 300” (Aranya, Hebei, 2021); “When Speed Becomes Form-Live In Your Screen” (Wind H Art Center, Beijing, 2020); “Tradition, Present and Future” (Art·des Gallery, Beijing, 2019); “Ode of Graduation” (Fangyuan Art Gallery, Beijing, 2019); “Hello! Artist” (Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2019); “Favorite Pratice”
(Art museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2018); “Youth Footprint” (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2017); “INTER-YOUTH International Youth Painting Exhibition” (China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2016).

“The Tooth Fairy” won the first prize of graduation work and was collected by the CAFA Art Museum (2019).

Tao Siqi’s paintings are rooted in her fascination with the body and flesh as a medium of sensibility and sexuality. She delves into desire of all forms through her intense colors, delicate brushstrokes and characteristic close-up perspective. By creating a tension between beauty and destruction, tenderness and violence, temptation and taboo, her surreal scenes inspire a provocative viewing experience and conjure emotional unease, flickering between pleasure and pain.

Tao Siqi was born in Wuhan, Hubei province, China in 1994, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. She graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Art with a BA in painting in 2016. Her solo exhibitions include “Trembling” at Fortnight Institute (New York, USA, 2022), “Deep Water” at Clima (Milan, Italy, 2022), “Tender Thorns” at Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai, China, 2021) and “Transient” at chi K11 Art Space (Wuhan, China, 2015). Her group exhibitions include “Games People Play” (Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, USA, 2024), “Deep! Down! Inside!” (Hales Gallery, New York, USA, 2023), “F*ck Art: The Body & Its Absence” (Museum of Sex, New York, USA, 2022), “Notes on Ecstatic Unity” (OTP Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022), “Mouthed Echoes” (Lyles & King, New York, USA, 2022), “Indoor Weather”, curated by Lu Xiangyi and Wang Shiying (Light Palette Through Time and Space – 2022 Caochangdi Young Artists Group Exhibition, Beijing, China, 2022), “Nine Lives” (Fortnight Institute, New York, USA, 2021), “IMPORT-EXPORT” (Import Export Project, Locarno, Switzerland, 2019), “Right Behind Your Eyes”, curated by Sarah Faux (Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2019), “The Apple Incident” (Dream Co.,
Beijing, China, 2018), “On Drawing: Visibility of Power” curated by Lu Mingjun (J: Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017) and “Chūn rì dì xìan” (RS_PROJECTS, Wuhan, China, 2016) among others.

Wan Chaoqian (b.1995, Hebei) graduated from Painting & Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art, now lives and works in Beijing. Through reworking images drawn from the internet, visual culture, and everyday life, his practice reflects the paradoxical landscape of contemporary society—one that is both endlessly captivating and deeply fatiguing.

His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Magician Space and BROWNIE Project, and was included in exhibitions at TANK Shanghai, A Project by IMAGOKINETICS x Building 23 Artist Community, etc.

Wang Kaifan was selected for the first “Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists Influence List” in 2023. As the winner of the Ivan Juritz Award in the UK in 2022, he was invited to stay at Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoletto, Italy. In the same year, the artist was selected for the promotion program of Emerging Young artists of Unicredit Bank in Germany. Main solo exhibition: “One Step into Shimengeng”, Mijin Gallery, Shanghai (2023); Is the red spot on the neck caused by a mosquito bite?

Kiki Xuebing WANG was born in 1993, Zhengzhou, China. She obtained her BFA from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2016 and her MA degree from the Royal College of Art in 2020. She currently lives and works in London. Fascinated with common visual patterns, both commercial and natural ones, and reflecting upon their role as cultural rhetorics, Wang’s practice delves into our mysterious instincts that charge the visual with emotions. The clinging relationship between feelings and objects is further addressed in her prismatic and grainy color which captures the reflected light radiating and escaping from the surface. What she depicts is both a twilight zone between light and the intrinsic color of objects and a saturating presence of the simulacrum world. As the intensity of emotions and memories fluctuates, Wang’s often labyrinthic canvas
creates a multi-layered surface that not only probes her experiences but also disrupts the sense of distance between different boundaries, tellingly reexamining the twodimensionality of paintings.

Xiyao Wang
Born in 1992 in Chongqing, China
Now lives and works in Berlin

Education
2018-2020 MFA, HFBK, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (DE)
2018-2019 MFA, State University of New York at Purchase, New York (US)
2015-2018 BA, HFBK, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (DE)
2010-2014 BA, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing (CHN)

Solo Exhibitions and Solo Projects
2024 The Blue Hour, Massimo de Carlo, Milan (IT)
Do You Hear the Waterfall, Perrotin Gallery, New York (US)
2023 Touching the Invisible, Song Art Museum, Beijing (CHN)
Liang Xiao Yin, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (CHN)
En L’ air, Massimo de Carlo, Frieze London, London (UK)
Allongé – Out of Reach, Perrotin Gallery, Seoul (KOR)
Wild Garden, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo, Beijing (CHN)
On the Way to Penglai Island, König Gallery, Berlin (DE)
A Carnival in the Forest, Massimo de Carlo, London (UK)
2022 The Endless Dream, Arndt Collection, Melbourne, Cape Schanck (AUS)
The Crystalline Moon Palace, Perrotin Gallery, Paris (FR)
2021 Castel in the Air, Geber Stauffer Fine Arts, Zurich (CH)
A Dance to Fly in the Blossoming Trees, A Thousand Plateaus Gallery, Chengdu (CHN)
2019 Peach Blossom Spring Story, Soy Capitán Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Group Exhibitions
2024 Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok (THA) (Upcoming: Oct. 18th – Feb. 25th, 2025)
Habiter Le Monde, Le Château d’Aubenas, South France (FR)
Bridging the Boundaries, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing (CHN)
Golden: The 28th Anniversary Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (CHN)
Boundless Reverie, K11 Art Foundation, Hongkong (CHN)
Questionings on Painting, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (CHN)
Symphony of Coexistence – Chinese and Southeast Asian Art Invitational Exhibition,
The Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing (CHN)
Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum, Singapore (SG)
2023 Kong-Fu: Form and Meaning, Yuan Art Museum, Bejing (CHN)
«Unknown/Chronology/Object», One Man At A Lonely Island Special Project,
Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen (CHN)
The Arndt Collection: From One World to Another, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
(AUS)
The collection exhibition of Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
(CHN)
Places and Events, König Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Mille Cortex, Tang Contemporary Art Gallery, Hongkong (CHN)
2022 Boundless, Aurora Museum, Shanghai (CHN)
A Marvellous Memory, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai (CHN)
I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, Xiao Museum of
Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CHN)
L’ Empire des sens, Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul (KOR)
What You See Is What You Get, Massimo de Carlo, Milano (IT)
Post-me Generation, Tang Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing (CHN)
Collection Presentation, Arndt Collection, Cape Schanck (AUS)
2021 MISA Discoveries, König Gallery, Berlin (DE)
MISA, König Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Low Fever, Tang Contemporary Art Gallery, Hongkong (CHN)
Jung x 5, Plain Gallery, Milan (IT)
2020 The River, Spinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
I-Define, A Thousand Plateaus Gallery, Chengdu (CHN)
Salondergegenwart, Hamburg (DE)
If not now…, MomSpace, Hamburg (DE)
2019 Summer Fling, Beehive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (CHN)
Yellow Reflection, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris (FR)
2018 Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York (US)
Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, New York (US)
Chamber 1019A, New York (US)
I mean it when I say XXX, CONDO Shanghai, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai (CHN)
Performance Festival, Cité international des arts, Paris (FR)
Masse Phase, Sprink, Dusseldorf (DE)
Toxic Boom Room, Benzene, Hamburg (DE)
Inter-Youth, Art Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (CHN)
Sehnsucht’s Dialektik, MomSpace, Hamburg (DE)
2017 Nomination Hiscox Kunstpreis 2017, HFBK (DE)
NominationDAAD Kunstpreis 2017, HFBK (DE)
ARTz IV, BENZENE, Hamburg (DE)
Beijing Summer Show, NL Art Museum, Beijing (CHN)
New Knight, 56 Art Space, Suzhou (CHN)
Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg (DE)
2016 Kor’yaka 1, Goldsmith Fine Art College, London (GB)
KAI XIN, Elektrohaus, Hamburg (DE)
Anfangen Pt. II Hier fängt das Niemandsland an…, Elektrohaus, Hamburg (DE)
2015 Ji Lie Che Jian, Tank Loft – Chongqing Contemporary Art Center,
Huangjueping, Chongqing (CHN)
2013 Guanlan Games, Peter Ford Gallery, Bristol (GB)
Jia Xiang An Shan Art Museum, Chongqing (CHN)
2012 Chongqing Art Gallery, Huangjueping, Chongqing (CHN)
Awards
2018 Karl H. Ditze Scholarship, Hamburg (DE)
DAAD Scholarship, Hamburg (DE)
2017 Nomination Hiscox Art Award (Hiscox Kunstpreis), Hamburg (DE)
Schües Art Award (Schües-Stiftung, Christa und Nikolaus Schües), Hamburg (DE)
2016 Nomination DAAD Art Award, Hamburg (DE)
2011 Zhou Chunya scholarship (CHN)
2011-2014
Scholarship, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing (CHN)
Residencies and Fellowships
2018
2016
Karl H. Ditze Stiftung and DAAD PROMOS, 6 month New York exchange
Exchange Goldsmiths, University of London (Fellowship)

Press and Publications
2024 [Magazine] Observer (June 20th, 2024)
[Magazine] Glass Magazine (Issue No. 31, March, 2024)
[Newspaper] China Art Newspaper (March 11th, 2024)
[Magazine] Financial Times (February 21th, 2024)
[Online Article] Galerie Magazine (February 5th, 2024)
[Online Article] Artton (February 2nd, 2024)
[Online Article] Elephant Magazine (January 26th, 2024)
[Online Article] China Daily (January 24th, 2024)
[Online Article] Ocula (January 23th, 2024)
[Interview] Hube Magazine (January 15th, 2024)
[Interview] Artnet (January12th, 2024)
[Interview] Art Absolute (January 9th, 2024)
[Online Article] Family Style (January 6th, 2024)
[Interview] ArtAlpha (January 3rd, 2024)
2023 [Online Article] Sina News(December 26th, 2023)
[Online Article] Nandu News (December 26th, 2023)
[Interview] HiArt (December 25th, 2023)
[Online Article] Sohu News (December 25th, 2023)
[Interview] Hua Wai Art (December 23th, 2023)
[Interview] WOMEN | MONEY | POWER (November 22th, 2023)
[Magazine] Art Collectors’ (No. 176, November 15th, 2023)
[Interview] FAD Magazine (October 30th, 2023)
[Online Article] Artribune (October 14th, 2023)
[Online Article] Exibart (October 11th, 2023)
[Online Article] Artnet (October 11th, 2023)
[Magazine] Art In Culture (September, 2023)
[Online Article] Ocula (September 7th, 2023)
[Magazine] ARTnews (August, 2023)
[Online Article] ELLE (August 11th, 2023)
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[Online Article] Monthly Chosun (July 16th, 2023)
[Online Article] DongA llbo (July 12th, 2023)
[Online Article] Korea Economic Daily (July 11th, 2023)
[News] YTN Korea (July 9th, 2023)
[Online Article] NEWS1 (July 6th, 2023)
[Online Article] Herald Economics Korea (July 5th, 2023)
[Online Article] NEWSIS Korea (July 4th, 2023) / (July 5th, 2023)
[Online Article] Le Magazine (June 27th, 2023)
[Online Article] VOGUE (June 23th, 2023)
[Magazine] Robb Report (June, 2023)
[Online Article] DARE (June 19th, 2023)
[Interview] Robb Report China (April 13th 2023)
[Online Article] BAZAAR Art (April 10th 2023)
[Online Article] König Online Magazine (April 9th, 2023)
[Newspaper] Berliner Zeitung (March 24th, 2023)
[Magazine] Art Review Asia (Vol 11, No 1, March 1st 2023)
[Online Article] Art Basel (February 27th, 2023)
[Interview] Ocula (February 2nd, 2023)
[Online Article] YITART (February 2nd, 2023)
[Online Article] Artsy (January 26th)
[Online Article] Artnet (January 4th)
2022 [Magazine] L’officiel Hommes Korea (October 1st)
[Online Article] Artnet (August 15th)
[Interview] Artnet (July 7th)
[Interview] YITART (July 31th)
[Magazine] Transfuge (No 159, June)
[Magazine] Numéro (Numéro art, May 10th)
2021 [Newspaper] Der Tagsspiegel (September 12th)
[Newspaper] Die Zeit (September 9th)
[Magazine] ARTFORUM Asia (June)
[Magazine] InStyle Magazine (April)
2020 [Magazine] Art – Das Kunstmagazin (January)
[Catalog/Book] Salondergegenwart, Hamburg
[Newspaper] Hamburger Abendblatt (October 30th)
[Newspaper] Hamburger Abendblatt (February 6th)
2019 [Catalog/Book] Bildungsbedeutefahrt nach Kreta, Materialverlag 391, Edition HFBK
2017 [Catalog/Book] Hiscox Art Award 2017
[Catalog/Book] Art. Letter Home, ISBN 978-7-5503-1562-4
[Catalog/Book] New Knight
2013 [Catalog/Book] 中国大学生美术作品年鉴, ISBN 978-7-5100-6570-5
[Newspaper] Chongqing Morning News (May 15th)

Hao Xing , born in Shenzhen in 2001, currently lives and works in London. In 2024, he obtained a Master’s degree in Painting from the Royal College of Arts and received the Basil H Alkali Scholarship Award. In 2023, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Most of Hao Xing’s works deal with folklore, ghost stories, literature and personal recollections. The artist collages and
deconstructs fragmented symbols to form independent riddles that question authenticity and subjective experience. Most of the scenes in the paintings seem staged or set models. Visual symbols and scenes are assembled bizarrely and childishly.
Ambiguous emotions and vague positions constitute his paintings. The artist explores the notions of consequences, fate and uncertainty by mixing and collaging different possibilities or elements in his works. There is no realistic space in his
paintings, only a vague speculation space like fortune-telling where puzzles and riddles are formed.

Recent Exhibitions:‘Ghosts, Riddles and Antecedents’，Gene Gallery，Shanghai，2024；‘Erratum and Misalignment’，
MGSpace，Beijing，2024；‘SUPERCROWDS/ SUPERCOMMUNITY’，TANK SH，Shanghai，2024；20 July- 8 October’
Fragments’，Project Kavel Rafferty，Margate，2024；‘Thoughts In The Silent Night’，Hewhood Gallery，London 2024；‘Lunar New Year’，Burgh House，London，2023；‘Leap of Utopia’，Espacio Gallery，London，2022；‘Floating Bodies’， Safe House 2，London，2022；‘Redirecting’，Tree Art Museum，Beijing，2021

Xiong Haoqi was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1997. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom in 2023 and currently lives and works in Southampton.

Xiong Haoqi’s paintings are devoted to reconstructing narratives rooted in personal experience, where all characters lose their physiological distinctions and fulfil their roles through silent gestures. He reflects upon his own actions as a participant through the lens of a retrospective observer, placing what he perceives as right and wrong within the picture plane in the form of “patches”. Recent solo exhibitions include The Reverse of Daytime (2024) at Hive.Generate, Shanghai; and Island (2023) at Beadvisors Art, London. Group exhibitions comprise Thoughts in the Silent Night (2024) at Hewhood Gallery, London; and Yesterday Was a New Day (2022) at Jinge Space, Beijing.

Xu Yang (b. 1996, Shandong, China) lives and works in London, UK. Challenging―and being in contrast to―her Asian upbringing, Xu uses her queer identity to investigate “What is femininity?” “What is a social construct?” and to consider whether what we see online is real. Inspired by and referencing 17th- and 18th-century Western art history, often seen via the male gaze, Xu is also influenced by drag performance, cabaret and theatre. Using herself as a model, Xu explores through painting, performance and photography the position of women in contemporary society and pop culture. Transforming her body shape with silicone breasts, corsets, hip pads, wigs and make-up allows for an investigation of the idealized female figure and social media’s use of Photoshop and image filters to body shame, and to reshape the value of the female. Probing themes of power and identity and the dialogue between painting’s contemporary iterations and its history, there is a concern with the
emotional response triggered and the potential for its reinterpretation and translation.

Born in 1997 in Yunnan Province, China
Entered Guangxi Arts Institute in 2015
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, First Studio, Faculty of Fine Arts, Guangxi Arts Institute in 2019
Entered the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Tama Art University in April 2022
Graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Tama Art University in March 2024

My work has always centered on abstract landscape painting, taking time, memory, and collective unconsciousness as starting points. Utilizing the deeply rooted image of the [mountain] from my own memories as a prototype, I attempt to present the collective consciousness across a vast temporal dimension on canvas. In the spacetime formed by the layering of countless memory experiences and emotions, all current feelings and emotions will ultimately merge with time and return to those distant memories, forming an eternal horizon.

Exhibition History:
August 2022: Selected for Kenzan2022 at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
July 2023: Selected for Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition
November 2023: Selected for Kenzan2023 at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
February 2024: Selected for FACE2024 at Sompo Museum of Art
April 2024: PANTA RHEI Duo Exhibition at MJK Gallery
April 2024: [Lost in] Trio Exhibition at Another Project Tokyo

Yan Xinyue (b.1992) is a Chinese artist who’s currently based between Shanghai and Los Angeles. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp (Belgium) with an MFA in painting in 2018. Yan’s work portrays the tension in everyday life in the context of rapid urban development. She manipulates objects and subjects into different painterly forms – reality and fantasy are mixed on the same canvas, and the dynamic and the tranquil are blended – revealing the conflict between being a part of society and being an individual.The irony and humor in her paintings invite viewers to escape the solemnity of reality and enter a universe of imagination and possibilities.

Yan Xinyue’s solo and two-person exhibitions include Revisit, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai (2024); A Prayer for the Sunset, Sans Titre, Paris (2023); To look Is to Eat, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York (2023); Summer Mist, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai (2020). Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions at CLEARING, Los Angeles (2024)；Public Gallery, London (2023); Harper’s, Los Angeles (2023); Sans Titre, Paris (2022); Current Plans, Hong Kong (2021); Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai (2019); A+ Contemporary, Shanghai (2019); De Brakke Grond – Flemish Cultural Center Amsterdam (2018), among others.

Zhang Haoyan, born in 1996 in Zibo, Shandong, graduated from the University of the Arts London with a degree in Fine Art and currently resides and works in Shanghai.

Zhang Haoyan’s practice spans multiple mediums including painting, video, and writing. Through an archaeological exploration of iconic cinematic figures from diverse eras and regions, he interweaves personal artistic experience, popular culture, and the social realities of globalisation and deglobalisation. By presenting characters in their full integrity and situating them within their contemporary social contexts, he invites viewers to revisit historical moments. This approach also enables the linear expansion and repair of historical narratives and individual memory.

The floor plan of ancient architecture lays the cornerstone for Sophie Jing Wei Zhang’s artistic exploration. She would start her paintings with a composition inspired by architectural layout, whether it is the point position of individual spaces, the opening and closing between areas, or their topological relationship. Through the constant application and removal of paint on each canvas as a palimpsest, Zhang aims to reinvigorate a sense of organic-ness and generate new possibilities within a rigorous order.
Sophie Jing Wei Zhang (b. 1994, Beijing, China) graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2016 and the Royal College of Art in 2018. Past group exhibitions include Ginkgo Space (Beijing, 2022), Gallery Rosenfeld (London, 2022), Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2021), Leo Gallery (Shanghai, 2020) and Mall Galleries (London, 2018). She now works and resides in Beijing.

Zhang Ke, born in Huaibei, Anhui in 1996, graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree, and from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2021 with a master’s degree. Now she lives and works in Shanghai. Zhang Ke’s works explore the miracle of personal perspective. She analogizes artistic creation to alchemy, extracts concepts from elements and reorganizes them, uses the original nature of elements to create illusion, and creates a series of paintings with absurd atmosphere. Her works have been collected by X museum, Longlati Foundation and other institutions.The solo exhibition she participated in: “A lie is a crease that cannot be smoothed”,Keyi Gallery,(Hefei,2023);The group exhibition she participated in:”Supper Club”,Fringe Club,(HongKong,2024);”SHIFTING FIELDS-Contemporary Chinese Painting”a,2024);”Song Lang x Zhang Ke: Travel Guide”two-person ,Stanford Art Gallery,(Stanford,Californi group show, Imagokinetics,(Hangzhou, 2022);”ConcRETe PAINTING”,Boxes Art Museum,(Foshan，2023);” A Clean, Well-lighted Place”, Yuan Museum, (Beijing, 2022); “The Second Station of USB Multiport Link Exhibition”, Func Gallery, (Shanghai, 2021); “The first stop of USB Multiport Link Exhibition”,Madein Gallery, (Shanghai, 2021); “Vacation by idle people”, Vacancy Gallery, (Shanghai, 2021); “Final Not Over Again” ，Unit 1 Gallery, (London, 2021); “Room Theater”, OCAT Box Space Happy Coast

2020 Master’s degree Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 Bachelor’s degree Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1994 Born in Anhui, China.
Lives and works in Beijing

Zhi Wei was born in Beijing in 1997. They currently live and work in Shanghai. They graduated in 2019 from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford.
Recent solo exhibition: Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris, France, 2023)
Recent group exhibitions: Hangar Y (Meudon, France, 2024), Gallery Weekend Beijing Visiting Sector (Beijing, China, 2024), Palai Penang (George Town, Penang, Malaysia, 2024), Palai Project (Lecce, Italy, 2023), 798 CUBE (Beijing, China, 2023), G Museum (Nanjing, China, 2022), TAG Art Museum (Qingdao, China, 2022), Magician Space (Beijing, China, 2022), the Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China, 2021), and at Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris, France, 2022).

Born 1994, Chengdu, China
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Tianyue Zhong was born in Chengdu, China, and currently lives and works between China and the United States. Her paintings and line drawings are based on expressing the uncontrollable aspects of life. By referencing and transforming historical photographs she finds in her research and imagery she captures herself, Zhong aims to seize the unknowns that emerge during the painting process, alongside her passionate use of lines and colors. “Fear” holds significant meaning in her life and creative process, driving her to resist “correction” in her work and motivating her to repeatedly depict the same themes. Consequently, the figures, shapes, and scenes in her works are incomplete, as if drawn from her consciousness and seamlessly transferred onto the canvas. Zhong received an MA in painting from Royal College of Art in 2020 and a BA in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. Highlights of recent solo and duo solo exhibitions include “Melting Mute” at Loyal Gallery, Stockholm(2024); “Pause, Arise” at Mou Projects, Hong Kong (2023); “To Cut a Thread” at Long Story Short, New York (2023). Highlights of recent group exhibitions include Workplace, London(2024),“Phantasmagoria” at LBF Contemporary, London (2024), “Loyal @El Royale” presented by Loyal Gallery, Los Angeles (2024);“Metamorfosi” at F2T Gallery, Milan (2024);“The Consolation of Clinamen” at Tabula Rasa, Beijing (2023).