Xinghao Liang (Karl) ’s practice originates from painting and extends into installation, performance, moving image, and sound, encompassing a cross-media approach. Painting, as the foundational medium of his work, not only carries the intuitive dimension of creation but also functions as the methodological core that maintains continuity across different fields.

 

Xinghao’s work often begins from specific spatial contexts or constructs theatrical environments through light, installation, and subtle objects on the canvas. In exhibitions, residencies, and site-based practices, he employs strategies of intervention, displacement, and simulation to explore latent narratives and unmanifested possibilities within space. At the same time, he emphasizes investigating the tension between the corporeal, the historical, and the mechanical by generating internal contradictions and uncertainties, producing experiences that exist independently of linguistic articulation.

 

Xinghao’s work has been exhibited recently at the HK Asian Society (2025), K Space, Chengdu (2025), K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong (2024), as well as the Arsenale, Venice (2023) and Powerlong Art Center, Hangzhou (2022).

Xinghao Liang (born 1999 in Beihai, China) is an artist curently living and working in London. He is 1/2 founders of the experimental art project ‘The Afterpiece’.

Bio/CV

Education

  • 2022-2023 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design

  • 2017-2021 BA Printmaking, China Academy of Art

Solo/Duo. Show

  • 2024 Duo

    ‘Diagonal Resonance’, Unix Studio, Chengdu, China

  • 2021 Duo

  • ’Stand and Stare‘, Great Art Space, Shenzhen, China

  • 2021 Duo

  • ‘Infinite Black Hole’, Notting Hill Art Center, Hangzhou, China

  • 2020 Solo

  • ‘Records of contemplation’, SEEYOO ART SPACE, Hangzhou, China

  • 2020 Duo

  • ‘Riddle of Sphinx’, SEEYOO ART SPACE, Hangzhou, China

Group Exhibition

  • 2025

  • ‘Waiting Room’, WhiteShepherd Gallery, London, UK

  • ‘Outside the Ivory Tower‘, K Space, Chengdu, China

  • ‘New Horizons: Emerging Voices in Chinese Art and Sculpture’, Asian Society, Hong Kong, China

  • ‘In Real Life’, London, UK & Reno, USA

  • ‘Zhuo Wukui’, Biede Box, Beijing, China

  • 2024

  • ‘Encircle’, C+Gallery, Shanghai, China

  • ‘No Passive Mingling’, Royal College of Art, London, UK

  • ‘Southern Monsoon’, XLY MoMA, Chengdu, China

  • ‘The Heir of the Universe’, Cornerstone Studio, London, UK

  • ‘New Horizon’, Zhijiang Cultural Centre, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘An undefined covariable’, Artsect Gallery, London, UK

  • ‘A Touch, a glance’, K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong, China

  • ‘Unravelling’, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

  • ‘An Undefined Covariable’, Artsect Gallery, London, UK

  • 2023

  • ‘Unravelling’, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

  • ‘Window’, Millbank Tower, London, UK

  • ‘Testing-Testing-1-2-3’, Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • Swab Barcelona Art Fair 2023, Avinguda Rius i Taulets, Barcelona, Spain

  • ‘Internal States’, Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • 17th Arte Laguna Prize finalist, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy

  • ‘It’s the little things’, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • ‘In Tandem’, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • ‘The Mirror: Imagined Reality’, Was Art Centre, Ningbo, China

  • Parallel Festival, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • 2022

  • ‘Wha Wha’, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • ‘One thing leads to other’, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of art, London, UK

  • ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China

  • ‘Reasons of Moving’, Neverland space, Hangzhou, China

  • Swab Barcelona Art Fair 2022, Barcelona, Spain

  • ‘20S-The Situation of Interaction’, Qiantang Bay Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘∠’, Heqi Space, Ningbo, China

  • JINGART Art Beijing, Online Platform, Online Exhibition

  • ‘Woods and Spring in the Moonlight’, Li Gallery, Dunhuang, China

  • ‘Symptom Nomad’, Scorpion Gallery, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘AURA’, Powerlong Art Center, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘Garden of the New Deity’, Li Gallery, Shanghai, China

  • 2021

  • ‘Prestory’, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘Fantastic Forest’, Shanxia Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘La Società’ ANQUI Museum, Wenzhou, China

  • ‘Summer Paradise’, ECM Gallery, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘Chaos and Order’, 3SYZYGY, Shenzhen, China

  • 2020

  • ‘A Bundle: Young Artists Invitation Exhibition’, Xima Gallery, Hangzhou, China

  • ‘Mind the Gap’, SEEYOO ART SPACE, Hangzhou, China

Individual awards

  • 2023

  • Geoff Dudley Fellowship

  • 2022

  • Asian New Talent Prize

  • Asian Wave Art Prize

  • BICC International Creative Competition

  • 17th Arte Laguna Prize

  • 2020

  • Italy Fabiano Printmaking Prize