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Xinghao Liang (born 1999 in Beihai, China) is an artist living and working in London. One of the experimental collective "Successful Artists". He studied at the China Academy of Art (2017-2021) and then at Chelsea College of Art in London (2022-23). The artist uses painting as a starting point for his work, after 2022 he began to continue his research and exploration through different forms of artwork practice - from installation, performance, painting, monolithic art, graphic design, music and video to name a few. Liang Xinghao explores the possibilities of new digital technologies, emphasising their reverse control and growth catalysis of biological flesh as well as spirituality, lifestyle and politics. Technology, post-humanism, love, empathy and evolutionary concepts - he treats them as themes and uses "cross-simulation" to treat the machine as a living creature and to allow humans and it to mimic each other. He wants to stand in the shoes of an "old humanity" and pick up on the "useless emotions" that remain in the midst of war, disease and the tide of big data. In his works I can't fish, but I am a good fishman (performance, 2023), the artist is naked in the gallery and controls his own electronic character dressed in bright colours in a game of electronic fishing; Endless love (Installation, 2023), in which a stone implanted with a human mind tries to show love to another stone, but never receives a response due to the class divisions inherent in "evolution".

Bio/CV

Xinghao Liang (born 1999 in Beihai, China) is an artist living and working in London and Shanghai. He studied at the China Academy of Art (2017-2021) and then at Chelsea College of Art in London (2022-23). His first solo exhibition "Records of contemplation" was held in 2020, and his works have been collected by Huayi Auction Co. , 2022, he was selected as a finalist for the 17th Arte Laguna Prize.

Education

  • 2017-2021 BA Fine Art, Printmaking Department, School of Painting and Arts, China Academy of Art

    2022 MA Fine Art Studying University of the Arts London-Chelsea College of Art and Design

Solo/Double Exhibition

  • 2020 “Records of contemplation”, SEEYOO ART SPACE, Hangzhou, China

  • 2020 Double Exhibition “Riddle of Sphinx”, SEEYOO ART SPACE, Hangzhou, China

  • 2021 Double Exhibition “Stand and Stare”, Great Art Space, Shenzhen, China

  • 2021 Double Exhibition “Infinite Black Hole”, Notting Hill Art Center, Hangzhou, China

Group Exhibition

  • 2024

  • “Unravelling”, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

  • “An Undefined Covariable”, Artsect Gallery, London, UK

  • 2023

  • “Internal States”, Cookhouse Gallery 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

  • ”Suitcase Show“, ALG17, 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, 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

  • "Parallel Awakening", Golden Alchemist Gallery, online exhibition

  • "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

  • The 14th Hangzhou Art Fair, Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou, China

  • The 2nd Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair, Poly World Trade Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China

  • The 26th Guangzhou International Art Fair, Nanfeng International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Guangzhou, 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 Scholarship

  • 2022 Asian New Talent Prize

  • 2022 Asian Wave Art Prize

  • 2022 BICC International Creative Competition

  • 2022 17th Arte Laguna Prize

  • 2020 Italy Fabiano Printmaking Prize