Lu Pingyuan was born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Spanning text, installation, painting, and sculpture, his works are imbued with narrative and metaphor. Drawing inspiration from art history, classic literature, popular culture, and personal experience, the artist builds a gigantic world of fantasy homologous with reality to reveal the spiritual predicament of contemporary human beings and rediscover the potential for spiritual connection between people and the universe. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales.<\/p>\n
Recent solo exhibitions include: \u201cSemi-Auto Wandering Gods\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2024; \u201cOne Night at a Gallery\u201d, SSSSTART Museum, Shanghai, 2022; \u201cTrapping Cooking, Cooking Trapping, It\u2019s a Lovely Life\u201d, OCAT SHENZHEN, Shenzhen, 2022; \u201cThe First Artist\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2021; \u201cImperishable Affection\u201d, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, 2020; \u201cKOLA\u201d, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 2019; \u201cLa Malle aux Tr\u00e9sors\u201d, Mansion de Herm\u00e8s, Shanghai, 2018; \u201cLost Child\u201d, ONEHOME Art Hotel, Shanghai, 2018; \u201cHOME ALONe\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; \u201cJames Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby\u201d, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; \u201cON KAWARA\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; \u201cUnexpected Discoveries\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2015.<\/p>\n
He participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: \u201cPoetry by the Barbarian\u201d, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, 2024; \u201cLaunching a New Era–Body and Language as Manifesto\u201d, YUAN Art Museum, Beijing, 2024; \u201cCrossing the River by Feeling the Collectors\u201d, C`PARK Haisu, Shanghai, 2023; \u201c2023 Chengdu Biennale\u201d, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, 2023; \u201cWhite Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perception of Oracle Bone Script\u201d, 798 CUBE, Beijing, 2023; \u201cSTART\u201d, Start Museum, Shanghai, 2022-23; \u201cAdvent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth\u201d, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; \u201cExtreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale\u201d, Guangzhou, China, 2019; \u201cLand of the Lustrous\u201d, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China, 2019;\u00a0 \u201cEdge of the Wonderland-Thailand Art Bi-ennale\u201d, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; \u201cArtist is Present\u201d, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; \u201cLong March Project: Building Code Violations III \u2013 Special Economic Zone\u201d, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; \u201c11th Shanghai Biennale\u201d, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; \u201c9th Liverpool Biennale\u201d, Liverpool, England, 2016; \u201cA Beautiful Disorder\u201d, Cass Sculpture Foundation, England, 2016; \u201cMountain Sites: Views of Laoshan\u201d, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; \u201c3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art\u201d, Ural, Russia, 2015 etc. Lu Pingyuan was nominated for the 4th Art Sanya \u201cHuayu Youth Award\u201d and the 1st Porsche \u201cYoung Chinese Artist of the Year\u201d. Lu Pingyuan\u2019s work proposal, Tree, was shortlisted for the third and fourth High Line Plinth commission in 2020.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"artists_categories":[5],"class_list":["post-428","artists","type-artists","status-publish","hentry","artists_categories-representing-artists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"artists_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists_categories?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}