EXPERIENCE
Artist.
And assistant to American painter Larry Poons
2022 - 2023
Represented artist by The Townhall Agency LLC., UK
2017-2019
Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Philosophy and of Religious Studies, Peking University, China
2015-2017
Postdoctoral research fellow, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, China
2002-2015
Teacher (Tutor & Lecturer), China University of Mining and Technology, China
EDUCATION
2023-current, Certificate Program, Art Students League of NY, NY, USA
2022, MA, Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2020, Graduate Diploma, Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014, PhD, Fine Art, Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing, China
2010, MA, Painting, China University of Mining and Technology, XZ, China
FUNDS, SCHOLARSHIP
2024, Merit Scholarship Honorable Mention in the 2024 Merit Competition (awarded by The Art Students League of New York).
2021, Back on Track Fund (awarded by RCA)
2021, Continuation Fund 2021 (awarded by RCA)
ART AWARDS, MAIN RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025.05 Red Dot Winner, "The Last Judgement", shown in Fridman Gallery, NY
2024.08 Triptych paintings (selected to) show in Juried Selection Exhibition, NY, USA
2024.04 “Butterfly Jimmy & Paint Boxes” (Triptych painting) won the Red Dot Award of the Art Students League, NY, USA
2024.04 “Butterfly Jimmy & Paint Boxes” showed in Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY, USA
2023.03 “Dante’s Purgatorio: Higher Dimensions” was selected by RCA President to use for the official press image of announcing their news of "Royal College of Art Named Leading University for Art & Design Globally for 9th Consecutive Year in 2023” and for the cover of the RCA2023 Freshman Offer.
2022.12 “Dante’s Purgatorio: Higher Dimensions, Three Pocketfolds”, the profile was adopted by RCA in the official media account in Reel, which promotes freshman admission communication; The works were selected by RCA vice-chancellor Dr Paul Thompson to publish in the periodical “Zhuangshi” (ranking No.1 Arts & Design periodical in China, Tsinghua University).
2022.6 “Three Pocketfolds: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso (24 pages drawings) and Dante’s Purgatorio: Higher Dimensions (installation)”, shown at the Linbury Building, RCA2022 Graduate Show, London, UK
2022.3 Three drawings shown in ‘Borders’ SSA Exhibition, Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), Edinburgh, UK
2022.2 “Nine Tigers”, shown in the RCA group exhibition “Prick, Stitch, Vent & Pound”, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
2021.11 Dante Project: Purgatorio (installation and performance art) performed at the Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, London, UK
2021.9 Four drawings were shown on the official media platform of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
2021.7 “Merz Baskets” (assemblages), Group Exhibition. The exhibition collaborates with RCA Sculpture department, “FESTUS” Project, Merz Barn and Littoral arts Trust, Lake District, UK
2021.6 “Rock and Roll Era” (assemblages), RCA MA sculpture yr1 Group Exhibition, Safe House, London, UK
2021.5 Mutability (collage), Group Exhibition “Faces”, King House Gallery, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK
2021.5 Homage to Antonio Gaudi (collage), selected ”In the Wild” Art Competition, King House Gallery, London, UK
2021.3 “Fish-Lock, Mysterious Ox” (collage), The 2021 Annual International Mail-In Art Exhibition (AIMAE), Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2021.1 Warrior, Redemption and Lost World (installation and 8 collages on paper), RCA2021 WiP Show
2020.12 “Alice Motte-Muñoz”, featured in the RCA Drawing Gallery, UK
PROJECTS
2021.11---- Finance, Gold and Globalization Project
Gold of the Great Steppe, RCA & Fitzwilliam Museum, Collaborative, Cambridge University, UK
2021.7---- FESTUS Project
Merz Pavilions: Speculations and Propositions, Merz Barn & RCA, Collaborative, Lake District, UK
2018.11---- Lugu Lake Project
Return to the Truth: Art and Culture Investigation, Lugu Lake District, China
2016.3---- China Cultural Heritage Art Exhibition Project
Safeguard the Home of Ours: Painting Memories, Chongzuo, China
