While not willing to classify her work in a particular genre, Tant (Yunshu Zhong) pays homage to conceptual art, vividly questioning what it means to produce an artwork. Using her photographs as a way to express a moment of her experience in the world, she gives attention to the rarely addressed or neglected elements of society.
Read MoreZhong obtained her MFA from University of the Arts London in 2014, after completing BA at East China Normal University, Shanghai in 2012. She was nominated to Hua Yu Youth Award in 2015.
Her solo exhibitions include: The Endless Spring at J:Gallery, Shanghai (2017); Tissue and Tissue Paper at Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing (2016); Surplus Space, Wu Han, China (2016), and has participated several important group exhibitions, including THAT'S QUITE SOMETHING at Canton Gallery, GuangZhou (2018); STEADFASTLY RAISE THE STANDARDS IN NONPRODYCTIVE CONSTRUSTION at DonGallery, Shanghai (2018); RANDOM FIGURES at AIKE Gallery, Shanghai (2018); CONDO SHANGHAI at J:Gallery, Shanghai (2018); ON PAPER TWO at White Space, Beijing (2018); I DO (Not) WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR CELEBRATION at Qiao Space & Tank Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai (2017); MESSAGE FROM THE RUIN at Asia Art Center, Taipei (2016); Extravagant Imagination, the wonder of idleness in Madein Gallery, Shanghai (2016), Nocturnal Friendships in Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Hong Kong (2015), RA Summer exhibition in Royal Academy of Arts, London.
She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
Text courtesy Tabula Rasa Gallery.