Lu Pingyuan was born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Lu Pingyuan's art-works involves a variety of media, including texts, installations, videos, paintings and others. For a few years, Lu Pingyuan concentrated his practice on the writing of "stories" as a unique type of media for art creation. These short 'stories' significantly broaden the artworks' state of existence in the real world, extend the in-herent spirit of art itself. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales.
Read MoreRecent solo exhibitions include: KOLA, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; La Malle aux Trésors, Mansion de Hermès, Shanghai, China, 2018; Lost Child, ONEHOME Art Hotel, Shanghai, China; HOME ALONe, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; Hidden Treasure, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China, 2017; James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; ON KAWARA, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; Unexpected Discoveries, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2015; Time Capsule, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011. He participated in nu-merous group shows among which are Wild Metropolis, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; Ad-vent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; Extreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; Land of the Lustrous, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China, 2019; Edge of the Wonderland-Thailand Art Biennale, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; Artist is Present, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; City Unbounded-China·Shanghai Jing'an International Sculpture Project, Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China, 2018; This is Shanghai, Cunard Building, Liv-erpool, UK, 2018; Long March Project: Building Code Violations III - Special Economic Zone, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; Arts in Urban Cultures, Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing, China, 2018; *underground-children-festival, Para Site x Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2018; Animamix Biennale—Ballade, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China; PLAY, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China; 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; 9th Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England, 2016; A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, England, 2016; Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ural, Russia, 2015 etc. Lu Pingyuan was nominated for the 4th Art Sanya for the Young Chinese Artists Award and the First Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the Year.
Text courtesy MadeIn Gallery.
