Yang Mushi was born in 1989 in Jiangxi Province, China and currently lives and works in Shanghai. In 2014 he graduated from the Sculpture Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Read MoreHe held his solo show Compulsory Execution at Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne and Broken Torso at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) in 2018 and Illegitimate Production at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing in 2016. His most recent group exhibitions include: Annual Arts Exhibition Between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries—The Universe, Ox Warehouse, Macau, China (2018); Modern Time, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2018); The Dark Matters, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2017); Visual Questions—Young Artists' Visions and Experiences, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2017); Everyday Legend, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); Prudential Eye—Asia Contemporary Art, Marina Bay Sands ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2016); WE—A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016) and No Holds Barred—Young Generation from China, OpenART Biennial, Örebro County Museum, Örebro, Sweden (2015). Currently, he is participating in HEIMAT—The 2018 Guang'an Field Art Biennale and the group show Transfinite—Shanghai Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition held at SPSI Art Museum in Shanghai. Yang Mushi was nominated for Asian Contemporary Art as the 'Best Emerging Artist Using Sculpture' (2016).
Text courtesy Galerie Urs Meile.
