Bangyu is an interdisciplinary practitioner working with sculpture, installation, and sound. Their method is akin to drafting a non-linear narrative novel by starting with visual language, auditory language, and smell. Bangyu's fascination with ready-made materials and sculptural forms combines to create, linking past times and places. The materials bring accurate feelings. Through re-contextualization, with underlying narrative elements such as love, desire, indulgence, fetish, symmetry, and rituals, these works develop new narratives while serving as moments of nostalgia and imagination.
Bangyu interested in those events defined as history that disrupt and intrude upon the present space and time, which resonates like aftershocks, as the antennas of modern industry connect to the permanently shelved hard drives of hidden narratives. Bangyu want to explore the topography of sound and the relationships between space and time, viewing it as a container of sound, auditory hallucinations, and memories.
Their sound practices aim to build a space where chaos and cacophony can find their layers in the tapestry of auditory innovation. To disrupt the equilibrium of familiar tonal landscapes, they invite the audience to question preconceived notions of harmony and melody.
Selected Award&Prize
2024 - The Almacantar Studio Award, London
Max Werner Drawing Prize, shortlisted, London
2022 - Slade International Studentship Award, London
2018 - Changxin Art Award, Beijing
2017 - The Inter-Youth: International Painting Exhibition, shortlisted, Hangzhou
Selected Exhibition
2024 - ENROPEIN, REinTate, London
The Muse Residency 2025: Shortlist Show, The Muse Gallery, London
Short Air vol 1.5, Sound Performance, Keep It Simple Sexy, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
Practice Love series 2024, How to Play Hopscotch, KOPPEL Collective, London
Short Air vol 1.0, Sound Performance, How to Play Hopscotch, KOPPEL Collective, London
Short Air vol 1.0, Sound Performance, Era Journal’s 2024 Group Show,
THREADING THE EYE, the Crypt Gallery, London
2023 - Soma Sand, Sound performance, The Other Company, VeryArt! London
Judd Dredd, Worlding Project, London
2020 - 3’53’’, HoshinaToyomi’ Mono-ha Workshop Exhibition, China
2018 - A Joyful Place, 798, China
The Fault (video installation), OCAT, China
2017 - Joint Exhibition for the Most Potential Chinese Artist, Kunming, China
Sa Pardon? Sound Art Exhibition, Xi’an, China
The Inter-Youth International Youth Painting Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2016 - Xi'an Showcase Special Exhibition, Xi’an, China
Young Artist Promotion Plan, Neon Wall, Xi’an, China
No.6 Portrait, Discovery and Reconstruction Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Collections
2022-2024
Private collections in Bow Arts, London
Private collections in 798, Beijing
Private collections in XAFA, Xi'an
Public collections in Duolun Museum, Shanghai
Education
2022-2024
Slade School of Fine Art
MFA Fine Art Media
2014-2017
Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy
MA Fine Art Contemporary Oil Painting Research
Advanced Study, Western art history
2007-2010
Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
BFA Oil Painting