Lianjiang Zhu
born 1997, Wenzhou. Lives and works in London.
lianjiang.zhu.art@gmail.com
Education
2024 MA Print, Royal College of Art, UK
2021 BFA Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, Italy
Awards and Residencies
2025 Artist Residency, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
Longlisted Artist,
Aesthetica Art Prize, UK
Finalist,
FutureTense Awards 3rd Edition, Hong Kong
2024
Second Prize Winner,
Kunstverein Hof, Germany
Shortlisted,
Kinomural 2024, Wroclaw, Poland
2019
Shortlisted, Giorgio Morandi Engraving Prize
(30th & 31st Editions)
, Bologna, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
2026 (upcoming) 从配料表到普拉提, Central Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2025
In-Between Generations, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
2024
Exit
Thread, Galerija SKC, Rijeka, Croatia
In Motion, Kunstverein Hof e.V., Hof,
Germany
Destructive
Power of War in the Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
RCA2024, Royal College of Art, London,
UK
Open about Identity, East Quay, Watchet, UK
Out of Thin Air, Southwark Park
Galleries, London, UK
2023
The
Atlas of A Flaneur, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China
JOMO---Joy of Missing Out, Mom Art
Space, Hamburg, Germany
HOTPOT, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
Screenings and Events
2025
Screening, York Art Gallery, UK (Aesthetica Art Prize)
Screening, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin
2024 Palimpseste —
Curated Exhibition Event, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2024, Studios ID
Collective, Berlin
Dream This Silly, Queen Youth Art Collective, London
Screening, Kreativität der Langsamkeit, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin
2023
Screening, Southwark Park Galleries, London
Press
2025
Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, published by Aesthetica Magazine
2024 Art.china.cn (online), 05/12/2024
Artron.net (online), 15/07/2024
Collections
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Collection, Shanghai
Royal College of Art, London
The One Minutes Collection
Talk
2023
FINISSAGE of the HOTPOT exhibition, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany, Dec.
Bio
Lianjiang works across moving image, installation and text. His practice shifts familiar elements beyond the environments in which they ordinarily exist, exploring how changes in context reshape the relationships between objects, materials and their conditions of appearance. Through subtle interventions in material, process and display, his works reveal aspects of familiar things that often remain unnoticed, allowing them to be encountered in new ways. By reconfiguring existing forms rather than introducing new ones, his practice considers how meaning and presence are continuously shaped by the circumstances in which things are experienced.