Lianjiang Zhu
- All Images © Lianjiang Zhu
(b. 1997, Wenzhou, China; based in London)
Lianjiang Zhu is a Time-based media artist. He employs moving images and performance to question how digital technology reshapes traditional notions of the body and subjectivity. By using replication, mutation, and simulation, he creates fleeting, fluid forms that expose the surveillance mechanisms woven into social, political, and technological systems, continuously redefining self-perception.
2023-2024 MA Print, Royal College of Art, UK
2018-2021 BFA Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, Italy
Awards and Residencies
2025 Swatch Art Peace Hotel artist residency, Shanghai, China (Jul. — Oct.)
2025 Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, UK— Longlisted Artist
2024 Kunstverein Hof e.V., Hof, Germany–Prize Winner
2024 Kinomural 2024, Wroclaw, Poland– Shortlisted
2019 Award Giorgio Morandi Engraving Prize, 30th and 31st editions, Bologna, Italy– Shortlisted
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Palimpseste – Open Studios, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Exit Thread, Galerija SKC, Rijeka, Croatia
Thirteen Migratory Birds, Qingdao International Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
JUMP—CUT, neXtlab YU Art Museum, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, China
Dream This Silly, Queer Youth Art Collective, London, UK
In Motion, Kunstverein Hof e.V., Hof, Germany
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2024, Studios ID Collective, Berlin, Germany
RCA2024, Royal College of Art, London, UK
EAST QUAY OPEN: Open about Identity, East Quay, Watchet, UK
NOWSHOWING:洄·临界穿行, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
Destructive Power of War in the Arts, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Invisible Visible, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
Out of Thin Air, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
Screening: Kreativität der Langsamkeit, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
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
Media and Article
2024 Jul. Artron.net 雅昌艺术
2024 Dec. Art.china.cn 艺术中国
Collection
Royal College of Art
The One Minutes Collection, preserved by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Talk
FINISSAGE of the HOTPOT exhibition, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany, December, 2023