Lianjiang Zhu
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Lianjiang Zhu (b. 1997, Wenzhou, China) is a London-based artist working with moving image, installation, and performance. His practice investigates how operational processes structure visibility, perception, and presence.
Through strategies such as delay, obstruction, substitution, and procedural displacement, he constructs conditions in which acts of seeing are misaligned, subjects may be replaced, and visibility is partially occluded. Rather than representing identity or narrating content, his works examine how procedural logics govern perception and existence, revealing how individuals are positioned, misread, and processed within technical and social systems.
Education
2023-2024 MA Print, Royal College of Art, UK
2018-2021 BFA Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, Italy
Awards and Residencies
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China (Supported by Swatch Group)
Longlisted Artist, Aesthetica Art Prize, UK
Finalist, FutureTense Awards 3rd Edition, Hong Kong
2024 Second Prize Winner, Kunstverein Hof, Hof, Germany
Shortlisted, Kinomural 2024, Wroclaw, Poland
2019 Shortlisted, Giorgio Morandi Engraving Prize (30th & 31st Editions) , Bologna, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
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
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 of longlisted work, York Art Gallery, UK (Aesthetica Art Prize)
Screening, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
2024 Palimpseste — Curated Exhibition Event, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2024, Studios ID Collective, Berlin, Germany
Screening, Kreativität der Langsamkeit, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
Press
2025 Artist Profile for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, published by Aesthetica Magazine
2024 “Ghosted Bodies: Disintegrating Subjectivity Across Media”, published by Art.china.cn (online), 05/12/2024
“Lianjiang Zhu: Dissolving the Binary of Reality and Fiction through the Futility of Seeking”, published by Artron.net (online), 15/07/2024
Collection
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Collection, Shanghai, China
Royal College of Art, London, UK
The One Minutes Collection, preserved by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, NL
Talk
2023 FINISSAGE of the HOTPOT exhibition, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany, Dec.