Lianjiang Zhu
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Lianjiang Zhu (b. 1997, Wenzhou, China) is a London-based artist whose practice spans moving image, installation, and performance. Through time-based media, he investigates image-making mechanisms, including duplication, dislocation, and bodily substitution—operating within the liminal zone between technological hallucination and corporeal displacement. Employing green-screen performance and digital proxies, He interrogates the fragmentation of contemporary selfhood, evoking the spectral quality of digital presence and the instability of self-representation within visual technologies.
He received his BFA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna (2021) and MA in Print from the Royal College of Art, London (2024). He is the recipient of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency in Shanghai (2025), and was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, UK (2025), and awarded Second Prize at Kunstverein Hof, Germany (2024).
“Through digital manipulation and performance, Lianjiang Zhu critiques pervasive surveillance and shifting notions of the body. His London-based work reveals how technology reshapes identity and self-perception, blurring boundaries between subject and system. Zhu’s moving images highlight the complex interplay of digital influence within social and political frameworks. ”