CONTACT


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BIO


Liang He(b. 2000 in Foshan, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and gamer. He creates sculpture, installation, and cartography to replicate, and counterbalance anxiety concerning human subjectivity under capitalism. His research focuses on discourse around domination, delving into political, spiritual, physical and technological violence surrounding drones, cyborg, and cold war bunker. Through various system building, he infuses research-based strategies to experiment and reconfigure the dynamics in social reality.

Liang He is currently pursuing his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where he attained his BFA degree in studio art in 2022, and was awarded Presidential Merit Scholarship from 2018 to 2022. He has attended SVA summer residency, and Kunstruam residency in New York City. In 2023, he has shown in Evanston Biennial at Evanston Art Center, and won the Runner Up Prize of the fair. In 2024, he has exhibited, and given an artist talk in the Ars Eletronica Festival in Linz, Austria. His video works were premiered at Gene Siskel Film Center. He has also exhibited at A4 Art Museum, SVA Flatiron Gallery, and SAIC Galleries.






EDUCATION



2025  MFA Candidate in Art and Technology Study, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2022  BFA  Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US


Residency


2024  On-Site Residency Program, GlogauAIR, Berlin, GR
2023  Artist-in-Residence, Kunstraum LLC, New York City, US
2022  Summer Residency, School of Visual Art, New York City, US


AWARDS


2023       Runner UP Prize, Evanston And Vincinty Biennial, Evanston,US
2022-2018  Presidential Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,US
2018       First-Year Scholars Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,US


EXHIBITIONS


2024  The Ars Eletronica Festival, Linz, AT
2023  //Sense Video Exquisite Corpse, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, US
2023  Memory Mirage, Kunstraum, New York City, US
2023  Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, US
2023  Artificial Nature Game Jam, Basecamp, Shanghai, CN
2023  A4 Art Book Fair, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, CN
2023  Yonder Crush, Satchel Projects, New York City, US
2022  Hot Box, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York City, US
2022  Senior Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, US
2021  Don't Mind The Thing, Wedge Project, Chicago, US
2021  New Work 2021, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, US
2021  Making It, SAIC Wellness Center Gallery, Chicago, US
2021  Olfactory Art Show, Aroma Workshop, Chicago, US
2019  ArtBash, SITE Gallery, Chicago, US
2019  Lost×Spatial Habitats, Sulivan Center, Chicago, US
2017  17th China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, CN


LECTURE


2024  Artist Talk, Ars Eletronica Festival, Linz, AT
2023  Artist Talk, Asian Artist Propagation, Sulivan Center, Chicago, US
2022  Artist Talk, Kunstraum, New York City, US


BIBLIOGRAPHY


2024  HOPE who will turn the tide, Ars Eletronica Festival (ISBN 978-3-7757-5822-2)
2024  Artist of the month, Asian Artist Propagation Newsletter Issue 03
2023  Evanston + Vicinity Biennial highlights artists from the Midwest, The Daily Northwestern
2023  In spring the wind passing by plays the harmonica for me, Incosa Magazine