CONTACT
lianghestudio@gmail.com
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