Lianjiang Zhu
- All Images © Lianjiang Zhu
lianjiang.zhu.art@gmail.com
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 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency, 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 (Inaugural Edition)
Shortlisted, Kinomural 2024, Wroclaw, Poland
2019 Shortlisted, Giorgio Morandi Engraving Prize (30th & 31st Editions) , Bologna, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming) Aesthetica Art Prize—Longlisted artist, York Art Gallery, York, UK (work presented in a curated video loop)
2024 Palimpseste — Open Studios, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Exit Thread, Galerija SKC, Rijeka, Croatia
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, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
Destructive Power of War in the Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Invisible Visible, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
Out of Thin Air, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
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
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
Royal College of Art
The One Minutes Collection, preserved by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Talk
2023 FINISSAGE of the HOTPOT exhibition, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany, Dec.