Lianjiang Zhu
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Born in 1997 in Wenzhou, China, Lianjiang Zhu lives and works in London. His practice spans moving image, installation and performance, focusing on how technical images construct and destabilise the visibility of the contemporary body.
Working through time-based media, He treats the body as an interface negotiating with technological systems. Processes of duplication, delay, displacement, substitution and de-characterisation continually rewrite bodily presence in his work. Under technical intervention, the body becomes weakened, fragmented or rendered spectral—occupying a threshold between appearance and disappearance. Through green-screen performance, digital proxies and spatial structures, He exposes the internal violence embedded within image production and the ways subjects are misread, encoded and substituted across regimes of visibility.
He received his BFA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, Italy (2021) and MA in Print from the Royal College of Art, London (2024). Recent awards and residencies includes: Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency, Shanghai (2025), Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist, UK (2025), and the Second Prize Winner at Kunstverein Hof, Germany (2024). His work has been exhibited or screened at Xi’an Art Museum (2025), the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2024), Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024), Kunstverein Hof (2024), and Southwark Park Galleries, London (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. ”