Wu Cong

1993 Born in China

2017 Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (BA) with a Bachelor’s degree

2020 Graduated from Birmingham City University. MA in Contemporary Arts China with a Master’s degree

SOLO EXHIBITION

Trinley Dechen Solo Exhibition, Xigaze Library, Xigaze, China

Highland Sleepwalking - Double Solo Exhibition, Su Shanghai Community Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Phase - Trinley Dechen Solo Exhibition, Yak Museum of Tibet, Lhasa, China

GROUP EXHIBITION

2021

“Shadow Theatre”, Blank Field Art Space, Beijing, China.

“Parallel Narrative: Social Experience and Regional Tracking”,South China Art Museum,  Dongguan, China.

“Light”, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea.

2020

“Reality and its disorders”, Espacio Gallery, London, UK.

Birmingham School of Art, “Unavailable”, Birmingham, UK.

 “CCVA Virtual Show”, Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham, UK.

“MACAC Showcase”, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, UK.

2019

“Bollards Project”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

2018

“Inside & Outside: Young Artists Exhibition”, The Library of GAFA, Guangzhou, China.

“JI Project: Young Artists Experimental Art Exhibition”, Sanyu·Hui Art Space, Guangzhou

2017

“Entirety Infinity”, Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.

“ GAFA BA Degree Show”, Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.

2016

“Chun Nuan Hua Kai: Art Competition”, Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.

“The Memorial Exhibition of Gao Yebo”, E7 Art Space, Guangzhou, China.

2015

“Yuan Tou Huo Shui: Contemporary Art Exhibition”, 289 Art Space, Guangzhou, China.

“Oil Paintings in ShanWei”, Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

OTHERS

2020

New Stat Art Award Top 100. Finalist, MoCA STAR, China

2019

China Scholarship Council Sponsored Chinese Citizens. China Scholarship Council

2017

The Competition of Mascot for Tourism Commodities. Second Prize. Tourist Administration of Zhaoqing, China

2016

"Energy Saving in Dorms" Poster Design Contest. Second Place. SEOUL TECH, Seoul, South Korea

Canson Excellent Student Award. Second Place. GAFA, China

Phoenix Art Award. Second Place. GAFA, China

“Chun nuan hua kai” Art Competition. Third Prize. Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.

2015

Oil Paintings Competition in ShanWei. Second Place. Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou

Creative Bookmark Design Contest. First Prize. The Library of GAFA, Guangzhou

Wu Cong is a visual artist whose works include installations, videos, painting, and photography, etc., where he explores the invisible power behind everyday life. Wu Cong pays particular attention to the subtle alternation between the familiar and the extraordinary, the known and unknown, now and the past, the pleasure and the mixture of delight and fear, and the secular and the transcendent. Moreover, he is fascinated by the purely spiritual experience generated within alternations, that is, a kind of unspeakable, specific spiritual status producing a ‘mental jump’ which leads the viewers to a point beyond our rational thinking and the limit of our knowledge.

There are two scenarios in permanent war: a company staff dormitory and my grandmother's home. Before my grandmother died, I was in that dormitory. When I rushed back to grandma's house, she was already gone. The presence and absence of my grandmother were, therefore, incredibly combined in these two irrelevant scenarios owing to me as a middleman. The stairs, curtains, wooden chairs, bathtubs, fragments of clothes burned in the iron basin, as well as the Shentai used to worship gods, suggest the existence of my grandmother, and also trace the eternal constructions, struggles, and destruction within human beings. The touching song sang by a grandma's friend in Cantonese at her funeral that describes her happiness during the afterlife, was used as a part of this film. The voice-over was selected from part of Michel Foucault's speech at Collège de France in 1976.