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1999 Born in Changsha, Hunan Province

2021 Graduated from the Department of Comprehensive Painting of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree
2024 Graduated from the Department of Comprehensive Arts of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree
Currently works and lives in Hefei

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2025
Future Heritage – International Large-Scale Comprehensive Art Exhibition, Russian National Center, Moscow, Russia

 

2024
Rising Star 19 – National Outstanding Graduate Nomination Exhibition, 1844 Contemporary Art Museum, Ningbo,China
The Inquirer – Xu Qinsong's Creation Wins National Bronze Award, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou,China
Hybridity, Synesthesia & Coexistence – M's Room × Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Experimental Art College Exhibition, M's Room, Beijing,China

2023
More Than Temperature – Experimental Art Exhibition, Teemall, Tianjin,China

Experimental Art Scene, MixC, Tianjin,China

2021
Small Steps Plan 2.0, OCT, Tianjin,China
Urban Fantasy – Experimental Media Works Exhibition, Tianjin Tower, Tianjin,China

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Across civilizations and epochs, the apple assumes kaleidoscopic meanings: It hangs as the forbidden fruit in Eden's garden; glimmers as the golden prize of Olympian rivalry; gleams as Germanic immortality's emblem; festers as fairy tale poison; gleams as festive token of peace; functions as digital resurrection in gaming realms; even mirrors the human heart's 250-gram heft – a startling somatic equivalence. This fruit, I posit, serves as humanity's ultimate symbolic chameleon.

My creative practice centers on the apple as both muse and metaphor. Through ceramic alchemy, mineral-pigment painting, and pulp-sculpture metamorphosis, I seek to liberate the apple from its quotidian form. Each iteration becomes a visual thesis – deconstructing "perfection" as aesthetic dogma, while celebrating beauty's inherent contradictions: its labyrinthine complexity and exquisite fragility.

The apple's metamorphic potential remains my North Star. I shall continue fracturing and fusing its symbolism across disciplines – from biological metaphors to digital avatars – to forge new dialogues between object and idea, all while preserving the fruit's enigmatic power to evoke wonder.

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