Gao Muyan

1991 Born in Jincheng, Shanxi Province

2013 Graduated from the Sculpture & Environmental Art Department of Glasgow School of Art with a bachelor's degree

2014 Graduated from the Fine Art Department of University of Arts London with a master's degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION

2013  

Upstairsdown, Studio 41 Gallery, Glasgow

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015
2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

2014  

Call for Entries, Platform Theatre of Central Saint Martins, London

The First Oil Painting Exhibition, Jincheng Art Museum, Jincheng

Master of Fine Art Degree Show, Triangle Space, London

Fine Art Exhibition, Triangle Space, London

2013  

Hey, Abstract Art Exhibition, Triangle Space Gallery, London

Selective Sculptures, Mackintosh Museum,Glasgow

2012  

The World is Still, The Body Fall Asleep, Grace Clark Y Gallery, Glasgow

2010  

Value, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Design Exhibition Hall, Beijing

Gao Muyan: My work explores a strong human ability to exist amidst the chaos of the external environment, and the resulting emotional and physical stress. How can technology be used to break down the space that keeps us distant from our experience, and how can art provide a chance for this to happen. I attempt to understand how choice of material affects a work’s perception, how we construct our experience into meaning, and how physical form, when understood according to artistic principles, takes on meaning beyond what it once had. I concentrate on the relationship between meaningless materials and a well-controlled formation of elements that is endowed with meaning. I am intrigued by the way we draw upon and structure in memory, constantly searching for relationships between all parts of the world around us, and then relating back to ourselves, to form our own understanding. Working with the subject of time, in both sculpture and drawing, my practice attempts to reveal not only ordinary things but also the richness of their own experience to a viewer, and find some kind of common language that allows that experience to be shared.