Artist
Lu Yang ｜ルー・ヤン
BIOGRAPHY
Lu Yang is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist based in Tokyo and Shanghai. His work, deeply influenced by Buddhist philosophy, explores themes of identity, life, technology, and spirituality. Among his many notable works, the recent series “DOKU – Alone Together” uses his digital persona to address contemporary human issues and aims to spread Buddhist wisdom. LuYang extensively utilizes computer graphics (CG) technology and game engines as creative media, collaborating with experts from various fields such as scientists, psychologists, designers, and music producers.
His recent solo museum exhibitions include the Louis Vuitton Museum in Paris, the Mudec Museum in Milan, the Kunsthalle Basel Museum in Switzerland, the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin, the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, the Kunstpalais Museum in Erlangen, and MOCA Cleveland in the USA. He participated in the Venice Biennale in both 2015 and 2022 and has been involved in other major museum exhibitions and biennials/triennials. LuYang was awarded the BMW Art Journey in 2019 and was also the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year award in 2022.
| 上海生まれ Born in Shanghai |
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2007-2010 |
修士 中国美術学院大学院、ニューメディア科 Master of Arts New Media Art department, China Academy of Art |
| 2003-2007 | 学位 中国美術学院大学院、ニューメディア科 Bachelor of Arts New Media Art department, China Academy of Art |
| 現在東京と上海を拠点に活動 Currently lives and works in Tokyo and Shanghai |
個展 / Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | DOKU The Flow, solo presentation with PARCEL, Frieze Seoul, Seoul DOKU The Flow, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel Open Space #14 Lu Yang, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris |
| 2023 | Lu Yang DOKU Experience Center, Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2022, MUDEC, Milan LuYang, Arcade Liverpool, FACT Liverpool DOKU, HongKong Experience Center, Oi! Street Art Space, Hong Kong Lu Yang Vibratory Field, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Lu Yang Material Wonderland, Vellum LA, Los Angeles |
| 2022 | NetiNeti, Zabludowicz Collection, London Lu Yang DOKU, Experience Center, Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2022, Palais Polpulaire, Berlin False Awakening, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen MAM Screen 015, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo DOKU – the Binary World (performance), Freespace, Hong Kong; Sydney Opera House, Sydney Heaven 2 Hell by the Orange Garden, Panetteria Atomica, Rome Screen Bodies, Australian Centre on China in the World, presented by ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, Canberra |
| 2021 | DOKU: Digital Alaya – LuYang solo exhibition, Jane Lombard gallery , New York , USA Asrava World – LuYang solo exhibition, COMA gallery , Sydney , Australia GIGANT DOKU – LuYang the destroyer, Lu Yang performance event at Garage museum, Moscow, Russia Digital Descender – LuYang solo exhibition, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 2019 | Debut, BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai Delusional Mandala, Fotografiska, Stockholm The Game World of Material World Knight, CC Foundation & Art Center, Shanghai Cyber Altar, Art Basel Hong Kong under the auspices of Société, Berlin |
| 2018 | Electromagnetic Brainology – LuYang solo exhibition, me Nue, Hamburg, Germany Electromagnetic Brainology – LuYang solo exhibition, Spiral , Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | Encephalon Heaven – LuYang solo exhibition, M woods Museum, Beijing Delusional Mandala – LuYang solo exhibition, MOCA Cleveland , USA Delusional Mandala, Space Gallery, Portland , USA |
| 2016 | Shanghainese in Yokohama, Zou no Hana Terrace , Yokohama , Japan LuYang / Delusional Mandela, abc gallery night / Société, Berlin LuYang Delusional Crime and Punishment, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai Delusional Mandala, Interstitial, Seattle , USA |
| 2015 | LuYang Delusional Mandala, Beijing Commune, China ANTI-HUMANISME, Ok Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2014 | Lu Yang Arcade, Wallplay, New York, USA Lu Yang Selected Videos, Ventana244 Art Gallery, New York, USA KIMOKAWA Cancer Baby, Ren Space, Shanghai, China |
| 2013 | Uterus Man, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, China Lu Yang’s MV, The Images Beyond Good and Evil, AMNUA , Nanjing, China Lu Yang Screening Program, 3331 Arts Chiyoda , Tokyo , Japan |
| 2011 | 11th Winds of Artist in Residence Part 2 – Lu Yang, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka , Japan Curated by Zhang Peili – The Anatomy of Rage (Wrathful King Kong Core)–Lu Yang Solo Exhibition, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China The Project of KRAFTTREMOR, Boers Li Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | Lu Yang Hell, Art Labor, Shanghai, China Torturous Vision, Input/Output, Hong Kong, China |
グループ展 / Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2024 | Forever Young: The Dorian Gray Syndrome, MEET, Milan Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, Rubin Museum of Art, New York Choose your Player. Gaming from Dice to Pixel, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen Screening: Wrathful King Kong Core, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| 2023 | WORLDBUILDING, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz HOPE, Museion, Bolzano MIES CAPSULE 1: Lu Yang x Rudolf Belling, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Unidentified Fluid Other (UFO), Nxt Museum, Amsterdam In Search of the Present, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Espoo Buddha10, A fragmented display on Buddhist visual evolution, Fondazione Torino Musei, Turin Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds, Asia Society Museum, New York Palais Augmenté 3, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris DOKU – Six Realms of Reincarnation, Bruton Street window, supported by Chanel, London CAMK Collection Exhibition Vol. 7, Memory Storage for the Future, Kumamoto Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto The Messyverse Exhibition, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam The 7th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou Ebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2023, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo DA Z Festival 2023, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich Crypto Art Seoul 2023, Seoul Game Society, MMCA, Seoul FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Supercreativity, São Paulo Art in the age of hyper technological reproductions, GYRE Gallery , Tokyo MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023, Tav Gallery , Tokyo Dogo Art 2023, Matsuyama |
| 2022 | The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Buddha10, A fragmented display on Buddhist visual evolution, Fondazione Torino Musei, Turin Fanatic Heart, ParaSite, Hong Kong In Search of the Present, EMMA, Espoo UFO – Unidentified Fluid Other, Nxt Museum, Amsterdam GHOSTS OF THE MACHINE, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity, Möllerei, Luxembourg Ultra Unreal, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Epoch Wars, Performing Lines, Chronus Art Centre, Shanghai No False Idols, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney WORLDBUILDING, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf 6th BIAN – International Digital Art Biennial – METAMORPHOSIS – MUTATION, by ELEKTRA, Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal, Montreal MunchTriennial: The Machine is Us, Munch Museum, Oslo GOGBOT Festival, Enschede Cloud Walkers, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Supercreativity, São Paulo Slip.Stream.Slip – Resistance and velocity in game engine culture, School of Digital Art (SODA) Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester |
| 2021 | The Earth is Flat Again, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź Rehearsing the future: Dance with Nonhuman, Alien Art Center, Kaohsiung City Rising Festival Melbourne , Melbourne, Australia we do not dream alone, Asia Society Triennial , Asia Society museum, New York , USA Lu Yang Studio Visit, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland CineZeta Madrid, Borau Hall Screening, Spain European Media Art Festival Online Screening NONFLIX Mini Film Festival: online screening internationally; offline screening in Hi Chi Minh City and Hanoi Vietnam Chinese Arts Now Online Screening Fake Me Hard, Rotterdam, Netherlands GOBOT, Enschede, Netherlands Radical Gaming – Immersion Simulation Subversion, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland Both Sides Now 6, Videotage Hong Kong and Videoclub UK Manque de Recul, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2020 | NEURONES – LES INTELLIGENCES SIMULÉES, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum, M Woods (Beijing) Online Pixels Fest, The Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Videotage Media Art Collection—Paranormal, an online screening program by Videotage Hong Kong Heavy Bored, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Online viewing at Bit Street Hong Kong at the New Art Fest 2020, by Ocupart in Lisbon Portugal Made by Artists, online exhibition at Content Lab, Videotage Hong Kong Bangkok Art Biennial 2020, Thailand lichtsicht 7 Projection Triennale, Germany 2020 ACC Gwangju-Asia Artists Exhibition < UN·TACT >, Asia Culture Center, Korea IMMATERIAL / RE-MATERIAL: A brief history of computing art, UCCA, Beijing Online Screening and Conversation, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada New Year Eve Screening, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai Player of Beings, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai Learning What Can’t Be Taught, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong |
| 2019 | Chinernet Ugly, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art–Manchester, UK LOW FORM. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MAXXI (National Museum of XXI Arts), Video Gallery, Rome, Italy TEC Art Rotterdam Festival, WORM, Slash Gallery Boomgaardsstraat 69 Rotterdam, Netherlands Videoforms Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France Computer Grrrls Exhibition, La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France Zoextropy. The posthuman beauty, Museum Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain California Institute of the Arts, in-class screening for teaching, USA Lost & Found Rituals (an art event), Theatrum Anatomicum Waag, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Chasm, Franz-Josef-Kai 3/17, Vienna, Austria The Flat World, organized by Alternative LOOP Space, held at Sky Garden of Hyundai Department Store, Seoul, South Korea An art event at Zero Club (Ø), London, UK Sunset Kino, Salzburger Kunstverein (museum), Austria Refiguring Binaries, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York City, USA Computer Grrrls Exhibition, La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France Computer Grrrls Exhibition, MU artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands The Coming World, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia OnLife Convention, Milano, Italy Art House Cinema ACUDkino, Berlin, Germany 上海文件, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China NGUYEN CONG TRI 20 Years of Fashion, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
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