Spanning text, installation, painting, and sculpture, Lu Pingyuan’s works are imbued with narrative and metaphor. Drawing inspiration from art history, classic literature, popular culture, and personal experience, the artist builds a gigantic world of fantasy homologous with reality to reveal the spiritual predicament of contemporary human beings and rediscover the potential for spiritual connection between people and the universe.

Lu Pingyuan was born in 1984 in Zhejiang province, China, lives and works in Shanghai. Spanning text, installation, painting, and sculpture, his works are imbued with narrative and metaphor. Drawing inspiration from art history, classic literature, popular culture, and personal experience, the artist builds a gigantic world of fantasy homologous with reality to reveal the spiritual predicament of contemporary human beings and rediscover the potential for spiritual connection between people and the universe. His works have been exhibited extensively in both national and international museums and biennales.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “Semi-Auto Wandering Gods”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2024; “One Night at a Gallery”, SSSSTART Museum, Shanghai, 2022; “Trapping Cooking, Cooking Trapping, It’s a Lovely Life”, OCAT SHENZHEN, Shenzhen, 2022; “The First Artist”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2021; “Imperishable Affection”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, 2020; “KOLA”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 2019; “La Malle aux Trésors”, Mansion de Hermès, Shanghai, 2018; “Lost Child”, ONEHOME Art Hotel, Shanghai, 2018; “HOME ALONe”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2017; “James Stanley-The Seventh Earl of Derby”, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, United Kingdom, 2016; “ON KAWARA”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; “Unexpected Discoveries”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2015.

He participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: “Poetry by the Barbarian”, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, 2024; “Launching a New Era–Body and Language as Manifesto”, YUAN Art Museum, Beijing, 2024; “Crossing the River by Feeling the Collectors”, C`PARK Haisu, Shanghai, 2023; “2023 Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, 2023; “White Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perception of Oracle Bone Script”, 798 CUBE, Beijing, 2023; “START”, Start Museum, Shanghai, 2022-23; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Land of the Lustrous”, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China, 2019;  “Edge of the Wonderland-Thailand Art Bi-ennale”, Krabi, Thailand, 2018; “Artist is Present”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Long March Project: Building Code Violations III – Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2018; “11th Shanghai Biennale”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016; “9th Liverpool Biennale”, Liverpool, England, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, England, 2016; “Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan”, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016; “3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Ural, Russia, 2015 etc. Lu Pingyuan was nominated for the 4th Art Sanya “Huayu Youth Award” and the 1st Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year”. Lu Pingyuan’s work proposal, Tree, was shortlisted for the third and fourth High Line Plinth commission in 2020.