About

Hao Xing, b. 2001 Shenzhen, China, is an artist and recent graduate from the Goldsmiths, University of London BA (Hons) Fine Art (2023). He continues his practice at the Royal College of Art on the Painting MA course (2023 -24). During his time at RCA, Hao received the Basil H Alkali Scholarship Award (2023).

Hao Xing’s works deal with folklore, ghost stories, literature and personal recollections. The artist collages and deconstructs fragmented symbols to form independent riddles that question authenticity and subjective experience. Most of the scenes in the paintings seem staged or set models. Visual symbols and scenes are assembled bizarrely and childishly. Ambiguous emotions and vague positions constitute his paintings. The artist explores the notions of consequences, fate and uncertainty by mixing and collaging different possibilities or elements in his works. There is no realistic space in his paintings, only a vague speculation space like fortune-telling where puzzles and riddles are formed.

His most recent exhibitions include: ‘Erratum and Misalignment’ (MG Space, Beijing, 2024), ‘SUPERCROWDS/SUPERCOMMUNITY’ (TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, 2024), ‘Fragments’ (Project Kavel Rafferty, Margate, 2024), ‘Thoughts In The Silent Night’ (Hewhood Gallery, London, 2024).

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