Lu Yang

Sublimely twisted visions of pleasure, pain, life and death from a self-professed entertainer.

“I don’t like being called an artist - I’m more like an entertainer”

Lu Yang creates a cacophony of in-your-face digital aesthetics. Her multidisciplinary practice spans video, installation, painting, performance and new media such as VR and video games. Intoxicating films - soundtracked by pounding electronic music - flit hyperactively between stark images of violence like impaled bodies and napalm, to anatomical diagrams and steroid-pumped religious iconography...

Lu Yang creates a cacophony of in-your-face digital aesthetics. Her multidisciplinary practice spans video, installation, painting, performance and new media such as VR and video games. Intoxicating films - soundtracked by pounding electronic music - flit hyperactively between stark images of violence like impaled bodies and napalm, to anatomical diagrams and steroid-pumped religious iconography. References to Manga and Anime, along with gaming and hacking subcultures surface throughout. While the artist resists any given label, her work is framed by legacies of Afrofuturism and Asiafuturism - like her predecessors, she uses science-fiction to reconfigure the present into an exhilarating vision of the future...

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artist sitting with one leg propped on a pug stool, with their real pug on a chair next to them and a pug painting to the side

inside of a studio with various props, toys and screens

artist hands typing on the keyboard while simultaneously holding a pug

artist sitting behind a desk with multiple screens and holding a pug

inside of a studio with various toys on a glass shelf

Bio

Lu Yang was born in 1984 in Shanghai, China, where they continue to live and work.

Accolades

In 2013 the artist received a sought-after grant from the Asian Cultural Council, and in 2019 was awarded The Art Journey Prize by BMW in association with Art Basel.

Press

Yang's work has been featuered in major international publications such as Frieze, Art in America, LEAP, and Timeout Shanghai.

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