“I don’t like being called an artist - I’m more like an entertainer”
Sublimely twisted visions of pleasure, pain, life and death from a self-professed 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. 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 -...
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.
