Lu Pingyuan (b. 1984, China) lives and works in Shanghai. He graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2007, majoring in Visual Communication Design.
Lu’s practice is rooted in his interest in the intangibility of the human spirit and will. Through his creation and use of “stories”, Lu presents the circulation and evolution of human experiences. Spanning text, video, installation, painting, and sculpture, his works fuse surreal narrative with conceptual art.
Drawing inspiration from art history, popular culture, and personal experience, the artist builds a 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.
Selected exhibitions include Best of the Best Draw at HE Art Museum, Shunde in 2024; Semi-Auto Wandering Gods at MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai in 2024; 目 Chine - A New Generation of Artists at Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2024; Laozi’s Furnace at White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney in 2024; and Trapping Cooking, Cooking Trapping, It’s a Lovely Life at OCAT SHENZHEN, Shenzhen in 2022.