Liqing Tan

The mystery of visualizing the body as a landscape and the landscape as a body leads me to think about the unique forms within figures, which at the same time may unfold like vast landscapes. Zooming into a specific gesture, connecting a body part with its surroundings, or reshaping a landscape into the form of a body—these are some of the concepts I have been working on.

Reflecting on the current state of human existence is an important aspect of my work, sometimes intertwined with cultural and narrative experiences. I am also drawn to the characteristics of animals, flowers, fruits, fish, insects, and other living organisms, as well as the idea of reassembling landscapes.

Creating an unreal space or capturing a dramatic moment are also essential elements of my practice. My works unfold through ambiguous storylines—things appearing and disappearing, intimacy and separation, memory and forgetting, discovery and reflection, closeness and distance, focus and dispersion.

It is about recording, speculating, imagining, and creating.

2016-2018 Master in Fine Art (M.F.A.), UCL Slade School of Fine Art, UK

2011-2015 Bachelor in Fine Art (B.A.), Indiana University Bloomington, US

2020

Royal Society of British Artists 303rd Annual Exhibition 2020, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1, UK

Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Stoddart Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1AN, UK

​2019

Solo Exhibition

As I Recall, Studio d'arte Cannaviello Gallery, Milan, Italy

Duo Exhibition

​2019

VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE, SHELF London, Spanish City Plaze, Whitley Bay, UK

Selected Group Exhibition
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Prologue, Offshoot Gallery, London, UK

ASYAAF, GALLERY LVS, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea

2018

Dentons art prize, Dentons, London, UK

​New Horizons Young Talents Exhibition, Coast Gallery, Zhuhai, China

​The Graduate Art Prize, Exchange House, London, UK

SWAP 3: ARTIST AS MACHINE, THE NEW SHOREDITCH THEATRE, London, UK

Slade 2018 MA/MFA/PhD Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London, UK

​2017

​Faith, Austin Forum, London, UK

Progress:/,regress, Crypt Gallery, London, UK

Future Echoes, Museum of Refugees, Thessaloniki, Greece

Slade Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London, UK

The future of British Art, Cote Brasserie Hays Galleria, London, UK

Salón de Gráfica Contemporánea, Nahim Isaias Museum, Guayaquil, Ec...