I am a Chinese artist working between Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Linyi.
Most of my work comes from long-term observation of everyday life in Chinese cities. Over the past twenty years, I have watched these cities change rapidly through construction, migration, transportation, redevelopment, and shifting patterns of urban life. I became interested in how people gradually adjust themselves to these environments, both physically and emotionally.
I often photograph women because, for me, they reflect the atmosphere and temperament of a city most directly. Small gestures, movement, posture, distance, and the way people occupy space can quietly reveal the character of urban life.
In recent years, I have gradually reduced narrative and identity inside the image, focusing more on the body itself — especially weight-bearing parts such as legs, feet, and hands.
After returning to China from Australia, I spent the past two decades working in cultural and creative fields while continuing to support my own artistic practice. Living in Australia during my adolescence and early adulthood also shaped my early awareness of migration, cultural difference, and the ways people from different backgrounds learn to coexist within the same city.
Alongside photography, I also experiment with video, drawing, and digital intervention to respond to memory, observation, and everyday experience.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
Old Home by the Moat,
Photographic project on the demolition of my family home
TALKING& Café, Linyi, China, 2026
Stagnation is Another Kind of Motion
Photography group exhibition
BANSHAN Gallery, Chengdu, China, 2022
10 Cities, 10 Photos
Online and public screen project during COVID-19
Tencent Binhai Mansion, Shenzhen, China, 2020
Moon in the Water
Site-specific installation
Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Yangzhou, China, 2019
To Demolish or Not: Baishizhou
Pop-up photographic intervention on demolition fences
Baishizhou Village, Shenzhen, China, 2016
Grand Design: Hand Made
Public installation (bicycle restoration project)
Xintiandi, Shanghai, China, 2014
The Unreasonable
Public installation (reusing a skateboard)
Shanghai Design Week, Shanghai, China, 2014
Nowhere to Live
Site-specific installation involving suspended human figures
M50 demolition site, Shanghai, China, 2009
Initiatives
Hangzhou × Bali Artist Sister Village Project
Co-initiator, initiated and led by curator Zhao Yongkang
Hangzhou and Bali, 2025–Present
Ru Ware touring exhibition Across Japan, Taiwan, and mainland China,
Co-initiator, led by curator Shandy Ho
Nara, Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai and Yangzhou, 2017–2019