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