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Fang Lu, born in 1981 in Guangzhou, China. She lives and works in Beacon New York.
Fang Lu’s most recognized for her video art, while her palette involves photography, installation and print as well. Her practice addresses the tensions intermingled with modern life. Through elevating personal experience and struggles to a metaphysical setting, she strives to reveal the magical aspects of the so-called mundane. Her works has been shown and screened in museums and art spaces including Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Anthology Film Archive in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Times Museum in Guangzhou and Berlin, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and more. She is a co-founder of Video Bureau, an independent video archive in Guangzhou and Beijing. In addition to her involvement in art, Fang is also a licensed practitioner of Acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medicine in New York.
2019 GateWay Wonder, Boers-li Gallery, Beijing
2016 True Sense, Boers-li Gallery, Beijing
2013 Lost Seconds, Boers-li Gallery, Beijing
2013 Lover and Artist, Pekin Fine Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2012 Amorous Acts, Arrow Factory, Beijing
2011 Eclipse, Borges Libreria Contemporary Art Institute, Guangzhou
2011 Automatic Happening, A4 Cultural Arts Center, Cheng Du
2010 Unrecording, Space Station, Beijing
2023 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA (Curated by Abby Chan)
2022 Living in the New Century: Chinese Media Arts since 1989, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea (Curated by Li Zhen Hua)
2020 A Story of the Future, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy (Curated by Hou Hanru)
2019 Community of Feeling: Emotional Patterns in Art in Post-1949 China, Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China (curated by Su Wei)
2019 Free Prism Video Wave, Box Art Museum, Fo Shan, China (Curated by Dai Zhuo Qun)
2019 Nonglin Open Stage, Fei Art Museum, Guangzhou, China (Curated by Shen Rui Jun)
2019 The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging, Museum of Chinese in America, New York (Curated by Herb Tam)
2019 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Special Program: Becoming Myself, Ann Arbor, USA (Curated by Zhang Fang)
2018 The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Museum, Berlin, Germany (Curated by Hou Hanru and Xi Bei)
2018 The Street. Where the World is Made, Foundazione MAXXI, Roma, Italy (Curated by Hou Hanru)
2018 Transition Agency, Attract Art Space, Shenzhen (Curated by Wang Jing)
2018 Canton Novelty, Official Selection, Far East Film Festival, China Now 1 program, Udine, Italy
2017 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen China
2017 “Canton Novelty” Premiered in The Fifth Vancouver International Film Festival, and the work toured at: West Bund Art and Design (Shanghai); Beijing International Short Film Festival, CHAO Art Center (Beijing); Ullen Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing); HOW Art Museum (Shanghai); Times Museum (Guangzhou); Xi’an OCAT Museum (Xi’an); The First Suzhou International Short Art Film Week, Han Shan Art Museum (Suzhou); LUXELAKES・A4 Art Museum (Chengdu); Shenzhen OCAT Museum (Shenzhen)
2017 Last Night’s Fortune Teller, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin Germany
2017 Becoming, Border Crossing International Festival of Intermedia 2017, Hong Kong
2017 Uncharted Water, Boers-li Gallery, New York, USA
2017 Pan Yuliang: A Journey to Silence, Times Museum, Guangzhou China
2017 Performing Dramas II, Prosepctif Cinema programe, Centre Pompidou, Paris France; K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai China
2017 New notes of Guangdong, bonacon gallery, Guangzhou, China.
2016 Tutorials – Moving Image and Instructions for use from China, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, Italy
2016 Hero Mother – Contemporary Art by Post Communist Women Rethinking Heroism, Momentum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 My Generation, Orange County Museum of Art, America
2015 28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, America
2015 CHINA 8, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
2015 Here Out There, Helsinki Festival, Finland
2014 1st OCAT & Pierre Huber Prize: Annual Exhibition of Emerging Media Artists,   Shanghai
2014 Through the Body: Lens-based works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, University of Toronto Art Centre, West Galleries, Toronto
2014 My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Fine Arts, Tampa, America
2014 The 8 of Paths, Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8, Berlin
2013 28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami, America
2013 Vancouver International Film Festival, 32nd Annual VIFF, Vancouver, Canada
2013 On/Off: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2013 Where Narrative Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
2012 The First “CAFAM• Future” Sub-Phenomena: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art，CAFA Art Museum, Beijing,China
2012 The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale – “Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
2012 FCAC Video Project －JETLAG, Sino-German Multimedia Contemporary Art
Exhibition Independent Project, Kunsthalle Faust, Germany
2011 8+8 Contemporary International Video Art, 53 Museum, Guangzhou, China
2010 Art Gwangju 2010, Emerging Asian Artists, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea
2010 Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009 Present Tense Biennale, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, America
2008 Cantocore, Ping Pong Art Space, Guangzhou, America
2008 We Remember the Sun, Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco, America
2007 Version Festival, Chicago, America
2006 Anti/Social, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, America
2006 Alternative Context, Diego Riveral Gallery, San Francisco, America
2004 Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, America
2004 The Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Grande Halle of la Villette, Paris, France
2003 Fringe Short Film Festival,Gothenburg, Sweden