Lu Yu

Lu Yu, born in Tongchuan, Shaanxi in 1996, graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 and is now a postgraduate student in the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In Lu Yu’s view, Painting is a process in which one uncovers order amongst chaos, gradually suppressing their agitated imagination and returning the imagery to the place it belongs. The sculptural figures left by the blazed then chilled fever brought by raging imagination possess the qualities of eternity and idyllic reverie. Like a dreamer with a lens, the artist enters this restful, quiet space, which at the same time seems to be lurking with a surging danger, and sets the lens in it at random, waiting for the creature who is willing to be in it to appear.

1996 Born in Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province, China

2018 BFA, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts

2024 MFA, Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Currently lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibition

2025 Lu Yu: Mental Journey, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

2023 Hive·Becoming XLI Lu Yu: Sunnyside, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 The Discourse of Matter: An Exploration Exhibition on Painting Materials and Language in Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2025 Light Chaser, Gravity Art Museum, Beijing, China

2024 The Sphere of Reality and Fantasy: ‍Inheritance and Exploration of the Tangible and the Imagined, Corridor Foundation, Shenzhen, China

Burning Your Boats, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2023 By Virtue of Situated Compromise, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China

Holographic Realm, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

Polyreality, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2021 A Couple of: The Dual-mechanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2020 Shape of Lovers, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China