2019. Scaffolding, Iron Hooks, Iron Chains, Resin, Snake Skins, Knee Pads, Shark’s Mouth, Single Channel Video. Size Variable.
2019. Synthetic Foam, ABS Plastic, Spray Paint.
75×60×30cm.
56×16×45cm.
46×32×40cm.
HBP XXXIV Tian Mu: Party of the Redundant
2019.6.15-2019.7.31
Tian Mu
Tian Mu
Tian Mu’s practice spans paintings, sculptures, videos, and installations, with advanced
technological methods of production such as 3D rendering/scanning, biological and commodity
forms. He probes the limits of the human body and the material world to interrogate the unforeseen
vulnerabilities brought on by technology. His work examines the embodiment of human projection
and spiritual characteristics from subculture and myth. Questioning how person-to-machine
exchanges reflect the contemporary human condition. Perhaps humankind is replaced by animals,
and technological animism is taken on the mystical and the superstitious. and these cycles of
creation, extinction, rebuild guides the future construction and production
Born in 1985
2011 Graduated from Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
2019 Attended MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
Currently works and lives in Shanghai
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Hive-Becoming XXXIV – Tian Mu: Party of the Redundant, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Killing All On Board, Dirty House, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 OCEAN 2.0, Online Exhibition, SlimeEngine
ZHI XU, NALI Patio, Beijing, China
With Sun, ATP Club, Xiamen, China
When and Only When, the Strong Wind Rolled up the Surge, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
Scenes of Inclination, 33 Manor Place, London, UK
Fertile Laziness, Platform Southwark, London, UK
FLYING BLIND+ONS, 2021 BFC Art Festival, Shanghai, China
New Driving Force: The Collision of Art and Science, K11, Shenyang, China
2020 Sci-Fi Story, NAFI 2020, Nanjing, China
Bazaar Flowers & Birds 2020, Imagokinetics, Hangzhou, China
Online Art Loop, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2020, Beijing, China
Tank Art Festival, 36 Rooms, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Our Ashes Make Great Fertiliser, PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK
SURE INN, 2020 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Being of Evils, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2019 Printing Sound 3, BOOKSTORE OF BUGS Librairie Avant-Garde, Nanjing, China
Bazaar Flowers & Birds IV, Imagokinetics, Hangzhou, China
STORY: BORN AFTER THE ’85 NEW WAVE, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2019, Beijing, China
The Force Temple, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Bad Habits, The Wrong—New Digital Art Biennale 2019/2020
Cherry Pickers, 36 Rue de curé, Luxembourg City
MA and Other Postgraduates 2019, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, UK
2018 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, UK
The Essential Exhibition, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2016 30 Celsius, ASC Gallery, London, UK
Far and Few Between, Format Gallery, London, UK
2015 Display Distribute No.5: Parallel Trade, Bazaar Compatible Exhibition Space, Shanghai, China
2014 The Gallery: An Alternative Exhibiting Space, Kings College, London, UK
SE1 Open Studios, Bermondsey Project, London, UK
Passport to Pimlico, Churchill Garden Estate, London, UK
2013 East Asian Connections, Nara Prefectural Library and Information Centre, Nara, Japan
Re-growing – The first Biennale of UK Chinese Artists, Asia House, London, UK
2012 Three Cases and a Carry on, Catherine Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro Vermont, US
The Halo Effect, Vart Center, Shanghai, China
Light in the Dusk, Frameless Gallery, London, UK
Chelsea Collective – Inaugural Exhibition, Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, UK
2011 Dragon in the Lion’s Den, Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, London, UK
From Charing to Kings, Agene B, London, UK
Bloodline, Apart Gallery, London, UK
A Gift from Medusa
Between the Present and the Future
Spotlight on Aranya | When and Only When, the Strong Wind Rolled up the Surge
2021.5.28 – 2021.9.12
Aranya
2021 March Exhibition Collection
2021.2.06-2021.8.29
Shanghai, Chengdu
Hive Center to participate in the Nanjing Art Fair International
2020.11.16-2020.11.29
Nanjing
Hive Center to participate in the 2020 edition of Yangtze Art Fair
2020.10.15-2020.10.18
Nanjing
Tank Art Festival | Hive Center to participate in the’36 Rooms’with Li Weiyi and Tian Mu
2020.10.3-2020.10.6
Shanghai
Hive Center to participate in the Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2020 and’Art Loop’online exhibition
2020.9.25-2020.9.30
Beijing
2019 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
2019.11.7-2019.11.10
Shanghai
2019 Tank Art Festival
2019.9.12-2019.9.15
Shanghai
Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2019
2019.8.29-2019.8.31
Beijing