About

Qian Qian (b.1990)


Qian Qian is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and mother working across watercolor, oil painting, and interactive installation, developing what she calls ecomythicism. Her practice forms a re-envisioned ecosystem that bridges the outer world with inner perception, using the scientific logic and mythological syntax of change as metaphors.

In Qian's paintings, she works experimentally with watercolor and water-mixable oil, combining them with other materials on paper and linen. Hybrid portraits, solid non-sentient structures, electromagnetic waves, and cracks recur throughout her work, forming an intricate visual language in which precise structures and organic erosion coexist. Through these processes, she investigates the mutation and evolution of living and non-living systems.

Qian expands ecomythicism into a public register through participatory installations that translate bodily contact into sensory and symbolic experience. Using everyday conductive materials—such as tin tape and copper coils—touch becomes a physical trigger for sound and memory, as seen in Birds. Her ongoing project Embryos extends this approach through the exchange of personal narratives of “birth,” transforming individual stories into collective symbol-making.


Biography:

Her past solo exhibitions include: “Portals To The Past”,Lychee One (2024); Duo Solo “In Her Landscape”, Lychee One (2023); “Metempsychosis”, Richard Saltoun Online Gallery (2023); group exhibitions include:2025 - “La Mariposa”, Soho Revue, London; 2024 - A Poem Lovely as a Tree, Sixi Museum, Nanjing; Supercommunity, Tank Shanghai; Unweave A Rainbow, Madein Gallery, Shanghai; 10 Year Anniversary, Lychee One, London; At Daybreak, Ignition Project, London; DISEMBODIED, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles; Ode to the Unexpected, Madein Gallery, Shanghai; 2023 - Come Closer, Indigo+Madder, London; X Museum Triennial; Mother Art Prize, Zabludowicz Collection; “Embryos”, West Norwood Project Space (2020); Syncopes, Mimosa House (2021); FBA Futures, Mall Galleries (2019); Lodger, Westminster Library (2017); ...And To Dust All Return, Unna Way, Huddersfield (2016). She is the recipient of the 2023 Mother Art Prize Online Award and was shortlisted for FBA Futures in 2019. Qian Qian now lives and works in London.

Her works are included in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Collection, Marcelle Joseph Collection, Michael Weissman Collection and other collections.

Contact: ivyivymuami@gmail.com