About

Qian Qian (b.1990)

I am a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and mother working across watercolor, oil painting, and interactive installation, exploring transformation through material, bodily, and perceptual processes.

My paintings investigate the interplay of chaos and order in both the process and the concept. I work experimentally with water-based media, combining them with other materials on paper and linen. This process produces an intricate visual language that allows precise structures and organic erosion to exist simultaneously. I explore the transformation of energy and information, using the scientific logic of change as metaphors. Through this, I investigate the uncertainty of systems and the “becoming” of subjects.

Hybrid portraits, solid non-sentient structures, electromagnetic waves and cracks recur throughout my work, forming what I call “ecomythicism”—a re-envisioned ecosystem that bridges the outer world with inner perception. The flow of physical energy is performed through my bodily painting practice, with the artist functioning as a medium, translating a landscape of consciousness into visual form. Each motif functions not as a singular entity, but as a node within the circulation of energy and information, explored symbolically through mythology, oriental philosophy, and scientific narratives.

Through this practice, I undo singular subjecthood, shifting representation toward processes that reveal relational tensions across consciousness, life, matter, and time.


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