TANG Chao

1990  Born in Hunan.

2014  Graduated from School of Inter-Media Art of China Academy of Fine Arts

Now works and lives in Shanghai

 

The essence of Tang Chao’s work is like ItaloCalvino’s suggestions on lightness in literature. For instance, he refines awhole script into one sentence: “The dilemma of being in a modern island, aparadise of self-exile.” And recently: “Several delightful dots covered of aseries of weak voices.”When you focus on the tone and rhythm of the sentence,  and express it though camera, youthen get the shaking focus, light and the scenes. The words are not the mostimportant content; they are sometimes softly whispered, stuttered, or eventopsy-turvy. Of course he occasionally uses pictures, performances, installationsor dramas for expression, sometimes even typing a few letters on the keyboard.Tang Chao is good at pause and press space, press and hold for a fewseconds                would be fine as well. Healways tries to release some illocutionary meaning in every blank space with astraightforward manner.

  • Solo / Duo Exhibitions

    2024 “Whimper Song No.3”, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    2023 Liste Art Fair Basel solo project at Vanguard booth, Basel, Switzerland
    2022 “Out of Sync”, Vanguard gallery, Shanghai, China
    2022 “Nights after Days”, The Store, Seoul, S.Korea
    2021 “Nonphysical: Shimmer” (online project), Vanguard gallery, Shanghai, China
    2017 “From Lack to Light”, Vanguard gallery, Shanghai, China

  • Group Exhibitions

    2024 “Life’s Activities”, Shanghai International Photography Festival & The 17th Shanghai International Photography Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
    2024 “Vanguard Onwards”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2023 “Terrestrial Landing, Planet Candidates”, Shanghai Biennale x Emerging Curators Project, Shanghai, China
    2023 “How Far, How Close”, Aranya Art Centre, Qinhuangdao, China
    2023 “Us, amid Nature and After Nature”, Art Museum Of Guangzhou Academy Of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
    2023 “Motion Is Action – 35 Years of Chinese Media Art”, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
    2023 “The New Survivors”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
    2023 “Heading West – From Shanghai to Songjiang, Then Arriving Jiangnan”, Yunjian Arts Centre, Shanghai, China
    2023 “Year by Year”, DEJI Art Museum, Nanjing, China
    2022 “The Pieces I Am”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
    2022 “Unnamed River”, ZiWU the Bridge, Shanghai, China 
    
2022 “Night as Prelude”, UCCA Sky Space, Shanghai, China

    2022 “Unnamed River”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

    2022 “Warehouse Story VII – On Your Mark!”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2021 “Within Space – Time”, We Walk Through Images, Glow Shenzhen 2021 – Futian, China
    2021 “Nowness Experiments: Nocturnal Visit”, Tank Shanghai No.5, Shanghai, China

    2021 “Meditation Chambers with Furniture in Motion”, Bare screen x The Cloister Project, Shanghai, China
    2021 “Some Like Them Cold”, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    2021 “Bare Screen”, a digital video commission series by Macalline Art Center, Beijing, China
    2021 “Barometer”, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
    2020 “The More Opinions You Have, The Less You See”, Rongyi Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    2020 “Hasty Falling Time”, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (online project)
    2020 “UN/CONVENTIONAL”, OCAT Shanghai, China
    2020 “Play societies: Wolved”, Lynx and Ants, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, China
    2019 “Be in a Half of Maze”, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
    2019 “Incandescence”, Big Space x Chino gallery, Shanghai, China

    2019 “Sooner/Later”, SNAP, Shanghai, China
    2019 “There Are Volcanoes Under the Sea”, BLG Lab, Beijing, China
    2019 “The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
    2018 The Time That Remains – Room No.6, Grey Cube, Goethe Institut China, Beijing, China
    2018 Questioning Photography Now, GCA, Chongqing, China
    
2018 Pity Party, Sleepcenter, New York, USA
    2017 “Indoors Universe” – the 5th Huayu Youth Award, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China

    2017 Spain Moving Image Festival, Madrid, Spain

    2017 “A Map of the World that Does Not Include Utopia Is Not Worth Glancing At”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

    2016 “Toward the Emergence of Resistance”, TAIKANG Space, Beijing, China

    2016 “Shenzhen MAF”, G&G Creative Community, Shenzhen, China

    2016 “You Won’t Be Young Forever”, No.235 GuangFu Rd, Shanghai, China
    
2016 “JIMEI·ARLES International Photo Festival”, Xiamen, China
    2015 “Nowhere to Hide”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2015 “Nightmare of Exhibition (2nd-half)”, Emerging Curators Project, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

    2015 “Hinterland Project”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

    2015 “Floating Garden”, Meta Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2015 “New China / New Art”, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
    2015 “DiFang Gongzuo”, Radical Space, Shanghai, China

    2015 “Compressed Project”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2014 “Enemaniae”, Experimental Theater, One Space, Hangzhou, China

    2014 “Nightmare of Exhibition (1st-half)”, Radical Space, Shanghai, China
    
2014 “Experience of Nervousness”, Radical Space, Shanghai, China
    2014 “Permission”, One Space, Hangzhou, China
    
2014 “The Hidden Potential”, Shanghai, China
    2013 “All New-formed Ones Become They Can Ossify”, AM Art Space, Shanghai, China
    2013 “Enemania”, Experimental Theater, Hangzhou, China
    
2013 “Auto-ignition” Photography Exhibition, Shao Yi’s studio, Hangzhou, China
    2012 “One meter theater”, Imago-kinetics, Hangzhou, China