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Feng Lianghong
Shanghai, China b.1962
Feng Lianghong (b. 1962, Shanghai) began his abstract practice at the Shanghai Arts and Crafts School (1980–1983). In 1985, he joined the Modern Painting — Six-Person Exhibition at Fudan University, among the earliest presentations of abstract art in China. He later studied at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, Beijing (1985–1989; now the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University), and was included in the landmark China/Avant-Garde exhibition in 1989. Feng moved to the United States in 1990 and lived in New York for many years; he has been based in Beijing since 2006. Spanning four decades and three cities—Shanghai, Beijing, and New York—Feng’s practice continues to evolve. The latest solo exhibition ‘Emptiness is Transformation’ centers on chromatic structure and the concept of emptiness (kong), tracing a spiritually grounded path shaped by Eastern thought and abstraction. Rather than positioning himself between Eastern and Western traditions, Feng allows form, perception, and mind to interpenetrate, sustaining a tension between restraint and emergence. In recent works, color shifts from visual carrier to spiritual vehicle, while emptiness becomes generative. Through pouring, dripping, and scraping, he lets images surface between control and release, activating negative space as a field of circulating qi.
Feng Lianghong has exhibited widely, including at Today Art Museum (Beijing), National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Museum Angerlehner (Linz), Galerie der Stadt Leonding (Leonding), the Swatch Art Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (Venice), and Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts (Raleigh). His works are held in major collections, including the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney), Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), Duke Arts Center (Raleigh), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston), and Swatch Art Center (Geneva).