Tianyou Huang

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A Chinese artist based in London and Leeds

 

Education:

09/2019 - 09/2024   Ph.D. Fine art (practice-led), University of Leeds, the U.K

09/2016 - 07/2018   MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, the U.K

02/2017                   Exchange programme in Sculpture at University of Edinburgh. U.K.

09/2011 - 07/2016   BA Sculpture, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China

 

Award:

2019 P8 International Artist Residency Award.

2018 Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Award.(The only graduate award-winner in whole U.K).

2023 Awarded as the member with the most contribution to the identification of paleontological fossils at the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

 

Artist residency:

2019 Mar-May, Planet 8 International Artist Residency (Changsha, China)

Yorkshire Sculpture Park artist residency (visiting artist)

 

Teaching experience:

12/2022    As a visiting tutor, taught at the Sculpture department, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.

02/2018    As a Visiting Artist, taught at Ruskin School, University of Oxford.

08/2017 - 04/2018, Taught oil painting and sketch at London Mandarin Arts.

02/2017, As a Visiting Artist, taught at Camberwell College of Arts. (University of the Arts London)

01/2017, As a Visiting Artist, taught at University for the Creative Arts. (UCA in Farnham)

 

Project:

05/2014 - 06/2015 National Innovation Research Project "The Creation and Practice of Dynamic Sculpture".

 

Lectures:

12/2022 “Practice-led Research”, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China.

05/2021 “The Artists’ Joke”, University of Leeds.
11/2020 “How is laughter constructed when viewing the art?”, University of Leeds.

04/2019 “Comprehensive material art practice”, Artitask, Changsha, China.

11/2018 “Public Art”, London Culture Salon, London.
04/2018 “A very short introduction of semiotics in Picasso's paintings”, Tate Modern.

12/2017 “A brief analysis of dynamic sculptures”, Imperial College London
11/2017 “A lecture that cannot speak”, London Culture Salon, London.
02/2017 “Nothing is about Art”, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

 

Exhibitions:

01/2022 Solo show “Drop”, The University of Leeds project space, Leeds.
12/2021 Exhibition “Uncomfy”, Project Space Leeds.
11/2020 Solo show “Things for Laughter”, The University of Leeds project space, Leeds.

01/2020 Performance art “The City Game”, Eastside Gallery, Birmingham.

10/2019 Three-artists show “Quest for Quiet”, St Saviour’s church, Edouard Malingue Gallery London.

06/2019 PYRA Festival artist residency exhibition, Changsha, China.
04/2019 “The Circle”, “The Golden Hall” were exhibited in the P8 artists group show, Open Studio, Changsha, China.
08/2018 Open-studio solo show “A comma”, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K.

06/2018 “Money” (Mechanical art series) was exhibited in the Royal College of Art 2018 Degree Show, London.
04/2018 Mechanical art “Face” was exhibited in the group show “Too Much Information” at Seventeen Gallery, London.
05/2017 Installation “Untitled” was exhibited at the Divinity School, the University of Edinburgh.
02/2017 Sculpture “The Cloud” was exhibited in the Exchange Show at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.

01/2017 Solo show "In Between". The performance art “Obtain 2”, the video work “Existence”, the sculpture “Fourteen Objects” were selected in Chelsea College of Arts SUARTS Gallery.

01/2017 Sculpture "Fragments" was exhibited in the Royal College of Art WIP show.

10/2016 Sculpture “Untitled” was exhibited in the Royal College of Art Drawing show.

05/2016 Installation “But nobody would tell me that the physical perception in mind is impossible to exist on the skin” was exhibited in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Graduation Show.

05/2015 Installation “No.1& No.2 of Six Memories Series” were exhibited at the Guangdong Art Museum.

04/2015 Kinetic art “Obtain” was selected in the Creative Works Bazaar.
06/12/2014 Performance art “Contract” was exhibited at Guangzhou LIVE 5 International Performance Art Festival. Tutor/trainer: Nigel Rolfe.