Huang Zejian (b. 1992, Qingyuan, Guangdong) is a queer artist currently living andworking in Milan. He received his MFA from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in2018 after completing his BFA at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
Working across photography, installation, soft sculpture, and digital painting, Huang’spractice investigates the relationship between the body and information density in thecontemporary image environment. His works often begin with intimate bodily referencesbut gradually dissolve them into fragmented visual systems, suggesting how physicalexperience becomes increasingly mediated, coded, and redistributed through digitalnetworks.
In several projects, Huang explores the unstable boundary between private corporealityand public image circulation. One of his ongoing series involves inviting strangersencountered online to scan fragments of their bodies, transforming intimate surfaces intoabstract data-like textures. Through this process, the body shifts from a site of personalidentity into a field of visual information, questioning how intimacy, desire, and selfhood aretranslated within digital culture.
Huang’s visual language frequently oscillates between material presence and digitadisintegration. In his photographic and digital works, landscapes or bodily fragments areoverlaid with delicate, almost diagrammatic line structures, evoking networks, nervoussystems, or drifting informational signals. Meanwhile, his soft sculptures compress ordistort bodily forms, creating hybrid objects that appear both organic and synthetic,vulnerable yet technologically mediated.
As a queer artist, Huang approaches the body not as a stable identity but as a fluidinterface where sensation, memory, and data intersect. His work reflects a broadercondition of contemporary life: the tension between lived experience and the acceleratedcirculation of images. In an era when visual production is increasingly automated andalgorithmic, Huang’s practice asks how the **body-slow, fragile, and intimate-continuesto generate meaning within an overwhelming field of information.
Education
2018 MFA, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, IT
2011 BFA, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, CHN
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Crystal Boys and Others, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 Huang Zejian & Bu Yunjun, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, Germany
2019 World of Lacquer: Vessel&Form—2019Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art, Hubei
Museum of Art, Wuhan, HB, China
2019 ESPOSIZIONE DI ARTE CONTMPORANEA, CartaBianca, MI, Italy
2019 5 ARTISTI, EX-studio of Piero Manzoni, MI, Italy
2019 RI-LEVANTE Group Exhibition, SÌ Studio, MI, Italy
2018 -le mutisme -le serein -le sillage -le murmure , Migrant Bird Space, Beijing, China
2018 “One Week”, Studio Giuseppe Maraniello, MI, Italy2018 Open Style, Youth Lacquer art creative
research Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, HB, China
2017 Opening, AVANTLAB, Milan, MI, Italy
2016 World of Lacquer: Cycle of Time—
2015 Spring is coming, Sealink Gallery, Hangzhou, ZJ, China
2015 The Depth of Lacquer, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Canton, GD, CHN
2014 The Twelfth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Celebrating the 65th Anniversary for Foundation of the People’s Republic of China, Fuzhou
2014 Source And Course Collection Of Chinese Lacquer Art Selected Work Exhibition, Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, ZJ, China
2014 Lacquer Arts -2014 Cross-Strait Lacquer Arts Exhibition, National Art Museum Of China, Beijing, China