Tang Shuo Chinese, b. 1987
Works
Garden, 2025
Biography
Tang Shuo (b. 1987, China) is an artist whose practice focuses on painting and explores themes of memory, identity, and belonging. Initially trained in installation art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, he shifted exclusively to painting after relocating to the United Kingdom in 2020, a transition that reshaped his relationship with his cultural roots and sense of self.
His oil paintings feature solitary, often larger-than-life figures inspired by memories of his childhood in a rural village in Guangxi, southern China. Blending scenes of everyday life with folklore and symbolic imagery, Tang Shuo creates introspective narratives that navigate the tensions between past and present, intimacy and isolation, and individual identity and collective experience. Many of his figures are modelled on himself, reflecting an ongoing exploration of self-representation, displacement and the search for belonging.
Exhibitions
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Lausanne – Shifting Grounds
Summer Group Show 5 Jul - 26 Aug 2026Shifting Grounds brings together artists whose works explore the unstable terrain between image and object, memory and material. Across painting, photography, textile, and sculpture, landscapes emerge as sites of transformation,...Read more -
Zurich – The Roles We Play
Group Show 29 Apr - 6 Jun 2026Through painting, drawing and photography, the artists brought together in The Roles We Play explore how identity is shaped through a series of positions, whether social, cultural, relational or internal....Read more -
Lausanne – Visions of Intimacy
Group Show 10 - 29 Apr 2026Painting is a deeply intimate act, revealing the way one sees the world. In this selection of works, self-representation emerges as a central thread, whether through portraiture or more subtle...Read more -
Lausanne – Almost forgot, we're moving
Group Show 11 - 21 Mar 2026After seven years at Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6, our Lausanne space is preparing to relocate closer to the lake at Avenue d’Ouchy 70, 1006 Lausanne. Over these seven years, we’ve hosted...Read more
Installation shots
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Press
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Tang Shuo Casts Himself as Members of His Small Chinese Village in a New Series of Paintings
Grace Ebert, Colossal, May 16, 2024 -
Interview with Tang Shuo
Olivia Sand, Asian Art Newspaper, Vol 27 Issue 4, p. 2-5, April 1, 2024 -
Transformative Boundaries à la galerie Fabienne Levy
Sonia Jebsen, By the Lake, January 10, 2024 -
Tang Shuo’s Vivid Paintings Conjure the Strife and Stories of His Native Boulder Hill
Grace Ebert, Colossal, January 2, 2024 -
Une foule d'expositions étoile le ciel des fêtes
Irène Languin, Tribune de Genève, December 14, 2023 -
Data Spotlight: Artists with the Most Demand in 2023 So Far
Arun Kakar, Artsy, April 6, 2023 -
Artist Spotlight: Tang Shuo
Anna Schneider, BOOOOOOOM, March 21, 2023 -
Artgenève a verni mercredi sa onzième édition
Etienne Dumont, Bilan, January 25, 2023 -
Tangshuo : Blue Ribbon
Yannis Kostarias, Art Verge, December 5, 2022
