Huang Yulong (⻩玉龙) was born in 1983 in Huai’an, Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese sculpture artists and part of the post-‘80 and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of hip-hop, street art and other foreign culture phenomenon in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world.
He works in a variety of media, mixing traditional ceramic porcelain or bronze with crystals. To him, the hip-hop culture he often portrays, the hoodies and bling, is a state of being and a way of life, not merely a foreign culture appropriated by young Chinese. To him, hip-hop culture is “characterized by energy, power, purity, sexuality, freedom, courage. But this is also an urban story full of crying and blood.”
Huang Yulong (⻩玉龙) was born in 1983 in Huai’an, Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese sculpture artists and part of the post-‘80 and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of hip-hop, street art and other foreign culture phenomenon in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world.
He works in a variety of media, mixing traditional ceramic porcelain or bronze with crystals. To him, the hip-hop culture he often portrays, the hoodies and bling, is a state of being and a way of life, not merely a foreign culture appropriated by young Chinese. To him, hip-hop culture is “characterized by energy, power, purity, sexuality, freedom, courage. But this is also an urban story full of crying and blood.”
1983 | Born in Huainan, Anhui Province, China |
2007 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen,China |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 | Intersect – International Pop Culture Experience Exhibition, Shanghai Altered State: Deciphering Urban in the Art of Chen Xuanrong and Huang Yulong, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai |
2017 | The First Chinese Urban Public Art Exhibition, Beijing, China Revelations, the International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial, Paris, France |
2015 | ART MO, Macao Art Beijing 2015, Beijing, China Art Central Hong Kong, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China Still: Contemporary Works from a New Generation of Chinese Artists, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China 2015 NULL – Huang Yulong Sculpture Exhibition, Hong Kong Mock Fashion Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China |
2014 | ART MO, Macao Art Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China |
2013 | The 4th International Contemporary Exhibition: Garden of Imagination, Gwangju Art, South Korea In Between Days III: Collection from the Gallery, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China Art Macao Contemporary Art Fair, Macao |
2012 | SH Contemporary Art Fair, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China In Between Days II : Collection from the Gallery, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China |
2011 | Art by Geneva Art Fair, Red Zone Arts, Geneva, Switzerland Chinese Artists/ Marseille, France |
2010 | Zeitgeist: Huang Yulong Solo Exhibition, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
2009 | Niubi Project Kaisei Exhibition, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong Niubi Newbie Kids II, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong BLUEDOT ASIA 2009, Seoul, Korea Single Child Generation – Voice of Object, Chongqing Huangjueping’s New Year International Art Festival, Chongqing, China |
2007 | 345 Degree Fresh Art Exhibition, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai, China The 2nd National Exhibition of College Graduates‘Outstanding Sculptures, Beijing, China |