Born in Beijing in 1981.

Lives and works in Beijing and Shanghai. 

Shang Liang graduated from the Oil Painting Department and the Experimental Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2004 and 2011. In recent years, her work has revolved around notions of masculinity, heroism and the vocabulary that relates to them, such as power, strength and conquest. Through repeated and textural brushstrokes she creates portraits, which unlike traditional ones, are based on specific characters as symbols revolving around these themes. Figures evolve through various series of paintings and sculptures, beginning with the "The Real Boy" series and followed by the series “Good Hunter”, “Sofa Man” and “Boxing Man”.

Recent exhibitions include: “New Order”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019; Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” nominatees’ exhibition, Beijing Exhibition Hall, “New Order”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019;Beijing, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix” Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “YOHOOD 2018 global trend of Carnival”, Shanghai World Expo exhibition hall, Shanghai, China, 2018; “PLAY”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Form Consumption Over Substance”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Brewer J.C. Jacobsen's Portrait Award-the 2015 Portrait Now!”, The Museum of National History, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015; “One Of Few”, Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China, 2016.

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