A celebrated Chinese contemporary artist, Yu Hong studied painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where she continued to teach after graduating in 1988. Best known for her monumental allegorical paintings—her massive 2021 triptych The Ship of Fools, which references Hieronymus Bosch’s eponymous canvas but depicts a group of youngsters struggling to keep a boat afloat in dangerous waters, was a standout in the Unlimited section of Art Basel last year and is featured in her current Venice Biennale exhibition, organized by The Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum. For her first solo exhibition in London, the Beijing and New York-based painter presents a selection of poetic landscape paintings of people in nature that poignantly reference art history while exploring the social tensions between isolation and togetherness.
Until November 9th 2024