MEITAO QU

Meitao Qu, Enter the Fortress: Play well, Eat well, Sleep well, sculpture installation, 2021 (detail) — Meitao Qu, *Enter the Fortress: Play well, Eat well, Sleep well*, sculpture installation, 2021 (detail)

Biography

Meitao Qu lives and works between London and Beijing. From costume to architecture, she is interested in how forms of visualisation operate as ‘props’ to stimulate imaginations. Taking scrapbooking as method, her practice sutures contradictory perspectives to draw out the misunderstandings that inform their conflict.

Meitao Qu

Born 1996, Shenzhen, China

Education

MFA, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Oxford, 2020 - 2021

MA Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2019 - 2020, Special Option - Contemporary Chinese Art and Geopolitics

BA Fine Art and Art History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, 2016 - 2019

Solo Exhibitions

Adventures in Fact, The Residence Gallery, London, 2022

Group Exhibitions

Marx on the table, GLUE, Folkstone Fringe Triennale, 2021

recreational, Hartslane, London, 2018

Symposium: The Coming Community, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2017

Residencies/ Programmes

The Exchange 2, Between The NewBridge Project, Eastside Projects, CAMP, Castlefield Gallery, Primary, Spike Island, and Turf Projects, 2022

Open Space, The Photographer's Gallery, 2021 - 2022

AMPlify, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, 2021 - 2022

The Collective Studio, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2021 - 2022

Commissions

Dreaming of Red Mansions, Augmented Reality, The Photographer's Gallery, 2022

Awards

Recipient of Oxford-Kaifeng Graduate Scholarship 2020 - 2021