Introduction

Tang Maohong explores the nature of images and perception across animation and painting. His practice simultaneously references and subtly unsettles art history and popular culture, integrating diverse visual elements that blur the boundaries between fine art and the everyday. His early animations feature morphing, unstable forms, while his recent paintings condense these transformations into single, suspended surfaces. Absurd, humorous, and quietly confrontational, his works reflect an image-saturated psyche while continually loosening the relationship between representation, material, and visual experience.

Tang Maohong was born in 1975 in Guangxi Province, and now works and lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Recent exhibitions include: Sugar and Salt, SOOLSOOL Center, Soul, Korea (2021); Dual Solo Exhibition of He Wei & Tang Maohong, ShanghART, Beijing (2019); Tang Maohong: Noa Noa, Southeast Asia Residency Exhibition, ShanghART Singapore (2019); Self-Cultivation: Nowadays Strategy, China · South Korea Artists Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea (2018); Tang Maohong: Riverbed, ShanghART, Beijing (2017); Video Art Project at Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India (2014); Tang Maohong  Exclave Con, ShanghART, Beijing (2013); Nomadic Report 2012, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea (2012); Huge Character, Cooperation Project by Sun Xun, Tang Maohong, Zhang Ding, ShanghART, Beijing (2011); 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Musuem (2008); Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany (2007); JIFF - 8th Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea (2007); Tang Maohong: Orchid Finger, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2006); Tang Maohong: Sunday, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea (2006); Singapore Biennale 2006: Belief (2006); A Lot of Ash - A Lot of Dust, BizArt, Shanghai (2005); Asian Traffic Shanghai: Magnetism - Suspension, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2005) etc.