GAO HANG

GAO HANG
The hypocrite, 2021
Acrylic and gel on canvas

17.78 x 12.7 cm

GAO HANG
Michelangelo was probably white, 2022
Acrylic on canvas

101.5 x 76 cm

GAO HANG
Boy gaze, 2021
Acrylic on canvas

182.88 x 60.96 cm

GAO HANG
I am so Pro-Liquify, 2020
Acrylic on canvas

60.96 x 60.96 cm

GAO HANG
Getting closer to the truth, 2021
Acrylic on canvas

76.2 x 101.6 cm

“Eating Sugar? No, papa!”, 2021. Installation view at L21 LAB.

GAO HANG
Proud to download for free, 2021
Acrylic on canvas

76.2 x 121.92 cm

GAO HANG
I have so many questions, 2021
Acrylic and gel on canvas

50.8 x 50.8 cm

GAO HANG
You dont mess with Bemstar, 2020
Acrylic on canvas

121.92 x 121.92 cm

GAO HANG
Blues blue pool, 2021
Acrylic on canvas

121.92 x 152.4 cm

GAO HANG
Absolutely genius, 2020

Acrylic on raw canvas

121.92 x 121.92 cm

GAO HANG
The Oympisss, 2020
Acrylic on canvas

60.96 x 121.92 cm

GAO HANG
Another conversation, 2021
Acrylic on canvas

76.2 x 101.6 cm

Sofa Kit, solo exhibition by Gao Hang. Installation view at L21 Gallery, 2022.

Sofa Kit, solo exhibition by Gao Hang. Installation view at L21 Gallery, 2022.

EXHIBITIONS
Sofa Kit
Gao Hang
03 June - 07 September, 2022
BROKEN PIÑATA
Misha Bies Golas, Edu Carrillo, Etsu Egami, Tamara Feijoo, Priscila Fernandes , Patricia Gadea, Jorge Galindo, Gao Hang, Manuel M. Moreno, Gizela Mickiewicz, Carlos Pazos, Dasha Shishkin. Tomohiro Takahashi, Julia Wachtel
12 May - 01 July, 2022
Brick Games
Richard Woods, Dasha Shishkin, Gao Hang, Richie Culver, Eva Fàbregas, Álvaro Gil, Gabriele de Santis, Felix Treadwell, Ryan Browning, Jordi Ribes, Pixy Liao, Rachel Hobkirk, Matthew Feyld, Charline Tyberghein, Sepand Danesh, Grip Face
18 March - 25 May, 2022
ARCO 2022
Fabio Viscogliosi, Felix Treadwell, Gao Hang, Hunter Potter, Richard Woods, Cristina de Miguel, Joe Cheetham, Edu Carrillo, Mona Broschár, Mira Makai, Jaime Hayon, Fátima de Juan, Erika Hock, Jordi Ribes, Nat Meade, Théo Viardin, Simon Demeuter, Daisy Dodd-Noble, Stevie Dix, Dasha Shishkin, Ian Waelder, Valerie Krause, Alejandro Leonhardt, Ben Edmunds
23 - 27 February, 2022
EATING SUGAR? NO, PAPA!
Olivia Bax, Mona Broschár, Jordi Ribes, Gao Hang, Jan Hakon, Pixy Liao, Mira Makai, CB Hoyo, Bianca Fields, Rachel Hobkirk, Alex Chien, Spencer Harris, Jon Burgerman, Fátima de Juan
01 October - 03 December, 2021
ARCOmadrid 2021
Ben Edmunds, Jordi Ribes, Szabolcs Bozó, Felix Treadwell, Théo Viardin, Nat Meade, Edu Carrillo, Simon Demeuter, Joe Cheetham, Fabio Viscogliosi, Ian Waelder, Richard Woods, Alejandro Leonhardt, Stevie Dix, Valerie Krause, Erika Hock, Dasha Shishkin, Mona Broschár, Jorge Galindo, Endre Tót, Jaime Hayón, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Joshua Abelow, Gao Hang, Olivia Bax, Vera Mota, Pixy Liao, Mira Makai, Gabriele de Santis, Sepand Danesh, Richie Culver, Josh Reames, Charline Tyberghein, Mathew Feyld, Cristina de Miguel, Olivier Renevret, Geran Knol, Marc Badia, Michael Swaney, Jon Burgerman, Fátima de Juan, Rachel Hobkirk, Kes Richardson, Andrés Lozano, Hunter Potter, CB Hoyo, Imon Boy, Bianca Fields
07 - 11 July, 2021
BIO

Gao Hang (born in 1991, in Baoding, China) currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Gao moved to Houston, Texas in 2015, to attain an MFA in Painting from the University of Houston after obtaining a BA in Oil Painting from the Capital Normal University in Beijing, China, 2013.

 

Hang’s recent paintings are concerned with the image “definition” in digital graphics, especially those produced in the last 20 years. Hang evokes the postmodernist neo-pop movement, by using subject matter and color as a conceptual and structural armature. Deliberately, Hang uses fluorescent hues which he considers to be the tones of his generation. Understanding digital graphics as 21st century “found objects”, Hang is interested in objects that are bathing in modern technology’s greatness, while exposing a certain rawness, oddity, or awkwardness due to their obsolescence. In the artist’s words: “My artistic process has something to do with my habits and obsessions. I mostly listen to stand-up comedy while making my work. I enjoy stand-up comedy that challenges general beliefs, and political correctness, yet at its core is negotiating between the observations, language, and laughter of a given performance. Then you realize that it’s no paradox, but a good conversation between the performer and the audience. At some point, my paintings are like stand-up comedy, they can only do so much about solving real problems. But brutal honesty, absurdity, and humor are very powerful qualities in any type of conversation.”

 

His work has been exhibited in numerous major art venues in China, US, Spain, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, and England. He was recently awarded the Artadia Houston Fellowship Award, Brooklyn, New York and Houston Art Alliance – Artists and Creative Individuals Grant, Houston, Texas.

CV

GAO HANG, China, 1991.

Lives and works in Texas (US)

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

(Forthcoming) DUVE Gallery, Berlin, Germany (DE)

Digital Primitivism, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok (THA)

2022

MY BAD IDEAS. Pulpo gallery, Berlin (DE)

Sofa Kit, L21 Gallery, Palma (ES)

You are completely special. Breach Gallery, Miami (FL)

2021​

GAO HANG!, The Hole (NY)

A Little Bit Wrong. Waluso Gallery, London (UK)

Instant Gratification. Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (TX)
Almost Extraordinary. The Winter Street Gallery, Houston (US)  

Phase II. The Hole Gallery, East Hampton (NY)

Instant Gratification. Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (US)

21st Century Realism. COVA Gallery, Eindhoven (NL)

2019

Surface or Skin. Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (TX)

2018

30 Fluorescent Bears. Project Gallery, Houston (TX)

Good Times, Bad Times. Art League Houston, Houston (TX)

2017

Two Sharks. Secondbedroom Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Armory show NY with the Hole gallery, NY (USA)

Broken Piñata, L21 Gallery, Palma (ES)

Newtro. Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE)

DISCO NAP. Eligere Galley, Soul (KOR)

Global Song. Tang Contemporary Art Center, Hong Kong (CH)

2021

Eating Sugar, No Papa!, L21 Gallery, Palma (ES)

OMGWTF, Primary Gallery, Miami (FL)

Birth of Venus, Pulpo Gallery, Murnau (DE)

NATURE MORTE, The Hole Gallery, New York (NY)

Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan (CH)

Collect It for the Culture, Midway Gallery, Houston (TX)

Thinking Out Loud, Pulpo Gallery, Murnau (DE)

The Fiction, Gallery Func, Shanghai (CH)

Now Now, Breach Gallery, Miami (FL)

Don’t Go South, Studio Berkheim (DE)

2020

DAZZLED. GR Gallery, New York (NY)

Sunny Art Prize Exhibition. Sunny Art Centre, London (UK)

Sine Sole Sileo. Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (TX)

In Praise of American Cheese. Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (TX)

Self-Portrait. UNCW Art Gallery, Wilmington (NC)

Moving Still. San Jacinto College North Gallery, Houston (TX)

2019

The Illusion and Reality. Ning Gallery, Manhattan (NY)

What We Eat and Wear. CICA Museum of Art, Gimpo (SK)

Small Works 2019. Five Points Gallery, Torrington (US)

2018

Big Show 2018. Lawndale Art Center, Houston

Color 2018. CICA Museum of Art, Gimpo, South Korea

Fifth Annual Regional Juried Exhibition. Artspace 111, Fort Worth (US)

In Control. Clarke and Associates Gallery, Houston (US)

2017

New Texas Talent Show. Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas (US)

Unspeakably human or unimaginably bestial? Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (US)

Calais Jungle. Second Bedroom Gallery, Houston (US)

 2016

Daylight Savings. Brandon Gallery, Houston (US)                                                      

Big Show 2016. Lawndale Art Center, Houston (US)                                

Artists Group Show. Diversity Center Gallery, Houston (US)                   

 

ART FAIRS

2022

ARCO 22. L21 Gallery, Madrid (ES)

ZONA. The Hole, Mexico City (MEX)

2021

Untitled Art Fair. The Hole, Miami (EU)

 

COLLECTIONS

CICA Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Lawndale Art Center, Houston, US

Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Chinese Quintessence Arts Museum, Beijing, China