NI Gallery Opening Exhibition

Li Penquan ,born in Luoyang Province in 1994. Lives and works in Luoyang. His paintings navigate the absurd and fragile side of everyday life—where trivial moments crack open into something mysterious or quietly ridiculous. Blending poetic detachment with dry humor, his practice resists grand narratives in favor of "weak events", offering a subtle response to shifting social and ideological undercurrents. His works are held in the collections of Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art, X Museum and other institutions.

Selected solo exhibitions include: "WoZaiZhongGuo HenXiangNi", Keyi Gallery,Beijing(2024); "China Fountain", Keyi Gallery, Hefei(2022). Selected group exhibitions include: "Silo Dreams", KeyiGallery, Beijing (2024); "The World as Will and Representation", Keyi Gallery, Beijing(2023); "Zen me yong Materialistische Dialektik qu xie yi feng qing shu", Paral Space, Hangzhou(2022); "Non-Acceleration", Shang Space Exhibition Center, Guizhou(2021); "2021 Spring Festival Painting Exhibition", PLATFORM CHINA, Beijing(2021); "Mine plus", MOU PROJECT, Hong Kong(2020); "Jasagala", Jasagala, Beijing(2018).

Tian Shunyu received his BA from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and is currently studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He is an interdisciplinary artist and imagebased practitioner. His research explores the relationships between natural phenomena, geographical environments, and human technology. He considers speculative cartography as a medium, integrating remote sensing data (GIS), field research, and fluid dynamics simulations to translate invisible processes into a visual system of relational mapping.

Solo exhibitions include: "Tian Shunyu", SIMULACRA, Beijing(2024). Selected group exhibitions include: "Warm-Up", Gallery Fractal, Shanghai (2026); "the Chelsea College of Arts 2023 Graduation Exhibition", London (2023); "Shadow Wall", ISOLART, Milan (2023); "Imitation", mimesis, online exhibition (2023); "Smooth Space – Striated Space", off-site show, London (2022); "The Hole as Research", off-site show (2022), London, etc.

Huang Jie, born in Heyuan, Guangdong Province in 1991, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. His painting and installation practice merges morbid and alienated imagery with industrial materials, generating works marked by a sense of instability. In his installations, he explores the interpenetration of agrarian civilization, industrial society, consumerism, and subcultures, revealing the shifting role of materials within historical narratives.

Selected solo exhibitions include: "Demons from The Suburbs", G-LAKE ART GALLERY, Fuzhou(2023); "Tiger Rose, Gallery 55, Shanghai(2021); "Individual Factory", AC CUBE, Chengdu(2021); "The SMART In Aiwan Pavilion", Huang Jie Personal Projoject, Chongqing , China(2021). Selected group exhibitions include: "When the art office and the partycoexist", Richaus, Chongqing, China(2025); "I Define II - 7 Questions", Thousand Plateaus, Chengdu(2023); "A Long Echo - Experimental Leapfogging in Southwest Moderm Art", Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen(2023); "NOT SURE - Staircase Project Vol.01"，Fosun Foundation Chengdu(2023); "Vertical TAKE-OFF!", The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China(2021); "Home-coming Islet X: Those Visible and Invisible", Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing(2021). Huang Jie received the Tomorrow Sculpture Award in 2016.

Zheng Haozhong, born in 1985 in Shandong Province, China, is a painter, performer, and writer. His work bridges the realms of painting, music, and literature. His paintings primarily depict friends, acquaintances, and himself in his studio, capturing the subjects' expressions and emotions. These paintings are imbued with a sense of rhythm, featuring expressive, free, and lively brushstrokes that defy convention, much like the improvisational music he performs. The use of “negative space” in his paintings evokes the aesthetic of "leaving white space" found in traditional Chinese ink painting, highlighting the lines that outline the subject.

Selected solo exhibitions include: "Zheng Haozhong", Anaya Art Center North Shore Pavilion, Beidaihe (2024); Variations, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); Indoor Fence, Alto Saxophone, Saw, Human Voice, Silence, Transposed to A Major, BANK Gallery, Shanghai (2023); 13854, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing (2021); "Tucker", BANK Gallery, Shanghai (2019); "Sunlight on Zhujiajiao", KWM artcenter, Beijing (2018); "Zheng Haozhong: John Moores Painting Prize (China)", Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (now esea contemporary), Manchester (2016); "Richard", BANK Gallery, Shanghai (2016). In 2014, Zheng Haozhong's work "Qiu Chen" won the Grand Prize in the Painting category at the Liverpool John Moores Painting Competition (China). The work has been exhibited at venues including the National Gallery in Liverpool, UK (2014) and the Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (now the Shanghai Minsheng Museum of Contemporary Art) (2016).

Yu Zhibingyang was born in Chongqing in 1998 and graduated from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2021. His practice revolves around a continuously evolving performative troupe. His images often remain within the interstices of performance, where scenes unfold between transformation, suspension, and curtain call, forming a theatrical world in constant transition.

Selected group exhibitions include: "Painting – Parallel", Ear Gallery, Taipei (2026); "Breath from the Depths of the Earth", Yi Space, Nanjing (2026); "Who Is Who", Pifeng Gallery, Beijing (2025); "Ten Thousand Phenomena II", Weidian Space, Shanghai (2025); "Simulations in the Sand Table", Convection Gallery, Hangzhou (2025); "2024 Field Notes", O2art, Beijing (2024); "Two Kinds of Ruined Paradises", Martin Goya Business, Hangzhou (2022); "Sprouting! Yiyi Qida", Long Museum, Chongqing (2022), etc. His works are held in the collections of the White Rabbit Art Foundation in Sydney, the Ni Art Museum in Suzhou, and the Yuan Art Museum in Chongqing, among others.