Gagosian’s Artist Spotlight to Feature Hao Liang

New Painting Will Be Revealed on December 10 and Available Exclusively Online for 48 Hours
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NEW YORK, December 2, 2021—Gagosian's Artist Spotlight—an online series that focuses on an individual artist for one week each month—is pleased to present a new painting by #haoliang. The featured work will be revealed at gagosian.com on December 10 and available exclusively online for forty-eight hours.

In his intricately painted silk portraits and landscapes, Hao filters the techniques, themes, motifs, and conventions of traditional Chinese guohua ink wash painting through a contemporary sensibility. Much of his work is concerned with perspectives on temporality, a concept that has historically been approached quite differently by Chinese and Western artists. He positions image making as not only an exercise in technical skill and art historical knowledge, but also a reflection of lived experience.

Artist Spotlight: #haoliang features a new ink and color on silk painting inspired by a poem by Li Shangyin (c. 813–858) titled "Swallow Terrace: Spring." This delicate work is one of three by Hao to be prompted by Li's writings and represents fugitive emotions in a somber physical space that resonates with the verse.

On December 8, a new video featuring an interview with Hao will debut on Gagosian Quarterly online. Filmed in his Beijing studio, Hao discusses this new body of work and his approach to interpreting Li's poetry.

This Spotlight presentation precedes a solo exhibition by Hao at Gagosian London in 2023, in which all three works will be included. Hao's work will also be included in an exhibition opening in January 2022 at the new He Art Museum in Foshan, China, whose building was designed by Tadao Ando.

Artist Spotlight is a dynamic platform that enables artists to present their work in the digital realm, sharing their stories with a global audience online. The series, which launched in April 2020 and is now in its third season, is presented once a month as a regular part of Gagosian's programming. Each installment highlights the work of an individual artist through new editorial features and archival content, and new work is made available with pricing information for forty-eight hours only.