Tong Kunniao, born in 1990 in Changsha, Hunan Province, received his BFA from No.3 Studio, Department of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing.
Tong Kunniao's chaotic, integrally-integrated installations are conceived to reflect the artist's perception of society, in his eyes, society is a sprawling arena, home to a multitude of elements all competing for attention and basic survival. The sphere of human influence in the worlds he creates as art is slight, instead, the artist presents visions of what might be more readily aligned with futuristic visions of tomorrow, with worlds run entirely by machine in which Mankind has become more or less expendable.
Recent Exhibitions: Wilted flowers, the bad bird and Q (PIFO Gallery, Beijing, 2023), Wiltopia (Hua International, Berlin, Germany, 2022), The Myth of Human Nature (Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2022), Artist’s Game (OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, 2022), Sailing (TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China, 2022), I Am the Nature -on Vulnerability, Survival in A Society at Risk, 26th Rohkunstbau (Brandenburg, Germany, 2021), Golden Dystopia on Three Millimeters (Cc Foundation Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2021), Just Stay in the Cold (Hua International, Berlin, Germany, 2020), NIAO x KUN x TONG (Jupiter Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2020), I don’t MISS u (XPM, Changsha, China, 2019), Birdindefinite (MIFA 1862, Shanghai, 2018), When Dog’s Mouth Spits Ivory (Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2017), Dans Le Ventre Du Pigenon, Il Y A Non Seulement Du Caca, Mais Du Pain Aussi (Liusa Wang Gallery, Paris, France, 2017), Over Pop (Yuz Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016), Why Don’t You Eat Stinky Tofu? (Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2016), Dreaming a Baton the Floor (Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China, 2016), Tong Kunniao (Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China, 2015).etc.