Tao Hui works across various mediums including graphic arts, painting, video, objects, and installation. Drawing from personal memories, visual experiences, Chinese tradition and popular culture, Tao Hui creates experimental narrations which focus on our collective experience. By questioning the tenets of globalisation, virtual relationships, and hegemonic thinking, Tao Hui prompts the audience to face their own cultural histories and values.
Tao Hui trained at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in oil painting in 2010. He has presented solo exhibitions at OCAT Xi’an (2017); and UCCA, Beijing (2015). His work has also been exhibited at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2020); MACRO Asilo, Rome (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (2019); Belem Cultural Center, Lisbon (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Artists, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2017); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2016); Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare (2016); and the 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016). In 2015, Tao Hui was awarded the prestigious Grand Prize at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil, São Paulo.
