Shanghai, China
B.1986
Taiping Cao（b.1986）lives and works in Shanghai and Berlin. He graduated from the Fourth Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with a Master's degree in 2015. Cao's paintings focus on the postural characteristics of daily labour, with the intention of obtaining the source of legitimacy of self-expression from the synergy between physical labour and instruments. Inspired by the practice of calligraphy in his childhood, the unfamiliar effect of symbolic communication, and the discreet quality of the philosopher Wittgenstein's "unspeakable things", the core of his work is to deploy the painting potential of laboring postures with life experience, and in this way, to express the interactive subjectivity of dialogue or confrontation.
In addition, in his mixed media works, Cao also focuses on the intersection of agriculture and industry. In his view, the burning of farming civilization has a poetic flavor: the black fur is both an overturning of the land and a mapping of the starry sky, while the other artificial technological materials are invasions of some kind of alien experience. These mixed-material works are another expression of the artist's memory of migratory traces and his reflection on the experience of the land.
Solo Exhibitions
2024｜Sturdy grass withstands high winds, Lucie Chang Fine Arts, Shenzhen, China
2020｜OLLEH, ARCH GALLERY, Changsha, China
2017｜Safe House, Cheng Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009｜The trip to Germany, PH Ludwigsburg University of Education, Stuttgart, Germany
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2025｜The Cloud Catcher, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2024｜The Inner Side of the Wind, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing, China
2024｜52 Herz, TX Youth Energy Center, Shanghai, China
2023｜The Signature Move,YitiaoART, Shanghai, China
2023｜Wireless corridor, CASHART, Sanya, China
2022｜Chill, The Gateway, Shanghai, China
2022｜AUSBLICK-DIE LANDSCHAFTAUF DER BRUCKE Ausstellung von Werken chinessischer Kunstler in Deutschland, Grand National Theatre, Beijing, China
2022｜The world, BLANK Gallery, Shanghai, China
2020｜Natural Texture on canvas, ARCH GALLERY, Changsha, China
2019｜Significants, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
2018｜Mei Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
2018｜Tramp Over the Mountains and Seas, Zhang Zhou Art Museum, Fujian, China
2017｜Ever Since, Cheng Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2016｜O.C.D 2.0, EGG Gallery, Beijing, China
2016｜Art Nova 100, the Agriculture Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2016｜Invitational exhibition of young artists in Germany by the German Embassy in China, Beijing, China
2016｜Narrative of Spirituality—Secularization of Abstract Art, ArtOne Gallery, Hongkong
2014｜Gwanghwamun International Arts Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
