Guangyu Zhang

Born 2002, Tokyo, Japan

Lives and works in Tokyo

Guangyu Zhang is a contemporary artist working in abstraction. He received his BFA in Drawing & Painting from OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, and is currently pursuing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. Zhang’s practice reflects a search for sincerity within abstraction. His paintings operate as sites of negotiation between inner and outer worlds, where gesture, materiality, and colour hold tensions between presence and absence, intimacy and restraint. Rather than offering fixed meaning, Zhang’s work sustains unresolved emotional and psychological states. His paintings function as thresholds, inviting viewers to encounter ambiguity, hesitation, and emotional residue without narrative closure.

EDUCATION

2026 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, U

2025 BFA Drawing & Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 'London Writes Itself,' LBF Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Animot,' Safe House 1, London, UK (Group)

2026 Group Exhibition, Candid Gallery, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Collector Access Program – The Viewing Room,' Cream Athens / D Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Elucidate,' LumiNoir Art Gallery, The Koppel Project, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Winter Salon,' Candid Gallery, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Salon 0502: The Last Salon,' The Old Waiting Room, London, UK (Group)

2026 'The Shape of Anxiety,' Chilli Gallery, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Materiality: Language of Matter,' Espacio Gallery, London, UK (Group)

2025 Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada (Group)

2024 'One Summer's Day,' Qingdao Art Academy Art Museum, Qingdao, China (Solo)

2021 'In My Feelings,' Qingdao International Academician Gallery, Qingdao, China (Solo)

2020 Group Exhibition, Ridley College, St. Catharines, Canada (Group)