Wenhui Hao

Born 2000 in Taiyuan, China

Lives and works in London, UK

Wenhui Hao completed a Masters of Research degree at the Royal College of Art in 2024. Wenhui's primary artistic medium is painting. In her creative process, the artist combines subjective emotions with social and political concerns, focusing on the fragility, sensitivity, and spirituality of humanity. Wenhui's work and research are centered around reconstructing personal narrative practices. The artist addresses themes such as female desire, women's diseases, sexual violence, bodily trauma, and medical pathology. She is committed to critiquing issues related to sex and power, as well as conducting research on materiality in painting. Wenhui sees the process of painting as akin to the practice of suturing and repairing in medical pathology. She depicts dismantled and hollowed-out food subjected to violence in her paintings. Additionally, her works feature wounds covered with ulcers and alienated bodily trunks. The imagery of the body undergoes repeated deconstruction within abstract and layered brushstrokes, cascading into imbalance and descent amid the unpredictable flow of liquids. Wenhui also views painting as a process of repeated "destruction" and "restoration," akin to the intense emotional experience formed by a mixture of harm and caress originating from the other in a relationship. Wenhui believes that the artist's pursuit of materiality in creation can be understood as a form of fetishism.Painting is an intertextual construction of materiality and erotic experience.

EDUCATION

2024 MRes Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2023 BA Oil Painting, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 ‘Transitional Traces’, The Bhavan, London, UK (Group)

2024 ‘Phony’, Lockin Gallery, Brighton, UK (Group)

2024 ‘Fragment Of The Future’, The Hanger Gallery, London, UK (Group)

2024 ‘Curtains’, The Alchemy experiment, Glasgow, UK (Group)

2024 ‘About Time’, 3 Loughborough St, London SE11 5RB, London, UK (Group)

2024 ‘Now Showing’, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK (Group)

2023 ‘Down to the Sunless Sea’, Willesden Gallery, London, UK (Group)