paintings
artist statement
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email: ganlu2525@gmail.com
instagram: @forganlu
b.1998, Guangdong, CN
currently in London, UK
about
She is a painter, despite believing for years that she could become someone else, but painting proved to be the one thing that stayed. She also writes.
As Louise Gluck writes, ‘We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory’.
GAN Lu’s work explores the relationship between everyday experience, memory and imagination. Through the recomposition and arrangement of familiar scenes and dream fragments, she creates images that feel both intimate and faintly unreal. Influenced by Impressionism and Surrealism, her practice reflects on how the images encountered in daily life shape the ways in which she perceives and represents the world. By seeking a balance between observation and imagination, her work constructs a poetic space in which the subconscious and dream imagery intertwine.
CV
Selected Exhibitions
2026
RCA Degree Show, London, UK (upcoming)
Ongoing, Noho Studio, 67 Great Titchfield St, London UK @thenohogalleries
Salon 0502, The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye, London UK @sept.curatorial
2025
Sonic Transitions: Auditory Stories of Female New immigrants in Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw CMC HK @sonictransitions
Present Voice, Electro Studios Project Space, London UK @present_voices
2022
Leaping Refrain of La Vie 质流交迭, The 1st Nebula Project in La Vie Material Life Art Center, Shenzhen, CN
HKFORWORD22, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery HK
The Waste Land, SCM show, Run Run Shaw CMC HK
2021
Micro-RELATION LAB, 2021 Transculture Collabration Final Project, OMS Athens, GR @Transcultural Collaboration Blog
Saganaki on Ice, 2021 Transculture Collabration, Communitism, Athens GR
Furment, SCM show, Run Run Shaw CMC HK
2020
Painting for the Wind, The 23rd Workshop Project, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan CN
Touch on heat, The first exhibition of selected graduates of CAFA x GAFA, Guangzhou CN
The choice of the graduation star in 2020, OCAT Shenzhen OCT Harbour Exhibition Site, Boxes Art Space CN
Wait and Hope, Da Vinci Talk, Te Kauhanganui o QBE Gallery, Auckland NZ
GAFA Graduation Exhibition CN
2019
Visual Games, Foshan Guicheng Art Museum, Foshan CN
2018
東方·來信 Inter-Youth, China Academic of Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou CN
Ritz’s Dream (Duo), The Fifth Studio Exhibition Hall of GAFA, Guangzhou CN
2017
the Fifth Studio, the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou CN
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Member
2026-
Member, BBK Berlin (Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin)
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Publication
2018
“Car Inspection” was compiled into “Oriental Letters / 东⽅来信“ (China Academy of Art Press ISBM: 978-9-5503-1871-7)
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Awards
2025
The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award - Full Scholarship RCA UK
2021
Dr. Peter Chung Yin Lee Memorial Fund Overseas Experience Awards (09/2021) HK
2020
Dayi Sketch Award - The First Edition of the School of Painting and Drawing in GAFA (Guangzhou CN)
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Education
2025-2026
MA Painting - Royal College of Art
2016-2020
BFA Painting - Guangzhou Academic of Fine Art
ative Media - City University of Hong Kong
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