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email: ganlu2525@gmail.com
instagram: @forganlu
b.1998, China
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
(forthcoming) Young Wave: Hive Becoming, Hive Contemporary, Beijing, China
(forthcoming) RCA Degree Show, RCA Battersea, London, UK
CACHE: Existing in the Threshold, the Rose Battersea, London, UK
Ongoing, Noho Studio, London, UK
Salon 0502, The Old Waiting Room, London, UK
2025
Sonic Transitions: Auditory Stories of Female New immigrants in Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw CMC, Hong Kong
Present Voice, Electro Studios Project Space, London, UK
2024
Leaping Refrain of La Vie 质流交迭, La Vie Material Life Art Center, Shenzhen, China
HKFORWORD22, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2021
Micro-RELATION LAB, OMS Athens, Greece
Saganaki on Ice, Communitism, Athens, Greece
2020
Painting for the Wind, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan, China
Touch on heat, The first exhibition of selected graduates of CAFA x GAFA, Guangzhou, China
The choice of the graduation star in 2020, OCAT Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China
Wait and Hope, Da Vinci Talk, Te Kauhanganui o QBE Gallery, Auckland, NewZealand
GAFA Graduation Exhibition, China
2019
Visual Games, Foshan Guicheng Art Museum, Foshan, China
2018
Inter-Youth 東方·來信, China Academic of Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Ritz’s Dream (Duo), The Fifth Studio Exhibition Hall of GAFA, Guangzhou, China
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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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