Huang Yulong (⻩玉龙) was born in 1983 in Huai’an, Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese sculpture artists and part of the post-‘80 and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of hip-hop, street art and other foreign culture phenomenon in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world.
He works in a variety of media, mixing traditional ceramic porcelain or bronze with crystals. To him, the hip-hop culture he often portrays, the hoodies and bling, is a state of being and a way of life, not merely a foreign culture appropriated by young Chinese. To him, hip-hop culture is “characterized by energy, power, purity, sexuality, freedom, courage. But this is also an urban story full of crying and blood.”
Huang Yulong (⻩玉龙) was born in 1983 in Huai’an, Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese sculpture artists and part of the post-‘80 and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of hip-hop, street art and other foreign culture phenomenon in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world.
He works in a variety of media, mixing traditional ceramic porcelain or bronze with crystals. To him, the hip-hop culture he often portrays, the hoodies and bling, is a state of being and a way of life, not merely a foreign culture appropriated by young Chinese. To him, hip-hop culture is “characterized by energy, power, purity, sexuality, freedom, courage. But this is also an urban story full of crying and blood.”
Huang Yulong
born in 1983, Anhui Province, China
Educational Background
2008 Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, B.F.A in Sculpture
Solo Exhibition
2023 Outsider, Ping’an Financial Center, Shenzhen, China
2023 Bronze to Beat, Next Street Gallery, Paris, France
2023 Hennessy x Huang Yulong Sneaker Con, Guangzhou, China
2022 The Missing Face, HOW+SPACE ONE, Shanghai, China
2021 Reflection, Art Weme Contemporary Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2018 Cei, Playhouse, Beijing, China
2010 Himalaya Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 Hennessy x Huang Yulong
2022 SCOPE Miami Beach 2022, Miami, USA
2021 In Between Days X, Art+Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 Wulong International land art festival, Wulong Museum, Chongqing, China
2018 Shenzhen Art Biennale, Shenzhen, China
2017 REVELATIONS - International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial,Platform d’Art, Paris, France
2017 China City Public Art Exhibition, Today Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Art Central, Art+Shanghai Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2014 Art Mo, Art Macao, Macao, China
2013 The 4th International Contemporary Art Exhibition - Garden of Imagination,Gwangju Art + Vision,Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2010 POPJUGEND, Den Bosch, Holland
2009 Kaisei Project, Schoeni Gallery ,Hong Kong, China