Artist Bio
Hantao Zhuang (b. 2000, China) is a London-based artist whose practice moves across painting, installation, printmaking, photography, and digital media. He holds a BA in Oil Painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and is currently an MFA candidate in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Rooted in his cross-cultural experience between China and the United Kingdom, Zhuang’s work examines the emotional and psychological structures embedded within contemporary urban life. He is particularly interested in overlooked everyday spaces, temporary architectures, and the “non-places” of the city: spaces of transit, anonymity, routine, and quiet displacement. Rather than treating the urban environment as a neutral backdrop, his practice approaches it as a fragile field where identity, memory, belonging, and alienation are constantly negotiated.
Through material transformation, spatial intervention, and visual reduction, Zhuang reconfigures familiar forms into poetic yet critical structures. Houses, shelters, trees, grids, traces, and urban fragments recur in his work as unstable symbols of protection, vulnerability, and resistance. His practice reflects on how individuals construct inner territories within external systems, and how the ordinary can reveal hidden tensions between public space and private emotion.