QIAN QIAN
Artist Profile
Qian Qian is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines language, translation and the unstable space between meaning and misunderstanding. Working primarily across watercolour, oil painting and interactive installation, she builds intricate visual systems that draw equally from mythology and folklore, Newtonian and quantum physics, ancient theology and contemporary philosophical thought.
Qian Qian’s work often unfolds as a speculative framework — a site where cosmology, narrative and scientific inquiry intersect. Diagrams, symbolic forms and layered mark-making suggest both organic growth and theoretical structure. Rather than illustrating knowledge, Qian Qian constructs visual propositions: spaces where language fractures and meaning remains in flux.
Qian Qian completed her MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018. She was shortlisted for FBA Futures in 2019, recognising emerging artists in contemporary painting and drawing, and in 2023 was awarded the Mother Art Prize Online Award — a significant platform supporting women artists internationally.
Across her practice, Qian Qian continues to explore how knowledge is formed, mistranslated and reimagined through image.
