Qian Qian is a Chinese artist based in Scotland whose practice explores symbolic image-making through perception, mythology and systems of transformation.
Her work combines intuitive processes with references to mythology, consciousness, ecological systems and contemporary image culture, developing what she describes as a form of "narrative-image making" — where personal memory, symbolic forms and collective perception intersect through visual language.
Selected exhibitions include the solo exhibition The Fountains of Enceladus, Lychee One, London (2026); the two-person exhibition The Light Burns the Reality, Sixi Museum (2025); the solo exhibition Portals to the Past, Lychee One, London (2024); the solo exhibition Metempsychosis, Richard Saltoun Gallery online (2023); Another World, Frestonian Gallery, London (2026); Into the Woods, Make Room, Los Angeles (2025); La Mariposa, Soho Revue, London (2025); Supercommunity, Tank Shanghai (2024); Disembodied, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Come Closer, Indigo+Madder, London (2023); X Museum Triennial, Beijing (2023); Mother Art Prize, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2023); and Syncopes, Mimosa House, London (2021).
She is the recipient of the Mother Art Prize Online Award (2023), Judge's Choice of The College of Psychic Studies Art Competition 2026, the Eaton Fund (2026), and received an Arts Council England DYCP Grant (2023). She was also shortlisted for FBA Futures (2019). Qian Qian currently lives and works in Moray, Scotland, where the coastal and rural landscape informs the evolving framework of her practice.
Website: https://www.qianqianart.org/