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Lu Shouhui

Lu Shouhui, a Chinese artist, was born in Dingxi, Gansu in 1990. He is an independent artist and currently lives
and works in Gansu, China. He mainly engages in easel painting creation based on paper and uses a variety of
media to complete his creations. In 2018, he was shortlisted for the 9th Rising Star Art Award, and in 2020, he
was shortlisted for the 6th John Moores Painting Award (China). In 2023, he won the Silver Award of the China
Visual Art Yearbook and the Bronze Award of the International Pioneer Visual Art Award in 2022. To date, his
works have participated in many domestic exhibitions and have received much praise from collectors.

‘’From birth to death, an individual is returning and cycling. An individual's life is full of failures and repeated writing and
erasure.
Today's entire social environment has become complex and changeable, and each of us is struggling to reach the end in
the big waves of today's era. In this process, the individual and the entire society have a subtle relationship at all times, or
various contradictions and conflicts. The natural world with people as the main body will inevitably have various
contradictions and frictions. I try to express the various conflicts and contradictions encountered by individuals in today's
society through my works. The struggles and various pains experienced by individuals in today's changing times have
become an important part of life. Pain and happiness are commensurate, and it can even be said that people spend most
of their time in pain. Various fears, various difficult choices, various spiritual pains, various emotional changes, etc.
Therefore, individuals are constantly in friction with everything around them, and many problems are generated. I try to
express these problems that tiny individuals are experiencing and encountering in the current society through the re-
transformation of art.’’

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