Guangyu Zhang is a London-based artist working primarily in painting and expanded painting practices. He is currently completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, following a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University in Toronto.
Zhang has presented multiple solo exhibitions, and his works are held in numerous private and institutional collections internationally. Zhang’s practice reflects a search for sincerity within abstraction. Each canvas becomes a site of negotiation between the inner and outer worlds, where traces of gesture reveal the tension between presence and absence, a personal visual language grounded in honesty and embodied experience.
EDUCATION
2025 BFA Drawing & Painting
The Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2026 MA Painting
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
EXHIBITIONS: SOLO
2021 IN MY FEELINGS, Qingdao International Academician Gallery, Qingdao, China
2024 ONE SUMMER’S DAY, Qingdao Art Academy Art Museum, Qingdao, China
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP
2025 Group Show, Ontario Court of Justice Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2026 The Shape of Anxiety, Chilli Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2026 WINTER SALON, Candid Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2026 ELUCIDATE, LumiNoir Art Gallery, The Koppel Project, London, United Kingdom
2026 Collector Access Program - The Viewing Room, Cream Athens / D Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
2026 Group Show, Candid Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2026 Animot, Safe House 1, London, United Kingdom
2026 London Writes Itself, LBF Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
COLLECTIONS
2020 Skyfall, Ridley College, St. Catharines, Canada – Permanent Collection
2025 Late Summer Early Autumn, Private Collection, Toronto, Canada
2025 February 3rd 01:36 AM, Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada – Permanent Collection
2025 ALL ALONG WITH YOU III, Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada – Permanent Collection