Minghao Wu is a fine artist working with installation, digital media and moving image currently based in London. In his work Minghao explores how perception and expression of sexuality can lead to alienation in society.
He uses hair as a symbol of desire in his original Chinese culture to creature hirsute alien creatures that express the universal need for desire. Minghao's work shows creatures in an environment that represents the queer ecology so that audiences are invited to engage with it.
Through documentation and observation of natural landscapes and animals, Minghao uses hair with a range of materials such as metal and gelatin to create hybrid creatures by digital 3D modelling.
Inspired by sci-fi and horror films, Minghao explores how elements of transformation and metamorphosis between animals and humans are at work in the monstrous feelings of sexuality. The hybrid creature monster in traditional Chinese folklore also influenced Minghao to use hybrid organisms. This alters the reproductive and sexual morphology of gendered biologies to challenge the discourse surrounding gender and sexuality. In this way, Minghao's work seeks to blur or resignify binary roles and sexuality.
Exhibition Experiences：
2024
Forbidden Fruit, Palma, Spain
Office Master, Lonson, UK
Sexual Dissidence (in Art Today), London, UK
A Night For, London, UK
Everything Must Go, London, UK
International Festival - The Third Place, London, UK
Queer International Exhibition, London, UK
2023
Body Language, London, UK
2022
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute undergraduate graduation show, Chongqing, China
2021
CADA Japan Conceptual Art and Design Award, Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education, Osaka Visual Arts Association, Tokyo, Japan
Hong Kong Contemporary Design Award, Hong Kong Arts and Design Association, Hong Kong
2020
The second "I am a painter" International excellence award of Sino French international picture book creation activity, Port Sainte Foy et Ponchapt
2019
"Vision" Illustration Art Exhibition, China Artists Association, Beijing, China