Yang Mushi was born in 1989 in Jiangxi Province, China and currently lives and works between Beijing and Shanghai. In 2014 he graduated from the Sculpture Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His sculptures, installations and paintings focus on dealing with the displaced relationship between material and form, time and space, virtual and reality. In his cutting and overlapping of social landscapes, the individual and the collective, consumption and production, freedom and restriction, the crisis in the process of deglobalization, and the collision between civilizations are reexamined. Since 2013, Yang Mushi’s creation has been revolving around the concept of “illegitimate production”.

Yang Mushi won the “‘Ranran’ Youth Art Award - The Exploration Award”(2022) and “the 9th Tomorrow Sculpture Annual Award” (2021). He was nominated as the Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” (2021) and by the Prudential Eye Awards for Asian Contemporary Art as the “Best Emerging Artist Using Sculpture” (2016). His works are collected by public institutions including the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, the Erlenmeyer Foundation in Switzerland, Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum in Germany, the American Continental Bank, and the Longlati Foundation in China.