Based in Chengdu, China, b.1992

Shizhu’s practice explores the tension between myth and modernity, instinct and reason, and the porous boundaries between reality and dream. Drawing from Yi ethnic culture and a distinctly expressionist sensibility, his paintings construct psychological landscapes charged with primal energy and ritual intensity. Through recurring acts of deconstruction and reconstruction, he translates the sacred and the mundane into a visual language of confrontation—where instinct becomes a form of thought, and painting itself a vessel of spiritual recurrence.

His monumental canvases evoke both a sense of divine revelation and visceral unrest, forming a pictorial archive of emotional, mythic, and existential struggle. In this process, Shizhu positions painting not merely as representation, but as a ritual of persistence—a continual summoning of faith, doubt, and the human condition.