Hao Xu

Hao Xu

2013-2017 Central Academy of Fine Arts, China

2018-2020 Royal College of Art

2017-Excellent Undergraduate Works of CAFA 

2017-exhibition-“She Ji Bu Zai”, Time Museum，Beijing 

2017-Excellent Undergraduate Works of CAFA 

2017-Marzee International Graduate Show 2017 at Gallery Marzee, Netherlands 

2018-Sieraden,de beste jonge inrternationale sieradenontwerpers at Museum Het Valkhof 

2018-RCA WIP show 

2019-“Matter-morphosis”, Dyson Gallery RCA, UK 

2019-“THE SPIRIT OF SILENCE”, Gallery 371, Australia  

Hao Xu is a Chinese artist based in London. In this project, Hao discusses the topic of “identity” through Chinese seals. The idea of identity in modern life has diversified, people are able to access platforms by a variety of different means, turning identity into fragment by accounts, numbers and lots of log in. By living with different forms of identity, it is more difficult to perceive the boundary of one’s identity, which is confusing. With Hao’s Chinese background, he chose Chinese seals as a material, used for identity verification for thousands of years, to create a series of jewellery that unearths his own treasure of identity. 

Hao collected bills, notes and documents to trace daily activities, while doing inner exploration like meditation and self-portraits to perceive and record inner states responding to the traces. By using different techniques to apply information onto the surface of seal stone, Hao created a system of his own seal ID, to give a expression of his identity with both truth and feelings. As a jeweler and maker, Hao turns seal into precious stone, with material and personal meaning.