Bio
Tianle Zhao is a London-based visual artist trained in Interior Architecture at the University of Westminster. Her practice explores how emotional states are shaped, contained, and restrained through material and spatial structures, approaching sculpture as a form of spatial thinking.
She works primarily with soft and responsive materials such as fibre, fabric, wax, resin, and spray foam, transforming them into fixed and constrained forms. Through processes of solidification, binding, and enclosure, her work examines how care, intimacy, and protection can shift into control, weight, or suffocation.
Drawing on architectural logic, Zhao constructs sculptural environments that function as spatial bodies—spaces that hold and contain emotion. Through material contrast and spatial restraint, her installations translate personal and relational experiences into tangible, quietly negotiated forms.
Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Pending Response, Somers Gallery, London, UK | Aug 2026
Group Exhibition, "Origins" Modern Art Exhibition, Mon Curates Art, London, UK | Aug 2026
Group Exhibition, Young Sculptor Exhibition, Doddington Hall & Gardens, Lincoln, UK | July 2026
Group Exhibition, Crèche Event, Créche Sessions, London, UK | June 2026
Group Exhibition, Collective Voices Exhibition 2nd Edition: Being-in-the-World, JustArt, Safehouse, London, UK | May 2026
Group Exhibition, WHISPERer, London Craft Week, London, UK | May 2026
Group Exhibition, The Stitch That Bit Back, Newark Works Bath, Bath, UK | May 2026
Group Exhibition, Generative Metamorphosis, Isolart Gallery, Florence, Italy | Jan 2026
Group Exhibition, Soft Architecture, Galerie Studio Home Awareness, Milan, Italy | Dec 2025
Group Exhibition, Real Artists Sweat, Tiderip Gallery, London, UK | Nov 2025
Group Exhibition, Green Grammar, Nothing Holds on Its Own, Artsect Gallery & the Koppel Project, London, UK | Oct 2025
Group Exhibition, Things Left Unsaid, Frevd Gallery, London, UK | Sept 2025
Group Exhibition, Pieces of Us, Doing Art, Seoul, Korea | Dec 2024
Group Exhibition, Autumn Picnic, KT&G Sangsang Madang, Nonsan, Korea | Oct 2024
Group Exhibition, Black Market, Stone&Water ArtSpace, AnYang, Korea | Sept 2024
Group Exhibition, ArtTrash, Magpie Bar&Gallery, NanJing, China | June 2024
Group Exhibition, Sensory Thresholds, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China | Sept 2023
Group Exhibition, Fleeting Faces: Collective Anonymity and Urban Memory, Para Site, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong | Sept 2023
Group Exhibition, Multiple Refractions: A Journey Through Modernist Illusions Exhibition, One Way Lane Gallery, Beijing, China | July 2023
Group Exhibition, ARTIFICENE, Spazio civico Albano Tomaselli, Castel Ivano, Trento Province, Italy | June 2023
Group Exhibition, ‘Artistic Spirit in Full Bloom’ Exhibition, Haipai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | Nov 2022
Group Exhibition, Haipai Art Museum, ‘Artistic Spirit in Full Bloom’ Exhibition, Shanghai, China | Nov 2022
Group Exhibition, CCTV News The 8th Shanghai Youth Art Fair, Shanghai, China | Nov 2022
Group Exhibition, 6x6x2021 – The International Small Art Phenomenon, Rochester, Albany, US | June 2021
Group Exhibition, The Anonymous Art Show, CityScape Community ArtSpace, North Vancouver, Canada | Nov 2019
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Interior Architecture
Virginia Commonwealth University, Graduated May 2021
Master's Degree in Interior Architecture
University of Westminster, Graduated May 2024
Contact
Email: tianlezhao0808@gmail.com
phone number: +44 (0) 7536348187