Melanie Ouyang 欧阳 Lum

Piper Bangs @piperbangs Masks fall gently HdM gallery @hdm_gallery Beijing November 29th 2025 to Jan 3rd 2026 HdM Gallery is delighted to present Masks Fall Gently, the first solo exhibition in China of American artist Piper Bangs. In this exhibition, the artist unfolds a trio of conceptual structures—stage, actors, and light through supple brushwork, intricate spatial construction, and sensually charged objects, with the “mask” serving as a central metaphor threading through the entire body of work. Piper Bangs’ practice is grounded in a deep study of 19th-century academic painting techniques, Rococo ornamentation, and the luminous structures of the Dutch Golden Age. Yet beyond this lineage, she turns toward reflections on contemporary visual culture, personal experience, and the accelerated conditions of the present.In her imagery, the mask functions not merely as a tool of concealment, but as an index of what is revealed when layers of perception slowly fall away. From thick impasto and sculptural strokes to the recurring motif of the pear, Bangs constructs a visual continuum that oscillates between humor and gravity, body and material, stillness and motion, sensuality and narrative. Thank you 💜 @piperbangs @hdm_gallery @olivierhdmgallery @hadrien_de_montferrand @meganmulrooneygallery @mulrooneyy

Michelle Blade @michelle_blade The River Curated by Michael Slenske Dates | 2025.11.16 - 2026.1.25 Venue | Hall 3, Shanghai Powerlong Museum @powerlongmuseum Organized by POWERLONG MUSEUM @powerlongmuseum Supported by ASIA ART CENTER @asiaartcenter Sponsored by NIPPON PAINT Los Angeles–based artist Michelle Blade will present her solo exhibition The River, curated by Michael Slenske, at Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, on view from November 16, 2025, to January 25, 2026. Rivers don’t just move water, they carry memory. They etch identity and meaning into every stone lodged in their beds, every muscle used to traverse them. As tomes of ancient civilizations, rivers aren’t just geographic, they’re scenographic. A river, be it raging or trickling, is a living, breathing sculpture. It’s a liquid archive, a continual work-in-progress whose entire mise en scène reshapes with every bend. In Taoist philosophy, the Dao itself is riverine, or maybe just a stand-in for a Blade-like swimmer: humbled, observant, flowing with (never against) the current. That notion of flow forms not just the conceptual spine of The River, but the throughline of the artist’s entire practice: a Californicated blend of Romanticism, Magical Realism, and personal mythmaking via deft and delicate mark-making. Pursuing a landscape that is in constant flux, Blade returns again and again to the same landscapes and domestic scenes. Viewed together, as in The River, the effect is cumulative. The exhibition galleries at Powerlong Museum are arranged in a continuum of tones and seasons: family portraits, narrative vignettes, works on paper and ceramics, grand landscapes, and scenes from her neighborhood, both before and after the Eaton Fire. “This year has been a lot. I don’t know if I’ve made sense of it all yet,” Blade says. “But I think, while working on this exhibition, I’ve been trying to hold onto a fast-paced time of change while attempting to honor the last four years and what I’ve experienced as a human, a mom, a community member, and as an artist.” Thank you 💜 @michelle_blade @asiaartcenter @powerlongmuseum @steven.ihsunlee @yangyachu @colourpie

HAYLEY BARKER @barker_hayley Permanent Green at chi K11 art museum, Shanghai November 12, 2025 - February 1, 2026 Night Gallery @nightgallery and K11 @k11artfoundation are pleased to announce Hayley Barker’s solo presentation Permanent Green opening at chi K11 art museum in Shanghai. The exhibition is curated by Cythina Jiang @jiangye99 and Davida Nemeroff @dahveeduh and will include eleven new paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist. Working from photographs that are then transformed into large-scale sketches, Barker “draws” with oil paint, using small brushes on large linen canvases. Building colors that are as ethereal and complex as the landscapes she depicts, the artist prioritizes mood and memory over strict realism. Permanent Green, the exhibition’s title, references a specific paint color. Barker mixed countless different shades of green for these new paintings—from dark to light, muted to rich. Eventually, she became “lost within green.” Greatly influenced by synesthesia—a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory pathway triggers an involuntary response from another—Barker’s emotions are inextricable from color. For the artist, hue accompanies memory. For the works in this exhibition, Barker spent time in the gardens of friends and family throughout California and Oregon and visited Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France. The paintings are meditations on Barker’s relationship with each garden’s steward, as well as the artist’s speculation on what it might be like to regularly occupy these spaces. Thank you 🙏🏽💜 @barker_hayley @dahveeduh @jiangye99 @nightgallery @catholic_gymnast @kpee @wingstso

Li Hei Di @plum_black_field Tongues of Flare Duration: November 11 – December 31, 2025 Location: Pond Society, No. 2555-1 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai Pond Society @pondsocietyofficial is pleased to present Tongues of Flare, a solo exhibition by Li Hei Di @plum_black_field opening on 10 November 2025. The exhibition brings together twelve paintings and one sculpture created over the past several years, works that unfold as reflections of the artist’s inner landscape, transcending time. Twelve of these works were recently on view at PACE @pacegallery Hong Kong’s exhibition, which closed this past August, while a new, large-scale, vibrant painting September, makes its debut in this exhibition. Through cycles of breakthrough and challenge, Li seeks to chart states of mind and lived reality through shifting colors and forms. Their practice resembles a small boat adrift on turbulent currents, embodying fear, unease, and dislocation, while resonating with the emotional intensity of tragic novels and experimental music. Across the canvases, flickering points of light punctuate the surface, stitching together surges and fractures of the heart while merging with a longing for the unrestrained vitality of nature. Thank you 🙏🏽💜 @plum_black_field @pondsocietyofficial @pacegallery @joshua__friedman Photos by Zhang Hong

Ross Caliendo “Dawn Chorus” @asiaartcenter_taipei May 11th to June 30th 2024 Asia Art Center is pleased to announce LA-based artist Ross Caliendo’s solo exhibition Dawn Chorus. This body of new works by Caliendo showcase seven large scale oil and acrylic on canvas paintings which explore the energy exchange between nature and men, beauty and brutality, life and death, growth and decay, positive and negative through his poetic and lyrical interpretation of nature and unique painting techniques. Best known for his depictions of foliage, flora and fauna subjects painted with unusual “painting backwards” process which involves the application of thick impasto over bright monochromatic underpainting in a contrasting colour, that the artist then carves into with palette knifes, the back of brushes or other tools available in the studio to reveal the striking colours underneath. This unusual sgraffito process is instantly recognisable as characteristics of the artist. Caliendo’s highly distinctive brushworks, vibrant colours and intricate textures speak of an energy that can be transferred to and resonated by the viewers, creating a harmonious chorus and rich narrative that promise to inspire. Congratulations @rosscaliendo @asiaartcenter_taipei 🎉🎉🎉 @steven.ihsunlee @staceyyutingma @wensu.lo @rosskramergallery Thank you 🙏🏽💜

Veronica Fernandez and Tidawhitney Lek What Will You Give? April 27 to June 22nd 2024 @sidecar_gallery @nightgallery Sidecar is pleased to present What Will You Give?, an exhibition of large-scale paintings by Veronica Fernandez @ron.nie55 and Tidawhitney Lek @tidawhitney , organized in collaboration with Melanie Ouyang Lum. This is the first presentation at Sidecar for both artists. What will you give? Artists and friends Veronica Fernandez and Tidawhitney Lek explore this question on and off canvas. Their paintings abound with generosity, empathy, wonder, delight, and hope. Both women plumb the depths of their experiences to render the ecstasy and agony of the human condition in painterly bids for connection and acts of witness. In densely layered compositions that merge past and present, inherited and embodied memories, self and other, both artists give form to stories of love and loss as personal as they are universal. Both artists, in their sui generis styles, give form to the invisible, reminding viewers of paintings’ ability to imagine the world transfigured. –Tara Anne Dalbow @taraanned Thank you @dahveeduh for this opportunity to collaborate with you on your new endeavor @sidecar_gallery After almost a decade of doing shows together all over the world, it’s nice to bring it back home to LA with these two incredible artists that are also close friends. Thank you @ron.nie55 and @tidawhitney for putting your hearts and souls into these monumental paintings! I’m beyond proud of the two of you 💥💥💥 And thank you @nightgallery team for all the support 🙏🏽💜💜💜

Late to post! Hong Kong was a blast 💥 Thank you to everyone who came to see the exhibition at @kpee private club @gloucesterartsclub 🎉 Dusk Ritual presents a stunning collection of naturalistic figuration paintings that delve into the profound interplay between light, darkness and the human experience. @rosscaliendo exploration of themes inspired by the forest, animals and the sky captures the ephemeral moments on transition and introspection found during twilight. Each artwork in Dusk Ritual is a testament to Caliendo’s distinctive style, characterized by bold brushwork, intricate textures and a vibrant color palette. Dusk Ritual opened on March 24th and will be up until April 24th @gloucesterartsclub Please send an email to [email protected] to see the exhibition Thank you to @rosscaliendo @kpee @toddkramer @rosskramergallery @benwhyyou 🙏🏽💜

Congratulations to @weaver_grace on her first institutional exhibition in China @yuzmuseum Shanghai 🎉 Grace Weaver: Painters & Portraits Yuz Project Space of Art × Xue Zhu Bower, Panlong Tiandi, Shanghai October 28th, 2023 – February 25th, 2024 Free Admission Weaver’s artistic oeuvre is an exploration of a nuanced and somewhat enigmatic sentiment associated with the “liminal space.” Her creative practice deftly captures the evanescent fragments of everyday existence through an acute intuition, offering an exposition of the uncanny that resides within quotidian life. Weaver’s work serves as an in-depth contemplation of the essence of painting – a medium that occupies the intermediary realm between mirror and statue, both the object and the subject of projection. Through her portrayal of contemporary life’s ephemeral moments, the artist unravels the dynamic interplay between art and the mundane, the self and subjectivity, as well as existence and reality. Weaver’s art discloses a continuum of art historical undercurrents, echoing the elusive countenance found in Byzantine portraiture and the Baroque penchant for the hyperbolic representation of the human body. Nonetheless, having long been entrenched in the midst of New York City’s mundane yet frenetic urban milieu, the artist has consciously veered away from grandiose classical narratives. She purposefully elects to spotlight the inconspicuous instances that dwell outside life’s monumental storyline. These scenes, akin to contemporary genre paintings, depict banal objects within the urban stage: half-open computer screens, scattered mobile phone charger cords, dim smartphone screens, dripping paintbrushes and blue rags… all these elements formulate an ultra-mundane panorama, which lingers in a realm of meaningless ambivalence, resembling snapshots of modern life, akin to a mirror that permits and accommodates projection from observers. Simultaneously, it transcends individual limitations and temporal constraints to realize a statuelike timelessness. Photos by Alessandro Wang, courtesy of Yuz Museum and Yuz Foundation @weaver_grace @yuzmuseum @alexanj_yu @xiesiwei520 @lzzovo @galeriemaxhetzler 💜💜💜

Congratulations to #FrancescaMollett on her first institutional exhibition in China @pondsocietyofficial Shanghai 🎉 Francesca Mollett: Noon September 16th to October 31st, 2023 Pond Society is pleased to present Noon, a solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Francesca Mollett. Following her recent exhibition Low Sun at Micki Meng in San Francisco, Noon serves as a sequel; allowing the artist to revisit and develop her ideas into an extended body of work. Continuing her exploration of the interplay between densities of paint, and the uncertain settling of mark into form, these paintings emerge from a geologically inflected language of deterioration and accumulation. When the sun seems at its highest but is at its closest, the white light of noon, made from the full spectrum of colours, marks a peak and a point in time that arrives and passes, day after day. Encircling the exhibition with its looping symmetry and softness, the word ‘noon’ identifies in Mollett’s paintings both an encapsulated specificity and an infinitude. Where space crumples and surface frays. Where time collapses and experience unfolds with shifts in perspective and perceptive realizations and confoundments. All this comes together in the paintings, creating a coexisting sense of sequence and all-at-onceness, so that they seem to be moving but still. Text by Bryony Bodimeade @___frangle @mickimeng_sf @mickihmeng @grimmgallery @jorggrimm @pondsocietyofficial 🙏🏽💜

"The Descendants” a group presentation of over 20 international artists opens this weekend @k11musea . Presented by @woawgallery and @mickimeng_sf . The exhibition is curated by @m_ouyang @mickimeng_sf , and @kpee . As anchor artists of the next generation, a key thread of the show is perpetuating the seed of longevity; learning from the philosophy of ancestors in order to build a better world for those who come after us. Often these reflections consider the nature of modern identity, touching upon diaspora, place, and spirituality. Collectively, the assembled cohort plumbs what it means to belong to a lineage, and how one might construct new, hybrid futures in dialogue with the spirits of our forebears. In the pursuit of reinvigorating once-classic forms of abstraction as well as experimenting with portraiture and landscape, each participating artist foregrounds artistic exploration in the particular histories and legacies of the art cosmopolitans they hail from and identities they inhabit. Thank you to all the Participating Artists and their galleries 🙏🏽 @michelle_blade @gabriellaboyd_ @rosscaliendo @dominiquefung @bambou.gili @haglerjosh @oscyhou @chankhour @rae_klein @spencerrusselllewis @jessie_makinson @rute_merk @gabrielmillsart @sarah_miska @___frangle @ninamolloy9 @morimotostudio @studiomeeson @jacopo_pagin @lauren_quin_ @shenesssociety @blairwhiteford @livienyin Special thanks to my curatorial partners @mickimeng_sf and @kpee for this massive undertaking, a year in the making! @kpee - round two in the books! 🙏🏽💜 Sponsored by @moserwatches Photos by @kitmin_lee

Congratulations to @columbusmuseum and @petescantland for Present 23: Building the Scantland Collection 🎉 This exhibition unveils and second wave of promised gifts comprising the Columbus Museum of Arts Scantland Collection, donated by the Scantland Family. Featuring 33 works by a total of 32 artists. June 8th to October 8th, 2023 @barker_hayley @gabriellaboyd_ @ron.nie55 @devinbjohnson @tidawhitney @katllyons @lauren_quin_ @lilgooey @sslappey @oscyhou @guimi_you @yesiyuzhao @shrine.nyc @grimmgallery @sowandtailor @nicodimgallery @pilarcorriasgallery @belami.la @sargentsdaughters @makeroom.la @james_fuentes_llc @mickimeng_sf 🙏🏽💜💜💜

@woawgallery & @mickimeng_sf is pleased to announce “The Descendants”, a group presentation of over 20 international artists and our second year back at @k11musea . The show opens September 1st from 6-9 pm and open to public from Friday, Sept 2 Sunday, Sept 17 2023. The exhibition is curated by @m_ouyang @mickimeng_sf , and @kpee . In the pursuit of reinvigorating once-classic forms of abstraction as well as experimenting with portraiture and landscape, each participating artist foregrounds artistic exploration in the particular histories and legacies of the art cosmopolitans they hail from and identities they inhabit. Participating Artists @michelle_blade @gabriellaboyd_ @rosscaliendo @dominiquefung @bambou.gili @louise___giovanelli @haglerjosh @oscyhou @chankhour @rae_klein @spencerrusselllewis @jessie_makinson @rute_merk @gabriellegraessle @sarah_miska @___frangle @ninamolloy9 @morimotostudio @studiomeeson @jacopo_pagin @lauren_quin_ @shenesssociety @blairwhiteford @livienyin