b. 1998
Lives and works in London.
Luna Sue Huang is a Chinese artist based in London. Her paintings attend to the small, easily overlooked details of daily life and the natural world, and to the emotional and historical inheritances carried between generations of Asian families. She received a BA in Painting from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (2019) and an MA in Illustration and Visual Media from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (2021), and is currently on the On Site Painting Programme at Turps Art School. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2023) and at Saatchi Gallery, London, including The Way of All Flesh (2024) and Domestic Relics (2026).
ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint what slows down. Against a pace of life that rewards speed and scale, my paintings stay with the small things that grand narratives overlook: everyday moments within Asian families, a single tree, blade of grass or flower in a landscape, two people holding each other through a hard time.
My work begins in observation. I work from my own photographs, sketches made on site, memory, and stills from short videos on social media and from films. I am drawn to the Chinese idea of yijing (意境), a mood that extends beyond what is depicted, and to the animist belief that people, plants and objects each hold a presence. I try to give every element in a painting the same quiet attention. Nature is not a backdrop but a companion, vast enough to put human worries in proportion.
Family is the emotional centre of this attention. I am interested in how the upheavals of twentieth-century China, including war and political change, settle into ordinary households: in what is said and left unsaid between generations, in habits of thrift and endurance, in the weight and shelter of filial duty (孝). Moving between China and London, I also find myself between two ways of understanding family and self, neither of which fits completely. I approach these inheritances with tenderness rather than judgement, through colour and gentle forms, so that the work can hold difficult histories without insisting on them. If the paintings offer comfort, it is the comfort of being fully present with the people who carried them.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Domestic Relics, Saatchi Gallery & Delphian Gallery, London
Insolvent, General Assembly, London
Seisokuchi生息地 #2, WPU Gallery, Tokyo
2024 The Way of All Flesh, Saatchi Gallery & Delphian Gallery, London
Papier Vol. 2, Delphian Gallery, Paja & Bureau, Helsinki
Inside the Cradle, Outside the Cradle, Shangzun Gallery, Beijing
Au Loin Je Vois La Lune, Looloolook Gallery, Paris
I Do This, I Do That, Bay Art Centre, Cardiff
2023 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Delphian Open Call Winners Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London
Wild Is the Wind, Hew Hood Gallery, London
Secrets, Pilgrims Contemporary Gallery, Keswick
Roots of Day – Dying on the Vine, JC Gallery, London
Floating: A Figurative Exhibition, Pilgrims Contemporary Gallery, Keswick
The First Hubei Youth Fine Arts Works Exhibition, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan
2022 Color 2022, CICA Museum, Korea
2021 Elephant Without Castle, TED Hangzhou, Hangzhou
With.In – Belonging Is Here, SPARC Space, Venice, Italy
AWARDS
2023 Delphain Gallery open call 2023 winner
CURATED SHOWS
2025 Untranslated, Huang Contemporary, London
Becoming Memory, Arts Archive London, London
2023 'Sun and Moon' The Exhibition of Dialogue Between Emerging Artists From the East and West, The Goose Corporation Art Gallery, Wuhan
2021 Between Shan Shui Group Show, 1974 Club, London
Beyond Nature Group Show, Wendle Court, London
2020 MultipliCity Group Show, Corsica Studio, London
PRESS
2026 Art is to Destroy and to Fix, LYP.Art
Meet Luna Sue Huang, Canvas Rebel, 21/01/2025
2023 'London Paint Club' Magazine Issue No.3
2022 Emerging Artist Luna Sue Huang: Depicting a Healing Poem from a Female Perspective with Brushes, China Civilized Network, 25/04/2023
Luna Sue Huang: Painting Is A Pure Land I Am Glad I Have It, Art China, 24/11/2022
Creating 'Poetic' Paintings That Tell Their Own Stories, Yachang Art News, 08/10/2022
EDUCATION
2025–present Turps Art School, On Site Painting Programme, London
2019–2021 London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, MA Illustration and Visual Media, London
2015–2019 Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, BA Painting, Wuhan