Baoyang Chen is an artist, curator, and researcher working at the intersection of art and technology. He holds dual master's degrees from Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts, New York. He currently teaches at the School of Sci-Tech Arts at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), and concurrently serves as Director of Beijing's Advanced Visual Laboratory for AI & Digital Art and Executive Director of the Science and Art Center at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A pioneering practitioner of deep integration between science/technology and artistic creation, he is recognized as a leading young figure in the tech‑art field. His works—using cutting‑edge media such as digital technologies, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence—have been widely acclaimed, earning honors including the Porsche Young Artist Award, the OPLINEPRIZE, and the Hyundai Blue Prize for Curating.

At present, his research focuses on emergent interactions among multi‑agent systems in AI, examining the social implications of technology as ideology and new ecologies of human-machine symbiosis. He has published multiple international academic papers in this area (SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, IJCAI, ACM MM, ICME and etc.) and served as lead author of the AI+ART White Paper published by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and China Science and Technology Press. Chen's artistic footprint spans the globe: he has mounted solo exhibitions at venues including the New Museum (New York) and the Zhejiang Art Museum, and has served as chief curator of the Asia Digital Art Exhibition for 6 consecutive years.


陈抱阳:科技艺术家、策展人及青年学者。他拥有哥伦比亚大学和纽约视觉艺术学院双硕士学位。现任教于中央美术学院科技艺术学院,兼任北京市视觉高精尖人工智能与数字艺术实验室主任,中科院深圳先进技术研究院科学艺术中心执行主任。他是科学技术与艺术创作深度融合的先锋实践者,作为科技艺术界的青年领军人物,其运用数字技术、生物科技、人工智能等前沿科技作为创作媒介的作品广受赞誉,曾获保时捷青年艺术家、奥普来数字奖、现代汽车BLUE PRIZE策展奖等殊荣。目前,他专注于人工智能系统中多智能体的涌现性互动研究,探讨技术作为意识形态的社会影响与人机共生的新生态,已在此领域发表多篇国际学术论文,主笔并有中国科学技术出版社出版了《中国人工智能学会 —AI+ART》白皮书。他的艺术足迹遍布全球,曾于纽约新美术馆、浙江美术馆等多地举办个展,并连续6年担任亚洲数字艺术展主策展人。

Education
2016 MA Columbia University, New York
2014 MFA School of Visual Arts, New York


Awards
  • 2024 – OPLINEPRIZE (China Special Recommendation)
  • 2020 – Hyundai Blue Prize
  • 2019 – Porsche Artist Award

Solo Exhibitions
  • 2025 – Endless Reset, Oneart Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2023 – Alt – Mirage (q | p), CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM), Beijing, China
  • 2021 – Spotty Crash-Course of Computation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
  • 2020 – Unproven Fallacy, Quantum Gallery, Shanghai, China
  • 2020 – Porsche Artist Award Exhibition, TX Art Center, Shanghai, China
  • 2020 – Gold Record: Not NULL Constraint Failed, CC Art Center, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 – Do Androids Dream of Electric Cows 2.0?, K11 Wuhan Art Mall, Wuhan, China
  • 2017 – Do Androids Dream of Electric Cows?, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China
  • 2016 – The Framework, Cloud Gallery, New York, USA

Personal Projects
  • 2025 – Art × AI Shaping Culture Future Assembly, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi x MZBUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • 2025 – Rules × Emergence, ART021 Beijing, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Huangyan Grottoes x Chen Baoyang Art Exhibition, Zhejiang Huangyan Grottoes, Huangyan (Taizhou), China
  • 2022 – A Petal in a Moment x Lancôme Absolue, Ship Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2021 – Public Project: Unproven Fallacy, JINGART Art Fair, Beijing, China
  • 2020 – Theia x DJULA, JINGART Art Fair, Beijing, China
  • 2020 – Algorithm Bouquet x Sephora, Sephora Asia-Pacific Digital Flagship Store (Sanlitun), Beijing, China
  • 2019 – Public Project: How Many Legs Does the Person in the Maze Have?, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 – Looking Glass of Neon and Pine, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions and Art Projects
  • 2026 – Chengdu Biennale (Fireworks Index), Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
  • 2025 – A Brief History of Technology and Art in China, Chapter One: Computer-Based Art, Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
  • 2025 – Layered Beijing, Nanchizi Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Reuniting at the Peak: Perceptual Decoding of the Universe, MADverse / Mojing Digital Art Space, Beijing, China
  • 2025 – IOIO International Olympiad ArtScience Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Digital Archipelagos: Digital Aquarium, Pingshan Exhibition Gallery (PSEG Digital), Shenzhen, China
  • 2025 – Silicon-based: New Creator, Tang Contemporary Art (Beijing Second Space), Beijing, China
  • 2025 – ART021 Beijing, Tank 79 and The First Workshop (798·751), Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Deterritorializing Transcendence: A Theatre of Difference and Repetition, BOUNDED SPACE, Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Asia Digital Art Exhibition: Muti-Agent Tribe, San Shan Wu Yuan Cultural and Art Center, Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Art Central (ASTRA ART, Booth A5), Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong, China
  • 2025 – Liquid Nostalgia, CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM), Beijing, China
  • 2025 – Xi’an ing Sci-Tech Art Season, Xi’an City Art Center, Xi’an, China
  • 2025 – The Ongoing Future, Lenovo Beijing Future Center, Beijing, China
  • 2024 – Two Lines of Poetry River, Shine In, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
  • 2024 – Life After Life (Future Life Archives), HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2024 – Recreating Spiritual Realm, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
  • 2024 – Always Growing, Foundry, Dubai, UAE
  • 2024 – Symbiotic Realm: The Emergence, Development and Contemporary Artistic Observations of Xinjiang’s Centenary Art (parallel to Pulse of the Hinterland: The 4th Xinjiang China International Art Biennial), Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China
  • 2024 – 14th National Exhibition of Fine Arts (Experimental Art, Digital Art and Animation Section), China Art Palace (Shanghai Art Museum), Shanghai, China
  • 2024 – Era of Encore, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2023 – Beyond Painting, Yu Space, Shanghai, China
  • 2023 – Domain · Painting · Field: The Encounter of Road and Culture, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2023 – Infinite Game: Hello, World!, Shenlan AI Space, Beijing, China
  • 2023 – New Momentum, CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM), Beijing, China
  • 2023 – Rainbow: From the World of Bridges, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
  • 2023 – Echo of Water, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China
  • 2022 – Art as Thoroughfare (Wuhan Biennale), Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
  • 2022 – Not About Money, Sea World Culture and Art Center, Shenzhen, China
  • 2022 – River Epic, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
  • 2022 – On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
  • 2021 – Vertical Takeoff, Star River Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
  • 2021 – Super Fusion (Chengdu Biennale), Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
  • 2021 – No Power Outage, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2021 – Macau Biennial: Advances and Retreats of Globalisation, Macao Cultural Centre, Macao
  • 2021 – Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror?, UCCA Lab, Beijing, China
  • 2020 – World Processor (Asia Digital Art Exhibition), Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2020 – Encryption · Manifold, Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai, China
  • 2019 – Extreme Mix (Guangzhou Airport Biennale), Guangzhou Wing, Guangzhou, China
  • 2019 – 13th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, CAFA Art Museum (Langfang venue), Langfang, China
  • 2019 – 40 Years of Electronic Art: From Linz to Shenzhen, Sea World Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
  • 2019 – Mind the Gap: Artificial Intelligence Art Exhibition, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 – Light, Heat, Power, Left Space (Yangfeng Foundation), Shanghai, China
  • 2018 – Factory Settings, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 – Wonderful World, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2018 – Cross Domain, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
  • 2017 – Work in Progress, Shanshui Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2017 – # (Hashtag), Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai, China
  • 2017 – Image West Lake, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
  • 2016 – Future Direction, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2016 – Cross-Culture Group Show, Wook Choi Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2016 – Boundless Images, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
  • 2016 – Felix (Public Installation), Governors Island, New York, USA
  • 2015 – Reconstruct Landscape, Agora Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2015 – DM@CC Digital Art Invitational, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
  • 2015 – Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival, Galerie Huit, Arles, France
  • 2015 – The Artist’s Studio, BRIC Arts Center, New York, USA
  • 2014 – New Acquaintances, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
  • 2014 – You Only Look Once, Open Space Arts Centre, London, UK
  • 2014 – Reconstruct Landscape, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
  • 2013 – Come Together Sandy, Dedalus Foundation Art Center, New York, USA
  • 2013 – Electron, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2013 – Reconstruct Landscape, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Curatorial Work
  • 2023 – Curator: Infinite Game: Hello, World!, Shenlan AI Space, Beijing, China
  • 2022 – Curator: Asia Digital Art Exhibition: Spaceship Earth, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2021 – Curator: Coordinate System · Skybox, Hyundai Motor Studio Culture Center, Beijing, China
  • 2021 – Curator: Asia Digital Art Exhibition: Safe House, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2021 – Curator: The World Hung by Lines, Hyundai Motor Studio Culture Center, Beijing, China
  • 2020 – Curator: Asia Digital Art Exhibition: World Processor, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2020 – Curator: The Playing Man, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 – Co-curator: Seven on Seven Beijing, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China and New Museum, New York, USA
  • 2017 – Assistant Curator: After Us, New Museum, New York, USA and K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
  • 2017 – Curator: Relational System: Reconstruction and Remedy, Stimulate Research Institute, Beijing, China