Since establishing her Seattle studio in 2018, contemporary artist Damao has expanded upon the conceptual framework developed during her time in Beijing’s Caochangdi and Chengdu’s Blue Roof art districts. Her practice interrogates “similarity, exclusivity, and infinite possibilities unbound by place,” often deploying materials and visual symbols charged with modern anxiety and displacement to evoke intimate, resonant experiences within unfamiliar cultural narratives. Spanning oil painting, installation, performance, photography, video, and poetic text, her evolving practice offers a sensitive and compelling examination of contemporary existence.
自2018年将工作室迁至西雅图以来，当代艺术家Damao持续深化其在北京草场地与成都蓝顶时期构筑的艺术理念。她的创作核心围绕“脱离特定地域的相似性、独特性与开放的无限可能”展开，常借由蕴含现代焦虑与疏离感的视觉符号及媒介，在全新的文化叙事中唤起深刻而亲密的情感共鸣。Damao的艺术实践跨越布面油画、装置、行为艺术、摄影、动态影像与诗歌文本，展现了在日益流动与多元的时代语境下对当代生存状况的敏锐洞察。
Expressed through a postmodern collage-like logic, the work integrates portraits of “unanchored adversaries” and scenic depictions of “absent observers” into the ordered space of contemporary art. Whether capturing fleeting moments elusive to the subject or the subtle voids left by partial absence, the practice confronts the expansive energy of landlessness with profound empathy.
这种后现代拼图式的艺术语言，将“无参照的对峙者”肖像与“不在场的观察者”场景画，巧妙地嵌入了当代艺术的有序空间中。无论是主体无意间错过的瞬息，还是局部缺席所留下的偶然空虚，都以一种同理心，凝视着脱离地域羁绊（无地性）所带来的开放力量。
Having gained recognition across influential media including Harper’s Bazaar and the Discovery Channel, her artistic output has been showcased in notable group exhibitions, including the Chengdu Biennale, Art Beijing, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival. Her seminal solo exhibition, Anchor of Time, was presented in Shanghai in 2014.
她的作品曾获《时尚芭莎》（Harper’s Bazaar）、探索频道（Discovery Channel）等主流媒体的关注与报道，并受邀参展成都双年展、艺术北京、平遥国际摄影大展等重磅展览。2014年，她于上海举办了个展“时间的锚”（Anchor of Time）。
Established in 2025, her fourth studio resides within a hidden alleyway garden in Zurich—a sanctuary cultivated by her mother-in-law for over half a century. In this space, the work weaves together the passage of natural seasons and the fractal logic of physics and mathematics, marking a new departure toward the non-ordered, the non-subjective, and the non-accidental.
2025年建立于苏黎世的第四个工作室，落脚于一处拥有五十年历史的巷弄秘境花园。创作在此引入自然四季的律动，以及物理与数学中的分形概念，展开了一场超越秩序、去主体化与非偶发性的艺术实验。