Artist
HEI QIANG
Based in Beijing and London.
Education
BA in Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts (2017–2022)
MFA in Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London (2024–2026)
Qiang Hei’s practice examines how locality is transformed by technological and infrastructural systems, as well as environmental change, and how memory and lived experience persist through these transformations.
Grounded in field research, his work often begins with specific places in northern China shaped by resource extraction, population movement, environmental change, and the disappearance of local infrastructures and cultural sites. Rather than treating these places as fixed historical subjects, he explores how they continue to exist through fragmented memories, environmental conditions, and distant connections.
Working across environmental sensing, networked systems, moving image, sound, 3D environments, and interactive installation, Hei uses real-time environmental data and digital simulation to establish new relationships with distant places.
Exhibitions
2026 Digital Design Weekend, V&A, London, UK
2025 Digital Design Weekend, V&A, London, UK
2021 Brave New World, Solo Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2020 Pan Shaotang Sculpture Art Scholarship Exhibition, Beijing, China
2019 My 2019, Department of Sculpture Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2019 Flying Close to the Ground — Fifth Studio Exhibition, Department of Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China
Publications
2026 “Re-Sensing Locality: DRIFTING as a Remote Signal,” in The Computational Arts Critical Papers: f0rm1ess, Vol. 1, Goldsmiths, University of London. [DOI]