Introduction

Education

2020 MFA, Hunter College, New York, USA

2008 MFA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2003 Studio Art and Chinese Language, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Woo-Woo, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Single-Celled Humans, BANK, Shanghai, China

2023
Limbguistics, Unit, London, UK
Out From, Charles Moffett, New York, USA

2022
Sojourn Summits, Galleria Poggiali, Milano, Italy

2021
Elusive Nature, Make Room, LA, USA
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr., Charles Moffett, New York, USA

2015
Miguel Payano, Bloo Lagoon, Bali, Indonesia

2014
Republic Domain, Wilde Gallery, Williamstown, USA

2013
Miguel Payano: Koicocks, LDX Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2007
Timeline, Williams College, Williamstown, USA
Spawns of Ruin: 798, Red T Space, Beijing, China

2006
Enveloped: installation, TV interview nationally broadcasted in PRC

2004
Milan Fashion Week, Academia Barilla: 9 day live painting 6’x 20’, Milan, Italy

2003
Constructing Frames: installation, Wilde Gallery, Williams College

Group Exhibitions

2023
Twentysomethings, curated by Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA

2022
Resilience, Eastville Museum, Sag Harbor, New York, USA
This Basic Asymmetry, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
1-54 Art Fair, Galleria Poggiali, London, UK
Popup, Harper’s / Here and There Co., Seoul, South Korea
NFS Art Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Ghosts of Empire Part 2, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Ben Brown, London, UK
The Inferno Desire Machine, Simon Lee, London, UK
Ghosts of Empire Part 1, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Ben Brown, Hong Kong

2021
Ad-Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
NADA, Charles Moffett, Miami, USA
Universes, Curator S. Bogojev, Droste Gallery, Paris, France
Drool, Kravets Wehby, New York, USA
Shining in the Low Tide, UNCLEBROTHER, Hancock, New York, USA
Desire Encapsulated, Make Room, LA, USA
Shape of an Image, Curator S. Bogojev, WOAW gallery, Hong Kong
Sweet Peach Trios, Gallery Platform LA, Make Room, LA, USA
36 Paintings, Harper’s Books, East Hamptons, USA
Privilege of Being Together, Curator D. Baez, Anna Zorina, New York, USA
See and Be Seen, Praise Shadows, Boston, USA

2020
Black Voices: Friend of My Mind, Ross-Sutton, New York, USA
Hauser & Wirth — Hunter College Thesis Show, H&W website
Gravity Spell, Hunter College Thesis Show, Hunter College, New York, USA
Assemblage – The Olympia Project, Virtual show, Artsy
Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Qi Mu Space, Shanghai, China

2019
37 x 33, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2018
Rundgang, University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany

2015
Timeline, Williams College, Williamstown, USA
Art at ISPO, Central Business District, Beijing, USA

2013
On Charge, LDX Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2012
Art Beijing, LDX Contemporary Art Fair, Beijing, China
Archipelagic Ceremony, LDX Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2011
Art Beijing, LDX Contemporary Art Fair, Beijing, China

2010
Metamorphosis, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
Sovereign Asian Art Exhibition and Auction, Shanghai, Hong Kong
SDA Exhibition, Corepower, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong
Art Beijing, Emerging Artists, LDX recommended, Beijing, China
CIGE Art Fair, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

2009
Art Beijing, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Viking Mountain Funeral, Celestial Suitcase, New York, USA
CIGE Art Fair, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Attitude, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

2008
Limited Distance, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
MFA Painting Graduate Student Show, CAFA, Beijing, China
Affordable Art Fair, Live painting, 798, Beijing, China
Make It New, 1949 Gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Press

2023
April ‘An Uptown Cat Became a Chinese Artist. Then He Returned Home.’, The New York Times

2022
May ‘Galleria Poggiali opens the first Italian solo exhibition of Miguel Angel Payano Jr.’, Artdaily

2021
December ‘The Best Booths at NADA Miami, from Powerful Portraits to Spirit Carriers’, ARTnews
November ‘Elusive Nature: Miguel Angel Payano Jr. @ Make Room, Los Angeles’, Juxtapoz

Collections

Jebsen Collection, Hong Kong, China
Barilla Collection, Parma, Italy