Huang Qi-You was born in Guangxi, China in 1987. He obtained a B.A. in Fine Arts from Department of oil painting of Guangxi Arts Institute in 2010. Huang Qi-You creates scenery of desolate places composed of rocks, a few cranes, a bench, a lonely tower, and several trees without leaves. Each element seems to emerge from a different story and period, scattered in a deserted land. He simultaneously positions the viewer far away from and within the modern sense of time. Whether it is Europe in the Romantic period or China with its nostalgic spirit, Hunag Qi-You ruins and fragments of works in both aesthetic traditions process the dimension of time due to their incompleteness and the function of carrying memory. Therefore, the landscape painting becomes an ideal form of expression.
His most important solo exhibitions include The Bright Moon is High Up, YIRI ARTS, Taipei (2022), If You Can Not Say It Clearly, How Can You Say That You Know, East Gallery, Nanjing (2018), After the Mountain, Fuyan Commune, Beijing (2017), and Dig Tomb Examination Material, 798 Times Space, Xiamen (2014). Selected group shows include FANSHION, Gallery 55, Shanghai (2021), Reshaping the individual, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu (2019), FUSION-IVY Art 2017, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin (2017), Dash – Art Nova 100 Beijing Launch Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2017), Nanjing International Youth Art Biennale, Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing (2015), and 62 Shades of Grey and TA Friends, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015).