Junyuan Feng

Julian Junyuan Feng is an artist and writer based in Shanghai, China. He received his B.S. in physics from Fudan University and M.F.A. in fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania. His recent projects and exhibitions include “Messengers,” Surplus Space, 2023; “Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction,” Long March Independent Space, 2023; “Penny Dreadful,” totalab, Shanghai, 2022; “An Impulse to Turn,” Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2020. Feng co-curated the exhibition “Whatever works, whatever it takes” with Zhihui Zhang at Goethe-Institut China in 2019. In 2021, he co-curated the exhibition “Liquid Ground” with Alvin Li at Para Site in Hong Kong and a second, traveling iteration at UCCA Dune in 2022. His writing has appeared in e-flux architecture, frieze, Artforum, Flash Art, Heichi Magazine and LEAP Magazine.

Curatorialship & Select Publication

• Book chapter in Daniela Zyman ed., Ocean Rising: A Companion to “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation”, Sternberg Press, co-written with Alvin Li
• e-flux Architecture: Four Cautionary Tales from the Future Asian Metropolis, co-written with Alvin Li
• Liquid Ground at UCCA Dune, co-curated with Alvin Li
• Liquid Ground at Para Site, co-curated with Alvin Li

Education

• MFA
  University of Pennsylvania 

• BS
  Fudan University

Research Interests

•  Media Studies

• Infrastructure

• Art in the Anthropocene

• Gender & Sexuality

• Affect