Weiyang Gao

Born 1993, Langfang, China – now based in Chicago, USA. “I am a Chinese artist who is current a second year painting MFA student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Being an artist with a multi-cultural background, I have insight into the many ways people have used and abused culture and history to create barriers within the broader spectrum of humanity. My work stands as an opposition to such division. Within my paintings, I build imagery of sacred spaces, devoid of specific religious or spiritual demarkations, in order to allow all audiences a place for spiritual and meditative contemplation.”