Bio
Tianle Zhao is a London-based visual artist trained in Interior Architecture at the University of Westminster. Her practice explores how emotional states are shaped, contained, and restrained through material and spatial structures, approaching sculpture as a form of spatial thinking.
She works primarily with soft and responsive materials such as fibre, fabric, wax, resin, and spray foam, transforming them into fixed and constrained forms. Through processes of solidification, binding, and enclosure, her work examines how care, intimacy, and protection can shift into control, weight, or suffocation.
Drawing on architectural logic, Zhao constructs sculptural environments that function as spatial bodies—spaces that hold and contain emotion. Through material contrast and spatial restraint, her installations translate personal and relational experiences into tangible, quietly negotiated forms.
Exhibition
Group Exhibition, Things Left Unsaid, Frevd Gallery, London UK Sept 2025
Group Exhibition, Green Grammar, Nothing Holds on Its Own, Artsect Gallery & the Koppel Project, London UK Oct 2025
Group Exhibition, Real Artists Sweat, Tiderip Gallery, London UK Nov 2025-Jan 2026
Group Exhibition, Soft Architecture, Galerie Studio Home Awareness, Milan Italy Dec 2025
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Interior Architecture
Virginia Commonwealth University, Graduated May 2021
Master's Degree in Interior Architecture
University of Westminster, Graduated May 2024
Contact
Email: tianlezhao0808@gmail.com
phone number: +44 (0) 7536348187