Chaney Manshu Diao
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©2024 Chaney Manshu DIao
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Chaney Manshu Diao (b.1996, China) is an artist whose practice revolves around desire, fetishism, and (sexual) fantasy. Frequently described as both erotic and hardcore, Chaney’s work engages with the physical and theoretical conceptions of violence, intensity, and the ‘on edge’ moments in BDSM. These elements are explored to reflect broader ideas of maintenance, production, and cultural drive, set against the backdrop of today’s accelerated consumption of cultural forms. Recent group shows include: Acal Festival 3 curated by Studio/Chapple; Pretty Doomed Art fair with Queer Art Project, and Chaney has live performed at IKLETIK, Oct 2023. Chaney’s conceptual approach to art and identity has been featured by magazines including Nasty Magazine, i-D, Numero, Vogue, BoF, WWD, French Fries Magazine, Schon Magazine.
2025 Doom simulator as part of The Archive of Forgotten Forms, this proejct is funded by Arts Council England.
2025 Kaugummi im Motherboard curated by Erratum Gallery at gr_und Gallery. Berlin, De.
2024 How to destory angles Curated by Tai Shani & A-Z(Anne Duffau) at Horse Hospital.
2024 ‘we are thinking about a show’ at Slade School of Fine Art.
2024 FAN の BLOG 迷妹の部屋: AN EXPLORATION OF FANDOM AND EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY ART at Asymmetry Art, London, UK.
2024 the wall is never innocent with Small Time Project. London, UK.
2024 todestrieb [death drive] at Generation and Display. London, UK.
2024 Generic Corporate, curated by kawaii agency. London, UK.
2024 Office Master at Chelsea college of art Millbank space. London, UK.
2023 Acal festival 3 curated by Studio/Chapple and SON OF CRAFT at Staffordshire St Gallery. London, UK
2023 Pretty Doomed Art Fair hosted by Ugly Duck, co-curated by Queer Art Project. London, UK
2023 if splash has your whistle at IKLECTIK. London, UK
2023 Video Night at Matchstick Piehouse. London, UK
2023 Degree Show at Slade School of fine art. London, UK.
2023 AMP Gallery. London, UK.
2023 Swords and kisses at Straffordshirest Gallery. London, UK.
2023 Squeezed at Barbican Arts Group Trus. London, UK.
2023 Cracks at Set Kensington. London, UK
2022 Fresh Salde Art at RuptureXIBT and Kunstamatrix. Hampton Wick, UK and online.
2022 Worlding Project. London, UK.
2022 At the edge of the safe house at space house 1&2. London, UK.
2021 Power to change programme at TATE. London, UK.
2020 My house is an island with Arthousehaus. London, UK.
2020 Stand Up! at artcore gallery. Derby, UK.
2019 Solo exhibiton at 5th base gallery as part of the annual east Nocturnal Creature art festival. London, UK.
2021-2023 Slade MA Sarabande Award.
2019-2021 Ye Lin Scholarship for MA fashion at Central Saint Martins.
2019 JNBY award for BA fashion final year in Central Saint Martins.
2024 OCCLUDE featured in Worlds Unfolding by Underground Art and Design (UAAD), link to download.
2024 “Boundless Art” interviewed by Nasty Magazine.
2023 Interviewed by Al-Tiba9.
2021 “the future of fashion education” panlist with BoF live.
2022 “Blurred with virtual reality” with BLANK_03 identity.
2021-2023 Slade School of Fine Art, MA fine art media.
2019-2021 Central Saint Martins, MA Womenswear.
2016-2019 Central Saint Martins, BA Fashion Design with Marketing (current BA fashion design: communication).
DUMP is an artist-led archive and collective preserving artworks at risk of being lost due to storage constraints and the rising cost of living in London. We step in where space runs out—not for lack of intent, but because not all artists can afford to keep their work. Through exhibitions, gatherings, and a growing 3D archive, DUMP explores alternative modes of preservation while questioning how value is assigned in contemporary art, complicating narratives around artistic labor, and documenting the realities of sustaining a practice in an increasingly inaccessible system.
2025 Planned Obsolence at Seager Gallery, co-curated with Juliusz Grabianski. Featuring Romane Courdacher, Tarzan Kingofthejungle, Luke van Gelderen, Joe Moss, Lina Deng, Yu Li, and Juliusz Grabianski.
2025 The Archive of Forgottern Forms at Seager Gallery. This show is funded by Arts Council England. Featuring AC Larsen, Amy J Wilson, Christina Cushing, Clark Keatley, Isabelle Pead, Maggie Menghan Chen, Wenxuan Chen, and DUMP Doom Simulator.
2024 DUMP02 at Filet Gallery. London, UK.