Upcoming:
BELIEF SYSTEMS, ICA London
2 September
Natural Nudity, Wien
2 - 12 September
Past Duo/Solo;
2026
Front of House/Back of House
Duo, at Piccalilli Gallery, London
2025
Headspace,
Duo, at Seager Gallery, London
2023
Threshold,
Solo Presentation (Degree Show),
Slade School of Fine Arts, London
2019, 2021
Fashion Collections: Pleasure 41; Am, Is, Are
Central Saint Martins & London Fashion Week
Series;
CLAMP (2024 - 2025)
Latex Sculptures (2023-2024)
Time-based/Performance;
Pornotopia (2026 - present)
Sub/Org Re/Mix, 2.0 (2023)
(feat. energy flash) (2023)
Chaney Diao
My practice examines how identity is produced, performed and made legible through space, appearance and social relations. Working across moving image, installation, sculpture, sound, performance and digital media, I explore questions of being, belonging and individual agency as shaped by systems of regulation, projection and perception that often sit beyond one’s control. Informed by lived discomfort, my work moves between public space, subcultural environments, domestic interiors and speculative worlds, often unfolding through aesthetics of pressure, extremity and pain. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from BDSM, rave and club subcultures, as well as DJ mixing, I explore how established structures of power can be disrupted and reconfigured through pleasure, consent and intensity.
In 2025, Chaney was selected as an awardee of the third edition of LOEWE FOUNDATION/Studio Voltaire award. Selected exhibitions and performances include Back of House/Front of House, Piccalilli Gallery, London (2026), FAN の BLOG 迷妹の部屋, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London (2024), How to Destroy Angels (curated by Tai Shani & Anne Duffau), Horse Hospital, London (2024), Acal Festival 3 (curated by Studio/Chapple and SON OF CRAFT), Staffordshire St Gallery, London (2023), if splash has your whistle, IKLECTIK, London, (2023) and Kaugummi im Motherboard, gr_und Gallery, Berlin, (2024).
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