Chaney Manshu Diao
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©2024 Chaney Manshu DIao
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Chaney Diao is an artist whose practice is situated at the intersection of fetishism, labour and the thriving of emergent aesthetics. Diao’s work sits at the edge of subversion, where submission and agency, pleasure and pain, become fluid. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from BDSM, rave and club subcultures and DJ mixing, the artist explores how desire is situated within each of these contexts. Elements like extremity and burnout are constantly referenced as conceptual conditions to reflect broader ideas of maintenance and production in tune with the accelerating tempo of our times.
In 2025, Chaney was selected as an awardee of the third edition of LOEWE FOUNDATION/Studio Voltaire award. Selected exhibitions and performances include Knotted Timelines, Seager Gallery, London (2025), 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).
2025 Cheapside at Hypha Studio, London, UK.
2025 Slow%20mo_2_2 as part of Minor Attraction, London, UK.
2025 (Duo) Knotted Timelines, Seager Gallery, London, UK.
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 AMP Gallery. London, UK.
2023 Swords and kisses at Straffordshirest Gallery. London, UK.
2023 Squeezed at Barbican Arts Group Trus. London, UK.
2022 Worlding Project. London, UK.
2021 Power to change programme at TATE. London, UK.
2019 Solo exhibiton at 5th base gallery as part of the annual east Nocturnal Creature art festival. London, UK.
LOEWE Foundation / Studio Voltaire Award, Edition Three (2025–2027)
Arts Council England Project Grant, DUMP 3D Preservation Space (2024–2025)
Slade MA Sarabande Award, SLADE, UCL (2021–2023)
Ye Lin Scholarship, MA Fashion, Central Saint Martins (2019–2021)
JNBY Award, BA Final Year, Central Saint Martins (2019)
2025 OCCLUDE featured in Worlds Unfolding by Underground Art and Design (UAAD), link to download.
2025 Young Artist in Conversation, interviewed by Zhuyang Liu.
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.