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Long Pan (b.1991) received an MA from the Inter‑Media Art Department, China Academy of Art, in 2019. Working as a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, she combines field research with laboratory practice, conducting long‑term sampling and observation in mining areas, the Gobi, and industrial sites. She treats fungi, plants, and minerals as co‑creators, tracing the movement and transformation of ores, electronic minerals, bio‑minerals, and even aerospace debris across scales from the microscopic to the surface and to satellites/space.
Her practice spans material experiments, installation, and video, using methods such as fungal cultivation, phytometallurgy, material purification, and reuse. She emphasizes a processual aesthetics—the traces of growth, decay, smelting and weathering form the perceptual core of her work. Key projects include the ceramic series “Phytometallurgy,” and video installations “Wind Bell,” “Wonderland Intersection,” and “Atmospheric Folds.” Works range from extracting copper from wild plants in e‑waste towns, to understory studies on the relationship on multiple species under the forest in Diqing mining areas, to searching for rocket debris in the Gobi, forming a coherent narrative from microscopic life imaginaries to satellite/space perspectives.
Advocating a non‑human‑centered viewpoint, Pan uses non‑human and technological detritus to rewrite human–technology–environment power relations and temporal imaginaries, juxtaposing possibilities of ecological repair with vulnerabilities under techno‑capital expansion.
Her group exhibitions include “Staying Online: Art and China after 2008” (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2026) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial (Guangdong Museum of Art, 2025). She received the Prince Claus Foundation & Goethe‑Institut “Mentor for Responding to Environmental Change” award (2022), support from Christie’s–Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation’s Women Young Artists Grant and the Swiss Arts Council, and was selected for the 2026 Jan van Eyck residency. Her work is documented in the Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong) and appears in Art and Ecological Impact: A Guide to Environmental Practices by Contemporary Artists (ed. Mary Mattingly, Yale University Press, 2027).
Her practice spans material experiments, installation, and video, using methods such as fungal cultivation, phytometallurgy, material purification, and reuse. She emphasizes a processual aesthetics—the traces of growth, decay, smelting and weathering form the perceptual core of her work. Key projects include the ceramic series “Phytometallurgy,” and video installations “Wind Bell,” “Wonderland Intersection,” and “Atmospheric Folds.” Works range from extracting copper from wild plants in e‑waste towns, to understory studies on the relationship on multiple species under the forest in Diqing mining areas, to searching for rocket debris in the Gobi, forming a coherent narrative from microscopic life imaginaries to satellite/space perspectives.
Advocating a non‑human‑centered viewpoint, Pan uses non‑human and technological detritus to rewrite human–technology–environment power relations and temporal imaginaries, juxtaposing possibilities of ecological repair with vulnerabilities under techno‑capital expansion.
Her group exhibitions include “Staying Online: Art and China after 2008” (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2026) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial (Guangdong Museum of Art, 2025). She received the Prince Claus Foundation & Goethe‑Institut “Mentor for Responding to Environmental Change” award (2022), support from Christie’s–Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation’s Women Young Artists Grant and the Swiss Arts Council, and was selected for the 2026 Jan van Eyck residency. Her work is documented in the Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong) and appears in Art and Ecological Impact: A Guide to Environmental Practices by Contemporary Artists (ed. Mary Mattingly, Yale University Press, 2027).
Artist at work
- 2024
- Shortlisted for the E.A.T Prize. Time Museum, CN
- 2022
- Respond to the Environmental Change
- Prince Claus Foundation & Goethe-Institut, NL, DEU
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- Women Artists Grant
- CHRISTIE & Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, CN
- SÜDKULTURFONDS Artist Support Program, CH
- 2021
- "Research Award" of the Youth Support Program
- The Raiden Institute, CN
pubilication
2027
Art and Ecological Impact: A Guide to Environmental Practice for Contemporary Artists.
Yale University Press, edited by Mary Mattingly.
2025
Ecosystems of Tomorrow, CAREC, NL
10/2023
Beyond Art and Insights From the Ecology of Tomorrow.
The Art Newspaper China, CN
10/2022
Matsutake Rain - Narrating the Entanglement and Connection between People and Forests in the Matsutake Trade Route from the Perspective of a Spore.
M Art Foundation, CN
news
2026
Artist Talk | The Intelligence of the Other: How Can We Reflect on Human Self-Understanding Through Non-Human Intelligence (Animals, Plants, Fungi, AI)
2025
On a Swiss glacier, rescuing the smallest lifeforms about to be submerged by meltwater.
Long Pan: Ecological Art and Cross-Media Exploration
"Ocean-Place" Research Creation Six Clues
Ocean Culture: Connecting Locally to the World
s.b.m & mooood park Artist Collection | Zhong Xiao: "Urban Garden"—Plant Philosophy in Urban Soil
What Kind of Young Artists Do We Need Today? What Kind of Experimental Space Do They Require?
Long Pan | Seeing the State of Existence Among All Things
Gathering "Coexistence Island," the 2nd "Sustainable Seeds" Education Plan Public Recruitment for National College Creators
Intercellular Connections" Exhibition Scene | ShanghART West Bund Central
Artist Talk | Long Pan: Making Finite Existence a Slice of the Eternal World
2024
"How Forests Think: A Symposium Beyond Human Stories" Seminar
Artist Talk | Young Artists Fang Yuan, Li Heidi, Long Pan
New Art | Long Pan: Viewing the World from the Perspective of Mushrooms
ZAAR NEW ART 2024 Annual Art Special Edition!
ArtJN Focus | Long Pan: Exploring the World's Secrets from a Mushroom's Perspective
Artist Talk | Responding to Climate Issues with Art | What Do We Discuss When the Temperature Rises by 3 Degrees
E.A.T.PRIZE | Finalist Artist Long Pan
Unseen Things: Exploring the Interconnected Network of Life
2023
TARGET Dialogue with Artists | Art, Reshaping the Relationship Between People and Nature
Whispers from Deep Time, Multispecies (Quality) Flow at the Edges
Back to Nature | Long Pan: Plant Metallurgy
Finalist Artist List Released | UCCA Young Associates Annual Selection Award
TARGET Dialogue with Artists | Art, Reshaping the Relationship Between People and Nature
Art Beyond the Work and the Lessons of “Ecologies of Tomorrow”: Long Pan’s South American Field Notes, Art Newspaper in China
2022
Artist Talk | Wei Ying x Long Pan x Xu Weijing: Bio Art, Wonder and Contemplation | Super Nature Talk 01
Artist Talk | Roundtable Discussion | Multidimensional Practices in Biology and Art
Duo Lun Voice | VOL.83 Long Pan: Wind Bell
Roundtable Discussion | Multidimensional Practices in Biology and Art
Using Mushrooms as a Method: Ecological Art Creation by a New Generation of Chinese Artists
2021
For Artist Long Pan, the Mushroom Is the Message
Duo Lun VOICE | VOL.53 Long Pan: Threads/New Buds
Building a Whole World with Mushrooms, Mushroom Survival Is Human Survival
2019
Artist Talk | Mushroom-Growing Girl Long Pan
Long Pan: In the Midst of the Times, Using Fungi as a Weapon to Gather Strength
2026
Stay connected: Art and China Since 2008, Tai Kwun, HK
Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, CN
2025
Weathering the Space, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
Matter: Bound Energy, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, CN
Moscow First Environmental Biennial, Nizhny Novgorod, RU
Pulse Gravity (506 Gallery, Porto Alegre, BR
2024
Stream Chapter 7:Object/Hyperobject/Human, 4th Corner Foundation Gallery,NY, USA
In/Visible Signals, Racial Myco, Oregon, USA
Pulso à Gravidade, Galeria 506, Porto Alegre, BR
Unidentified Object, Song Art, Beijing, CN
Dianchi art season, Kunming, CN
2023
Shanghai urban space art season, Shanghai, CN
Shenzhen Low Carbon Art Festival, Shenzhen, CN
an·ni·hi·la·tion, SNAP Art Center, Shanghai, CN
Beijing Art Biennale-Earth heat flow: the visitor who returns to solar time, Beijing, CN
2022
Flux in Dust, CAC, Shanghai, CN (solo project)
Who Owns Nature - Multispecies Clouds, Mecalline Art Center, Beijing, CN
The Language of Mushrooms -The interspecies Internet, CGK Art Museum, Kunming, CN
The 8th Doland Youth Art Exhibition, Doland Museum, Shanghai, CN
2021
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu TIANFU Art Park, Sichuan, CN
Do Not Black Out, MACM Art, Shanghai, CN
2020
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial - The Summer Breeze, China House, Niigata, JP
Youth Intersection, OCT ART, Shenzhen, CN
2019
New Species-Heredity &Variation, Chengdu, CN
Invalid exchange, FOSUN Art Center, Shanghai, CN
Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival, Hangzhou, CN
Screenings, workshops,
and other events
2025
Mycelium Building Workshop, PSA(Power Station of Art), Shanghai, CN, 2025
Plant Metallurgy Workshop, PSA(Power Station of Art), Shanghai, CN, 2025
2024
Conference: Planetary Thinkers, Swissnex, Shanghai, CN
Art & Science Dinner-Mushroom Banquet Lecture, Universität Zürich, CH, DEU
2023
Odor ripple workshop.Supported by the Prince Claus Fund, OT301, NL, DEU
Bio complexity: Life in Art, Ecological Theses, A conversation initiated by Collective Intelligence Club x CVSZ
2022
Mushroom talk: messages from the matsutake - the voice of spores amidst climate change.
Ye Ying initiated a conversation with mycologist Yongchang Zhao and a reporter at the Environment &Science desk, Yanhao Huang. Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, CN
Multidimensional practice of biology and art: A conversation initiated by CAFA IGEM
LECTURE: Gestures of the Brave - Technology, Ecology, and Artistic Practice, Hyundai Motor Culture Center
2021
LECTURE: The Art of Mycelium, Duke Kunshan University