Born in 1986 in Lianoning, China, He Xiangyu graduated from the Oil Painting Department at Shenyang Normal University in 2008. He lives and works in Beijing and Berlin. He uses a diverse range of media from painting, sculpture, installation, video to publication. Seemingly simple in their form and aesthetics, his projects are often collaborative and sometimes take several years to realize, such as his Coca- Cola Project (2009-12), Tank Project (2011-13), or The Lemon Project (2016-ongoing).

He Xiangyu, has developed projects that take as their subject the goods and products that symbolize the mass production and consumption of the world while evoking the state of contemporary Chinese society. He is part of a new generation of Chinese conceptual artists whose work tests the limits of taste and perception, while critiquing socio-political issues such as rapid urbanisation and the impacts of global capitalism.