About

Ruotai Tang (b. 2002, Zhengzhou, China) is an artist based in New York. He received his BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2025 and was selected for the ChaNorth Artist Residency in 2026.

Tang creates sculptural installations that explore spatial relationships, systems of reference, and modes of judgment embedded in everyday life. Working with natural materials, found objects, and construction materials, Tang places familiar standards and reference structures into unstable or unfamiliar contexts, questioning how they produce meaning, order, and authority.

Verticality, horizontality, measurement, and temporary boundaries often appear in his work as both physical tools and conceptual structures. A plumb line, a measured distance, or a marked boundary may seem to offer clarity, but their reliability depends on the conditions in which they are used. When these systems are displaced, transferred, or applied to materials and environments that do not fully conform to them, their limits begin to appear.

Through acts of placing, measuring, transferring, and fixing, Tang examines how structures of order are constructed, maintained, and destabilized.

EDUCATION

2025 BFA in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Sunrise/Moonset, A Space Gallery × flohaus gallery,  New York, NY

2024 Phantom Dimensions, Black Brick Project Gallery & NotYetArt, New York, NY

2024 SVA Open Studios, SVA BFA Fine Arts, New York, NY

2024 Emerging, D. Velez Art Gallery, New York, NY

2024 From Nature to Culture, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

2023 Pin Up, Iidrr Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

2025 Artist Talk, A Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

PRESS

2025 “艺术家唐若泰 Ruotai Tang：时间、物质与人类痕迹的艺术叙事,” ELLE China

RESIDENCIES

2026 ChaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2025 Breath in Collapse, Co-curator, A Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY