Karl Weiming Lu — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Karl Weiming Lu is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice brings together art, artificial intelligence, science, psychology, philosophy, and technology. He is a Chief Curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale parallel exhibition "Hangzhou to Venice: A Contemporary Art, Silk and AI Road," and he is also a Premium Plus Member of the National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia.

Born in 1962 in Hangzhou, China, Lu relocated to Australia in 1991 to pursue an extensive multidisciplinary education. He undertook postgraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Wollongong and international studies at the University of Sydney before expanding into finance, visual arts, design, architecture, and digital technologies.

Between 2003 and 2007, he completed three master’s degrees in art, design, and architectural computing at UNSW. In 2024, he completed Harvard Business School Executive Education’s Competing in the Age of AI program.

Before establishing his professional art practice, Lu worked across civil engineering, project management, business, and digital technologies. This diverse background became an important foundation for his exploration of the relationships between art, science, technology, AI, and human thought.

Since 2000, Lu’s artworks have been exhibited, published, awarded, and collected internationally. His Memory Series 2002-2003 introduced an expressive approach to acrylic and oil painting, combining real and imagined landscapes with themes of philosophy, psychology, science, and AI that had been discussed among a group of elite students at an inter-university salon in 1980s Hangzhou, China.

One of his works, Memory Series 2003: Talking about Next Generation AI, anticipated what he describes as the essence of today’s “parallel thinking & advancing together computing processes” in AI, including developments such as NVIDIA’s GPU, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and DeepSeek. The Memory Series 2002-2003 was initially exhibited and published by UNSW in 2003 and 2004.

Since 2010, Lu has created his unique Intuitive Abstract Art of Philosophy of Science & Technology - The Origin Series, through which he abstractly paints his intuitions about the origins of life, nature, and the universe with bold and fluent brushstrokes.

Since 2025, Lu has also created his Trans-Century Dialogue on AI Series, which initiated a new mixed-media paradigm combining acrylic and oil with AI on canvas. His artworks created through this new paradigm of working on and with AI have already been exhibited, published, and collected globally. They were also exhibited and published in Venice during the 2026 Venice Biennale.

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