1970年出生于吉林四平，现生活和工作于杭州。
在赵洋的图像世界里，跨时空的图形与荒诞的形象虚构在同一画面里，然而他们却表达出极不一致的思想，强化矛盾以达到加倍的视觉感染力。相互对立、具有暗示意味的戏剧元素统一在矛盾的平面时空之中，以超现实的手法，个人叙事的方式来回滑动在“故事”与“当下”的社会生活之间，呈现出强烈的戏剧感染力。赵洋的绘画徘徊在现实生活的平常事物与东西方神话传说故事、寓言之间，构成隐语与象征的载体，集中体现出“混沌”与“杂交”之后的图像。其造型抽空了特定的时空背景，有的甚至是夸张而无厘头的，像纪念碑一样矗立于画面当中，充满虚无主义色彩与浪漫主义气息。绘画中的差异性和同一性，都被画家控制在一个矛盾、焦虑的区域。
赵洋画面的图像常常是日常稀松不起眼的小事物，画家并非倾心研究于此，而是赋予物象自己不同的理解与阐释。作为一位绘画工作者，赵洋更像导演，试图用个体的绘画语言，将记忆与叙事有机的串联起来。画面的各类图像就似各类型的演员，各尽其职的摆出种种造型，演一出赵氏风格的内心戏。种种经历、情感、历史、故事以及内心的情愫用质朴的画语娓娓道来。
Born in Siping, Jilin in 1970, currently lives and works in Hangzhou.
In the graphic world of Zhao Yang, it is common to find virtual figures and absurd images in the same painting, while each of them respectively represents different ideas, which strengthen the visual appealing by highlighting contradictions. Implicit and dramatic elements always get united in the flat space-time created by him. His paintings wander among reality, Eastern and Western fairy tales, as well as fables, transform them into metaphors and symbols, and finally present the hybrid images to the audience. Figures in Zhao Yang’s paintings are always strange, even hilarious. They stand like monuments on the paintings, transmitting nihilism and romanticism. The diversity and identity of painting are controlled within a region of conflict and anxiety by the artist.
Zhao Yang always paints daily trifles which he endows them with different understanding and interpretations. Expressing memories and narratives using his own visual language, he is more like a director rather than a painter. Figures in the paintings are actors, posing for the director to fulfill his requirement. All these experiences, emotions, histories, stories and feelings are expressed out smoothly with Zhao’s plain painting language.
