1987年生于江苏，目前工作生活于北京和广州。
作为一名艺术家，薛若哲的创作媒介包含绘画、摄影、影像和版画等。肖像是其绘画的核心主题，画面中的人物似乎是悬浮在画面之中，通过纯净的背景显得更为凸出。这些人物大多背对着观众，隐藏了大部分面部特征，只通过肢体语言和衣着来展现内心世界。
薛若哲的摄影作品并不源自于他的绘画，相反会为他带来新的绘画灵感。照片中的人物持着相似的姿势，画面随着艺术家视线的远近变化而变化，时而细节被放大，时而又将整体显现，让观众宛如代入了其视野之中。他的录像和版画作品也通过不同的视角展现了绘画作品中的细节，引领观众去发现更深层次的领域和精神内核。
Born in Jiangsu Province, currently lives and works in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Xue Ruozhe is a painter whose practice has also grown to include photography, video and print making. He is primarily a portrait painter. In his works, figures seem to float onto an almost entirely empty background that puts a sharp focus on their attitude. Often shown from the back, they hide most of their facial features, so that it is instead their body language and their clothes that reveal their psychology to the viewer.
Xue Ruozhe’s photographs seem not to derive from his paintings, but rather to inspire his paintings, as they often show figures holding similar poses but seen from a more distant point of view and in a more detailed decor, just before they come under the painter’s gaze. Finally, his videos and prints highlight details of the paintings with a different lens, making the viewer more aware of the significance of particular areas and attitudes.
