Thomas Canto is presented by Matthew Liu Fine Arts at West Bund Art & Design 2026, booth 1A03. The selection brings together wall works in which nylon threads, acrylic glass and photographic surfaces build layered spatial structures.
Matthew Liu Fine Arts presents a selection of works by Thomas Canto at ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2026, booth C07 in the central hall. The works on view combine photographic prints on aluminium composite with stretched nylon threads, in constructions that shift as the viewer moves.
At West Bund Art Fair 2020 in Shanghai, Matthew Liu Fine Arts presented works from Thomas Canto’s Structural Reflections series alongside Candida Höfer, Henri Michaux, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo and Shen Chen, among others. The series, in cut mirror steel, had appeared in his 2019 solo show Chiasma.
At ART021 2020, Matthew Liu Fine Arts showed Iridescent Attraction and other works by Thomas Canto, alongside Candida Höfer, Henri Michaux, Yang Yongliang, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo and Qi Lei, among others. The same year, the gallery also showed his work at West Bund Art Fair.
In 2020, Sandra Gering Inc. of New York included Thomas Canto in its online presentation for the Art Dealers Association of America, alongside Peter Halley, Leo Villareal, William Anastasi, Jennifer Wen Ma, Li Hui and Michael Scott.
At ART021 2025, Matthew Liu Fine Arts and Ben Brown Fine Arts shared a stand built around what they called the violence of slowness. Thomas Canto was among fifteen artists whose painstaking, repetitive processes resist the speed of contemporary life and of instant AI production, choosing labour over automation and duration over immediacy. The fair ran the same week as West Bund Art & Design, where the gallery also showed his work.
At ART021 2016 in Shanghai, Matthew Liu Fine Arts included Thomas Canto in a presentation titled Contemporary Landscapes Masters, with Liu Xinjian, Yin Zhaoyang and Zheng Zaidong. For the fair he installed Still Life of Spacetime, a spatial composition of painted lines and suspended threads.
Black, white and blue geometries run across the walls, the floor and the air, disrupting the volume of the space. The work holds a tension between stillness and expansion, giving form to the invisible architecture of spacetime. It was the first of his many ART021 presentations with the gallery.
For West Bund Art & Design 2025 in Shanghai, Matthew Liu Fine Arts built its stand around absence as a form of presence. Thomas Canto was one of fifteen artists from different cultures whose works deal with vanished figures, hidden traces of time and dissolving forms. The same week, the gallery also showed him at ART021.
At ART021 2024 in Shanghai, Matthew Liu Fine Arts presented a new body of wall sculptures by Thomas Canto. The works continue his exploration of the different temporalities held within architecture, with light, texture and spatial perception as their material. It was his seventh ART021 with the gallery since 2016.
Matthew Liu Fine Arts presented Thomas Canto’s work at West Bund Art & Design 2023, at the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai, the year of his third exhibition at the gallery, Architectural Harmonies.