Huang wins special jury award at Forbes China youth forum

The 2025 Forbes China Youth Art & Innovation Forum opened August 22 at the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen, bringing together young artists, international experts, and leading educators under the theme “Coexistence of Art and Intelligence: Dialogue Between Youth Creativity and AI.”

Among the highlights was the participation of teenage artist Huang Tsingz from QSI International School of Shenzhen, who gained wide attention last year when her story of winning the 2024 Forbes China Youth Artists 100 Competition was selected as reading material in Shenzhen’s high school entrance English exam. This year, she returned to the forum as both a keynote speaker and roundtable host.

Huang Tsingz poses with her newest large-scale installation, The Abyss of Fibonacci. Courtesy of the interviewee 

Her newest large-scale installation, The Abyss of Fibonacci, won the forum’s Special Jury Award — the only one of its kind. Measuring 5 by 2.2 meters, the work integrates mathematical logic with artistic expression.

In her speech, titled “In the Abyss of Order, Glimpsing the Light of All Things,” Huang explained her creative journey from spiritual exploration to the fusion of mathematics and art in her latest work. Inspired by the Fibonacci sequence, she described the piece as a tribute to the universal logic of growth, connection, and beauty. “Mathematics is not just formulas and numbers,” she said. “It is the most precise poetry of the universe. Art gives it breath, while logic gives art its bones.”

The work embodies the recursive principles of the Fibonacci sequence, using its growth patterns to structure lines, colors, and space. Visitors encounter butterflies, galaxies, rivers, and symbols interwoven under a unifying law of proportion, evoking what Huang calls “the silent order that connects all things.”

The Forbes China Youth Art & Innovation Forum, now in its third year, has become a landmark platform for showcasing China’s advances in art education and the rise of a new generation of artists. Alongside the forum, the 2025 Forbes China Top 100 Youth Artists Competition also announced its winners, presenting a stage for emerging talents to share their works and stories.

Reflecting on her creative philosophy, Huang said she hopes to continue exploring cross-disciplinary frontiers: “The world’s most pressing challenges cannot be solved by a single discipline. Art and science must converse. In the abyss of logic, I want to seek the poetry that binds all beings together.”