Liu Xiaodong

Biography

Born in Liaoning Province, China, 1963.


EDUCATION
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, B.A., 1988; M.F.A., 1995.
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 1998-1999.
Teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.


Lives in Beijing, China.


SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

1990
Liu Xiaodong, Gallery of Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

2000
Liu Xiaodong and His Times, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Liu Xiaodong 1990-2000, Museum of Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

2001
Liu Xiaodong, Loft Gallery, Paris, France.

2002
Liu Xiaodong, Art Center of Donghai University, Taiwan.

2003
Liu Xiaodong, Eslite Gallery, Taiwan.

2004
Eighteen Soldiers Between Mainland and Taiwan, Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Jinmen, Taiwan, China.
Three Gorges: Displaced Population & Three Gorges; Newly Displaced Population, Chinablue Gallery & CAAW, Beijing, China.

2005
Childhood Friend Getting Fat, Loft Gallery, Paris, France.

2006
Liu Xiaodong: New Work – Domino, Xin Gallery, Beijing, China.
Hot Bed – A Painting Project by Liu Xiaodong, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
Liu Xiaodong: Painting from Life, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.
The Three Gorges Project – Painting by Liu Xiaodong, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California.

2007
The Richness of Life: The Personal Photographs of Contemporary Chinese Artist Liu Xiaodong 1984-2006, TimeZone8, Beijing, China.
Liu Xiaodong, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2008
Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Beijing Girls, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (curated by Karen Smith)

2009
Traces: Liu Xiaodong, Angle Gallery, Beijing, China.

2010
Liu Xiaodong – Yan’ Guan Town, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.

2011
Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.

2012
Liu Xiaodong: The Process of Painting, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
These Days, Very Happy, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy.

2013
Liu Xiaodong: Hotan Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China.
In Between Israel and Palestine, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Half Street, Lisson Gallery, London, England.

2014
Childhood Friends Getting Fat: Moving Image of Liu Xiaodong 1984-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

2015
Liu Xiaodong: Painting as Shooting, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.

2016
Liu Xiaodong: Migrations, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy. 
Liu Xiaodong in South Africa, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan. 

Liu Xiaodong - Painting as Shooting, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

1989
Chinese/Avant Garde, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China.

1991
20th Century China, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China.

1992
Art Today in China, California Art Institute, Valencia, California.

1993
New Art from China: Post 1989, Marlborough Gallery, London, England.

1994
Liu Xiaodong and Yu Hong, OIPCA East Village, NYC, NY.
Between East and West: Transformation of Chinese Art in the Late 20th Century, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

1995
Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting from Realism to Post Modernism, Galerie Theoremes, Brussels, Belgium.

1997
La 47 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

1998
Representing the People, Laing Museum, Newcastle, England.
East Meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1999
Gate of Century: 1979-99, Modern Art Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.

2000
The New Face of China, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Chinese Art in the 20th Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
Shanghai Spirit, Shanghai International Biennale, Shanghai, China.

2001
China Art Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.

2002
A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art – First Guanzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.
On the Edge of the Millennium: New Art from China, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, England.

2003
Premier Luers sur l’Orient – l’Aventure de la Peinture Chinoise au 20 Siecle, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France.
First Beijing Biennial Art Exhibition, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
Alors, La Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

2004
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.

2005
Mahjong: Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
The Wall – Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China.

2006
The Blossoming of Realism – Oil Painting in Mainland China Since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China.
15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

2007
Korea-China Contemporary Art Exhibition – Giants in Illusion, Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea.
Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, England.
Made in China, Louisiana Museum for Moderna Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark.
Made in China, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, England.

2008
Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China.
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Waiting on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands.
China 21 Century, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.

2009
The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Collision, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.

2010
Reshaping History – Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China.
Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009, The Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

2012
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore.

2013
From Beijing: Works by the Faculty of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY.
Host & Guest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2014
Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea.

2016
Bentu: Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.

Datumsoria: An Exhibition of Liu Xiaodong, Carsten Nicolai, and Nam June Paik, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China.

2017

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pollack, Barbara, Art’s New Superpower, VANITY FAIR, December 2007, pp. 318-330.

Holmes, Pernilla, Blast From the Past, ART NEWS, January 2008, pp. 96-101.

Barboza, David, Schooling the Artists’ Republic of China. THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30 March 2008, p. AR31.

Rigdol, Tenzing, Over the Tanggula Pass: Liu Xiaodong’s Paintings of Tibet, ART ASIA PACIFIC, May 2008, pp. 80-81.

Ballou, Brian R., ’They will be reminded’, THE BOSTON GLOBE, 1 June 2008.

Ruble, Casey, Liu Xiaodong, Mary Boone Gallery, ART IN AMERICA, October 2008, pp. 187-188.

Kerr, Merrily, Liu Xiaodong, ‘Yan’ Guan Town’, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 7 October 2010, p. 42.

Staff, Liu Xiaodong, THE NEW YORKER, 11 October 2010, p. 22.

Ayers, Robert, Liu Xiaodong/Mary Boone, ART NEWS, November 2010, p. 122.

Cotter, Holland, Asian Art in Juxtaposition, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 November 2010, p. C24.

Seno, Alexandra A., A Chinese ‘Hometown Boy’ Makes Good, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 21 January 2011, p. D10.

Pollack, Barbara, Keeping It Real, ART NEWS, March 2011, pp. 96-103.

Staff, Portfolio: Yan’ Guan Town, Paintings by Liu Xiaodong, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, November 2011, pp. 49-51.

Pascucci, Marisa J., Profiles: Liu Xiaodong, THE ART ECONOMIST, November 2011, p. 35.

Li, Yiyi, Interview: Liu Xiaodong, CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART NEWS, January 2012, pp. 52-53.

Wang, Eugene, Aftershock, ARTFORUM, February 2012, pp. 204-211.

Merewether, Charles, More than Meets the Eye, PARKETT, Number 91, November 2012, Cover, pp. 62-73.

Tinari, Philip, and Liu Xiaodong, Truth in Painting Does Not Equal Truth in Reality., PARKETT, Number 91, November 2012, pp. 74-91.

Hou, Hanru, The Strategy of Proximity, PARKETT, Number 91, November 2012, pp. 92-101.

Whittaker, Iona, Liu Xiaodong: Hotan Project, ART REVIEW, April 2013, pp. 156-157.

Martin, Barnaby, Liu Xiaodong: life as he knows it, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, 4 August 2013.

Staff, Liu Xiaodong, ‘In Between Israel and Palestine’, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 5 September 2013, p. 46.

Staff, Liu Xiaodong, THE NEW YORKER, 30 September 2013, p. 7.

Laster, Paul, Liu Xiaodong, ‘In Between Israel and Palestine’, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 17 October 2013, p. 36.

Gladston, Paul, Liu Xiaodong: Half Street, ART REVIEW ASIA, November 2013, p. 111.


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