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Liu Xiaodong    (Chinese, 1963)

  Liu Xiaodong - Showered in Sunlight (Paintings) h: 180 x w: 195 cm / h: 70.9 x w: 76.8 in
Liu Xiaodong
Showered in Sunlight 1990
 
  Liu Xiaodong - The Big Brother in Absence (Paintings) h: 90 x w: 100 cm / h: 35.4 x w: 39.4 in
Liu Xiaodong
The Big Brother in Absence 2007
 
 

Biography
1963 Born in Liaoning Province, China
1988 Earned Bachelor of Fine Arts in Oil Painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1995 Earned Master of Fine Arts Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1998 - 1999 Master’s at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Currently teaches in the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Exhibitions
2007 ART LAN @ ASIA, Yokohama, Japan
2007 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2007 Made in China, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2006 “Zones of Contact -- 2006 Biennial of Sydney,” Sydney, Australia
2006 “The Three Gorges Project-Paintings by Liu Xiaodong,” Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A (solo)
2006 “Hot Bed: A Painting Project by Liu Xiaodong,” Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
2005 “Childhood friend getting fat,” Loft Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2005 “Story of a River: New Era Retrospective on Chinese Oil Painting,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2005 "2nd Beijing Art Biennial," National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2005 “Wang Guangle, Yin Zhaoyang, Men Xinxi, Xia Xiaowan, Liu Xiaodong Collective Show,” Art 110 Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 “The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art,” Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2005 “The 2nd Chinese Art Triennial,” Nanjing, China
2005 Regeneration—Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S., Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
2005 Mahjong, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2005 Contemporary Art from Greater China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA; London, United Kingdom
2004 "Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US," Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, USA
2004 “Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation - Contemporary Art Exhibition from China,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
2004 “Feel Memory,” Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2004 “Three Gorges: Displaced Population & Three Gorges: Newly Displaced Population,” Chinablue Gallery & CAAW, Beijing, China (solo)
2004 “Bunker Art Show,” Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Jinmen, Taiwan (solo)
2003 "Liu Xiaodong," Eslite Gallery, Taiwan (solo)
2003 "Premieres Lueurs sur L' Orient: L' aventure de la peinture chinoise au 20ème Siecle," Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France
2003 "Alors, La Chine?" Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2003 "The 1st Beijing Art Biennial," Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2003 "The 3rd Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting," National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2003 "An Opening Era," National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2003 "The Nude: Ideal and Reality, From Neoclassicism to Today," Bologna Modern Art Museum, Italy
2002 "Liu Xiaodong in Donghai," Art Centre of Donghai University, Taiwan (solo)
2002 "A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art - Guangzhou Triennial," Art Museum of Guangdong, Guangzhou, China
2002 "Chinese Contemporary Art," Art Museum of Brazil, San Paulo, Brazil
2002 "Beijing -- Paris," Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2002 "East+West: Chinese Contemporary Art," Austria
2002 On the Edge of the Millennium: New Art from China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York and London
2001 China Art Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2001 Towards a New Image 1981-2001: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, China
2001 Academic and Un-academic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2001 LOFT Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2000 Liu Xiaodong and His Time, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2000 Liu Xiaodong 1990-2000, Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (solo)
2000 Shanghai Biennial Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
2000 The New Face of China, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000 Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century, National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1999 "Gate of the Century: 1979-1999," Modern Art Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
1999 "1999 China Art," LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1999 "Dong Yu Museum's Collection," Dong Yu Museum, Shenyang, China
1999 "Upriver Museum's Collection," He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
1998 "East Meet East in the West," LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998 "Upriver Museum's Collection," Upriver Museum, Chengdu, China
1997 "47th Venice Art Biennial," Venice, Italy
1997 "8+8 -1," Vierte Etage Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Connaught Brown, London, England; Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA; Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1997 "Chinese Portraiture over the Last 100 Years," National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1996 "Exhibition of the Association of Chinese Oil Painters", Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1995 "Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting from Realism to Post Modernism", Brussels, Belgium
1994 "Between East and West: -- Transformation of Chinese Art in the Late 20th Century", The Discovery Museum, Connecticut, USA
1993 "Red Star Over China: Tenuous Peace", Keen Gallery, New York, USA
1992 "Post 1989 China Avant-garde Art Exhibition", Hong Kong and Australia
1991 "20th Century China", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1990 "Liu Xiaodong", Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1989 "Chinese Avant-garde Art Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Selected Collections:

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Art Museum of Central Institute of Fine Arts, China Dong Yu Art Museum, China
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
China Art Gallery, China
Upriver Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Fukuoka Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan


Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
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