1981 Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, China
2007 Graduate from the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art , Conferred Master’s Degree
2012－ Instructor at Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art
Now living in Shanghai/Hangzhou, China
Li Qing was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1981. He lives and works in Hangzhou and Shanghai.
Li Qing’s paintings, installations and video works seek rational rifts in similarity and contradiction, acting on the perception and acknowledgment of a viewer through circuitous and overlapped structures. His persistent painting practice no longer focuses on working within the four corners of the picture, but instead constantly expands painting’s external space and ways of seeing. The uninterrupted experimentation and sustained momentum across these various series are outgrowths of the themes Li Qing has been following since 2005: information and image in the technological age, the social mechanisms and power dynamics of seeing, the relationship between people, architecture and the city amidst globalization, the patterns and disciplining of aesthetics in the consumer age, constructing conflict structures and new forms of expression. The capture of micro-politics in everyday spaces and images, the analysis of ideology in aesthetic tradition, reflect his historical consciousness among the younger generation of Chinese artists.
Li Qing is currently the chief tutor of the Multi-dimensional Expressionism Studio of China Academy of Art and the associate professor. He has had solo shows at Fondazione Prada’s Rongzhai, Shanghai, China; Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China; Tomás y Valiente Art Centre (CEART), Madrid, Spain; Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea; The Orient Foundation, Macao, China; Goethe Institute, Shanghai, China; Almine Rech; Galerie Eigen+Art; Tang Contemporary Art; among others. A number of prestigious art institutes and galleries have also included his works for group shows, such as Shanghai Biennale; Prague Biennale; Guangzhou Triennial; Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (UABB); Venice Biennale Special Invitation Exhibition; Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC USP), São Paulo, Brasil; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China; Ota Fine Arts, Singapore; etc. His works are collected by many art institutes and foundations, such as Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain; Rubell Museum, Miami, USA; Deutsche Bank, Germany; Forbes Group, USA; Kistefos Museum, Oslo, Norway; Arario Museum, Seoul/Jeju, Korea; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China; Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France; Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China; CC Foundation, Shanghai, China; etc. Li is shortlisted for the Jean-François Prat Prize in 2017. In 2023, he was selected for Influential: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists.
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2023
Pose of Beauty, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China
Landscape with Lighthouses, Sanlorenzo Art Project at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2022
Outline, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
2021
Lighthouse and Cradle, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2020
Display and Replay, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Blow-Up, Almine Rech, London, UK
East of Eden, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
2019
Rear Windows, Fondazione Prada’s Rongzhai, Shanghai, China
Li Qing: Self-Cultivation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2017
Li Qing: Seascapes-Frame at Frieze New York 2017, New York, USA
2016
Li Qing Solo Project, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
2015
A Suite of Eight Rooms，Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea
Cathedral, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014
Blow-Up：Li Qing Independent Project, 9㎡Museum in Goethe Institute Department for Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai, China
2013
In The Vicinity, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
2012
Interweaving, Fundação Oriente (The Orient Foundation), Macao, China
2010
Drift, Centro De Arte Tomás y Valiente (CEART), Madrid, Spain
2009
Ghosting, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Curtain, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2008
Ghosting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2006
Finding Together, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Symphony of All the Changes—The 7th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Bright Side of The Desert Moon: Noor Riyadh Light Art Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Follow the Rabbit: Taking stock of a collection and it's reception of contemporary Chinese art, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria
Art Monthly Cover Project(2021-2022), Sichuan Fine Art Institute Art Museum, Chongqing, China
The Shape of Dailiness, Seewell International Art Center, Fuzhou, China
A Theatre of Waiting, The Cloud Collection, Nanjing, China
Hu Shi Guang Art Eco Site, Longyou, China
Appreciate the Strange and Resolve the Doubt, Shixiang Space, Beijing, China
Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Oriental Wisdom, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Silhouette of Splendors, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Swirl, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Be Water, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
A Leisurely Stroll: The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Beyond, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Interface of Janus, Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
Our Homeland, Ourselves, Shixiang Space, Beijing, China
Upstairs Cities, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023, Hong Kong, China
Former Moon, Youxiang Art Space, Nanjing, China
Hometown Spring, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China / Contemporary
Gallery Kunming, Kunming, China / Changjiang Art Museum, Taiyuan, China
2022
We Paint!, Palais des Etudes, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
1st Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
Un Dialogue Avec La Sensibilite Ecriture, Desir, Amour, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China
A Marvellous Memory, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Disorganized Body, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, Austria
The Jolt of Image: New Paintings by Chinese Millennials, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Polyphonic Writing, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Fragment with Dusty Light, Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Hong Kong, China
Until Moondust Descend on Us, Hefei Museum of Contemporary Art, Hefei, China
2021
Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
Art Basel Hong Kong 2021, Hong Kong, China
Chow Chow, Spinnerei Galleries at Werkschau，Leipzig，Germany
Affect, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Pad Dimension: Visual Art from Graph to Virtual, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
New General Intellect in Art: Drawing Project 5-Beta, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Hangzhou Model, Big Roof Culture (Liangzhu Culture and Art Center), Hangzhou, China
2020
Necessary Emptiness—Temporality: OCAT Nanjing Public Art Project 2020, OCAT Nanjing Qixia Exhibition Site, Nanjing, China
The First Day, Every Day, West Bund Art Fair: French Consulate General in Shanghai Special Exhibition, Shanghai, China
No Popcorn: Cinema-Sourced Imagery, G Museum X NAFI, Nanjing, China
New West Lake, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
Flowing Space, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
As Time Goes By...New Stories from the Garden, The Surging Wave Pavilion, Suzhou, China
No Man is an Island, Almine Rech, London, UK
K11 Architecture Festival-The Resurgence of Wooden Architecture, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Something Happened, Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen, China
63% Rhetoric: Case Study of A Chinese Contemporary Art Collection, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China
Saisen Art Collection Chinese Contemporary Art 1996-2019, Saisen Art, Shanghai, China
Spring, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
2019
Lille3000: Eldorado-Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), Musée des Beaux-arts de Tourcoing (MUba), Lille, France
The 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China
New Art History: 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
From The Margins to The Middle: Urban Symbiosis Project, An Art Museum, Beijing, China
Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Pal(ate)/ette/, SGA, Shanghai, China
Conceptual & Disposition, Art Museum of HIFA, Wuhan, China
West Lake- Breaking Open, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Habitat, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Wall Space: As Defining Boundary of Modern Painting, Phoenix·Seewell
International Art Center, Fuzhou, China
Adrift, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2018
Brilliant City, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China
Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Our Actions Are Our Future – A Zero Hunger World by 2030 is Possible, The Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China
Dream Video 100，Shanghai, China
Encounter Asia，Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
The Post Southern Song Dynasty, KWM Art Center, Beijing, China
Other Voices, Other Spaces, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
On Paper 2, White Space, Beijing, China
Songjiang Painters, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Link of Image, Museum of Shanghai Painting and Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China
2017
Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China
Within Sight: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Jean-Francois Prat Prize，Bredin Prat, Paris，France
Round Table Discussions- Concepts in International Waters and Imagining Foreign Lands, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
The Image of Painting, Zhangjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Interaction: Contemporary Chinese Art in Nuremberg, Konfuzius-Institut Nurnberg-Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany
Partial Archive, Yell Space, Shanghai, China
Rip It Up: 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
All Happens after Sunset, MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China
City of Stars, Art Project CZ, Shanghai, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Hong Kong, China
Please Fasten Your Seat Belt as We Are Experiencing Some Turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Free Realm-Beijing 798 · Guiyang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guiyang, China
2016
Temporary Museum, Museum of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
The Decameron-BMCA Documenting Art, Beijing, China
New Order: Alter Mondialisme, Just Space, Sanya, China
Historicode-Scarcity & Supply: Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
New Capital, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Dissensus Agitation-The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Over The Wall, Paintings Tempted by Installation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
By Destiny, Arario Museum, Jeju, Korea
Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
New Chapter, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Unrealities in The Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT-Harbour, Shenzhen, China
Works of Post 80’s after 2008 from Long Museum Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
The Mud of Compound Experience, Mother’s Tankstation & Leo Xu Projects, Hong Kong, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, Hong Kong, China
Between You and Them, Australia China Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
Painting20X20, Poly Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Fact or Fiction, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Air: Ningbo International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China
2015
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
Pimo Contemporary Art Festival, Shanghai, China
Artissima, Turin, Italy
Inter-Youth, CAA Art Museum, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Painting20X20, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China
Copyleft: Appropriation Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Garden Splendors, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Breaking The Image, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Hong Kong, China
Within Sight: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Fondation Taylor, Paris, France
Blow-Up: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
The 2nd “CAFAM·Future” Exhibition Tracking Program: Future Formula, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China
2014
Re-View: Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
Social Landscape, Chengdu, China
Within Sight: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China
Living Through Painting, CAA Art Museum, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
The Sociology of Oneself, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
Art Basel Hong Kong 2014, Hong Kong, China
Most Painting, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Luoping International Photography Festival, Luoping, China
On the Road, Guan shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2013
The 55th Biennale Di Venezia Special Invitation Exhibition: Passage to History-20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale di Venezia, Italy / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
Criss-Cross: Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Pure Views: Transformations of Chinese Contemporary Art, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Evolution, Avant-Garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China
Mirror and Shadow: Contemporary Art from China, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Green Box: Remapping - The Space of Media Reality, Hangzhou, China
Pure Views: New Paintings From China, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2012
Reactivation－The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Round Table: The 9th Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition: Ctrl+N·Non-linear Practice, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Water Stains on The Wall-The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Boy: A Contemporary Portrait, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Lust and Love of The Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Paesaggi Visioni Ricordi, Veneto Science & Technology & Art Museum, Venice, Italy
Forms of the Formless, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf，Germany
Sub-phenomena：CAFAM·Future, CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Magnanimity: Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2011
Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art from 2000, São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC USP), São Paulo, Brasil
Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China
Urban Utopia- Deutsche Bank Collection, Hong Kong, China
Fly Through The Tropo-Sphere: Memo of The New Generation Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
One Man Theater-Works by Post-80s Artists, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Surplus Goodlookingness, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Voyage: Recent Videos By Young Chinese Artists-Video lounge program of ShContemporary Art Fair 2011, Shanghai, China
The Shape of Time: The Multi-narrative History in Contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Changing Vistas·Creative Duration: The 5th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2010
Asian Landmark-Toyota Art Project, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
TORA TORA TORA: Chinese Cutting-Edge Photography Exhibition, Beijing, China
Here,There-The World in Motion, Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art from 2000, Chile Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
10 Cases studies of Post-70s Art, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre,Hong Kong, China
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
2009
Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech
City_net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
What Has Been Happening Here?-The Inaugural Exhibition of Chinese
Independent Film Archive, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Reflect Light-Depth of New Art, West Lake Art Museum, Hangzhou, China/ Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
798 Art Festival--Re-experimentation:A Reaffirmation of Enlightenment and Will, Beijing, China
Best Times, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2008
Reflective Asia-The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
The Revolution Continues- New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Unpack-Chinese Experiment Art, CAA Art Museum, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
ARTHK08, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,Hong Kong, China
Poetic Realism: An Reinterpretation of Jiangnan-Contemporary Art from South China, Tomás y Valiente Art Centre, Madrid, Spain
55 Days in Valencia-Chinese Art Meeting, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
China Gold-Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Maillol, Paris, France
Case studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, S Z Art Centre, Beijing, China
Notes of Conception- A Local Narrative of Chinese Contemporary Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
Time Difference-New Art from China and USA, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
Energy:Spirit·Body·Material-The 1st Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Beyond Image-Chinese New Painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2006
Conversation 10+10, Zendai Museum of Modern Art , Shanghai, China
Beyond Dimension-Chinese New Painting, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Potential Dialogue-The Party of Sino-Austria young artists, RCM Museum, Nanjing, China
2005
Future Archeology-The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Young Chinese Contemporary Art, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria
Let some ideas be seen, Modern art gallery of Art Academy of Hangzhou Teachers University, Hangzhou, China
Works Collected By:
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Rubell Museum, Miami, USA
Deutsche Bank, Germany
Forbes Group, USA
Arario Museum, Seoul/Jeju, Korea
Kistefos Museum：Christen Svevaas Art Collection, Oslo, Norway
Initial Access：Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK
Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France
DSL Foundation, Paris, France
Art at Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland
Logan Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Australia China Art Foundation，Melbourne，Australia
Art & Culture Foundation(IAC) of Spain, Madrid, Spain
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Start Museum, Shanghai, China
The Cloud Collection, Nanjing, China
Iris Art Realm, Suzhou, China
Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
CC Foundation, Shanghai, China
ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China
Lin Fengmian Art Foundation, Guangzhou, China
Live Forever Foundation, Taichung, China
Mountain Art Culture & Education Foundation, Taipei, China
Tomson Group, Shanghai, China
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Prizes:
2023 Selected for Influential: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists
2017 Shortlisted for the Jean-François Prat Prize 2017, Paris, France
2013
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