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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES 艺术家简历

highlighting the artist's perfection in his painting skills. This development of Liu Wei reflects a
profound phenomenon, that is, the complete image of Western modernity began to disintegrate
in China, and began to be thoroughly questioned.
In the years following his return from a short stint in Germany in 1999, Liu Wei's art entered
a black period. During this period, he shifted from focusing on things around him to asking
and thinking about people themselves, and the Who am I series is a reflection of those inner
questions he asked of himself. The portraits are filled with messy lines, and the cool gray
tones dominate the entire work. The portraits are blurred with blurred features and stony
expressions, and the figures are dressed in suits, showing an absurd artistic effect. The identity
of such portraits is no longer important; behind them reveals a certain unspeakable spirituality.
Liu Wei's art often presents a sensual expression, and the artist's own delicate sensitivity
makes this expression lead to a kind of extreme, which is free, open and without restriction,
full of strong Liu Wei flavor, with a composition and tension beyond imagination, catching the
viewer off guard and deep in it.
In recent years, Liu Wei has been transcribing classical Chinese poems "The Book of Songs"
every day to strengthen his understanding of ink painting techniques. He believes that the spirit
and psychology of modern man is very similar to that of his ancestors. However, his works are
very different from traditional landscape painting, and are closer to the literati "ink play", which
is simple, wild, mellow and childish. Perhaps Liu Wei's character has two layers - a kernel of
the present world pulsating under a shell of fantasy and ridicule. Liu Wei seems to have the
ability to turn decay into magic. "I will never tolerate repetition." The painter says. None of
his works are exactly the same, not even the prints. Perhaps the only constant in his creative
equation is his self-subversion and insistence on innovation.
Liu Wei's works are now in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA),
the Musée Cantonale de Lausanne (Switzerland), the M+ Art Museum in Hong Kong (Hong
Kong), and the private collection of Swiss collector Uli Schick.
Solo Exhibitions: 2018 “Liu Wei: Image 180", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA; "Liu Wei: Image
180", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; 2015 "Surrealist Reality - Liu Wei", Ludwig
Museum of Art, Koblenz, Germany; 2012 "One Man's Painting", Dafuture Lindsay Gallery,
Taipei; 2010 "Liu Wei Solo Exhibition", AYE Gallery, Beijing

刘小东（b.1963） 辽宁金城镇人。1988年，毕业于中央美术学院画系，获学士学位；1995年，毕业于中央美术学院，获硕
LIU XIAODONG 士学位。现任教于中央美术学院油画系。主要个展：2016年“刘小东在南非”作品展，诚品画廊，台北；
2015年“因地制宜”刘小东绘画展，威尼斯圣乔治马乔雷岛，威尼斯；2015年“空城记”刘小东个展，林
Lot 1721
冠艺术基金会，北京；2014年“刘小东在印度尼西亚”个展，诚品画廊，台北。
主要群展：2018年“永远的绘画”作品展；2018年艺术家的声音；2018年“疆域：地缘的拓扑”群展；
2017年“疆域—地缘的拓扑”群展；2017年 诚品画廊参加2017艺术北京博览会；2016年“历史的温度”中
央美术学院与中国具象油画展，重庆美术馆，重庆；2015年“绝对收藏指南”四方当代美术馆馆藏展，四
方当代美术馆，南京；2014年第八届AAC 艺术·生态·观察巡展济南站，山东新闻美术馆，济南；2013年
“来自北京”中央美术学院油画系教师作品展，纽约艺术学院，纽约。

Born in Jincheng, Liaoning Province, Liu graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988,

and got master’s degree in 1995.solo exhibitions: 2016 “Liu Xiaodong in South Africa” Work
Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei; 2015 “According to Local Conditions” LiuXiaodong Painting
Exhibition, Venice San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; 2015 “Empty City” Liu Xiaodong Solo Exhibition,
Canopy Art Foundation, Beijing; 2014 “Liu Xiaodong in Indonesia” solo exhibition, Eslite Gallery,
Taipei. Main group exhibitions: 2018 “Forever Painting” Work Exhibition; 2018 Artist’s Voice;
2018 “Frontier: Topology of the Territory” group exhibition; 2017 “Frontier-Topology of the
Territory” group exhibition; 2016 “Temperature of History” Central Academy of Fine Arts and