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BIOGRAPHY | SELECTED WORKS | RECENT EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED PRESS
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1985 in Beijing, Liu Shiyuan lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark after having studied in New York and Beijing. Travelling and living between cities and across multiple cultures, Liu has developed an artistic sensibility in response to the contemporary Chinese diaspora, and its ensuing pattern of cultural shock. Manipulating everyday objects, stock images, and theatrical gestures, her practice navigates the subtle borderline between rationality and mystery, reality and fiction.
Liu Shiyuan graduated from the School of Visual Art in New York with MFA in Photography, 2012; Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with BFA in New Media Art, 2009. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions; recent group shows include “The King and the Mockingbird”, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016; “For an Image, Faster Than Light: Yinchuan Biennale 2016”, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, 2016; “SHE — International Women Artists Exhibition”, Long Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; “Tutorials”, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, 2016; “Bentu, Chinese Artists In A Time Of Turbulence And Transformation”, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2016; “Unordinary Space”, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2015; CAFAM Future, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2015; “Second Thought”, Flower Gallery, New York, 2015; “Now You See”, Whitebox Art Center, New York, 2014; 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT- Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2012; “stillspotting nyc“, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others.
In 2014 she received Honorary AIR Awards from Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, and in 2012, the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, New York.Her solo presentation received a special commendation in the inaugural Frame Stand Prize at Frieze New York 2016.
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SELECTED WORKS
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Installation view
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Detail
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Detail
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Detail
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Detail
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Detail
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Detail
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, Photography installation, C-prints, Dimensional variable
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2015, Installation view, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2015, Installation view, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2015, Installation view, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of print
LIU SHIYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", 2013, detail of wall installation
LIU SHIYUAN, "We Are Never Alone Never Bored", 2014, Inkjet print, apple, pear, 60 x 40 x 30 cm x 2
LIU SHIYUAN, "Extreme Deep Field", 2013, Installation view
LIU SHIYUAN, "Someone Else, Somewhere Else No.3", 2014, Soft clay on paper, 20.3 x 13.3 cm x 6
LIU SHIYUAN, "Someone Else, Somewhere Else No.3", 2014, Soft clay on paper, 20.3 x 13.3 cm x 6
LIU SHIYUAN, "Someone Else, Somewhere Else No.3", 2014, Soft clay on paper, 20.3 x 13.3 cm x 6
LIU SHIYUAN, "Someone Else, Somewhere Else No.2", 2014, Soft clay on paper, 19 x 12.5 cm x 6
LIU SHIYUAN, "Someone Else, Somewhere Else No.2", 2014, Soft clay on paper, 19 x 12.5 cm x 6
LIU SHIYUAN, "Someone Else, Somewhere Else", 2013, Book pages from Existentialism Is a Humanism, clay
For more works and projects by the artist, download the portfolio in pdf.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
“.com/.cn”, K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Hong Kong, China，2017
“For an Image, Faster Than Light: Yinchuan Biennale 2016″, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Ningxia, China，2017
“SHE — International Women Artists Exhibition”, Long Museum, Shanghai, China,2017
“The King and the Mockingbird”, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
“For an Image, Faster Than Light: Yinchuan Biennale 2016″, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, 2016
“SHE — International Women Artists Exhibition”, Long Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016
“TUTORIALS – Moving images and instructions for use from China”, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, Italy, 2016
“film screening”, Art Basel Hong Kong – Film, Hong Kong, China, 2016
“The Mud of Compound Experience”, Mother’s Tankstation & Leo Xu Projects, Hong Kong, China, 2016
“Bentu – Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation”, Foundation Louis Vitton, Paris, France, 2016
“Unlimited Space: The Re-imagination of Everyday Life”, Star Projects, Hong Kong, China, 2016
“As Simple As Clay” (solo), YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China, 2015
“From ‘Happiness” To “Whatever’” (solo), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China, 2015
“film screening”, Art Basel Miami – Film, New World Center, Miami, USA, 2015
“Unordinary Space”, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China, 2015
“HELSINKI FESTIVAL”, Helsinki, Finland, 2015
SELECTED PRESS
Leap, “Empower the Powerless, Unempower the Powerful – First Annual Conference of Network Society”, by Li Jia, Issue 169, April, 2017 [download PDF]
Frieze.com, “Critic’s Guide: Condo New York”, Text/ Sam Korman, July 2017 [download pdf]
Kaleidoscope, “Liu Shiyuan”, by A.S., Issue 3, Spring & Summer, March, 2016 [download pdf]
Leap, “Liu Shiyuan”, Issue 161, November & December, 2015 [download pdf]
Art Review Asia, “Liu Shiyuan Lost in Export”, by Eva Renaud, September, 2015 [download pdf]
Art Asia Pacific, “Manipulating the Mundane”, by Anna Ling Edwards, September, 2015 [download pdf]
Flash Art, “Liu Shiyuan”, by Sarah Sulistio, July – September, 2015 [download pdf]
Leap, “Liu Shiyuan: Lost in Export”, by Yang Zi, translation by Vanessa Nolan, June, 2015 [download pdf]
Fotozeitung Flink Magazine, “A Conversation With Photography: Liu Shiyuan”, 2013 [download pdf]
Radian, “Video Artist Series: Liu Shiyuan”, by Iona Whittaker, 2013 [download pdf]
Leap, “A Focus on Boundary”, by Einar Engstrom, April, 2013 [download pdf]
Time Out Beijing, “The Edge of Reason”, by Simon Zhou, March, 2013 [download pdf]
