LI SHAN 李山 Biography

Basic

1942	Born in Lanxi, Heilongjiang Province

Education

1963	Studied at the Heilongjiang University
1968	Graduated from the Arts Department (Oil Painting) of Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai

Solo Exhibitions

(Selected

All)

2023	Li Shan: Echo of Sumer \| Art Basel 2023, Basel, Switzerland
2022	Li Shan Solo Exhibition at The Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, U.S.A
2019	Li Shan: Decoding, ShanghART, Shanghai
2017	Li Shan: PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2014	Extension Expansion, MoCA@Loewen, Singapore
2012	Reading Li Shan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2007	The Pumpkin Project, Li Shan & Zhang Pingjie Bio-Art Exhibition, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai
	Reading of Li Shan, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2004	Li Shan - Small New Works, ShanghART Fuxing Park, Shanghai
2002	Reading: Li Shan, ShanghART Fuxing Park, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions

(Selected

All)

2023	The Animal Farm Simulator, Hyundai Motorstudio Bejing, Beijing
2022	Start, Inaugural Exhibition, Start Museum, Shanghai
2021	M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2020	Waves and Echoes, A Process of Re-contemporarization in Chinese Art Circa 1987 Revisited, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
2019	Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018	From 1978 To 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
	Supernatural, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017	Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.
2013	Portrait of the Times, 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2010	Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2009	Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009, 436 Jumen Rd., Shanghai
	In the 1980s - Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2007	'85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing
	Chinese Contemporary Socart, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2006	Art in Motion, MoCA, Shanghai
2005	The Wall, Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; Albrigh-Knox Art Gallery; University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2003	Subversion and Poetry, Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2002	The First Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
1998	Inside Out, New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries & P.S.1, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Tacoma Art Museum & Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
1997	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland
1995	Des del País del Centre: avantguardes artístiques xineses, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1994	22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993	45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
	Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
	China Avant-garde, (Touring exhibition) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
	China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1992	Encountering the Others - Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Dokumenta Kassel, Kassel, Germany
1989	China / Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1988	Second Concave – Convex Installation Exhibition, The last Supper, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1986	First Shanghai Concave-Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai
	Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1983	Art and Experiment of 83 (Stage'83: Paintings Experiments), Fudan University, Shanghai

Collections

	Start Museum, Shanghai
	Museum of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin
	Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	M+ Collection, Hong Kong
	Long Museum, Shanghai
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco , U.S.A.
	White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia
	Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
	Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangdong
	Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
	Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland

2024	Line 2024: Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, 3723 Art Museum, Shanghai
	Growth in Motion, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
	These Men are from the Moon, An Examination toward Cultural Gender Subjectivity, Dongyi No.6 Space of Art, Beijing
	10 YEARS, ShanghART at West Bund 2015-2024, ShanghART, Shanghai
	The Imagery Between Lines and Paper, ShanghART, Shanghai
2023	West Bund Art and Design 2023 - Xiàn Chǎng, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
	Twenty Years of Iteration, Years of Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	BUMM, Die Chineseche und Westliche Kultur Verschmelzen Sich in der Begegnung Miteinander, Kunstverein Schloss Eringerfeld, Geseke, Germany
	Motion is Action, 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, By Art Matters, Hangzhou
	Face the Scene: Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism Exhibition of the 90s (Shanghai), Being Art Museum, Shanghai
	Mediated Body: Among Objects and Fields, ShanghART, Shanghai
	Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing
	A Leisurely Stroll: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai
	Beyond the River and Sea, Art Center 535, Shanghai
	The Animal Farm Simulator, Hyundai Motorstudio Bejing, Beijing
	Restart, Liang Project, Shanghai
2022	Start, Inaugural Exhibition, Start Museum, Shanghai
	Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002-2008, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai
	Path 3.0, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
	Rhythm and Refrain, Song Art Museum, Beijing
2021	M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
	HEYU, Bund Space Art Season, Brunner Mond &Co, Shanghai
2020	Waves and Echoes, A Process of Re-contemporarization in Chinese Art Circa 1987 Revisited, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
	Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai
2019	Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	The Return of Guests, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	Then, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
	The Kind Stranger, UNArt Center, Shanghai
	Daybreak, The Barn Contemporary Art Space, Shenzhen
	The Avant-Garde is Not Afraid of a Long March, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	Side Lanes, ShanghART, Shanghai
2018	From 1978 To 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
	After Nature, UCCA, Dune, Qinhuangdao
	White Flash, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
	Li Shan & Nobuo Sekine, Liang Project Co Space, Shanghai
	Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
	Supernatural, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
	Sense of Paper - Melting Point, L+ Space, Shanghai
2017	The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen
	Tracing The Past and Shaping The Future - Powerlong Museum Grand Opening, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
	Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	The Bond of Arts: Duolun International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2016	20, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
	Expression versus Intention, Alchemy Art Space, Xi'an
	Historicode: Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing
	Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai
	New Capital, Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu
	Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2015	Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
	City Vision, 2015 Shanghai Artists' Works Exhibition, Cloud Art Center, Shanghai
	Paper, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2014	Right is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
	Re-View, Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
	Starlight, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai
2013	Portrait of the Times, 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	Coexist, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Homefun Art Space, Suzhou
	Foundational Work II, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
	The Early Abstract Art in Shanghai, A Retrospective of Art History, Shanghai Baoshan International Folk Arts Exposition, Shanghai
	Four Quarters-3553, Exhibition Cycle of Chinese Contemporary Artists, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou Branch, Wenzhou
	Re-Reading, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	Continental Divide, 10 Chinese Artists at Home and Abroad, artshare.com
2012	Cultural Shanghai- A Return Oriented Towards the Future, 2012 Shanghai Gallery Alliance, Shanghai
	Living·Being, Sino-Dutch Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing
2011	Nature Contract, Shanghai Times Square, Shanghai
2010	Lian Chen Jue, Hou Hou Art, Shanghai
	Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
	Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing
	Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
	Fairy Tales Selections from the MaGMA's Collection, Opera Gallery, Singapore
2009	Collision, Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
	Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009, 436 Jumen Rd., Shanghai
	In the 1980s - Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
	Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing
	Another Scene, Artists' Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2008	Five Years of Duolun, Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Accumulations–The Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, Beijing
	Blackbridge 08' Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Gallery Blackbridge, Beijing
2007	Awakening from a Ten‐Year Long Sleep 1997-2007, Opening Exhibition of HJY Art Center, HJY Art Center, Beijing
	'85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing
	Strategy on Paper, Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
	Chinese Contemporary Socart, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2006	Art in Motion, MoCA, Shanghai
	Witness, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu
	Fiction@Love, Forever Young Land, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Shanghai
2005	The Wall, Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; Albrigh-Knox Art Gallery; University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
	Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2003	Open Sky, Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Subversion and Poetry, Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
	Dajia - Studying on Design from Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fudan University, Shanghai
2002	The First Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Paris - Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2001	Shanghai Star, Casula Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2000	Futuro E, Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Macau
1999	Difference Apperceive, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
1998	New Voices: Contemporary Art Dialogue Among Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei
	Inside Out, New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries & P.S.1, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Tacoma Art Museum & Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
1997	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland
	Dream of China, '97 Chinese Contemporary Art, Yang Huang Art Museum, Beijing
1995	Chinese New Art 1989-93, Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada
	Des del País del Centre: avantguardes artístiques xineses, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1994	Building the Rouge Empire: Paintings from 1976-1992, Alisan Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
	22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993	Mao Goes Pop: China Post‐1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
	45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
	Chinese Art: Post-1989, Marlborough Gallery, London, U.K.
	Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
	China Avant-garde, (Touring exhibition) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
	China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1992	Encountering the Others - Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Dokumenta Kassel, Kassel, Germany
1989	Modern Painters from the People's Republic of China, Galerie Werner Melletin, Cologne, Germany
	China / Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1988	Second Concave – Convex Installation Exhibition, The last Supper, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1987	A State of Transition, Contemporary Painting from Shanghai, Asian Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1986	First Shanghai Concave-Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai
	Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1983	83 Experimental Painting Exhibition, Fudan University Teachers' Club, Shanghai
	Art and Experiment of 83 (Stage'83: Paintings Experiments), Fudan University, Shanghai
1982	Painting the Chinese Dream, Chinese Art 30 Years After the Revolution, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Boston City Hall; Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.