LIU YI 刘毅 Biography

Basic

1990	Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Education

2009 -2012	China Academy of Art - Bachelor of Fine Arts (New Media)
2013 -2016	China Academy of Art - Master of Fine Arts

Prize

2024	The 26th Shanghai International Film Explore Section - Best Animation Award
	UOB Art in ink Awards - Emerging Group Grand Prize
2017	"Special Recommendation" award at the Hua International Short Film Festival

Solo Exhibitions

(Selected

All)

2025	Liu Yi: Diffusion Layer, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
2023	Liu Yi: Transition, ShanghART M50, Shanghai
	Surging Consciousness, OX Warehouse, Macao
2022	Hedgehhog Confusion, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
2021	Among the Crows, aA29 Project Room, Milan, Italy
2018	Liu Yi: Thrown into the Wind, ShanghART M50, Shanghai
2017	Liuyi: Flowing Feast, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	A Travel Inward - Liu Yi Solo Project, MoCA Pavilion Special Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions

(Selected

All)

2024	Enrooting, the Heterogeneous Phenomenon, Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu
	Where is your Hometown, XY Gallery, Guangzhou
	New Realms of the Ink Art, UOB Art in Ink Awards Finalists Artwork Exhibition, UOB Art Gallery, Shanghai
	The Perfect Path, Hangzhou, Marco Polo’s “City of Heaven”, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
	In Harmony With The Way, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
	Egress of the Spirit, OX Warehouse, Macao
	On the Road, Nomination Exhibition of Young Chinese Artists & Seminar of Young Critics, Guan Shanyue Art Museum,Shenzhen
	ICHIHARA x ART x CONNECTIONS Crossing of Worlds and Me, Ichihara Lakeside Museum,Ichihara,Japan
2023	Setting Sail: Contemporary Echoes of the Maritime Silk Road, Zhangjiagang Art Museum, Suzhou
2021	Death Ray on the Coral Island, Science Fiction and Its Archeology, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2017	Ballade – Animamix Contemporary Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
2013	The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shen Zhen, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen

Projects

(Selected

All)

2021	Idyllic Lives, SIDC Experimental Theater, Shanghai
	Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night, Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou
2019	Animafest Cyprus artist in residency programme 2019, Aliens and Immigration Office - Soup Salad Pasta Pizza, Cyprus
	NEF Animation – International Artist Residency, The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, Anjou, France
	Sharjah Film Platform, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018	Sema Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Film Festivals

(All

Selected)

2024	New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, New Chitose Airport,Hokkaido, Japan
	Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai
	World Festival of AnimatedFilm Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb,Croatia
	Hiroshima Animation Seasion, Hiroshima，Japan
2019	Bronx World Film Cycle, Bronx, U.S.A.
2018	New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2018, Hokkaido, Japan
	International Shortfilm Festival Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
	Comic-Salon Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
2017	Hua International Short Film Festival, Hollywood, London, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Beijing
	Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF), Utrecht, The Netherlands

Collections

	East Asia Library of Stanford University, San Francisco, U.S.A.
	M+ Collection, Hong Kong
	White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia

2025	360°: why we paint?, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou
	Provenance, TAOz Room, Qingdao
2024	Enrooting, the Heterogeneous Phenomenon, Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu
	Where is your Hometown, XY Gallery, Guangzhou
	New Realms of the Ink Art, UOB Art in Ink Awards Finalists Artwork Exhibition, UOB Art Gallery, Shanghai
	The Perfect Path, Hangzhou, Marco Polo’s “City of Heaven”, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
	China Optics Valley AI Art Exhibition, Guanggu Suspended Monorail,Wuhan
	In Harmony With The Way, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
	Getting Along With It, Space & Gallery Association, Shanghai
	10 YEARS, ShanghART at West Bund 2015-2024, ShanghART, Shanghai
	Digital Art China, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
	Egress of the Spirit, OX Warehouse, Macao
	On the Road, Nomination Exhibition of Young Chinese Artists & Seminar of Young Critics, Guan Shanyue Art Museum,Shenzhen
	ICHIHARA x ART x CONNECTIONS Crossing of Worlds and Me, Ichihara Lakeside Museum,Ichihara,Japan
	Great Flux, 1979 Gallery, Shenzhen
	The Imagery Between Lines and Paper, ShanghART, Shanghai
2023	The Second Yit Online Arts and Design Fair, Online
	Setting Sail: Contemporary Echoes of the Maritime Silk Road, Zhangjiagang Art Museum, Suzhou
	Ink Asia 2023 Special Screening,
	Arrival, Hangzhou
	2023 Jing'an International Sculpture Project: Reshaping Space, Space Evolution, Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai
	Mediated Body: Among Objects and Fields, ShanghART, Shanghai
	Source, Nart Museum, Ningbo
	A Journey of Love and Memory, Being Art Museum, Shanghai
2022	Superimpose, The possibility of pluralistic dialogue, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai
	The Way Toward Poetry 3：Joint Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Artists, Far up the Cold Mountain · A Long Journey, Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou
	The Realm of Flux and variation, Invited painting exhibition of contemporary female artists from the Yangtze river delta, Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute, Shanghai
	Play and Loop IV, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
	The Way Toward Poetry, Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou
	Chinese "Gan Jue", South China Art Museum (Online), Dongguan
2021	Death Ray on the Coral Island, Science Fiction and Its Archeology, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	Elephant in the Room, HiShorts! Film Festival, Art Amoy Museum, Xiamen
	Spinning East Asia Series I: A Compass in Hand, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
	Animist Tallinn Festival Exhibition, Animation and Contemporary, Tallinn, Estonia
	Bamboo as Method, Bamboo and Rattan Garden of Dongping National Forest Park, Shanghai
	Scenic Line Of An Alley, Mao Space, Shanghai
	A Room That Releases Spores, THESHOUTER, Shanghai
2020	New Look, Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing
	One Tree Fifty Ideas, 398 TianMuShan Road, Hangzhou
	Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai
2019	2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Encounter, Shanghai
	Shanghai Express, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
	The Drawing Hand, DANYSZ gallery, Shanghai
	Animation and Contemporary Art, Cyprus Sate Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cyprus
	Side Lanes, ShanghART, Shanghai
2018	Partial Parable?, Extrart Base, Shanghai
	Now: A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists, HOME, Manchester, U.K.
2017	Land of Plenty Song-cloud, Times Art Museum, Beijing
	Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
	Imagenation Factory, Discover Another Possibility of Life, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou
	Ballade – Animamix Contemporary Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
	SOW, ShanghART M50, Shanghai
2016	The Third Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Time Based. Non-Places, C2 Space, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen
	Space In Mind - Animamix Biennale 2015-2016, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2015	Fly without Wings – Video Exhibition, V Art Center, Sanghai
2013	The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shen Zhen, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen
	10th China Independent Film Festival (CIFF), M.T. Salon, Xiamen
2012	9th China Independent Film Festival, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing

2023	WINDOWS1298, WS SPACE,Shanghai
2021	Idyllic Lives, SIDC Experimental Theater, Shanghai
	Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night, Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou
2019	Animafest Cyprus artist in residency programme 2019, Aliens and Immigration Office - Soup Salad Pasta Pizza, Cyprus
	NEF Animation – International Artist Residency, The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, Anjou, France
	Sharjah Film Platform, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018	Sema Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea