Introduction

Liu Cong, born in 1987 in Shandong Province, graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department in 2010, now lives and works in Beijing. Liu Cong continues his long-standing exploration of “painting” as a mode of expression. After removing different means of expression such as pictorial depiction, narrative, and knowledge production, Liu chooses to use a variety of ready-mades as “models.” While emphasizing the presence of the body, through the artificial “image-making” of these “objects” on canvas, along with detached reflection, he releases pictures with spiritual properties and gives them a perceptual tension.

Recent exhibitions include: Liu Cong: The Long Now, ShanghART Beijing (2023); Semi-automatic Mode 3: Liu Cong & Xiao Wucong, ShanghART, Beijing (2022); Liu Cong: Double, Hunsand Space, Beijing (2021); Liu Cong: Resetting, Mocube, Beijing (2019); Liu Cong: Time in Reflection, NUOART, Beijing (2018); Evidence - A New State of Art, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples, Italy (2018); Density Talisman Array, Ying Space, Beijing (2018), etc.