Liu Liguo

Liu Liguo is an example of the Chinese style and trend we call “Gaudy Art”, a school of thought whose subscribers often make use of pastiche in their illustration of the vulgarity of contemporary society. The substance of Liu Liguo’s works are a reflection on consumer society. Whether its a sculpture or one of his beautiful avant-garde paintings, everything is materially opulent, dripping with sensuality, abundance & creativity.

1961 Born Heilongjiang, China
1991 Graduated from the fine arts department of Beijing’s National Theatre Institute

■ Solo Exhibitions
2012 Liu Liguo ‘Trafficking Imagination’ Solo Exhibition, Yang Gallery Beijing
2007 Liu Liguo Solo Exhibition, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

■ Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Art Beijing 2012. National Agriculture Exhibition Center, China
YANG GALLERY wishes you a Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year !, Yang Gallery Singapore
2009 People’s Republic of China 60th anniversary of the contemporary art exhibition of. achievements, the Ministry of Culture, Beijing, China
TATTOO, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
2008 Chinese Voice Chinese Stories: Echoes of Change, Gallery Profile Osage, HK, China
Let’s Consume!, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 Chinese Fine Arts, Bellecour Gallery, Lyon, France
The Power of the Universe, Asia Art Center,Beijing,China
China Now: Lost in Transition, Eliklein Fine Art, Houston, U.S.
The Contemporary Road of Media and Tradition, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
The Escape: The Rescue of the Language of Tradition and Revolution, Nanjing Square； Contemporary Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Basel International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Brussels International Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing, China

2006 Second Exhibition of “China Today”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
”Mao: Contemporary Visions”, JGM Gallery, Paris, France
“Flowers”, Songzhuang Museum of Art, Beijing, China
”Beyond Experience – New China”, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
”Icons and iconoclasts”, Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, New York, U.S.A.
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, New York, U.S.A
ARCO 06, International Modern Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
MiArt, Milan, Italy
Art@agnes, Tokyo, Japan
”Japanimation”, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing, China
”Endless”, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
”Brothers”, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
”Mashup, Match & Mix”,Critical–Zero Factory, Beijing, China
”Grey-Red”, New Art Project , Beijing, China
2005 Lineart, Flanders Expo Center, Gent, Belgium
”Joy”, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
”Charm and Strength” – Mao Zedong and the Chinese Contemporary Artists,
Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
” Dream Producers” (II/VI): The Imaginary Museum of Chinese Contemporary
Art, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Post Factory – Come and Gone, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
”Critical”,2 Zero Fields Gallery, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
”Degenerate Dharma”, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China.
Under the Sky above Beijing, Yijingxuan Gallery, Beijing, China
Sonzhuang Ten Year Invitational, Beijing, China
2004 ”Forbidden Senses”, Sensuality in Contemporary Chinese Art, Espace culturel François
Mitterrand, Périgueux, France
”Yellow Earth, Thick Earth” (retrospective of ten years in Chinese sculpture),
Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
2003 ”China Art Today”, Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
”My Way”, Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2001 Reinventing the Images and Signs”, Huanyu Jingdian Cultural Centre, Beijing, China
”Self-expression”, Art Documents Storehouse, Beijing, China
2000 Image and Net Art Exhibition, Jilin Academy of Fine Arts, Changchun, China
Two-dimensional Contemporary Art, China Women’s Activity Centre,Beijing, China
February Group Show, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1999 ”Ouh la la ! Kitsch!” Teda Museum, Tianjin, China
Songzhuang Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Eastlink Gallery,Shanghai, China
The First Chinese Installation Artists Documentary Exhibition, The Commune of Art, Hong Kong
1998 ”Life Styles”, Art Document Storehouse, Beijing, China
1997 ”Live Styles”, Hamburg, Bremen, Germany

1996 First Chinese Design Exhibition, International Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China
”Eleven’s – The Avant-garde”, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
1995 ”9 Artists” – Exhibition of Portuguese Embassy in China, Beijing, China
1994 Private Exhibition, Huade residence, Beijing, China
Chinese Inks, Capital Museum, Beijing, China Beijing Resident Artists, Capital Museum,
Beijing, China
1993 Annual Oil Painting Exhibition, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1992 ”Five Painters”, The Beijing Concert Hall Gallery, Beijing, China
Graduation Show, Institute for Traditional Theatre, Beijing, China International Stage Design, Theatre Institute, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Stage Design for Maeterlinck’s ” L’intruse”, Chinese Youth Art Theatre, Beijing, China
1989 Ink and Wash, Ten artists, Capital Museum, Beijing, China
1986 Exhibition of Young Artists from Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang Museum of Fine Arts, China

■ Art Fair
2008 ART HK 2008 ,HK,China
2006 Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
CIGE, World Trade Center, Beijing, China
2005 FIAC, Paris, France
CIGE, World Trade Center, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
2004 FIAC (France International Art Contamporary), Paris, France
CIGE, World Trade Center, Beijing, China
2003 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2001 2001 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany ”