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 iu Xiaodong (1963 Liaoning) is regarded as one of China’s finest painters. His canvases are known for having rich colors, strong brush strokes, unusual framing (including cut off heads and limbs) and near perfect technique. Many of his portraits are drawn from snapshots of friends or family members, doing ordinary things, like eating, laughing or playing games. Liu graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he now teaches. He was included in the landmark "China Avant-Garde" 1989 exhibition at the National Gallery in Beijing. An early, defining moment for Liu was when he was given a picture of a Lucien Freud painting. Intrigued by Freud's ability to capture a person's inner power, Liu decided to concentrate on figurative painting. In 1993, he and his wife, also a painter, played themselves in a friend's "neo-realist" film, and Liu was attracted to neo-realism's focus on common people rather than on metaphysical shapes and ideas. In later years, Liu has put aside his earlier emphasis on meticulously chosen scenery and composition with careful brushwork, and instead he began to try to paint more boldly and spontaneously. Recently, his massive portrait of migrant workers near the Three Gorges Dam sold for $2.7 million at a Beijing auction, the highest price ever paid for a work by a Chinese contemporary artist. Liu is known for portraying common people and for his friendship with the sixth generation film makers, such as Jia Zhangke. |
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Breeding Ground No.1, oil on canvas, 2006
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Three Gorges: Newly Displaced Population, oil on canvas, 300×1000cm, 2004
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New 18 Disciples of Buddhas--Niu Leilei/Cai Mingyu, oil on canvas, 200×100×2pcs, 2004
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Getting Chickens, oil on canvas, 200×200cm, 2003
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Xiao Ming & Jia He, 162×130cm, 2002
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Xiao Hong Smoking After Midnight, oil on canvas, 97×76 cm, 2001
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Burning Mouse, Oil on Canvas, 136x150cm, 1998
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Sleep, oil on canvas, 33×38cm, 1998
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Lovers, oil on canvas, 76×97cm, 1995
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Dream, Oil on Canvas, 146×112cm, 1991
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In the Afternoon, 93×124cm, 1990
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Sketch from Nature: Qinghai, Oil on Canvas
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PRIVATE ROOM, oil on canvas, 200×159cm
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Solo Exhibitions:
2008
Liu Xiao Dong，Mary Boone Gallery，New York
2007
Eslite Gallery，Taipei
2006
"Hot bed, a Painting Project by Liu Xiaodong" Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
"The Three Gorges Projest-- Painting by Liu Xiaodong", Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2005
"Childhood Friends Getting Fat" Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2004
"Eighteen Solo Exhibitions" Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan
"Three Gorges: Displaced Population & Three Gorges: Newly Displaced Population" Chinablue Gallery & CAAW, Beijing
2003
"Liu Xiaodong" Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
2002
"Liu Xiaodong"Art Center of Donghai University, Taiwan
2001
"Prostitutes, Transvestites and Nothing to do Men" Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2000
"Liu Xiaodong 1990-2000”, Museum of Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing
“Liu Xiao Dong and His Time” LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1990
"Liu Xiaodong solo exhibition" , Gallery of CAFA. Beijing |
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