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Personal information:

Liu Shiyuan 
1985 Born in Beijing, China. Currently lives and works in Beijing China and Copenhagen Denmark.

Educational background:

2010 - 2012 The School of Visual Art, MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media. New York, US.
2005 - 2009 Central Academy of Fine Arts, BFA in New Media Art. Beijing, China.
2001 - 2005 High School of Central Academy of Fine Arts. Beijing, China.

2024 CRISPR Whisper, Fotografiska, Shanghai, China.
2023 (double solo) Optimized Heart: David Douard/Liu Shiyuan, UCCA DUNE, Beidai  He , China. Curated by: Fang Yan.
2022 One Room, Palace Enterprise, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2022 Suspended Frames , White Space Beijing, Beijing, China.
2020 For Jord, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2020 Opaque Pollination, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 
2019 In Other Words, Please Be True, White Space Beijing. Beijing, China.
2018 Isolated Above, Connected Down, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. New York, USA.
2015 As Simple As Clay, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China.
2015 From "Happiness" To "Whatever", Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China.
2015 Lost In Export, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China.
2014 Present Future section at Artissima. Oval, Lingotto in Turin, Italy.
2014 My Paper Knife, Local Futures, Alter-Circuit, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium and Et al. gallery, San Francisco, US.
2014 Beyond The Pale, Andersen´s Contemporary. Copenhagen, Denmark.
2013 The Edge of Vision, or the Edge of the Earth. White Space Beijing gallery, Beijing, China.

 

Group exhibitions:

2025 Artist’s Treat, Former Site of Lagena Primary School, Shanghai, China.
2025 (commisioned artist), Miss Dior Exhibition: Stories of a Miss, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China.
2025 Balada Del Ouroboros, Instituto Cervantes & Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

2024 ARoS Collection: World in Focus, ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.
2024 Tabula Rasa, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US.
2024 Terravision, Von Bartha Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2024 The exhibition of annual of contemporary art of China MACAU, Cotal Expo Hall, The Venetian Macao, Macao, China.

2023 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, China. Curated by: Zhang Ga.
2023 Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China.
2023 (film screening), Memory War Pixel Row Vol.6 - Behavioral Metamorphosis, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China.
2023 Future Unknown, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China.

2022 Multiple Sights-The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China.
2022 Memory War, Vernacular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 Fellows, SNAP, Shanghai, China.Curated by: Wang Yiquan.
2022 Fruiting Bodies, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA. Curated by Sam Rauch.
2022 Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA. Curated by Barbara Pollack.

2021 Valentino: Re-Signify Part Two Beijing, Beijing, China.
2021 The Circular Impact: Video Art 21, OCAT Shanghai, China.

2020 NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
2020 Duration:Chinese Art in Transformation, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China.Curated by Dong Bingfeng, Lu Mingjun, Qin Siyuan, Wang min.
2020 Al: Love and Artificial Intelligence, Tyundal Motorstudio, Beijing, China.
2020 Gloden Flow, Chao Art Center, Beijing, China.Curated by Yang Zi.
2020 The Return Of The Real, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
2020 Étude, Aranya, Beijing, China. Curated by Shen Chen.
2020 A Hypothetical Show For A Closed Museum, M Woods Museum, Beijing, China. Curated by Viktor Wang (online exhibition).

2019 NOWNESS Experiments: The Mesh, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China. Curated by Alvin Li.
2019 Lunar, UCCA, Beijing, China. Collaboration with Bibi Zhou. Curated by You Yang.
2019 Encounter, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS), Shanghai, China. Curated by Fram Kitagawa.
2019 The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Curated by Zhu Zhu.
2019 Cry Me a River - Floating Art 2019, Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark. Curated by Mette Woller.
2019 A White Space Odyssey, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China.

2018 Replay, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China.
2018 Love: Intimate, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China.
2018 Aquatopia, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, UK.
2018 Front international - Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City, Cleveland, USA. Executive director: Fred Bidwell. Artist Director: Michelle Grabner.
2018 Art Patrons, Qiao Space & Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
2018 Welcome To The Jungle, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Cu­rat­ed by Jas­mi­na Merz and An­na Lena Seis­er.
2018 A Dialougue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists, CAFA Art Museum & Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art & Plus Tate, Home, Manchester, England.
Curated by Fan Dian & Wang Chunchen & Zoe Dunbar.

2017 News At Last, Adersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017 A Seperation, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China. Curated by: Zhu Zhu.
2017 Cold Night, UCCA Beijing, Beijing, China. Curated by: Boliang Shen & Zhanglun Dai.
2017 A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, US. Curated by: Leo Xu.
2017 Visual Questions, Guangdong Museum Of Art, Guangzhou, China. Curated by: Liu Gang.
2017 China Youth Experimental Art Exhibition, Shandong-Taiwan Convention and Exhibition Center, Shandong, China.
2017.COM.CN, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey, K11 Art Foundation & MOMA PS1, Hong Kong, China.
2017 Please fasten your seat belt as we are experiencing some turbulence, David Kordansky Gallery and Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China.

2016 New Order: Altermondialisme, Just Space & UCCA, Sanya, China.
2016 Yinchuan Biennale 2016 - For an Image, Faster Than Light, Out There, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China.
2016 SHE - International Woman Artists Exhibition, Long museum, Shanghai, China.
2016 The King And The Mockingbird, Copenhagen, Denmark.Curated by: Pierre Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou.
2016 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China.
2016 TUTORIALS – Moving images and instructions for use from China, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, Italy. Curated by Mariagrazia Costantino.
2016 (film screening), ArtBasel Hong Kong- Film, Hong Kong. Curated by Li Zhenhua.
2016 The Mud of Compound Experience, Mother´s Tankstation & Leo Xu Projects, Hong Kong.
2016 Bentu-Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.
Curated by: Suzanne Pagé, Laurence Bossé & Philip Tinari with Claire Staebler.
2016 Unlimited Space: The Re-imagination of Everyday Life, Star Projects, Hong Kong. Curated by Leo Li Chen, Qu Chang, Wenqi Zeng.

2015 The Scale of Youth, Sanya, China. Curated by Sun Dongdong.
2015 (film screening), ArtBasel Miami - Film, New World Center, Miami, USA. Curated by David Gryn.
2015 Unordinary Space, AURORA MUSEUM, Shanghai, China.
2015 Here Out There, HELSINKI FESTIVAL, Helsinki, Finland.
2015 Moving in time B3+BEIJING Moving image exhibition, CAFA Art museum, Beijing, China.
2015 CAFAM Future，CAFA Art museum, Beijing, China.
2015 Second Thought，Flower Gallery, New York, US.

2014 MEMO ‖, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China.
2014 A Screening with Christopher Phillips, Asia Art Archive in America, New York, US.
2014 Now You See, White box Art Center, New York, US.

2013 Difference Engine, Magician Space, Beijing, China.
2013 Local Futures, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China.
2013 Finishing School, at Dimensions Variable, Miami, US.
2013 Alternatives to Ritual - case of OCAT, OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China.

2012 The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China.

2011 Stillspotting, Guggenheim, New York, US.
2011 Capture, New York, US.
2011 Weekender, Cats Kill Gallery, New York, US.
2011 In Love We Trust, Micheal Mut Gallery, New York, US.

2010 Paratissima, Italy.
2010 Incommunicable, Platform China, Beijing, China.
2010 Break On Through To The Other Side, Berlin, Germany.

2008 We Are Together, Beijing, China.
2008 eARTS ( ShangHai Electric Art Festival), Shanghai, China.

2007 eARTS ( ShangHai Electric Art Festival), Shanghai, China.

Artist talks:

2024 Artist talk: Liu Shiyuan & Wang Xiaoqu & Niels Henriksen, Den Frie Art Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2023 Immersion in Narrative Images, Fictionalized Art and Cinema, UCCA DUNE, Beidai He, China. With Yang Beichen and Yang Yunchang.
2023 Artist talk: Liu Shiyuan, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark. With chef curator: Anne Kielgast.
2022 (online) The New Social Environment #621, Brooklyn Rail, USA.
2021 (online) artist talk with James Glisson, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA.
2021 (online) Photography MA, Royal College of Art, London.
2020 (online) artist talk with Xiao yu Weng, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, USA.
2018 School Of Visual Arts ( SVA ) - MFA Photo, New York, USA.
2017 UCCA, Beijing, China.
2017 CAFA ( Central Academy of Fine Arts ), Beijing, China.
2017 .COM.CN, artist talk with Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey, K11 Art Foundation & MOMA PS1, Hong Kong, China.
2017 'Change for the better? Internationalization and the Chinese Art World' , FRIEZE talk with Lu Jie and Lu Mingjun, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, China.
2014 Local Futures, Alter-Circuit, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium and Et al. gallery, San Francisco, US.
2012 Copenhagen University, Art History Department, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2012 Guang Zhou Academy of Fine Arts. Guangzhou, China.
2012 OCT Art and Design Gallery. Shenzhen, China.

 

ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
Ny Carlsberg Fonden, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
Long Museum, Shanghai, China.
Sifang Museum, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Jaffa, Israel.
DSL Collection, Paris, France.
By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
CCFoundation, Shanghai, China.
Forbes Art Collection, New York, USA.
M Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China.