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Creating semi-fictional autobiographical works based on daily life, Li Liao presents a series of real life situations mixed with artistic actions. Through his often allegorical and self-deprecating action strategy, Li Liao takes the initiative to set up or take advantage of a situation to reveal his concern for the real problems that plague society, applying “communal participation” to practicing what he preaches in micro-level social systems and under concrete circumstances. In this process, he also observes and questions the evaluation mechanisms and rules for family production, social production and artistic production and attempts to provide a set of playful strategies to deal with stress, thus evoking a rethinking of experience.

Li Liao (b. 1982, Honghu, Hubei Province, China) currently lives and works in Shenzhen, China. He received his BFA in Oil Painting at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include Li Liao: “Labour”, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China (2023); Li Liao: The Wife Went to Start a Business, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2023); Anacatesthesia, QiAO SPACE, Shanghai, China (2020); To Be A Better Man, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2019); “Art is Vacuum”, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2016). Recent group exhibitions include ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress, He Art Museum, Foshan, China (2022); Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA, Beijing, China (2020); Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) , Frankfurt, Germany (2019); The Street: Where The World Is Made, Mo.Co.Panacée, Montpellier, France; National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy (2018-2019); The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2018); Performing Dramas, Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2017); Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain, OCAT, Shanghai, China (2016); What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, Qatar (2016); Habits and Customs of ____ Are So Different from Ours That We Visit Them with The Same Sentiment That We Visit Exhibitions, Kadist Art Foundation Paris, Paris, France (2016); The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2015); Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, USA (2015). Since 2020, Li Liao transforms himself into an institution and initiate the “Fortune Exhibition of Li’s Family House”, in which Fengshui masters act as curators and guest artists create commissioned works.

LI Liao

SELECTED WORKS

EXHIBITIONS

Prologue: Reproducing “That Person” and the New Product Launch of Katliax

To Be A Better Man

ART IS VACUUM

ART IS VACUUM

NEWS

Li Liao: The Wife Went to Start a Business

ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress

A Show About Nothing

2021 OCAT Biennale “Boomerang”

the Art of Escapism: Seoul MediaCity Biennale 2021

To Be the Better One —The Methodology of the New Generation New Work, New Identity, New Life, New Direction

李氏家宅鸿运展

Cover: Enclave Contemporary Opening Exhibition

The Curation Workshop II

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019

2020 Shenzhen (Yantian) Youth Art Week

LI Liao: Anacatesthesia

Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art

Meditation in an Emergency

Corner Square Montage

Museum

The Street. Where the World is Made

Boundless Realities, Multiple Nows: Contemporary Art From Hubei as a Sample

LEI-PĀ

李燎：通过行为的认同

LI LIAO: Art is Vacuum

Critic’s Guide: Beijing

LI LIAO:“Attacking the Boxer from Behind is Forbidden”

执行违背常理的戏剧性脚本

“Surround Audience”-The 2015 New Museum Triennial

“BODY AS MEDIUM”

The Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015

“LI LIAO：有惊无险的2013”

“PUT LIFE IN”

“What is an iPad Doing on a Pedestal at a Chinese Art Museum？”