LIU Shiyuan

The scope of Liu Shiyuan’s art practice comprises such domains as photography, video, stage performance and spatial installations. Through her art practice she exposes a visual language that is unaffected by regional boundaries.
In her early works, Liu Shiyuan put an emphasis on an intentional questioning of boundaries. She makes exaggerated use of symbolic, unassuming objects to satirize the contradictions between the way businesses are operated and our (i.e. human) beliefs. Recently, in view of multicultural living backgrounds, her art has become more geared towards the individual’s comical misreading of the relations between different historical civilizations and nature’s status quo. It’s difficult to pigeonhole Liu Shiyuan’s artworks as either photography or video. Whether static or dynamic, every one of her works exceeds the contexts and mediums used to produce it, and is able to come into existence independently.
Liu Shiyuan (b. 1985, Beijing, China) received her BFA from the Digital Media Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. In 2012 she graduated with a Master’s degree from the Photography Department of the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include For Jord, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2020); Opaque Pollination, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Fort Lauderdale, USA (2020); In Other Words, Please Be True, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2019); Isolated Above, Connected Down, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA (2018); As Simple As Clay, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2015). Recent group exhibitions include AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing, China (2020); Lunar Phases, UCCA, Beijing, China (2019); The Mesh, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2019); Encounter, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS) 2019, Shanghai, China (2019); The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (2019); Front international – Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City, Cleveland, USA (2018); Welcome to The Jungle, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (2018); Art Patrons, Qiao Space, Shanghai, China (2018); Cold Night, UCCA, Beijing, China (2017); Yinchuan Biennale-For An Image, Faster Than Light, MOCA Yin Chuan, Yin Chuan, China (2016); The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2015, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); Bentu, Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2016); The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition: The Young Chinese Artists’ Representation of Reality, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015). Liu Shiyuan currently lives and works in Beijing, China and Copenhagen, Denmark.
SELECTED WORKS
NEWS

Optimized Heart: David Douard / Liu Shiyuan
UCCA Dune
2023.3.26 – 6.25

Valentino Re-signify part II, Beijing
T-10 exhibition space, SKP South
2021.10.17 – 11.7

The Circular Impact: Video Art 21
OCAT Shanghai
2021.4.28 – 7.11

I Love You Too
GAO TAI GALLERY
2020.12.31 – 2021.2.26

AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence
Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing
2020.9.30 – 2021.1.3

Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation
Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
2020.9.25 – 2025.9.25

Étude
Aranya Art Center
2020.5.23 – 8.23

Lunar Phases
UCCA Lab
2019.11.13 – 12.4

Encounter
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season
2019.9.29 – 11.30

SYMBIOSIS: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry
OCAT Shenzhen
2019.9.21 – 11.10

Cold Nights
UCCA
2017.9.15 – 12.17

Yinchuan Biennale: For an Image, Faster Than Light
MOCA Yinchuan
2016.9.9 – 12.18

Art Sanya: Scenarios of Time
Art Sanya
2015.12.17 – 2016.3.17
LIU SHIYUAN:打醒那个迷失的人
2015.5.7
Alter-Circuit Shiyuan Liu
My Paper Knife at Et al-Temporary
2014.10.24
Present Future
Artissima
2014.10.16
Incorrectness
WHITE SPACE
2013.12.11

Local Future
HEXIANGNING ART MUSEUM
2013.9.15 – 11.24
Video Artist Series Liu Shiyuan
Randian
2013.8.30
Local Futures
He Xiang Ning Art Museum
2013.6.6
A Conversation With Photography Liu Shiyuan
Fotozeitung FLINK
2013.5.16
LIU SHIYUAN A FOCUS ON BOUNDARY
LEAP
2013.4.19
The Edge of Reason
Time Out Beijing
2013.4.12
It is not a comment
Contemporary Art
2013.3.7
The Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale – Accidental Message Art is not a System, not a World
Li Ran
2012.12.21