LIU Xinyi
Liu Xinyi is an artist based in Beijing. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Sculpture Department, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and his Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths in London. Liu works on various medium including installation, moving & still image and context-specific project.
Liu Xinyi is interested in unfolding various kinds of agencies that unintentionally played their roles in the history of political participation. A part of his work taps into widely circulated ideological idioms and symbols. By re-contextualizing the political landscape from the digital public domain into everyday life, Liu aims to trace the restless interchange between an individual and the contemporary world. Accompanied by continuous displacement of the worksite, another part of Liu’s practice investigates the social space under modern municipal governance, translating certain social situations and technological practices that may have contributed to the shaping of the artist’s own cultural psychology. Liu regards the spontaneous inspections as a long-term approach for capturing the representations of modernity overlapped and disrupted in the history of information networks and material realities, and for imagining the potentials of the invalid, the defective, and the non-retroactive in the information society characterized by increasing instrumentalization.
A selection of his solo exhibitions/projects includes Applause is Due (2019), DRC NO.12, Beijing;Signal (2018), Xining Contemporary Art Space & Xiaoqiao Art Space, Xining; Fraternité Passagère (2018), Galerie Liusa Wang & Espace DawanArt, Paris; Air Port (2017), Forum Art Museum, Dongguan; Hundred Thousand Miles Away (2016), White Space Beijing, Beijing; Chaoyang Qunzhong (2015), A307 Space, Beijing; Goulash (2014), White Space Beijing, Beijing and Excitation Waves (2013), Taikang Space, Beijing. His work have been featured in group exhibitions at Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, Qiao Space & Tank Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, Yuz Museum, Jakarta and Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing. He was nominated for the list of candidate of the Young Artist of the Year of the 11th Award of Art China (2017), his was also one of the shortlisted artist for the 4th Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award (2015).
NEWS
ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress
He Art Museum
2022.2.4 – 4.17
2021 OCAT Biennale “Boomerang”
OCAT Shenzhen
2021.12.19 – 2022.5.22
Miracle of Life: Art Collection Exhibition for Celebrating The 25th Anniversary of Taikang Insurance Group
Guardian Art Center
2021.8.22 – 10.8
Cover: Enclave Contemporary Opening Exhibition
Enclave Contemporary
2021.3.20 – 5.23
What Is It that Makes Today’s Life So Different?: Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the year of 2018-2019
Beijing Exhibition Centre
2019.5.30 – 6.2
Liu Xinyi
Artforum
2019.5.27
Applause is Due
DRC No.12, Beijing
2019.4.28 – 6.30
China Landscape: Selections from the Taikang Collection 2019
798 Art Zone
2019.3.21 – 5.5
HOW NOW · The Life APP
How Museum
2019.1.19 – 4.19
The Comfort Zone At A Distance
Taikang Space
2018.12.13 – 1.19
QinJun: Space Travle
HuArts
2017.8.8
Being Information
SSSSTART
2017.7.15 – 9.9
I Do (Not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration
Qiao Space
2017.6.29 – 8.27
Social Emotion
Cc Foundation & Art Centre
2017.6.10 – 8.27
Between Utopia and Dystopia
Massimo De Carlo
2017.1.20 – 3.11
Secret Chamber
AM Art Space
2016.10.1 – 11.13
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Art World
2016.9.29
Busan Biennale: Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude
Busan Museum of Art
2016.9.3 – 11.30
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Art World
2016.8.2
Liu Xinyi：Hundred Thousand Miles Away
LEAP
2016.7.31
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Artron
2016.6.29
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Artforum
2016.6.24
Art Sanya: Scenarios of Time
Art Sanya
2015.12.17 – 2016.3.17
Liu Xinyu: The Chaoyang Masses
Artforum
2015.8.23
The Chaoyang Masses
A 307 Space
2015.8.8 – 8.28
Liu Xinyi: Politics of Knowledge and Practice
LEAP
2014.12.18
Liu Xinyi: Political Expression is Not What I Concern
Hi Art
2014.10.31
Stewed Beef and Potatoes Communism
Randian
2014.10.17
Liu Xinyi | Goulash
WHITE SPACE
2014.10.16
Liu Xinyi
Artforum
2014.9.18
Liu Xinyi: Out of “Political Path” Discussion
I Art
2014.8.28
Conversation between Xiang Jing and Liu Xinyi
Master Oriental Art
2014.2.6
Liu Xinyi on his practice
Artforum
2014.1.15
Political Games and the Politics of Play – on “Responsive Institution”
Look Art Space
2013.12.12
Light Pavilion Project
Taikang Space
2013.6.14
Liu Xinyi
Bazaar Art
2013.2.13
The Life of Agent L – Action…Cut Booklet
Yuz Foundation
2013.2.7
Liu Xinyi: Agent
LEAP
2012.8.15