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Li Shan's Biography

Born in Lanxi, Heilongjiang Province

1968

Graduated from Arts Department (oil Painting) of Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai

1963

Graduated from Heilongjiang University, Heilongjiang

Solo Exhibitions

2007

Li Shan, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2006

Reading-Photoworks 2003-2005, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2004

Li Shan - Small New Works, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

2002

Reading - the New Works by Li Shan, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

2001

Li Shan:Thou are not the fish, A room with a view, Shanghai

1990

Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Academy of Drama

Group Exhibitions

2007

ShanghART at Art'38 Basel, Art Fair Switzerland

Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

2006

Art in Motion, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai

Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai

The Wall - Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, UB Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery and Albrigh-Knox Art Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, USA; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing

2005

Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai

2003

Dajia-Studying on Design from Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fudan University, Shanghai

Open Sky-Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

2002

The First Guangzhou Trienale-Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Paris-Beijing Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France

2001

Shanghai Star, Casula Art Centre, Sydney, Australia

2000

Futuro Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Macau

1998

Inside Out:New Chinese Art, Exhibition of Art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong curated by Gao Minglu/Asia Society, Asia Society Galleries/PS1, New York, and SFMoMA / Asian Art Galleries, San Francisco, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico, Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

1997

Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland

1995

Chinese New Art 1989-93, Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada

Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain

1994

Building the Rouge Empire: Paintings from 1976-1992, Alisan Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

22nd International Biennial of São Paolo, Brazil

1993

Chinese Art: Post-1989, Marlborough Gallery, London, Great Britain

45th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney & Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

China Avant-garde, Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Museum of Contemporary Art; Sydney, Australia etc

1992

Encountering the Others, Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Dokumenta Kassel, Kassel, Germany

1989

Mordern Painters from the People's Republic of China, Galerie Werner Melletin, Cologne, Germany

China /Avantgarde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

1988

Second Concave – Convex Installation Exhibition--the last Supper, Shanghai Art Museum

1987

A State of Transition:-Contemporary Painting from Shanghai, Asian Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

1986

First Shanghai Concave – Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai

Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum,Shanghai

1983

Art and Experiment of 83 (Stage'83: Paintings Experiments), Fudan University, Shanghai

1982

Painting the Chinese Dream-Chinese Art 30 Years after the Revolution, Smith College, Northampton Ma, City Hall, Boston, Ma, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA