Exhibition
Li Liao “Labour”
MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2023.7.8-9.28
Biography
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.
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.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2023Labour, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
The Wife Went to Start a Business, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2020Anacatesthesia, QIAO SPACE, Shanghai, China
2019To Be A Better Man, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
2016Art is Vacuum, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
2015Attacking the Boxer from Behind is Forbidden, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, United States
Xia Jiaying, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai, China
2013Art is Vacuum, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
2012Scorpio, Park, Yangtze River Space, Wuhan, China
Special Programs
2021Fortune Exhibition of Li’s Family House Beijing, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
Fortune Exhibition of Li’s Family House 2021, Haofangtianji, Shenzhen, China
2020Fortune Exhibition of Li’s Family House, Haofangtianji, Shenzhen, China
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023Up in the Air, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
2022ON|OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress, HE ART MUSEUM, Foshan, China
2021BOOMERANG–OCAT Biennale 2021, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Reconstruction, Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland
The 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale “One Escape at a Time”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Cover- Enclave Contemporary Opening Exhibition, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen, China
2020The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Curation Workshop II, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Étude, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China
Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art, NCAF Beijing Space, Beijing, China
Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA, Beijing, China
2019Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany Jing Tian, Can You Still Escape? , Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China The Street: Where The World Is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy; Mo. Co., Panacée, Montpellier, France A White Space Odyssey, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China 2018The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2017Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture, Shenzhen, China Detour in Times, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Reverberation: Cataclysm, amble and 116 heavy blows, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China Lei-Pā, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Performing Dramas, Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2016, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China World by World, NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany 2016Proposals to Surrender, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China Leap Screen-The Heterotopia of Rules, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China Centripetal Repulsion, Artron Art Space, Shenzhen, China What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, Qatar Adrift, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China 2015The 3rd Ural Industrial biennial of contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia Illuminated, Gland, Beijing, China Literature, A-307 Space, Beijing, China The 2nd “CAFAM Future” Exhibition Observer – Creator-The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, United States 2014Unlived By What Is Seen, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China Another leap-The 1st PSA Emerging Curators Program, Power station of Art, Shanghai, China You Can Only Think about Something if You Think of Something Else, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Utopia For Sale? , MAXXI, Rome, Italy Joan Dark, western front, Vancouver, Canada The new exhibition – from the art to the position of the problem: the socialist realism echo, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China Memo II, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China 2013Hugo Boss Asia Art Award For Emerging Chinese Artists, ROCKBUND ART MUSEUM, Shanghai, China On|Off, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2012The Girl, Xiwang Art Museum, Beijing, China Spring, Para Site, Hong Kong, China 2011Thing Are Beginning To Change, chi K11, Art Museum Wuhan, China Some Will be Happen, chi K11 Art Museum, Wuhan, China 2010East Lake Art Plan, Wuhan, China
