Li Shurui

Biography

Li Shurui (b. 1981, Chongqing. China) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004. She currently lives and works in Beijing and Dali.

The study of “light” and “color” and their cultural connotations constitute the core of Li Shurui’s artistic practice. The artist is convinced that the use of “light” and “color” can embody, record, and shape individuals’ needs and spirituality in different cultures and times, which is also related to their collective ideology in a broader sense. In recent years, the artist has developed a more comprehensive system of work methods. Drawing from her life experiences, Li Shurui explores the boundaries of the painted medium, as well as the functional, social and political nature of light and color through a highly personal approach and its extended practice.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2021

High Light: Splendor Worn Thin in the Recesses of Time, Long Museum, Shanghai, China

2020

Somewhere Between Abstract and Concrete, Carl Kostyál, Milan, Italy

2018

LSR·Tenderest Affection, New Galerie, Paris, France
Light Extracts, Salt Project, Beijing, China

2017

LSR·Deep White, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China

2014

Monadology, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China

2012

The Shelter: All Fears Come from the Unknown Shimmering at the Edge of the World, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
Li Shurui, Gallery SCQ, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2010

LSR, Connoisseur contemporary and Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2008

Li Shurui Solo Exhibition, Gallery A.Story, Seoul, Busan, Korea
Light, Connoisseur contemporary and Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022

A Descent into the Maelstrom, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2021

Nature Inside Art State, MAHÁ BEIJING, Beijing, China
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, PACE, Palo Alto, USA

2020

Fifth Fine Arts Documentary Exhibition, Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Good Pictures, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, USA
Restons Unis: You’ll Never Walk Alone, PERROTIN, Paris, France Soleil Vert, New Galerie, Paris, France

2019

LI Shurui – Zevs, New Galeries, Paris, France
Only Connect!, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Nine Journeys Through Time, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China Spiritual Origin, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
A White Space Odyssey, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
Enlightening Times, Duddell’s, Hong Kong, China
Who Cares, New Galerie, Paris, France

2018

on paper 2, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
Nine Journeys Through Time, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
A World in a Grain of Sand: Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Deometries, Atlantis, Sanya, China
NOW: A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK

2017

What’s Up Doc?, New Galerie, Paris, France
Constellation, Georgian National Museum Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2016

SHE: International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
Point and Line, Jewelvary Art and Boutique, Shanghai, China

2015

No Longer / Not Yet, MinSheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Editing the Spectacle:The Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
28 Chinese, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA
Jing Shen: The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Excellent Chinese Painter, Satisfaction Guaranteed Liao Guohe solo exhibition, SIFANG ART MUSEUM, Nanjing, China
Illuminated, Gland, Beijing, China

2014

The Making of a Museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China Myth History, Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China About Painting, OCAT XI’an, Shanxi, China

2013

28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
WEN JING, AIKE – DELLARCO, Shanghai, China
Memo I, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China
On | Off: China’s Young Artists in Concept & Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2012

Painting Lesson II – Negative and Positive Style, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China
Cohere & Unroll, Space Station, Beijing, China
Negative Space, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China

2011

Cui Jie, Li Shurui, Zhang Jungang and Li Jie, Leo Xu Project, Shanghai, China Fat Art 2011, Today Museum, Beijing, China
Visual Structure, A4 Art Center, Chengdu, China

2010

Future Visions: The APT Global Art Collection, Artist Pension Trust Li -Space Galery, Beijing

2009

Santa’s Workshop Shanghai, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
It Ain’t Fair, Deitch Project, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA

2008

Surfacing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China

2007

On the Yellow Sea, Gallery A.Story, Seoul, Korea

2006

All Look Same? Art China Korea Japan, Torino, Italy
Long March Capital Exhibited, Long March Space, Beijing, China

2002

Long March – A Walking Visually Display, Long March Space, Lugu Lake, China

2001

Being & Nobeing, Chongqing, China

Residencies

2016

New York Fellowship Program, Asian Cultural Council (ACC), New York, USA

Selected works

Exhibitions

Selected articles

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贺潇 | 余生记

November 24th, 2022

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艺术家访谈 | 李姝睿:我的绘画是时空中现实和感受的精炼记录

December 7th, 2022

Selected presses

Press release

A Descent into the Maelstrom

November 5th, 2022