BIOGRAPHY
1942 Born in Lanxi County, Heilongjiang Province, China
1963 Studies at the University of Heilongjiang, China
1964-68 Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Drama, Arts Department (oil painting), Shanghai, China
1969 Works in a military farm in Zhejiang Province, China
1985-94 Lecturer at the Art Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Drama, Shanghai, China
Currently living in Shanghai, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
2014
- Extension Expansion, MoCA@Loewen, Singapore
2012
- Reading Li Shan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
- The Pumpkin Project - Li Shan & Zhang Pingjie Bio-Art Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005
- The Early Works (1980s) of Shanghai Avant-garde Artist: Li Shan, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2002
- Reading, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
1994
- Building the Rouge Empire, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1990
- Shanghai Academy of Drama, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021-2022
2020
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Waves and Echoes, A Process of Re-Contemporarization in Chinese Art Circa 1987 Revisited, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019
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Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- The Return of Guests, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
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Then, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017
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Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
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The Bond of Arts: Duolun International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
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The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China
2016
2015
2012
2009
- Shanghai Tang 1979-2009, Shanghai, China
- Yi Pai - Century Thinking A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
- Accumulations–The Spirit of the East, Asia Art Centre, Beijing, China
- Blackbridge 08' Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Gallery Blackbridge, Beijing, China
2006
- 85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- Strategy on Paper - Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
2004
- The Wall-Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, University Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, USA; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2003
- Dajia-Studies on Design from Contemporary Art, Museum of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Open Sky: Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2002
- Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2000
- Gallery Artists: Gu WEnda, Wang Tiande, Li Shan, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
1998-2000
- Inside Out: New Chinese Art, PS1, Asia Society Galleries, New York; Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA, USA; 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
- Chinese Abstraction and Beyond, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
1994
- Art Taipei, Alisan Fine Arts, Taipei World Trade Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
- Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993
- 45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
- Chinese Art: Post-1989, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
1992
- Begegnung mit den Anderen, Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Dokumenta Kassel und Hamm; Munich; Germany
1989
- 7 Modern Painters from the People's Republic of China, Galerie Werner Melletin, Cologne, Germany
- Contemporary Chinese Art, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
1988
- 2nd Concave/Convex Installation Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1987
- A State of Transition: Contemporary Painting From Shanghai, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1986
- 1st Concave/Convex Installation Exhibition: Ding Yi, Li Shan, Yu Youhan, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai, China
- Grand Opening Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1983
- Stage '83: Painting Experiments, with Leng Hong, Zhang Jian-Jun, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
1982
- Painting the Chinese Dream: Chinese Art 30 years after the Revolution, Smith College, Northampton; City Hall, Boston; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1978
- Yallay Gallery, Hong Kong
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonisia
Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Heilongjiang Museum, Heilongjiang, China
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
M+, Hong Kong