Background
Liu was born in 1963 in the small industrial town of Jincheng, a pulp and paper-producing center in Liaoning province.
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Liu Xiaodong
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Education
Liu was born in 1963 in the small industrial town of Jincheng, a pulp and paper-producing center in Liaoning province. At age 17 he moved to Beijing to study art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. (中央美术学院) He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in oil painting in 1988, and a Master of Fine Art in oil painting in 1995, both from CAFA. In 1998-1999 he continued his studies overseas at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain.
He now holds tenure as a professor in the painting department at CAFA.
Career
2011 Paintings of Yan" Guan. Art Basel Miami, Miami, Florida. A preview of these paintings were published in Harper"s Magazine.
2010 Liu Xiaodong has a new exhibition of his paintings in Beijing starting 18 November 2010.
2009 Inaugural Exhibition, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing 2008 Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago 2006 Biennale of Sydney 2006, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW The Three Gorges Project - Paintings by Liu Xiaodong, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California 2005 The Wall - Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the United States., ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona The Second Beijing International Art Biennale 2005, Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 2004 Three Gorges, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island 2003 Alors, la Chine ?, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris 2002 The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong 2001 Liu Xiaodong, Galerie Loft, Paris 2000 Photography as fine art, galerie skala, Cologne Portraits, figures, couples and groups, BizArt, Shanghai.
