Biography

LIU Ren (b. 1983) graduated from the Department of Printmaking at Fine Art College of Shanghai University in 2007 and now lives and works in Shanghai. LIU’s art practice mainly involves painting, sculpture and installation. He so often draws inspiration from everyday materials around him and conceals accumulated sentiments and analytical texts behind the clean, neat and orderly visual forms. He focuses on the passage of time, the consumption of life and the state of human beings, where fragmented information and mundane materials are transformed.

 

LIU Ren’s solo exhibitions include "Yesterday Once More" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2021), "Times" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2018), "Spring, River, Flowers, Moon, Night" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2016), "FILTRATE" (White Space, Beijing, 2013), "Youth: Everything in Between - Liu Ren & Su Chang" (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2012), “2008102020091112..8:35...” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2009) etc. His work has also been widely exhibited at ASE Foundation (Shanghai, 2023), 798 CUBE (Beijing, 2023), By Art Matters (Hangzhou, 2022), Art Basel (Hong Kong, 2021), K11 Art Museum (Shanghai, 2021), Sinan Mansions (Shanghai, 2020), West Bund Art Centre-Ceramic House (Shanghai, 2019), UNArt Center (Shanghai, 2019), Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation (Shenzhen, 2018), Yuz Museum (Shanghai, 2017), chi K11 art museum (Shanghai, 2016), Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2016), Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2015), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing, 2015) and Shanghai Himalayas Museum (Shanghai, 2014), etc.

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