Liu Qianyi
1987 Born in Beijing

2010 Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy with a bachelor's degree

2012 Graduated from the International Intelligence Communication Discipline of Waseda University with a master's degree

2014 Graduated from the International Intelligence Communication Discipline of Waseda University with a doctor's degree

Currently works and lives in Japan     

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015

Post Artworks Generation, Tokyo Germany Culture Art Center, Tokyo

2013  

Echo, Koganecho Art Center,Yokohama

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015
2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

2014  

Up Youth - Chinese Young Artists Recommended Exhibition, Times Art Museum, Beijing

Private Cuisine - Beijing Manet Art Museum Female Artists Exhibition, Manet Art Museum, Beijing

Chinese Contemporary Digital Image Show, Today Art Museum,Beijing

Alter Space - Japan,China, South Korea Image Show, Tokyo

2013  

Local Futures - Overseas Chinese Young Artists Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

The Garden of Forking Path, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai

Liu Qianyi: I completed my large-format paintings in 2012. At the time, I was experimenting with turning the language of the "Small Grid Series" into a force that could be released through letting it stretch across large canvases, searching for a more intuitive and expanded mode of expression. In the following works, there is consistency in the theme of exploring the body's capacity for feeling and perception. Our bodies are the most intuitive representation of our social lives. As modern society becomes mechanized and we are subject to a constant flow of information, we helplessly become increasingly impetuous as we are brainwashed and numbed. Our bodies are speaking, and I put them onto the canvas in the hope that they might be heard. This action is a search for something we shouldn't be looking for, which is the heart itself.