Liu Xinyi is an artist based in Beijing. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Sculpture Department, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and his Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths in London. Liu works on various medium including installation, moving & still image and context-specific project.
Liu Xinyi is interested in how individuals understand and respond to the technicalization of politics. He starts from verifying widely accepted political common sense and later develops in tracking the communication of ideologies in the transnational public sphere represented by satellite TV, commercial films, online encyclopedias and social media. In recent years, he starts his search for social spaces in reality with attention to the social construction of Chinese body, from which he traces of the underlying technologies that continue to build modern governance. Liu seeks to identify historical existence of the policing strategies and population management within urban public utilities, to study their multiplex coordination with today's political imagination.
A selection of his solo exhibitions/projects includes Signal(2018), Xining Contemporary Art Space & Xiaoqiao Art Space, Xining; Fraternité Passagère (2018), Galerie Liusa Wang & Espace DawanArt, Paris; Air Port (2017), Forum Art Museum, Dongguan; Hundred Thousand Miles Away (2016), White Space, Beijing; Chaoyang Qunzhong (2015), A307 Space, Beijing; Goulash (2014), White Space, Beijing and Excitation Waves (2013), Taikang Space, Beijing. His work have been featured in group exhibitions at Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, Qiao Space & Tank Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, OCAT Xi’an, Xi'an, Yuz Museum, Jakarta and Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing. He was nominated for the list of candidate of the Young Artist of the Year of the 11th Award of Art China (2017), his was also one of the shortlisted artist for the 4th Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award (2015).
solo & project exhibitions
2018 Signal, Joint West Residency, Xining Contemporary Art Space & Xiaoqiao Art Space, Xining, China Fraternité Passagère, DawanArt Residency, Galerie Liusa Wang & Espace DawanArt, Paris, France
2017 Air Port, Shek Mai Space Residency, Forum Art Museum, Dongguan, China
2016 Secret Chamber, Collective Project by Han Xinyi, Liu Xinyi and Yang Zi, AM Art Space, Shanghai, China Hundred Thousand Miles Away, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
2015 Chaoyang Qunzhong, A307 Project, A307 Space, Beijing, China
2014 Goulash, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
2013 Responsive Institution, Look Art Space Project, Ren Art Center, Beijing, China No Passing Through, Art Corridor Project, Taikang Life Insurance, Beijing, China Excitation Waves, Light Pavilion Project, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
2012 Agent L, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
2011 The Great Exhibition: two artists’ show of Tianzhuo Chen and Xinyi Liu, Hatch Space, London, UK Civil Diplomacy, First Step Project, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
group exhibitions
2019 China Landscape：Selections From the Taikang Collection 2019, No. A07, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China HOW NOW: The Life APP, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2018 Replay, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China The Comfort Zone At A Distance, Taikang Space, Beijing, China The New Masses, Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China On Paper 2, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China Le Grand Monnayage, the 8th Melle Biennale, Melle, France The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China: 2017, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China The Precariousness, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, China Nature Gone Astray, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017 Frontier Vision-Regional Topology and Politics of Post-Globalization, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China Twin Interfaces, Shangduli, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, China A Hundred Languages, Future Forest Lab, Nanjing, China Being Information, SSSSTART, Shanghai, China I Do(Not) Want to be Part of Your Celebration, Qiao Space & Tank Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, China Social Emotion, Cc Foundation & Art Centre, Shanghai, China Distance, N9 Art Center, Suzhou, China Between Utopia and Dystopia, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, China
2016 Radical Canteen, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China Hybirding Earth-Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale 2016, F1963 (KISWIRE Suyeong Factory), Busan, South Korea Migratory Stratosphere: Super Science and Technology Creative Art Exhibition, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China Up－Youth：China Young Artists Exhibition 2016, Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing, China Turning Point：Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 Scenarios of Time: Inter-Subjectivity, The Fourth Art-Sanya, Sanya, China Expanded Senses, B3 Biennial of Moving Image, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Pull Left: Not Always Right, The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College + The Rose Lehrman Art Gallery & Fenêtre Gallery, Central Pennsylvania's Community College (HACC), Pennsylvania, USA Moving In Time, B3+Beijing, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China Film, Art Basel HK, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator • The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014 Tomorrow's Party, The Pavilion, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Cosmos, 21st Century MinSheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Wormhole: Geo-Attraction, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei Pull Left: Not Always Right, Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, USA Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Pull Left: Not Always Right, Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Never Arriving, OCAT Xi'an, Xi'an, China Exploring the 80s, O Gallery, Beijing, China New Photos since 2009, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China You Are Damn Wrong, Matchbox Gallery, Rice University, Houston, USA The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture, 2nd CAFAM Biennale, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Winter Collective Show, Aike-dellaco Gallery, Shanghai, China Aura and Post Aura: 1st Beijing Photo Biennale, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China Pessimism or Resistance?, Taikang Space, Beijing, China Memo I, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China Point at a Deer, Call it a Horse, Cul De Sac Gallery, London, UK Action…Cut!-Liu Xinyi, Wang Taocheng, Ye Funa Joint Exhibition, Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia Come Rain or Come Shine, Aike-Dellarco Gallery, Shanghai, China On|Off: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China On the Way Home, Art Museum of Pudong Internatial Airport, Shanghai, China
2012 Get it Louder, LD Design Center, Beijing, China Being Misread on 16th October, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China Conscious Folly, AM Art Space, Shanghai, China China Drifting, Video Sector, Abart, Zurich, Switzerland Art Nova 100, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China Problematic Field, Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, China Show+ing 2012, SW1 Gallery, London, UK Flat Show: 5 Young Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, 55 Arnhem Wharf, London, UK Halo Effect, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
2011 Peripheries, Manchester Asia Triennial, 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester, UK The Catalyst, UK China Art and Design Festival, Great Western Studios, London, UK
2010 Mirror Mirror on the Wall, TamTam 8, Berlin, Germany Pause and Eject 2, Shoreditch Townhall, London, UK
2009 Pause and Eject, Rag Factory, London, UK Contested Ground, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2008 Inward, PIFO New Art Studios, Beijing, China Authentic, KU Art Center, Beijing, China
artist talks & seminars & workshops
2019 Artist Talk, HOW Talks: The Life APP | Slippery Hen, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2018 Artist Talk, Joint West Residency, Xiaoqiao Art Space, Xining, China Artist Talk, Joint West Residency, Gansu Gemma Photography School, Lanzhou, China Seminar, Histoiries of Writing: On the State of Contemporary Art Writing, UCCA Workshop, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2017 Artist Talk, Young artists' development series seminar, School of Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China Artist Talk, Shek Mai Contemporary Art Seminar, Qifeng Art Musuem, Dongguan, China Seminar, Randian Journal lauch, Winter Issue 2017, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
2016 Mixed Media Workshop, the Studio of Place and Space Art, School of Sculpture and Public Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Seminar, Writing as practice, Taikang Space, Beijing, China Art Writing Workshop, Salt Projects, Beijing, China
2014 Artist Talk, Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Seminar, New Photos since 2009, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2012 Artist Talk, the Studio of Art in Public Space, Sculpture Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
artist residencies
2019 Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2018 Joint West Residency, Cube Art Gallery & Xining Contemporary Art Space, Yingchuan & Lanzhou & Xining, China
2017 DawanArt Residency, DawanArt, Paris, France Winter Project Residency, Shek Mai Art Space, Dongguan, China
awards
2017 Nominated for the Young Artist of the Year of the 11th Award of Art China, Beijing, China
2015 Shortlisted for 4th Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award, Sanya, China
collection Taikang Collection, Yachang Collection, K11 Shenyang Mall, Sishang Art Museum Collection Uli Sigg Collection and other private collections in China, EU and USA
2011 The Great Exhibition: 陈天灼和刘辛夷双人项目，Hatch Space，伦敦，英国 Civil Diplomacy，First Step项目，Chinese Arts Centre，曼彻斯特，英国
群展 2019 中国风景：2019泰康收藏精品展，A07号楼，798艺术区，北京，中国 HOW NOW：生活应用，昊美术馆，上海，中国
2018 Replay，空白空间，北京，中国 登录舒适区？, 泰康空间，北京，中国 新群众，南京艺术学院美术馆，南京，中国 On Paper 2，空白空间，北京，中国 Le Grand Monnayage，第八届梅勒双年展，梅勒，法国 中国当代艺术年鉴展：2017，北京民生现代美术馆，北京，中国 漂流，现代汽车文化中心，北京，中国 误入歧途的自然，马凌画廊，上海，中国
