616 Li Ran (1986) Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009, Li is the cofounder of the artist group "公司 /Company". Li has had solo shows at Beijing’s Magician Space and Shanghai’s Aike Dellarco Gallery, and was included in the Shenzhen and Gwangju Biennales in 2012. Li also took part in curator Biljana Ciric’s “Alternatives to Ritual” exhibition at the Goethe Institute Open Space in Shanghai, and ON/OFF, a major survey of young Chinese artists in Beijing’s Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA). In 2013, Li participated in a group show focusing on reassessing performance art in China (curated by Su Wei at Beijing’s Star Gallery). For Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, Li was commissioned by Aike Dellarco to create a new piece for the gallery’s space in the “Discoveries” section of the fair. Li Sa (1975) Originally from Henan Province, Li was trained in traditional ink painting techniques. It was during his studies at the Beijing Central Academy’s Material and Expression Studio in the Department of Chinese Painting that he began to realize the inadequacy of traditional ink painting as a medium to express his contemporary living experience. Working as a part time professor and artist in Beijing, Li’s geometric abstract painting draws together elements from his training in classical Chinese painting and his daily life. Reworking the traditional concept of Chinese painting composition’s empty space, the artist creates in a number of media, such as acrylic, gold and silver foil, and ink on raw canvas to produce his desired effect. Li’s works can be found in the public collections of the Macau Art Museum, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, the Chongqing Art Museum, the Henan Provincial Museum, the Shenzhen Guan Shanyue Art Museum, the Shanxi Provincial Museum, the Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, the Hilton Hotel, Beijing, and the Park Hyatt, Ningbo in China. Li Shurui (1981) A graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, Li has had a number of solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the Deitch Project at Art Basel Miami in 2009 and Artissima in Turin in 2013. Now living and working in Beijing, Li is particularly well known for her "Light" series which began in 2005. Over the years, Li has continued to develop her concepts of light, space, and the colour spectrum. Often in large formats, her works are powerful not only from their impressive scale, but also the immersive ambience they create around the viewer. They have an astounding ability to capture the viewer's imagination, leaving them with a resonating impression. Li Songhua (1969) Li Songhua is one of the most promising artists that has emerged from China today. His sculptures and installations use different materials, some of them unusual, mixing traditional methods with an informal approach, such as bronze and feathers. He draws his inspiration from ancient myths but adapts to modern day tastes and expresses himself according to new contemporary approaches. He has been invited to exhibit at large art exhibitions at home and abroad including The Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum in 2005, China Gold: Chinese Contemporary Art, Musée Maillol, Paris and Poznan Biennial of International Contemporary Art, in 2008. Li Wei (1979) Born in Harbin in 1979, Li obtained a master degree at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, in 2007, and has predominantly exhibited in museums and galleries across China. Her works fall into two general categories; one which manipulates the density of lines to create abstract space and the other is based on meticulously applied dots to explore the way in which viewers perceive and experience space. Li's focus on natural landscapes as subjects and general tendency towards large-scaled works recall her training in fresco painting; fresco has always been an integral part of any space - it is meant to create an entire environment for the audience to experience. This distinctive quality is clearly evident in Li's oeuvre. Li Wei (1981) A graduate from the Sculpture Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Li is one of China's latest generation of female artists who is fast gaining critical recognition for her work. Following the strong tradition of figurative art in China, Li's fibreglass sculptures and portraits are based on life models, which in turn infuse them with a very real sense of humanity. Her largescaled sculptural installations often evoke an eerie, if not sinister, ambience. A key theme in Li's work is "forgetting" as she strives to reveal what the viewer would rather forget. Li Xiaojing (1981) Now living and working in Beijing, Li is a contemporary abstract artist whose work has been actively followed worldwide. In contrast to the Rational paintings of the 1980s, Li's works are concerned with micro qualities, individual thoughts and feelings. Similar to a personal diary, her paintings incorporate references to natural forms but are set within a tenuous and remote visual context. Li Yongbin (1963) Li has always been fascinated by the representation of temporality and the ways and possibilities in which we perceive events unfolding. In the last decades he has made numerous unedited real-time recordings of non-dramatic events, or rather, nonevents. Li Zhangyang (1969) With a background in sculpture from the Luxun Art Academy and later the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Li now works in Chongqing, where he also teaches at the Sichuan Academy. Since 2000, Li’s work has been shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world. By turns satirical, radical and poignant, Li’s monumental installations are derived from firsthand observations of Chinese contemporary society. Li’s figurative style of neo-realism offers an honest look at the decadent side of present-day China; at times, his work is reminiscent of Dutch Old Masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel the Elder. Following their lead in both amusing and criticising, Li’s gentle self-mockery throws life into perspective. “I observe and depict people like you and me.” Li Zhouwei (1973) Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Li now works at the Academy as a lecturer and is also a painter at the Guangdong Art Academy Youth Painting Institute. Li was one of the winnders of the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize in 2010. Liang Juhui (1977-2006) The Big Tail Elephant Group (also known as the Long Tail Elephant Group) emerged in Guangzhou, China, in response to the city’s rapid urbanization in the early 1990s. Liang was one of the 3 founding artists which also included Lin Yilin and Chen Shaoxiong. They came together with a common interest in the transformation and inevitable corruption of modern cities. Through performances, installations and exhibitions of a wide spectrum of works, the Big Tail Elephant Group provided an open space for artists to explore issues associated with urban development. Liang Shaoji (1945) A graduate of Zhejiang Fine Art School and now living in Linhai, Liang has exhibited extensively in international Biennales and Triennales, including Venice (1999), Lyon (2000) and Shanghai (2000 and 2006). Well known for his serenely abstract hangings and installations referencing Chinese classical philosophy, Liang started his "Nature Series" in 1988, breeding silkworms and incorporating them into his works. This proved to be a turning point for his artistic practice as he combined bioecology, weaving, sculpture and video to create "recordings of the fourth dimension." Liang Wei (1959) Liang is one of many Chinese artists now residing in the US. Having lived in Seattle, USA for the past 20 years, he continues to paint landscapes that express his personal experiences. "I try to reclaim such moments that get lost in the bustle, to reawaken our vision of where we live; I wish to inspire people to appreciate your living environment, which leads our aspirations to reality." Liang Yuanwei (1977) Liang is a young artist whose photography, painting, and installation work often focuses on articulating the sites of both beauty and oppression within the semiotics of the everyday. Notable for her membership in the N12 group, she began organizing exhibitions and attracting international attention along with her peers during and immediately after her time as a student. Her most recent work has involved themes of discretion, secrecy, interpersonal communication, personal struggle, and the affect produced therein. Significantly, her work claims that this affect is all that fills up the empty space that dominates domesticity and everyday life. Uniquely, her practice rejects the feminine specificity idealized by so many of her peers in favor of more broadly universal explorations of social themes. Lim H.H. (1954) Lim is a Malaysian artist of Chinese heritage currently living in Rome. He expresses his conceptual art through painting, installation and self performance. His installation works highlight his interest in, and critique of, the dissimilation inherent in the everyday living reality of consumerism. Despite living in and surrounded by Western culture and patterns of thought, LIM's work still breathes a certain quality of Eastern philosophy. The visual objects he employs are not kept to a particular semantic meaning, but rather are reassigned as required by his artistic creations. Lin Tianmiao (1961) Lin is a highly regarded installation artist. She has made a career transforming silk, threads and textiles into elaborate works of art. Influenced by Ann Hamilton, Barbara Kruger and Kiki Smith, Lin has taken household objects and wrapped them in white thread, or reconfigured them in a way that express her conflicting feelings about a women’s everyday chores. She also experiments with photography and video. In 2002, she with her husband, the video artist, Wang Gongxin, created an installation ("Here? Or There?") involving photos, video and eerie sculptures and bizarre costumes.
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