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Liu Ding Page 1 \| Biography
Born: Changzhou Jiangsu Province, China Lives: Beijing


Solo Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010 �Liu Ding�s Store�, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China �Liu Ding: Conversations�, Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Aftergallery, Moscow, Russia 2009 I WROTE DOWN SOME OF MY THOUGHTS � LIU DING, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing- Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland 2008 "Traces of Sperm", L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany 2007 "The Ruins of Pleasure", Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy "Tiger", Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing, China "The Remaining Landscape � New Paintings by Liu Ding", Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2006 "Samples from the Transition � Products", L.A. Galerie Frankfurt, Germany 2005 "Samples from the Transition � Treasure", Long March Project Room, Beijing, China 2004 "Noah's Living Room � The Power of the Mass", China Unlimited, Berlin, Germany "Image Beyond Image � Liu Ding's Photography", Rooseum, Malm�, Sweden 2001 "White Ecstasy � Liu Ding's Installation", KAYI Gallery, Nanjing, China 1998 "Unbalance � Liu Ding's Paintings", FEIFAN Art Center, Nanjing, China
Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 "EAA (Emerging Chinese Artists)", KDJ Convention Center, Gwanju, Korea "Zeitgen�ssische chinesische Fotografie", Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany �Liberation � and its Relative Meaning�, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK �Personal Frontier � An Inaugural Exhibition by ia32 Space�, ia32 Space, Beijing, China �Reshaping History � Chinart from 2000 to 2009�, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China �Glass Factory � Art in the New Financial Era�, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China �Mush-room�, Aftergallery, Moscow, Russia �Jungle � A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends�, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China 2009 53rd Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy "The Big World: Recent Art from China", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA The 2009-2011 Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada 5th Latin-American Biennial of Visual Arts, Instituto Paranaense de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil 2008 "China: Construction Deconstruction", Museum of Art San Paulo, San Paulo, Brazil "Aurum � Gold in Contemporary Art�, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland "Down Town Prodution � Exhibition of the Artists Who Live in the City�, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK "Far West", Arnolfini Arts Center, Bristol, UK "Art Multiple", Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China "New World Order", Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands "Global Eurasia", special exhibition in Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany "Community of Tastes", Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2007 "China Power Station II", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway "Forms of Concepts � The Second Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts", Center for Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China "Chinese Video: Chord Changes in the Megalopolis", Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles,USA "Between and Reality and Illusion", Marty Walker Gallery, Texas, USA "Foreign Objects", Project Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria "Thermocline of Art � New Asian Waves", ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany "Timer � Intimacy", Triennial Bovisa, Milan, Italy 2006 "AllLookSame?" Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy "Dual Realities � The Fourth Seoul International Media Art Biennale", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea "China Power Station I", Battersea Power Station, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK "Beijing Biennial of Architecture 2006", The National Museum of China, Beijing, China "The Amber Room", Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA "Chaos City", Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing, China "The Poetic Reality � A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan", RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China "Fiction @ Love", MOCA, Shanghai, China "Renovation � Relations of Production", Long March Space, Beijing, China "Beyond - the Second Guangzhou Triennial", Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China "Complete Art Experience Project No. 6 � Playground of Authorship", University of Rochester, New York, USA "Limitation and Freedom", Wuhan Art Archives and Center, Wuhan, China "Complete Art Experience Project No. 5 � 24 Hours", Beijing Film Studio, Beijing, China "Archaeology of the Future � The Second Triennial of Chinese Art", Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China "Complete Art Experience Project No. 1 � Incest", Platform China, Beijing, China 2004 Myth and Reality � A Look Towards East", The 55th Edition of Fondazione Premio Michetti, Michetti Museum, Francavilla al mare, Italy "Temporality", L.A. Gallery, Beijing, China 2003 "Illusion", Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China "Play Not Play", Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China "Aphrodisiac", Hai Shang Shan Art Centre, Shanghai, China "Space � Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition", Guangdong, Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China "Lustre � Two-Man Exhibition of Yu Fan & Liu Ding�, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China 2002 "Death is Silence", Yan Club, Beijing, China "New Urbanism � Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", Guangdong Museum Of Art, Guangzhou, China 2001 "Money Funny Honey", Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China "Inauguration of the New Gallery", China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China 1999 "Restrained Over Restrained � A Short Film", 3M Gallery, Nanjing, China "Aesthetes and Vagueness � Performance Art Exhibition", Qinliang Park, Nanjing, China "The Feeling of Floating", Nanjing Normal University Museum, Nanjing, China
Bibliography Selected Bibliography Albertini, C. (2008). Liu Ding. In: Avatars and Antiheros. A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. Tokyo New York London: Kodansha International. pp. 76-79. Battistion, E. & Zhu Tong (2006). Fancy Dream. NYARTS, July-August, vol 11, p. 39, 42. Boers, W. & Pi Li (2007). In: Touching the Stones. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter K�nig. pp. 212-215. Bonami, F. (2006). ALLLOOKSAME?: China, Japan, Korea. Milano: Mondadori Electa. pp.172-175. Fang Zhenning (2006). D-Lab 2005-01. Vision. January-February, p.126. Jocks, H.-N. (2008). Liu Ding. Das Gef�hl der Langeweile ohne die geringste Wut im Bauch. Ein Gespr�ch mit Heinz-Nobert Jocks. Kunstforum International, November -Dezember, 194. pp. 185 ? 195 Liu Ding (2008). Do It ? How and What Do We Let the Art Museums Do. In: DO IT, ed. Hu Fang and Obrist, H.-U., Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou. p. 24-25. Liu Ding (2006). Liu Ding In: Artist Links 2002-2006. China. Published by Artist Links China. pp.132-135. Lu, Carol. (2006). Liu Ding. Contemporary Annual. p. 42-43. Lu, Carol. (2007). Liu Ding. In: China Art Book. The 80 most renowned Chinese artists. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag. pp. 200-207. Lu, Carol. (2004). Temporality. Available: www.absoluteart.com. Lu, Carol (2003). Clothes and Capsules ? new installation art from China. Flash Art, July ? September, no.231. pp 94-96. Lu, Carol (2003). First Beijing Biennale. Flash Art, November ? December, no. 233. p 41, 50. Lu, Carol ( 2003). Artist of the week: Liu Ding ? Player & Deceiver. Available: www.Chinese-art.com. Lu, Carol ( 2003). Interview with Liu Ding, Available: www.tom.com. Liu Ligan (2002). Lost in Freedom, a profile of Liu Ding. Available: www.rongshu.com. Matt, G. (2008). Liu Ding. In: Interviews 2. Wien: Kunsthalle Wien. pp. 180-187. Millichap, J. (Ed.) (2006). Liu Ding. In: New Photography in China. Hongkong: 3030 Press, pp. 96-101. Nav Haq (2008). Consumer Seismography. In: Liu Ding- Products. Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. 5-6. Obrist, H.-U., Hou Hanru, Guo Xiaoyan (Ed). (2005) The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Lingnan Publishing House, Guangzhou: Guangdong Museum of Art. Spalding, D. (2008). Priceless Images, Heartless Paintings: the Critical Complicity of Liu Ding. In: Liu Ding- Products. Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. 31-37. Spalding, D. (2006). Eager Paintings, Empathetic Products: Liu Ding?s Critical Complicity. Yishu ? Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Winter issue, pp 69-72. Spalding, D. (2006). Second Guangzhou Triennial Review, Artforum, April 2006, p.264. Serpentine Gallery (2006). Liu Ding. Fused Magazine. China Power Station Issue Part 1. p. 21. Vine, R. (2006). Cities on the Make. Art In America. September 2006, p.75. Wu Hong (2003). Distance: The Relationship between Psychology and Physiology, Virtual and Real, Normal and Abnormal. In: Distance ? the 21st Century Chinese Fine Arts Anthology, Guangzhou: Guangdong Museum of Art. pp 20-29. Yao, Pauline J. (2008). Liu Ding ? Tracing the Surface In: Young Chinese Artists ? The next Generation. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel, pp. 150 ? 159.


Publications Arnolfini (2008). Liu Ding - Products, Bristol.

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