Li Liang

Li Liang graduated from The Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. He received his masters degree from The Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011.

Awards and Exhibitions

2017 Art Central – Hong Kong Special Administrative,Region

2016 Solo Exhibition “Uncertain Journey” – Beijing,China

2015 Asia Contemporary – Hong Kong Special Administrative,Region

2014 “7 Artists Exhibition”, Tianjing Da-Gang Museum, Tianjing, China

2013 “Art Shenzhen”, Shenzhen, China

2012 “Truly Sincerity”, solo exhibition at 798 GALLERY TAIPEI, Taipei,Taiwan

2011 “Graduate Student Exhibition”, Central Academy of Fine Arts,Beijing, China

2010 “Chinese Art Exhibition”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,China

2008 “Group Exhibition Show”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,China

2007 “Graduate Exhibition”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,China

2006 “Six People”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2005 “Excellent Works Exhibition”, Central Academy of Fine Arts,Beijing, China

2004 Museum collection: “Landscape Oil Painting”, collected by the Central Academy of Art, Beijing,

Li’s work has explored a new genre emerging amongst young Chinese artists of The Dragon Year. We call it “Eastern Magical Realism.” Similar to the magical realism of Latin America, one finds both the real world and the imagined world interacting together on the canvas.

In Li’s images, younger people are depicted with dream-like images that emerge from their inner wonderings and surround the space around them. Common images for young boys are boats, water and rocks.

In this manner, Li draws his work solidly from the history of Chinese traditional painting. Conveying powerful emotion, the images combine to create a whole – in the instance of Li’s paintings, the whole is a poetic representation of the young person depicted, as they are in the real world and as they imagine in their inner world.