Li Yan (artist)

Li Yan (Chinese: 李演; pinyin: Lǐ Yǎn) is an oil painting artist, born in Jilin, China in 1977, who lives and works in Beijing, China.

Biography

Li Yan was born in Jilin, China, in 1977.^[1]^[2] His solo exhibition Accident was held at the Platform China art gallery in Beijing in 2007 and was about terrorism and the Iraq War.^[3]^[4] His solo debut in the United States was at the Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles. Named Quotidian Truths, it discusses how politics and sports in China converge with each other.^[3]

Libor Sečka [cs], the ambassador of the Czech Republic to China from 2009 to 2015, wrote, "Li Yan is a reporter, chronicler, catcher, who mercilessly inscribes into his paintings all that is unusual, unexpected, destructive and cruel. All that got out of the traditional order and control. All that in one second changed the lives not only of individuals, but of hundreds and thousands in misfortune and disaster."^[5]

Solo exhibitions

2014 Limitless, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
2011 The Catastrophic World-A Chinese paints our age, Ling Galerie, Berlin
2010 Accidents, Ling Galerie, Berlin
2009 Snippet, Yamamoto Gendai Gallery, Tokyo
2008 Quotidian Truths - Paintings by LiYan, Moronokiang Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Accident, Platform China, Beijing

Selected exhibitions

2017 China meets Europe, Museum Villa Haiss, Zell am Harmersbach, Germany
2016 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2016, National Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016 Root Scene – Chinese Contemporary Art Group Show, China Exchange UK, London
2016 Benjamin Sigg Collection "Art of Collecting", Poly Gallery Hong Kong, Cobo House, Hong Kong
2015 All Living Creatures Scene, Taiwan Chia Nan Museum, Tainan
2015 Individual Scene, The Art Gallery of Sichuan University
2015 Exhibition on Summer’s Threshold, Embassy of The Czech Republic in China, Beijing
2015 Reflections of Spring, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
2013 Dreams of China, Python Gallery, Zurich
2013 The Sixth Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
2012 Yan Li - Li Yan: Two Sides of A Mirror, Embassy of the Czech Republic in China, Beijing
2011 Prague Action, China Czech Contemporary Museum, Beijing
2010 Emerging Artists from North, Mountain Art Beijing & Frank Lin Art Center, Beijing
2009 China Urban, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland
2008 The Revolution Continues: New Art From China, Saatchi Gallery, London
2008 Fear, Wedel Fine Art, London
2008 China trifft Berlin, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
2008 <Self-experience> - Young Artists Group Show, Platform China, Beijing
2007 Beijing Lightning Factory First Exhibition, Beijing lightning factory
2005 The Second Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
2004 The 10th National Fine Arts Exhibition—Oil Painting Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
2004 Zhenxing Northeast Industry District Fine Arts Exhibition, Liaoning Art Museum, Shenyang
2002 Graduation Exhibition of Eight Fine Arts Academies, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

References

^ Forstbauer, Nikolai B. (2014-03-06). "So still, so laut. Deutschlandpremiere: Bilder des chinesischen Malers Li Yan in der Stuttgarter Galerie Friese" [So quiet, so loud. German premiere: Pictures by the Chinese painter Li Yan in the Stuttgart Friese Gallery] (PDF). Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
^ Hinds, Makeda (2014-01-10). "Spotlight on London Art Fair 2014. Artfully ring in the new year by exploring all that the London art fair has to offer". Artnet. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
^ ^a ^b Farabee, Mindy (2008-07-24). "A Chinese artist makes the leap from reality to greater truths". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 422224986. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "[專稿] 事件——李演" [[Special Article] Accident——Li Yan] (in Chinese). China Internet Information Center. 2007-10-25. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
^ Sečka, Libor (2012-02-12). "Yan Li - Li Yan Two Sides of a Mirror" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.

External links

Official website

[Forstbauer2014-03-06-1] Forstbauer, Nikolai B. (2014-03-06). "So still, so laut. Deutschlandpremiere: Bilder des chinesischen Malers Li Yan in der Stuttgarter Galerie Friese" [So quiet, so loud. German premiere: Pictures by the Chinese painter Li Yan in the Stuttgart Friese Gallery] (PDF). Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.

[Hinds2014-01-10-2] Hinds, Makeda (2014-01-10). "Spotlight on London Art Fair 2014. Artfully ring in the new year by exploring all that the London art fair has to offer". Artnet. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.

[Mindy2008-07-24-3] Farabee, Mindy (2008-07-24). "A Chinese artist makes the leap from reality to greater truths". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 422224986. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.

[China2007-10-25-4] "[專稿] 事件——李演" [[Special Article] Accident——Li Yan] (in Chinese). China Internet Information Center. 2007-10-25. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.

[Sečka2012-02-12-5] Sečka, Libor (2012-02-12). "Yan Li - Li Yan Two Sides of a Mirror" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-02-03.

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