1980

Born in Qinhuangdao,China

 

2004-2007

MA Photography and Digital Media, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

 

2009-2015

Teaching in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China.

 

2022-Now

Ph.D. candidate at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China.

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

 

2010

“Liu Ren: A Photography Retrospective”,1 ARTBANK,Westin Beijing Chaoyang,Beijing

“Spring . Dream”,Dun Gallery,Beijing

 

2009

“Peony Pavilion”,VIPS International Art Galleries,Amsterdam,Nederland

 

2008

"Fotofest2008-Liu Ren’s Photographs",Rice University Media Center,Houston,TX,USA

“Peony Pavilion”,Andrew James Art,Shanghai

“Liu Ren’s Photographs”,Cais Gallery,Seoul,Korea

“Between the real and the surreal”,VIPS International Art Galleries,Rotterdam,Nederland

 

2006

“Someday Somewhere”,Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery,Beijing

 

2005

“Perfect Life”,Must Be Contemporary Art Center,Beijing

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

“Eternal Scenery-Global Youth Image Art 100 and TOP10 Cultivation Program",Beijing China Millennium Monument World Art Center,Beijing

“The 14th National Exhibition-Exhibition of Experimental Art,Digital Art and Animation Works",China Art Museum,Shanghai

 

2023

“Synthetic Living-Image Art in Digital Era",CDCIM,Chengdu

 

2020

“One Hundred Days of Solitude",Art Plus Shanghai Gallery,Shanghai

 

2018

“Line-In Celebration of the Centennial of Central Academy of Fine Arts",China Cultural Centre,Sydney,Australia

“The Structure of the Dimension:Fields of Contemporary Art” HABITAT Art Festiva, Qin Huang Dao

 

2016

“Chinascape:From Rural to Urban–Exhibition of Chinese Contemporaty Photography",IGAV-Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visice,Milan,Italy

“Fire Within " China`s New Generation of Women Artists, Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University,USA

“The World of Fantasy” Jacob K. Javits Convention Center,New York,USA

 

2015

“Neo-Perception:China's New Generation of Women Artists",PearlLam Galleries,Shanghai

“Liu Ren & Gao Hui - conceptual photograph in China " Gallerie Photo12,Paris,France

“Art Beijing”,Agricultural Center of China,Beijing

“Poly Action 10th Anniversary - 2015 Spring Action”,Agricultural Center of China,Beijing

“Citylogue” Artwork from the faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts City Design School,798 Space,Beijing

“Collaboration with Dubai Week inChina”, The Orange in Sanlitun Village,Beijing

 

2014

“The Road to Elysium " visual journey through the surreal, Heist. Gallery,London,UK

“Collaboration with BMW 3 Series Li Horse Edition”,Enjoy Art Museum,Beijing

“Collaboration with URBN Hotel”, URBN Hotel,Shanghai

“New Faces New Works" Art Nova 100 Hong Kong Station,K11 Art Mall,Kong Kong

“ASYAAF2014 ",Gallery LVS,Seoul,South Korea

 

2013

“Roots of the Relations",Seoul Museum of Art,Songzhuang Art Center

“A History of Chinese Contemporary Photography",Galerie Paris-Beijing,Brussels, Belgium

“Park"Art Beijing 2013 Special Project:Art Zone,Agricultural Exhibition Center,Beijing

“Surreal City – Contemporary Art Group Exhibition",Art+Shanghai Gallery,Shanghai

 

2012

“Conceptual Renewal-A Brief History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art”,Si Shang Art Museum,Beijing

“Natural Mind”——1st Italy-China Biennale, Villa Reale, Monza,Milan, Italy

“Rising Dragon”, Katonah Museum of Art,Bedford,USA

“Isomer”Screenage Art Phenomenon Exhibition, "Art Beijing",Beijing

"STANDING AT THE WATER'S EDGE",M97 Gallery,Shanghai

"nowwhere",gang artspace 2F,Seoul,Korea

“Travel Far and Wide”Special Invitation Exhibition to Artists for the Opening of ID MALL

“The Ninth China Art Festival” Wudang Mountains,Hubei

 

2011

“His Her Stories”, MK2 Art Space,Beijing

“Group Standing Show”,TV12 Gallery,Seoul, Korea

"Art Nova 100", Beijing,Guangzhou,Shanghai,Wuxi,Hongkong

"Homologous the actual and virtual" Beijing New Media Arts Exhibition 2011, Songzhuang Art Museum ,Beijing

"Art Beijing",Agricultural Exhibition Centre,Beijing

"ANTHROPOCENE”,Red Zone Gallery,Geneva,Switzerland

"Nomadic Reality",Art Gate Gallery,New York,USA

“moderne chinese kunst in Rotterdam”,Rotterdam, Nederland

“A Room of One’s Own” Art + Shanghai Gallery,Shanghai

 

2010

“A Decade Long Exposure”The Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese Contemporary Photography, cafamuseum,Beijing

“Hong Kong International Art Fair”,Hong Kong Converntion&Exhibition Centre,Hong Kong

“The Second Beijing Film Academy NEW MEDIA ART Triennial”,Beijing Film Academy,Beijing

“Emerging Artists Part 2 China”,MK2 Art Space,Beijing

“Filter Window”, Young Chinese Artists Group Exhibition Beyond Art Space,Beijing

“Digital Generation”, Gallerie Paris-Beijing,Beijing

“2010 Screenage Art Document Exhibition”, Songzhuang Art Museum ,Beijing

“THEIR HORIZON — Young artists promotion chapter 2”, 798 Center For Art Promotion,Beijing

 

2009

“Speak˙Describe — 2009 Cross-Strait Contemporary Art”,National Art Museum of China, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

“Metropolis Now,The Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art”,Meridian International Center,Washington, USA

“Stars of China Past and Present”,Museum JAN VAN DER TOGT, Rotterdam,Nederland

“PHOTO KOREA 2009”,Seoul,Korea

“Animamix Biennial”, Today Art Museum, MOCA Taipei,MOCA Shanghai,Guangdong Museum Of Art

“reai-life fairy tale”,Beyond Art space,Beijing

“Art and Cultural Vision at Moment — 2009 Art Chongqing Biennale of the young,” Chongqing International Convention & Exhibition Center,Chongqing

“GREEN ART FAIR 2009”China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall,Beijing

“Multiple Visions”,Epson Imaging Gallery, Beijing

“Beyond Globalization”,Beyond Art Space,Beijing

“Seemingly Beautiful”,PYO Gallery,Beijing

“The Dimensions of Double Images”,Venue Beijing New Age Gallery,Beijing

 

2008

“Busan Biennale”, Busan,Korea

“Butterfly Dream”,Moca Shanghai,Shanghai

“Moscow International Biennale for Young Art”,Moscow, Russia

“Soliloquy:The Reconstruction Of Art”,Shuimu Art Space,Beijing

“Exquisite Corpse: China Surreal”,M97 Gallery,Shanghai

“Waiting in the Wings”,beyondartspace,Beijing

“Hetero-Imagery – A Kind of Psychology of Urban Image”,798 Photo Gallery,Beijing

“Dreams:LIU REN & CHEN ZHUO/HUANG KEYI”,Ooi Botos Gallery,Hong Kong

 

2007

“the Alchemy of Shadows-Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007”,Lianzhou

“Seventh Photo Festival CHINA,Contemporary Photo&Video”,Gana Art Gallery,Seoul,South Korea

“Dual Space”,Gallery Mook Contemporary Art,Beijing

“CHILE/CHINA_SEWN”,Segment Space,Beijing

“Art Beijing 2007 Contemporary Art Fair”,National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing

“ShContemporary 2007”,Shanghai Exhibition Center,Shanghai

“Between Reality and Illusion”,Marty Walker Gallery,Dallas,USA

“3 Three photography”,Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC, USA

“China International Gallery Exposition 2007”,Beijing

“Trust the Future”,Beijing TS1 Contemporary Art Center,Beijing

“Asiana-A Survey of Contemporary Asian Art”,Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini,Toronto,Canada

“Only Child”,Shanghai Zhu Qi Zhan Art Gallery, Toured to Beijing TS1 Contemporary Art Center,Beijing Imperiarl City Art Exibition Center

 

2006

“Arles Photograph Art Festival”,Arles,France

“Object to France”,Centre Culturel France in Beijing,Beijing

“Ultra-Sense”,Seoul International Photography Festival, South Korea

“China/Chai-na”,706 Space,Beijing

“Post Electronic Image”,Must Be Contemporary Art Center, Shanghi Eastlink Gallery,New York Long Island Art Space

 

2005

“The Second Reality-Photographs from China”, Piazza Berlaymont Building,Brussels

“Beijing Art Documental-Jiang Hu”,799 Art Center,Beijing

 

 

AWARDS

 

2024

Cross connections 2024 international exhibition&competition of visual communication design&emerging media design honorable Mention

 

2021-2022

Full scholarship of CAFA

 

2011

"Asia ARTZOO Competition 2011",silver award

 

2007

CAFA Elinchrom Photography Scholarship 2007

 

2006

“First Prize”,French Embassy and French Cultural Center in China Photography Competition

“Creativity Award (Academic Section)”,2006 International Digital Art and Harries National Digital Art Awards New Media Art Lab of BFA

“New Person Prize”,China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2006

“Award for Excellence”,Photography and Digital Section, China Tongli University Photography Festival

 

 

PUBLIQUE COLLECTIONS

 

National Art Museum of China,Beijing

Gwangju Cultural Foundation,South Korea

Museum JAN VAN DER TOGT, Rotterdam,Nederland

Gana Art Gallery,Seoul,South Korea

M97 Gallery,Shanghai

Cais Gallery, Korea

Andrew James Art,Shanghai

VIPS International Art Galleries, Nederland

Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery,Beijing

Ooi Botos Gallery,Hong Kong

Chateau de Maubreuil

 

 

PRIVATE COLLECTORS IN MAINLAND

China,Hongkong,USA,England,France,Germany,Holland,Belgium,Spain,Italy,Switzerland,South Korea

 

 

PUBLICATION AND REPORT

 

2021

“le monde diplomatique”,January 25,2021

 

2020

“SKP”,2020#24

 

2017

“le monde diplomatique”,September 26,2015

 

2015

“le monde diplomatique”,September 23,2015

“Photographers companion”,April 2015

“Photo”,2015

 

2013

“Imagine”,Gold Wall Press,March 2013

“Art Guide”,April 2013

“Asian Art News”,Nov 2013

“Global Times”,Culture,Nov 12,2013

 

2012

“New Faces New Works-China Contemporary Art”,Oct 2012

 

2010

“Oriental Art.Collection”July,2010

“25 New Photographer in China”, Zhejiang Photographic Press, January 2010

 

2009

CCTV1 - News report on March 25,2009

 

2008

CCTV2 - Tales of creating wealth on March 6,2008

“Young Chinese Artists:The Next Generation”,Prestel.Munich.Berlin.London.New York,2008

 

2007

“Chinese Fine Art Photography, China Guardian 2007 Autumn Auctions”, CHINA GUARDIAN AUCTIONS CO., LTD, November 2007

“Cheng Xuan 2007 Autumn Auctions Chinese Photography”, Beijing Cheng Xuan Auction Co., November 2007

“Chinese Fine Art Photography, China Guardian 2007 Spring Auctions”, CHINA GUARDIAN AUCTIONS CO., LTD, May 2007

 

2006

“Liu Ren Photography”, Timezone8,December 2006

“3030 New Photography In China", 3030 Press, 2006