1981 Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, China
2007 Graduate from the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art , Conferred Master’s Degree
2012- Instructor at Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art
Now living in Shanghai/Hangzhou, China
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2020 Blow-Up, Almine Rech, London, UK
East of Eden, Galerie Eigen Art, Berlin, Germany
2019 Rear Windows, Fondazione Prada’s Rongzhai, Shanghai, China
Li Qing: Self-Cultivation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2017 Li Qing: Seascapes-Frame at Frieze New York 2017, New York, USA
2016 Li Qing Solo Project, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
2015 A Suite of Eight Rooms,Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea
Cathedral, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Blow-Up:Li Qing Independent Project, 9㎡Museum in Goethe Institute,Department for Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai, China
2013 In The Vicinity, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
2012 Interweaving, Fundação Oriente (The Orient Foundation), Macao, China
2010 Drift, Centro De Arte Tomás y Valiente (CEART), Madrid, Spain
2009 Ghosting, Duolun Museum Of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Curtain, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2008 Ghosting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2006 Finding Together, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Worlds within the World, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
Spring, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
Saisen Art Collection Chinese Contemporary Art 1996-2019, Saisen Art, Shanghai, China
2019 Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), Musée des Beaux-arts de Tourcoing (MUba), Lille, France
The 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China
New Art History: 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
From The Margins to The Middle: Urban Symbiosis Project, An Art Museum, Beijing, China
Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen,China
Pal(ate)/ette/, SGA, Shanghai, China
Conceptual & Disposition, Art Museum of HIFA, Wuhan, China
West Lake- Breaking Open, Galerie Eigen Art, Berlin, Germany
Habitat, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Wall Space: As Defining Boundary of Modern Painting, Phoenix·Seewell International Art Center, Fuzhou, China
Adrift, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2018 Brilliant City, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China
Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Our Actions Are Our Future – A Zero Hunger World by 2030 is Possible, The Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China
Dream Video 100,Shanghai, China
Encounter Asia,Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Other Voices, Other Spaces, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
On Paper 2, White Space, Beijing, China
Songjiang Painters, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Link of Image, Museum of Shanghai Painting and Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China
2017 Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China
Within Sight: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Jean-Francois Prat Prize,Bredin Prat, Paris,France
Interaction: Contemporary Chinese Art in Nuremberg, Konfuzius-Institut Nurnberg-Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany
Partial Archive, Yell Space, Shanghai, China
Rip It Up: 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
All Happens after Sunset, MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China
City of Stars, Art Project CZ, Shanghai, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Hong Kong, China
Please Fasten Your Seat Belt as We Are Experiencing Some Turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Free Realm-Beijing 798 · Guiyang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guiyang, China
2016 Temporary Museum, Museum of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
The Decameron-BMCA Documenting Art, Beijing, China
New Order: Alter Mondialisme, Just Space, Sanya, China
Historicode-Scarcity & Supply: Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
New Capital, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Dissensus Agitation-The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Over The Wall, Paintings Tempted by Installation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
By Destiny, Arario Museum, Jeju, Korea
Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
New Chapter, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Unrealities in The Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT-Harbour, Shenzhen, China
Works of Post 80’s after 2008 from Long Museum Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
The Mud of Compound Experience, Mother’s Tankstation & Leo Xu Projects, Hong Kong, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, Hong Kong, China
Between You and Them, Australia China Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
Painting20X20, Poly Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Fact or Fiction, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Air: Ningbo International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China
2015 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
Pimo Contemporary Art Festival, Shanghai, China
Artissima, Turin, Italy
Painting20X20, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China
Copyleft: China Appropriation Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Garden Splendors, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Breaking The Image, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China
The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Hong Kong, China
Within Sight: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Taylor
Association of Artists, Paris, France
Blow-Up: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
The 2nd “CAFAM·Future” Exhibition Tracking Program: Future Formula, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China
2014 Social Landscape, Chengdu, China
Re-View: Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
Luoping International Photography Festival, Luoping, China
On the Road, Guan shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2013 The 55th Biennale Di Venezia Special Invitation Exhibition: Passage to History-La Biennele di Venezia and Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale di Venezia, Italy / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
Criss-Cross: Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Pure Views: Transformations of Chinese Contemporary Art, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Evolution, Avant-Garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China
Mirror and Shadow: Contemporary Art from China, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Green Box: Remapping - The Space of Media Reality, Hangzhou, China
Pure Views: New Paintings From China, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2012 Reactivation: The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Round Table: The 9th Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition: Ctrl N·Non-linear Practice, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Water Stains on The Wall-The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Boy: A Contemporary Portrait, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Lust and Love of The Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Paesaggi Visioni Ricordi, Veneto Science & Technology & Art Museum, Venice, Italy
Forms of the Formless, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf,Germany
Sub-phenomena:CAFAM·Future, CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Magnanimity: Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2011 Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art from 2000, São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC USP), São Paulo, Brasil
Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China
Urban Utopia- Deutsche Bank Collection, Hong Kong, China
Fly Through The Tropo-Sphere:Memo of The New Generation Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
One Man Theater-Works by Post-80s Artists, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Surplus Goodlookingness, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Voyage: Recent Videos By Young Chinese Artists-Video lounge program of ShContemporary Art Fair 2011, Shanghai, China
The Shape of Time: The Multi-narrative History in Contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Changing Vistas·Creative Duration: The 5th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2010 Asian Landmark-Toyota Art Project, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
TORA TORA TORA: Chinese Cutting-Edge Photography Exhibition, Beijing, China
Here,There-The World in Motion, Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China
Reshaping History: Chinese art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art from 2000, Chile Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
10 Cases studies of Post-70s Art, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre,Hong Kong, China
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
2009 Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech
City-net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
What Has Been Happening Here?-The Inaugural Exhibition of Chinese
Independent Film Archive, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Reflect Light-Depth of New Art, West Lake Art Museum, Hangzhou, China/ Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
798 Art Festival--Re-experimentation:A Reaffirmation of Enlightenment and Will, Beijing, China
Best Times, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2008 Asia-The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
The Revolution Continues- New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Unpack-Chinese Experiment Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
ARTHK08, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,Hong Kong, China
Poetic Realism: An Reinterpretation of Jiangnan-Contemporary Art from South China, Tomás y Valiente Art Centre, Madrid, Spain
55 Days in Valencia-Chinese Art Meeting, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
China Gold-Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Maillol, Paris, France
Case studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, S Z Art Centre, Beijing, China
Notes of Conception- A Local Narrative of Chinese Contemporary Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 Time Difference-New Art from China and USA, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
Energy:Spirit·Body·Material-The 1st Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Beyond Image-Chinese New Painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2006 Conversation 10 10, Zendai Museum of Modern Art , Shanghai, China
Beyond Dimension-Chinese New Painting, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
2005 Future archeology-the 2nd triennial of Chinese art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Young Chinese Contemporary Art, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria
Let some ideas be seen, Modern art gallery of Art Academy of Hangzhou Teachers University, Hangzhou, China
Works Collected By
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Deutsche Bank, Germany
IVAM/Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Arario Museum, Seoul/Jeju, Korea
Kistefos Museum:Christen Svevaas Art Collection, Oslo, Norway
Initial Access:Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK
Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France
DSL Foundation, Paris, France
Art at Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland
Logan Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Australia China Art Foundation,Melbourne,Australia
Art & Culture Foundation(IAC) of Spain, Madrid, Spain
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Qiao Zhibing Collection, Shanghai, China
Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Star Museum, Shanghai, China
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
K11 Foundation, Hong Kong, China
CC Foundation, Shanghai, China
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China
Mountain Art Culture & Education Foundation, Taipei
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Prizes
2017 Shortlisted for the Jean-François Prat Prize 2017