Li Huasheng (Chinese, –2008)

Timeline

1944
Born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China
1979
Lived in Beijing for three months
1980
Invited to demonstrate his art in front of Deng Xiaoping
1981
Received the “Outstanding Artwork Award” in Sichuan Province, China
1965–1985
Held post as artist in the Yangzi River Shipping Administration
1985
Appointed honorary member of the Sichuan Provincial Academy of Art in Chongqing, China
1986
Appointed and awarded the “First Grade Master” by the Sichuan Academy of Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting
1987
Spent five months in USA as the artist-in-residence at the University of Michigan, USA
1989
Awarded the “First Rank Painter” in the Sichuan Painting Academy in Chengdu.
2000
Shifted to be a Maximalism artist in China and stopped to create lierati paintings
Lives and works in Chengdu, China

Exhibitions

2011
Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011
Chengdu Biennale, East Chengdu Music Park, Chengdu, China
2010
Reshaping History: Chinese Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Centre; Arario Gallery; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010
Trajectory and Qualitative Change: Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition in Celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
2010
Ending Ink Painting: From Ink Painting to Ink, Elephant Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2010
K·Gallery@Art Shanghai 2010, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China
2010
K·Gallery@Art Beijing 2010 Contemporary Art Fair, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
2010
The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in the 21st Century, National Art Museum of China, Bejing, China
2010
Unending Distance: The 3rd Exhibition of Abstract Art, PIFO New Art Studios, Beijing, China
2010
The Pleasure of Transforming: Contemporary Ink Painting, K·Gallery, Chengdu, China
2010
Master Ten Cases in Chinese Contemporary Art, 800 Art Space, Shanghai, China (solo)
2009
Points & Crosses: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China, Shanghai Art Center, Shanghai, China
2009
Post-Literati, First Linzhou Ink Painting Biennial, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Shang Elements Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing; Linzhou International Beilin Museum of Fine Arts; Linzhou Ink Painting Museum, Linzhou, Henan, China
2009
Back to Basics: Traditional Ink Wash as a Contemporary Vision, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2009
Traditional Ink Painting and Personal Feeling, East Area Art Center, Beijing, China
2009
Yi Pai—Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009
Contemporary Ink Painting: 2009 Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art; Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China,
2009
Water and Color Contemporary Ink Art Show, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
What Art Is Not - 45 Questionnaires on Contemporary Chinese Art, 706 Factory, Beijing, China
2008
Ink-Not-Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Invitational Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Philadelphia, USA
2008
Ink is Not Equivocal to Ink Painting: Li Huasheng, Zhang Yu, Liang Quan Art Exhibition, He Jing Yuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
2008
Annual Report Exhibition of Ink Painting (First Round), Huang Tie Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
The Second Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm - Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
Yi Pai: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstraction, Wall Museum, Beijing, China; La Caixa Forum Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, and Madrid, Spain
2007
Mo Yuan 100, Second Invitational Exhibition of Songzhuang Ink Alliance Masters, Songzhuang East District Art Center, Beijing, China
2007
Post Avant-garde, Chinese Contemporary Art’s Four Directions of the New Era, Hong Kong
2007
Restart, Third Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2007
Qi Yun, Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Shenzhen and Beijing, China; Hong Kong; New York, USA
2007
lnk Narrative, Yokohama Art Project, Yokohama, Japan
2007
Esthetics and Abstract, De Shan Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2007
Contemporary Cultural Venation China Version, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007
From the Southwest: The Modern Art of the Southwest 1985-2007, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2006
Li Huasheng: New Literati Paintings, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong (solo)
2006
Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai, Shanghai Doulun Museum Of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2005
Experimental Ink & Wash Retrospective, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
2005
The 1st Chinese Contemporary Arts Annual Exhibition, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
2005
Metaphysics 2005 - Black and White, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005
Korean-Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2005
Kunsthalle Weimar Germany, Germany
2005
Li Huasheng, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong (solo)
2005
"Ink & Paper: Chinese Contemporary Art," Guangdong Museum, China
2005
"Retrospection of experimental Ink & Wash 1985-2000," Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2004
"4th International Ink Painting of Shenzhen Biennale," Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China (solo)
2003
"Opened Years," National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (solo)
2003
"Chinese Maximalism," Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Anderson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2003
Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
2003
An Opening Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2002
"First Triennial of Chinese Art," Guangzhou Art Museum, China (solo)
2001
"Experimental Ink & Wash in China 1980-2001," Guangdong Museum of Art, China (solo)
2000
"Shanghai Biennale," Shanghai Art Museum, China (solo)
2000
"Neo Ink Paintings in China," Shanghai Lui Hai-su Art Gallery, Nanjing Museum, China (solo)
1999
"The Door of Century," Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, China (solo)
1999
Century Gate: Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Art, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, Chinana
1999
The Cultural Direction of the Interactive Age, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
1998
Show at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, US; Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong (solo)
1992
Show presented by HanartTZ Gallery, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore (solo)
1992
"Ancient Lands through Modern Eyes: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting," Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong (solo)
1991
Show at Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei (solo)
1990
Show presented by Hanart2 Gallery, City Hall, Hong Kong (solo)
1987
Exhibitions and lecture tours at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Michigan, and the University of Washington, US
1987
Harvard University Museum; Yale University Museum; University of Michigan; University of Washington; University of Detroit Mercy,USA (solo)
1985
Show in Chengdu, China (solo
1985
Tradition and Innovation: 20th Century Touring Exhibition of Chinese Painting, Hong Kong; Singapore; USA; Germany
1985
Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China, 8 Museums and Art Centers across the USA
1983–1985
1983-85 “Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China,” organized by the Chinese Culture Centre of San Francisco, travelled to eight museums and art centres in USA: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; Asian Society Gallery, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University), Ithaca, New York; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1981
“Exhibition of Chinese Modern Calligraphy and Painting”, Singapore (solo)
1981
10-Person Chinese Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1980
“Exhibition of Chinese Modern Calligraphy and Painting”, Singapore (solo)
1980
Participated with ten artists in the exhibition “Landscape Painting”, Beijing, China

Public Collections

National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Harvard University, USA
Yale University, USA
University of Washington, USA
Museum of University of Michigan, USA
Detroit Museum of Art, USA
British Museum, UK
English (US)

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