Li Yan

Li Yan 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. His solo exhibition Accident was held at the Platform China art gallery in Beijing in 2007 and was about terrorism and the Iraq War. 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.

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 - 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