Liu Bolin
Born 1973 in Shandong, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
EDUCATION
2001
M.F.A., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1995
B.A., Shandong University of Arts, Jinan, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Mimetismi, Museo di Scienze e Archeologia, Rovereto, Italy
Order out of Chaos, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
2023
Hiding In Florence, Sala d'Arme of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
(In)visible - the Art of Liu Bolin, Deodato Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
2022
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Bel-Air Fine Art, Geneva, Switzerland
2020
Liu Bolin: Now Now, Amy Li Gallery, Beijing
2019
Liu Bolin: Visible/Invisible, Museo delle Culture, Milan
Liu Bolin: Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, The Gaviria Palace, Madrid, Spain
Liu Bolin/Camouflage - Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
The Bigger Picture - Liu Bolin, Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Almere, The Netherlands
Liu Bolin: Hiding on the 38th Parallel North, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
La forma profonda del reale di Liu Bolin, Bocconi Art Gallery, Milan
New Change, Over the Influence, Hong Kong
2018
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Liu Bolin: The Theatre of Appearances, Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Liu Bolin: The Imperceptible, Il Faut Le Faire, Goussainville, France
Liu Bolin - Vanishing Point, BAFA Contemporary - Bel Air Fine Art, London
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Complesso Del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
Liu Bolin: L'homme caméléon, Le DIDAM, Bayonne, France
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man in Tel Aviv, 32 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan
2017
Galerie Party, Centre Pompidou - Acte II with Liu Bolin, Galerie des enfants, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Liu Bolin: Migrants, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Ramacca, Catania, Italy
Liu Bolin: Ghost Stories, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Galerie Corbero, The Peninsula Paris, Paris
Liu Bolin: Revealing Disappearance, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
Portrait(s) 2017 Festival 5th Edition - Liu Bolin Solo Show, Esplanade du lac d'Allier, Vhicy, France
Liu Bolin Hiding in Germany - Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Springmann Gallery, Berlin
Liu Bolin: Hacker Art, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai
Undercover, Odalys Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2016
Liu Bolin Performance Show, K11 Museum, Shanghai
Liu Bolin: Art Hacker, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
Liu Bolin Solo Exhibition, Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Hangzhou, China
2015
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Liu Bolin: Desapareciendo, Museo de Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Liu Bolin: Hiding in Plain Sight, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan
Liu Bolin: CAMALEÓN, Centro Roberto Garza Sada, Universidad de Monterrey,Monterrey, Mexico
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Concordia College, New York
CAMUFLAJE, Galería Oscar Román, Mexico City, Mexico
Liu Bolin: Hidden in the City, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, Concordia Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Moorhead, Minnesota
Liu Bolin: Hacker Art, Danysz Gallery, London
Liu Bolin: The Distance to The Eyes, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
Liu Bolin Solo Show: Nine-Dragon Screen, BAM's sculpture Court, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
In Plain Sight: Photographs by Liu Bolin, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut
Liu Bolin: A Colorful World?, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2013
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Liu Bolin, Camouflages Urbains, Space Squirrel Foundation for Contemporary Art,Toulouse, France
Liu Bolin - ein Meister der Tarnung, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Liu Bolin Solo Show - "Mimesis", La Cometa Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
Liu Bolin: Mask, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2012
Hidden Meaning: Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Bolin, The Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Liu Bolin: The Sociology of the Invisible Body, California State University Northridge Art Galleries, Northridge, California
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
Liu Bolin: A Secret Tour, Museo H.C. Andersen, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Liu Bolin: Lost in Art, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2011
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Vänermuseet, Lidköping, Sweden
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2010
Liu Bolin, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, El Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Liu Bolin: Hiding in Italy, Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Milan
Liu Bolin: On Fire, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2008
Liu Bolin, Bridge Art Center, Beijing
Liu Bolin: China Report 2007, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2007
Liu Bolin: Sculpture, Hotsun Art Space, 798 ArtDist, Beijing
Liu Bolin: Distortion, Hotsun Art Space, 798 ArtDist, Beijing
Liu Bolin Solo Exhibition, Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Miami
2001
Liu Bolin’s Sculpture, Passage Gallery, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Human, Galleria Gaburro Boxart, Milan
2023
Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Letters from Overseas: Zooming into the De Molina's Collection, Coral Gables Museums, Coral Gables, Florida
The Wild Theatre, Arton Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
Colección Marión Art Gallery, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
2022
i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
SENSORAMA, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Letter from Overseas: Zooming into the De Molina’s Collection, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
Tumultes, Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier, Orleans, France
Renew - A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
Une vie à l’Opéra, PARIS-B, Paris
2021
The Supermarket of Images, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
Nourrir le corps nourrit l’esprit, Centre D'art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, France
The Photography is Not What’s Important: Photographs From the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Collective Exhibition, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
Super Fusion - 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu, China
When Matter Becomes Art - Guerlain, private tour FIAC Paris 2021, Paris
2020
Alien Nations, Coral Gables Museum in online collaboration with Lehman College Art Gallery, Florida
When Speed Become Form - Live in Your Screen, Wind H Art Center, Beijing
Marión Art Gallery: 10 Years, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
UNSCHEDULED, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
CONNECTIONS, Over the Influence, Hong Kong
2019
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Gainesville, Florida [itinerary: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago] Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
I eat, therefore I am, Musée de L'Homme, Paris
ImageSingulières, Maison de L'Image Documentaire, Sète, France
The Gaze of History - Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
Humans, Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, Bordeaux, France
Art Eats Art, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
Colors of Contemporary China: A Passion of Collectors, Saint-Remi Museum, Reims, France
180 Years of Photography in China, The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Ningxia, China
Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK Contemporary Art Collection, Vienna, Austria
Urban Art Biennale 2019, The World Cultural Heritage Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany
The Bigger Picture, Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Almere, The Netherlands
Architectural Representation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Eli Klein Gallery, Miami
The Art Behind Art, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
Responsive Art, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
2018
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Shenzhen OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Hybridizations: The Ghost of Painting, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing
Evidence: A New State of Art, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy
Replace with Fine Art, Pearlman Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Every Body Talks, Mattatoio Roma, Rome, Italy
C'était Demain! La Fabrik, Espace d'art contemporain, Monthey, Switzerland
2017
Forty Years of Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
Long Island Collects: New Photography, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017), Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
The First Shandong Youth Contemporary Art Documents Exhibition, JiaJian Art Museum, Jinan, China
Portrait(s) Festival 2017, Ville de Vichy, Vichy, France
Biennale Archipelago Mediterranean, Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa-Palermo Dusseldorf Pavilion, Palermo, Italy
2016
Art From The Streets, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Sublimina, Museo Delle Mura, Rome, Italy
Up in Arms: Taking Stock of Guns, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
TAKE ME OUT, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
Camouflage: In Plain Sight, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
21C at 10: A Global Gathering, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
Seeing Now, 21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Chinascape: From Rural to Urban, Spazioborgogno, Milan
We Are What We Eat, Main entrance lobby of United Nations Visitor Center, United Nations Headquarters, New York
2015
Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art, John N. Stern Gallery, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
INTERACT: Deconstructing Spectatorship, North Wing of The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London
Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
A Touch of Classics: 100 Chinese Contemporary Works—Charles Jing Collection of Original Photo Prints, China Millennium Monument World Art Museum, Beijing
L’uomo Nel Paesaggio, San Pietro in Atrio, Como, Italy
Target—Bienal de Performance 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Focus on the Future—What Makes Us “Us”, Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo
2014
Seeing the Unseen, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Challenge the Tradition – 20th Century Western Classical and Chinese Contemporary Photography, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Photography: 2009–2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Les Esthétiques d'un Monde Désenchanté, Le Centre d'art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, France
Pho-to-graffs: Images of Hip Hop, Graffiti, and Urban Culture, Gold Coast Arts Center, Great Neck, New York
Intersection: Painting, Drawing, and Photography, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania
East by SouthEast, OBS Gallery, Tonbridge School, Kent, United Kingdom
The Camera's Eye, PHOTOJAX 2014, Jacksonville, Florida
2013
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Aura and Post Aura—The First Beijing Photography Biennale, China Millennium Monument World Art Museum, Beijing
Incarnations, Photographie-Performance de Chine, Institut Confucius des Pays de la Loire d’Angers, Angers, France
Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
TED 2013, The Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, California
Portrait(s) Festival, Culture Centre Valery-Larbaud, Vichy, France
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
War Zone Home, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Art Gallery, New York
Skin Trade, PPOW Gallery, New York
10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003–2013, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2012
Performing for the Camera, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Changement de Décor, Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
Bienne Festival of Photography, Bienne, Switzerland
Harper’s Bazaar: Inside the Magazine, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine [itinerary: Korobchinskiy Center, Odessa, Ukraine; Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ukraine; Museum of Modern Art, Kiev, Ukraine]
Abwehr. Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
2011
Exhibition of the Neuflize Collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France
Urban Play, Landgent Center, Beijing
Biennale della Fotografia, Bogotá, Colombia
Black and White, Zero Art Center, 798 ArtDist, Beijing
Scenes from Within: Contemporary Art from China, Blackbridge Hall Gallery, Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia
2010
The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Reflection of Minds—MoCA Shanghai Envisage III, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
HomeLess Home, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Passing China, Sanatorium, Istanbul, Turkey
Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
HIDEntites, mc2 Gallery, Milan
2009
Animamix Biennial, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing]
Shore—Contemporary Academy Sculpture Exhibition, Moon River Art Museum, Beijing
Blank—Making Life, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul
Erotic—Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, DadiRui City Exhibition Center, Jinan, China
The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Camouflages, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Passing By China, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2008
Sunshine International Art Museum International Exhibition, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing
Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers, Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston, Maine
Force-Form, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bridge Art Center, Beijing
International Exhibition, Rome International Contemporary and Modern Art Center, Rome, Italy
Mixed Maze—Group Photography Exhibition, Red Mansion Foundation, London New Middle Kingdom, Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2007
Olympic Landscape Sculpture Exhibition, China Millennium Monument World Art Museum, Beijing
Memory: Contemporary Art Exhibition, New York Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing
Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
Made in China—Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
The First “Breathing”—Shandong Modern Art Exhibition, Shandong Museum, Jinan, China
Since…Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gao Brothers Beijing Art Center, Beijing
Union—Exhibition of Chinese and Chile Artists, No.1 China Art Base, Beijing
Union in June: Chinese Performance Art Exhibition, Songzhuang, Beijing
Resettling—SuoJia Village Modern Art Exhibition, Beijing International Arts Camp II Ka Tsuen, Beijing
China Now: Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2006
Third Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sunshine International Museum, Beijing
Qingzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Qingzhou Museum, Qingzhou, China
Songzhuang Art Festival, Songzhuang Art Zone, Beijing
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Dismantle, Xiyuantianlu Business Hotel, Beijing
2005
Beijing Calligraphy Exhibition, Maside Art Center, Beijing
Luxury Times, Chang Chau Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Tianjin Harbor Plaza, Tianjin, China
Dismantle - Dismantle - Dismantle, Beijing International Arts Camp II Ka Tsuen, Beijing
Considerable, West Lake International Sculpture Exhibition, Hangzhou Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2001
The Second Invitational Sculpture Exhibition of Contemporary Young Sculptors, Hangzhou Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2000
Works Exhibition,The First China Sculpture Competition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1999
The Second Metals Work Exhibition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
88-MOCCA, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
ARTantide Museum, Verona, Italy
AT&T Art Collection, Dallas, Texas
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Banca Aletti, Milan
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Biblioteca Capitolare, Verona, Italy
Collection NEUFLIZE VIE, Paris
Collection SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, France
dslcollection, Paris
The Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
Fist Art Foundation, Dorado, Puerto Rico
FMAC, Paris
Fondation Ariane de Rothschild, Madrid, Spain
Fondation Frances, Senlis, France
Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia
HBC Global Art Collection, New York
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
LAM Museum, Lisse, Netherland
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
MART, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Museo Enzo Ferrari, Modena, Italy
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
The Red Mansion Foundation, London
Teutloff Photo & Video Collection, Bielefeld, Germany
Uli Sigg Collection, Mauensee, Switzerlan
Unicredit Group, Milan