Li Manjin 李满金 (b. 1981, China)
Selected works
Biography
Li Manjin artworks show us both, the figure in states of quiet observation, as well as struggles, she portrays the contradictions posed by common existential realities. In casting aspects of her private life onto the public stage in the form of timeless moral dilemmas, Li has reinstated the importance of subjects, and taken back the role of originator and skilled narrator of our struggle to find meaning in life.
Devoting to the exploration of the human condition to narrate real deepness and sense of the human experience, in Li’s paintings, subjects of bird is the surrogate of human. With influences drawn from Albert Giacometti, Cezanne and literati painter Huang Binhong, Li employs her distinctive draftsmanship and painterly breadth onto canvases, release a rich expressive force and blooming elegance.
This observance reveals life as a series of changes, brought on at times, by personal choices and at other times, external ones but always compounded with the force these changes have on one’s daily life and perspective. This necessarily human condition creates unforeseeable turbulence in the inner and outer lives of Li’s figures.
The inherent psychology of this kind of struggle is all in the paint and portrayal of the figures and the spaces they occupy, a portrayal that reveals just how fragile our situations really are. Deftly expressed in Li’s sympathetic and agile hands, these situations translate into poetries.
Li Manjin was born in 1981 in Fujian, China. In 2005, she graduated with BFA from Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou China. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Manjin presently lives and works in Beijing, China.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2017 LONER, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing China
2014 The Intangible Paradise, Joyart Gallery, Beijing China
2013 LONER, SIGNATURE Fine Arts, Beijing China
2010 Reaching for Meaning, Singapore
Group Exhibitions
2017 MULTI DIMENSION II, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing China
THE GOLDEN ROOSTER, Yang Gallery, Beijing China
2016 Opening Exhibition, Ark:IF Art Salon, Qingdao China
ON PAPER SPACE, Bird’s Nest Culture Center, Beijing China
ON PAPER – SUPREME, Ban Club, Shanghai China
ON PAPER- SUPREME, The National Convention Center, Shanghai China
2015 On the Shelf, 798 Roses Art Center, Beijing China
Together On The Path – “Critical Traditionalism” Youth Exhibition, Ovation Art Space, Beijing China
2014 Brave New World, Naked Eye, Beijing China
11+6-Rheology American-China Exchange Of Contemporary Art, Wang Yiqiong Art Space, Beijing China
2013 Korea-China Exchange Of Contemporary Art, Yuanzhou Paper Museum, Korea
ON PAPER- SUPREME, Jiuchang Art Center, Beijing China
Anti-GMO, Tang Conternporary Art Center, Beijing China
Korea-China Exchange Of Contemporary Art, 508Gallery, City Korea
The 115 Artists’ Self-Portraits, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing China
2012 Made in China, Contemporary Chinese Artists, Luciano Benetton Collection, Milan Italy
CultureDesert-KUBUQI Contemporary Art Exhibition, KUBUQI Contemporary Art Center, Neimeng China
2011 Existence Without Immortality – Modern Female Artists Exhibition, Millennial Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing China
Art Archives Of the 80’s Generation, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing China
Deconstruction And Style, Manet Club, Beijing China
Spring Chill, LDX Conternporary Art Center, Beijing China
Oriental Artists Exhibition, San Francisco Cultural Arts Center, San Francisco California
MERRY-GO-ROUND, Times Art Museum, Beijing China
2010 New Wave Of Chinese Contemporary Art, California State University City, City California
2009 “+(86)0102”10 Contemporary Artists, Y2ARTS Showroom, Singapore
2008 Living in Songzhuang, Female Artist Exhibition, Songzhuang Arts Museum, Beijing China
Body And Heart, 798 Mulpa Spaces, Beijing China
2007 Opening Exhibition, Rainbow Bay International Art Centre, Beijing China
He, 1 Art Base A-SPACE, Beijing China