LIAO JIANHUA 廖建华 (b. 1981, China)
Selected works
Biography
Minimal yet painstakingly created works
Contemplation Maps – The Spirit of Zen paintings by talented contemporary Chinese artist Liao Jianhua celebrates the spirit of Zen.Liao Jianhua creations capture the Zen ideals such as simplicity, austerity, restraint and naturalness.
Liao Jianhua works on different background medium even an unconventional medium of cotton and adopts an abstract expressionism style through painstaking Chinese brushstrokes. At first glance, his abstract compositions appear to be dense and complex but they gradually become austere and contemplative. By incorporating the Zen ideals into his paintings, Liao brings a sense of tranquillity and harmony into our pressurized routines and myriad external distractions.
Born in 1981 in Hunan Yueyang, Lao Jianhua graduated from Yueyang Normal College and currently resides in Beijing Song Zhuang. He shows immense talent and potential and has participated in several group exhibitions across China.
CV
1981 Born Hunan, China
2005 Graduated from Yueyang Normal College
SoloExhibitions
2016 “One Cent Exchange Project” Liao Jianhua Solo Exhibition, DongLi Art Space, Beijing
2015 “The limited-The limitless” Liao Jianhua Solo Exhibition ARTASTE, Beijing
2013 Cardiogram– Liao Jianhua Solo Exhibition, Egg Gallery, Beijing
2011 “Consciously Or Unconsciously” Liao Jianhua Solo Exhibition, LDX Contemporary Art Center Beijing
2009 Liao Jianhua First Solo Exhibition 09 “Contemplation Maps” Y2ARTS Showroom Singapore
Group Exhibitions
2016 My art possession, Centre Pasqu Art, Switzerland
2016 The Working of Non-Figurative System, Right View Art Museum, Beijing
2016 Artificial Garden, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2016 The Time Zone Of Resonance, Xin Jiang Contemporary Art Museum, Xin Jiang
2015 Together On The Path–“Critical Traditionalism” Youth Exhibition, Ovation Art Space, Beijing
2015 Contemporary China Ink Line Art, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing
2015 Post-Calligraphy In Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstrum Villa Friede, Germany
2015 Gengons–Structure Dimension Of New Abstraction, EAPC Gallery, Beijing
2015 Valent Weight, Li Art Museum, Changsha
2014 Out OF Image, Yi Sheng Art Space, Beijing
2014 New Generation Of Abstract Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing
2014 Aiyoriaoshi, UUPP, Beijing
2014 Polyphony Poetics, MOYA Art Center, Beijing
2014 Behind The Appearance, Egg Gallery, Beijing
2014 Beyond Three Worlds, 5 Art Center, Beijing
2014 Art Basel Hong Kong, UCCA, Hong Kong
2014 Spirit Of Place, Loftooo Art Space, Shanghai
2014 Out Of Image__Trace And Linearity, SZ Art Center, Beijing
2013 “Extraordinary Changes” Houhu International Arts District Hunan
2013 Gift Up Space, Beijing
2013 Anti-GMO, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
2013 “Diversity ” Contemporary Youth Arts Exhibition, Bloom Gallery, Beijing
2013 Korea-China exchange of contemporary art, 508Gallery, Korea
2013 A Surname——contemporary Exhibition, Min Sheng Art Club, Beijing
2013 “DIVERSITY 2013″, ARTrium@MCI, Y2ARTS, Singapore
2013 Impression•Image, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing
2012 “Memory Lost and Found” young artists exhibition, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing
2012 Made in China Contemporary Chinese artists Luciano Benetton Collection, Milano
2011 “Presistent″, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
2010 The New Graphic Arts Exhibition, Korea
2009 The 3rd Exhibition Of Home And Abroad Leading Artists’ works, Korea
2009 “+(86)0102–10ContemporaryArtistGroupExhibition” Y2ARTSShowroom, Singapore
2009 “Ink Society” Sunshine Internaional Museum, Beijing
2007 “HE” China and Foreign Artists Exhibition, A-space, Beijing
2007 “Life in SongZhuang” Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing