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Artist
Liu Xiaodong
b. 1963, Jincheng, Liaoning, China · Chinese · Based in Beijing, China
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Central Academy of Fine Arts
- En Plein Air Figurative Painting
- Oil on Canvas
- Documentary Film
Liu Xiaodong paints people in specific social and geographic contexts, often working on location with large canvases. Migration, industrial change, displacement and everyday leisure appear through direct observation rather than allegory.
Painting; photography; film
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Liu Xiaodong in "Beijing" - Season 10 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Major Works
- 2004Three Gorges: Newly Displaced Population
- 2005–06Hot Bed
- 2010Out of Beichuan
- 2010sThe Process of Painting
- 2010Hometown Boy
- 2016Weight of Insomnia
- 2012Transgender/East
- 2010sJincheng Airport
- 2015Refugees
- 2016Uummannaq
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Interviews & Writing
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