| 1981 | Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| 2007 | Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art, Conferred Master’s Degree |
| 2012 | Instructor at Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art Currently Lives in Shanghai/Huzhou, China |
| 2017 | Li Qing: The Ocean View, Leo Xu Projects at Frieze, New York, USA Li Qing: Solo Project, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China |
| 2016 | Li Qing: Solo Project, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China Over the Wall: Paintings Tempted by Installation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| 2015 | Li Qing: Cathedral, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China A Suite of Eight Rooms, Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea |
| 2014 | Blow-Up: Li Qing Independent Project, 9M²Museum in Goethe Institute, Department for Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai, China |
| 2013 | In the Vicinity, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China |
| 2012 | Interweaving, The Orient Foundation, Macao, China |
| 2010 | Drift, Tomås y Valiente Art Center, Madrid, Spain |
| 2009 | Ghosting, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Curtain, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2008 | Ghosting, Iberia Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Finding Together, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2019 | Adrift, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2018 | Brilliant City, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China |
| 2017 | Interaction: Chinese Contemporary Art in Nuremberg, Konfuzius-Institut Nuremberg- Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany All Happens After Sunset…,MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China City of Stars, Art Project CZ, Shanghai, China 2017 Hong Kong Art Basel, Hong Kong, China Benevolence of Art, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China |
| 2016 | Painting as Strait Gate: Post-80s Artists Invitation Exhibition, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Dissensus Agitation - The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Unrealities in the Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China New Capital: Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, China |
| 2015 | Painting20x20, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China Copyleft: Appropriation Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Garden, Splendors, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China Breaking the Image, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China The System of Objects, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Hong Kong, China Within Sight: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Taylor Association of Artists, Paris, France Blow-Up: Chinses New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China The 2nd “CAFAM•Future” Exhibition Tracking Program: Future Formula, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China |
| 2014 | Labor & Time, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Social Landscape, Chengdu, China The Sociology of Oneself, Eslite Gallery, Taipei Presenting Recital Louder Than Paint, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China Art Basel Hong Kong 2014, Hong Kong, China Re-View: Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China The Being of Non-Being: A Kind of Personal Expression on “Meta-Painting”, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China Luoping International Photography Festival, Luoping, China On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China |
| 2013 | The 55th Biennale Di Venezia Special Invitation Exhibition: Passage to History-La Biennale di Venezia and Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale di Venezia, Italy/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China Criss-Cross: Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China Bidirectional Punctum: As An Entry Point of Representation, One Kind of Painting, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Seven Sunsets, Waiting Dawns, All in One. How to Kill a Wondrous Time ... not Wanting a Thousand Hours, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China Pure View: Transformations of Chinese Contemporary Art, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Evolution, Avant-Garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China Mirror & Shadow: Contemporary Art from China, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Green Box: Remapping – The Space of Media Reality, Hangzhou, China Pure Views: New Paintings From China, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2012 | Reactivation: The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China Round Table: The 9th Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition: Ctrl+N•Non-linear Practice, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea Water Stains on The Wall-The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China Boy: A Contemporary Portrait, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China Lust and Love of The Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing, China Paesaggi Visioni Ricordi, Veneto Science & Technology & Art Museum, Venice, Italy Forms of the Formless, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany Sub-phenomena: CAFAM•Future, CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Looking Awry, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| 2011 | Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art from 2000, São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 19 Solo Shows About Painting, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China Pure Views: New Painting From China, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA Painting Lesson I: Illusion or Delusion, Yang Gallery, Beijing, China A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China Urban Utopia - Deutsche Bank Collection, Hong Kong, China Almost Tangible, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China Fly Through the Tropo - Sphere: Memo of the New Generation Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China One Man Theater - Works by Post - 80s Artists, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Surplus Goodlookingness, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Voyage: Recent Videos By Young Chinese Artists - Video lounge program of Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2011, Shanghai, China Daybreak, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China/Cheonan, Korea The Shape of Time: The Multi-narrative History in Contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Changing Vista•Creative Duration: The 5th Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China In the Heat of the Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea |
| 2010 | Asian Landmark - Toyota Art Project, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Jungle: A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China TORA TORA TORA: Chinese Cutting-Edge Photography Exhibition, Beijing, China Here, There - The World in Motion, Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China Community of Taste: Chinese Contemporary Art from 2000, Chile Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile The Personal Dimension: Four Emerging Artists from China, Arario Gallery, New York, USA 10 Cases studies of Post-70s Art, Hong Kong Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China Pure Views: New Painting From China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK |
| 2009 | Prague Biennial 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech City-net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Korea What Has Been Happening Here? - The Inaugural Exhibition of Chinese Independent Film Archive, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Pawnshop, Vitamin Creative Space “ The Shop”, Beijing, China Reflect Light - Depth of New Art, West Lake Art Museum, Hangzhou, China/Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China Re-experimentation: A Reaffirmation of Enlightenment and Will, 798 Art Festival Beijing, China Best Time, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2008 | Asia - The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China The Revolution Continues - New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Unpack-Chinese Experiment Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China ARTHK08, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan - Contemporary Art from South China, Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Madrid, Spain 55 Days in Valencia - Chinese Art Meeting, Institut Valencia d’ Art Morden, Valencia, Spain China Gold - Chinses Contemporary Art, Museum Maillol, Paris, France Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Centre, Beijing, China Notes of Conception - A Local Narrative of Chinese Contemporary Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Game Is Not Over, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Time Difference – New Art from China and USA, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK Energy: Spirit•Body•Material – The 1st Today’s Document, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Beyond Image – Chinese New Painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 2006 | Conversation 10+10, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Beyond Dimension – Chinese New Painting, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China |
| 2005 | Future Archeology - the 2nd Triennial of Chinses Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China Young Chinese Contemporary Art, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria Let Some Ideas Be Seen, Modern Art Gallery of Art Academy of Hangzhou Teachers University, Hangzhou, China |
Deutsche Bank, Germany |