LU Liang’s paintings have very strong narrative quality and at the same time implicate powerful emotions beneath their quiet appearances, which reflecting the complicate and agitating ambience of the contemporary world.

Human’s state of survival in this fast pace society has always been the pivot of LU’s work. In his work, references to classic materials of both the East and the West have been blended into fables about people’s life nowadays. LU once said, “I wish to use the classics with a contemporary attitude rather than invariably worship or simply imitate them. For me, the continuation of classics is a mode of appreciating the world, a mode that might seem clumsy but is undoubtedly reliable.” Through exquisite rendering of the light and setting, he created scenes which look realistic while emotionally indescribable to bring out his queries about the contemporary life in China and beyond. In many of LU’s landscapes or interiors, the scenes are empty.  However, traces of human activities can be sensed clearly in these spaces that hint at some unspoken stories.

LU Liang was born in 1975 in Shanghai, China. He went to Beijing to pursue his artistic training in the Department of Murals in The Central Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated with B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1999 and 2005 respectively. LU is currently a lecturer at The Central Academy of Fine Arts.

• 1975 Born in Shanghai, China
• 1999 B.A., Department of Murals, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
• 2005 M.A., Department of Murals, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
• Present Teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
• “State of Memory”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan

2014
• “Night Road”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan

2007
• “Night Wanderer”, CREEK ART, Beijing, China

2003
• “Fabricated Space”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

1998
• “All About Xiao Jing’s Living”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
• “Images Pool”, Ginkgo Art Center, Beijing, China
• “The Gilded Age”, E Space, Shanghai, China
• “Scenery Shot-Unrelated to Photography”, New Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
• “Landscape as Experience”, Da Chang Muslim Cultural Center, Langfang, China
• “Chinese Young Realist Artists”, Jiangdong Art Museum, Nanjing, China

2015-2016

• “The Temperature of History: CAFA and Chinese Representational Oil Paintings”, Chinese Art Museum, Shanghai; Ancestral Imperial Temple Art Museum, Beijing; Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing; Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo; Shandong Art Museum, Jinan; Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang; Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan; Shanxi Province Art Museum, Xi’an; Taiyuan Museum of Art, Taiyuan; Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2015
• “Relay – Sketch Exhibition of Teachers of Central Academy of Fine Art”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2014
• “Bloom: ESLITE GALLERY 25th Anniversary”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Choosing: Six Cases from CADA”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “Meta Spectacle: Multi-Logic of the Pictorial World “, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China
• “The Second Chinese Realism Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition”, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2013
• “From Beijing”, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
• “Academy: Exhibition of Works of 10 Young Teachers from Central Academy of Fine Arts”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “Teachers’ Work of Central Academy of Fine Arts 2013”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

2012
• “IN TIME: 2012 Chinese Oil Painting Biennale”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• “Art Classics: China National Academy of Painting Exhibition”, Sunshine Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “Progress Every Day: Works of Masters-Nominated Exhibition”, Zhouzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “Not Only Paper”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

2011
• “Foundation．10 years”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “Academy: Exhibition of Works of 8 Young Teachers from Central Academy of Fine Arts”, Baiyaxuan 798, Beijing, China
• “Dawn in the East: Art Works Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of China National Academy of Painting”, China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China
• “The 4th National Fine Arts Exhibition for Young Artists”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2010
• “Works by Teachers at the Central Academy of Fine Arts”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “Oil Painting and Contemporary Society: Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• “The Power from Academy: China Central Academy of Fine Arts Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2009
• “60 Years of Drawing: Central Academy of Fine Arts”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

2008
• “3rd Beijing International Art Biennale”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• “Future Sky: Chinese Contemporary Young Artists Works Selection Exhibition”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
• “National Exhibition on Painting from Nature”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• “Convergent Paths: A Joint Exhibition by China Central Academy of Fine Arts Professors”, Chan-Liu Art Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2007
• “Fusion and Creation”, Capital Museum, Beijing, China
• “The 1st Painting from Natural Biennial”, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
• “Academy Exhibition Series – Central Academy of Fine Arts”, C5Art Centre, Beijing, China

2006
• “Grand Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2005
• “The Displacement of Face”, Aurora Gallery, Beijing, China
• “Colleagues, Convergent Paths: A Joint Exhibition by China Central Academy of Fine Arts”, The exhibition Hall of CAFA, Beijing, China

2004
• “Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition”, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• “The 10th National Art Exhibition”, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

AWARDS

2005
• Excellent Award of the Central Academy of Fine Art Graduation Exhibition
• First Prize of Wang Jialian Oil Painting Scholarship

1999
• First Prize of the Central Academy of Fine Art Graduation Exhibition