Li Changlong
Born in 1975 in Guizhou, China. Living and working in Beijing, China. Li Changlong has graduated from the Southwest University in 1999. He is teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chengdu since 2002, but lives and works in Beijing, China.
Li Changlong tends to create his own psychological scenery from urban or natural landscapes. The odd visual space formed by his magical colours on canvas is as inaccessible as backdrops in photo studios that the figures photographed can never quite blend in.
Biography
Born in 1975 in Guizhou, China. Living and working in Beijing, China. Li Changlong graduated from Southwest University in 1999. He has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chengdu since 2002, but lives and works in Beijing, China. Li Changlong tends to create his own psychological scenery from urban or natural landscapes. The odd visual space formed by his magical colours on canvas is as inaccessible as backdrops in photo studios, so that the figures photographed can never quite blend in.
Born in 1975 in Guizhou, China. Living and working in Beijing, China. Li Changlong graduated from Southwest University in 1999. He has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chengdu since 2002, but lives and works in Beijing, China. Li Changlong tends to create his own psychological scenery from urban or natural landscapes. The odd visual space formed by his magical colours on canvas is as inaccessible as backdrops in photo studios, so that the figures photographed can never quite blend in.
As an artist with great technical skills, Li freely integrates all elements on canvas into different pieces of characteristic and expressive works. Although some people believe that skill is almost a burden to creativity, he expertly integrates skills in his expressions.
“I try hard to create a striking contrast between our contemporary times, built on virtuality and absurdness, and my paintings using rigid geometries and pseudo-spatial segmentations.”
Li Changlong
Career
Solo exhibitions
2023
Deductions of One’s Visual Annals, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2018
Offshore: Li Changlong, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Solo exhibitions
2023
Deductions of One’s Visual Annals, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2018
Offshore: Li Changlong, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2016
Li Changlong Solo Exhibition, Ginkgo Art Centre, Beijing, China
2009
Every Step – Varied View, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007
This is Not My Landscape, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Group exhibitions
2025
Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, Beijing, China
Art 021 SHANGHAI, China
Art Shenzhen, China
2024
Art 021 Hong Kong, China
Art 021 SHANGHAI, China
2023
Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2023: Reunion, Beijing, China
Art SHENZHEN, China
2022
Nafi Nanjing Art Fair International, China
2020
Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2019
Art 021 Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
2018
Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
West Bund 2018 Art Fair, West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2017
Benevolence of Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
Unbounded, Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy
2015
Eyes: China’s New Paintings in the Post-Financial Crisis Era, Frances Taylor Foundation, Liverpool, UK
Eyes: China’s New Paintings in the Post-Financial Crisis Era, Yangtze River Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Contemporary Southwest Art Exhibition, Guizhou Tianhai Art Museum, Guiyang, China
2014
Eyes: China’s New Paintings in the Post-Financial Crisis Era, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China
Social Landscape – Scenario Narrative, Donghu Park Exhibition Hall, Chengdu, China
Art Frontier – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Thought: Unfinished Painting Exhibition, 5 Art Center, Beijing, China
Little Logic: Language Coding and Discourse Expression of Contemporary Art, Fang Grassland Art Festival, Beijing, China
70/80 – The Generational Mutation of Chinese Contemporary Art, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Xinjiang International Convention & Exhibition Center, Urumqi, China
2013
Art Sanya 2013 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yalong Bay, Sanya, China
Huhuhu Downhill – Wang Huaxiang Teacher and Students Exhibition, Jiu Gallery, Beijing, China
To Youth – Reconsideration and Reconstruction, Beijing Manai Grassland Art, Beijing, China
Urban Anecdotes – Li Changlong, Liu Xintao and Wu Yiqiang, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Breathing Freely – Chinese Contemporary Masters Exhibition in Tokyo, China Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan
Yearning – Chinese Contemporary Artists Invitation Exhibition of Rome Culture 2013, Egyptian Cultural Office, Rome, Italy
Retrospect and Reconstruction – Chinese Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition, Manet Museum, Beijing, China
2012
Asked in Tao: Ma Yiping Arts Education 50th Anniversary, Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Recoding – Rhetoric and Narrative Reconstruction, World Art Museum, Beijing, China
Art Frontier Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Art Ordos Contemporary, Ordos Convention Center, Ordos, China
Contemporary Chinese Painting Masters, Shandong Art Museum, Shandong, China
International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Nest Art Center, Chengdu, China
2011
Sociological Landscape, First Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale, Basel Contemporary Art Museum, Suzhou, China
China – Memories and Imagination, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Water Stains On The Wall – The Carrier Of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
Chongqing International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yu’ao International Art Center, Chongqing, China
Chengdu Biennale – Representation of Realistic Art, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
City Scape As Mirage, Shanghai Yuehu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2010
Invisible Wings, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Research Representational Painting, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Red Storm – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
2009
Experience/Gorgeous – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
Histoire Récente, Château Latour, France
First Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists, Chongqing International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Chongqing, China
Reflecting Light, Zhejiang West Lake Art Gallery & Beijing Wall Art Museum, China
2008
Sketch and Plainsong – Drawing Exhibition of He Duoling, Pang Maokun, Zhong Biao and Li Changlong, Chengdu, China
Future Sky, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
People? History – Exhibition of Chinese Art Studies in the 20th Century, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Art Contemporary of Southwest Power, Shanghai, Shenzhen & Chengdu, China
Convergence and Self-Sustaining, J.P. Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Shadowy Landscape, Beijing, China
Multiple Perspective – Eleven Chinese Contemporary Artists Exhibition, You Gallery, Beijing, China
5.4 + 5.6 Chinese and French Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Basel Contemporary Art Museum, China & Palais des Nations, Marseille, France
Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
Asia International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Asia World-Expo, Hong Kong, China
Art Amsterdam 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Second 54 International Young Art Festival, 798, Beijing, China
Arte Fiera – International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
2007
Transparent Puzzle, Tibet Museum, Lhasa, Tibet
SH Contemporary – Exhibition of Young Artists (Asia), Shanghai World Trade Centre, Shanghai, China
New Power, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2006
New Power, China – Contemporary Art Biennale, Shanghai & Beijing, China
2005
Post-human Report, Chengdu, China
2004
Ten-brick, Chengdu, China
2003
Third Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Works of Teachers in Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China
1999
Ninth National Exhibition – Sichuan Section, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China