1986 Born in Hubei, China
2009 BA, Oil Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute,
Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Shanghai
Solo Exhibitions
2019 ‘Who Are You’, AIKE, Shanghai, China
2017 ‘Life of the Pilgrim’, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 ‘Same Old Crowd’, AIKE, Shanghai, China
2015 ‘Re-projecting – One or Many Roles’, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal
(OCAT Xi’an), Xi’an, China
‘Artists’ Film Club: Li Ran’, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London,
United Kingdom (Screening)
2014 ‘ONE MAN ONE NIGHT’, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco,
United States
‘Archive 23 - Li Ran’, Video Bureau, Beijing, China (Screening)
2012 ‘I Want To Talk To You, But Not All Of You’, Goethe Open Space,
Shanghai, China
‘Pretty Knowledge’, AIKE, Shanghai, China
‘Mont Sainte-Victoire’, Magician Space, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 ‘Polyphonic Strategies: The Moving Image and its Expanded Fields’,
New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China
’New General Intellect in Art:Drawing Project 5 - Beta’,
Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
2020 ‘Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art’,
New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China
‘Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation’,
Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
‘The Man of the Crowd’, AIKE, Shanghai, China
2019 ‘The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay’,
Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
‘Remapping Reality: Selected Video Collection from Wang Bing‘,
OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
’EXIT PLAN’, SNAP, Shanghai, China
2018 ‘Metageography: Orientalism and Dreams of Robinsons',
ZARYA Centre for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
'Metamorphosis: Art Practices Now Activating Archives and Public
Memories', OCAT, Beijing, China
'White Flash', ShanghART Gallery, Beijing, China
‘New Video in China - New Attitude Since 2010’, OCT-Anren,
Chengdu, China
‘Pity Party’, Sleep Center, New York, USA
‘Spiral Stairs’, AIKE, Shanghai, China
2017 ‘Field Guide’, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
‘Cold Night’, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
‘Future Generation Art Prize’, Collateral Event of the 57th Venice Biennale,
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
‘Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs’, Jim Thompson Art Center,
Bangkok, Thailand
‘Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs’, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
‘Future Generation Art Prize’, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
‘The Making of an Institution’, NTU Center For Contemporary Art Singapore
(CCA), Singapore
2016 ‘OCAT Performs: Act’, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Shenzhen),
Shenzhen, China
‘Performing in the Shot’, New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
‘TUTORIALS’, Pino Pascali Foundation, Polignano a Mare, Italy
‘Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs’, Museum of Contemporary Art and
Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines
‘A Second Exhibition (By Other Masters, Around the Same Subject,
New Date)’, Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK), Hoorn, Netherlands
‘Museum ON/OFF - Encounters with Pompidou’, Center Pompidou-
ESPACE, Pairs, France
2015 ‘Exhibit 101: Li Ran and Gary Ross Pastrana’, NTU Center For
Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore
‘Southern Wind’, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
‘From a Poem to the Sunset’, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
‘Absolute Collection Guideline’, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
‘Essential Matters – Moving Images from China’, Borusan Contemporary,
Istanbul, Turkey
‘Mobile M+: Moving Images’, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District
(Midtown POP), Hong Kong, China
‘Biennale Of Moving Images’, Museum of Old and New Art Museum
(MONA), Hobart, Australia
‘28 Chinese’, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, United States
‘28 Chinese’, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, United States
‘Perched In the Eye of A Tornado’, Ying Space, Beijing, China
2014 ‘1st OCAT & Pierre Huber Prize Annual Exhibition of Emerging Media
Artist’, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Shanghai),
Shanghai, China
‘Just as Money Is the Paper, the Gallery Is the Room’, Osage Shanghai,
Shanghai, China
‘Looking Forward’, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
‘Biennale Of Moving Images’, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève,
Geneva, Switzerland
‘Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video’, The Jewish Museum,
New York, United States
‘A Time for Dreams – IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art’,
The Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
‘The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing’, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
‘Many Place at Once’, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco, United States
‘The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture - The 2nd CAFAM Biennale’,
CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM), Beijing, China
2013 ‘Degeneration’, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Shanghai),
Shanghai, China
‘28 Chinese’, Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami, United States
‘Semi-automatic Mode’, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing, China
‘Difference Engine’, Magician Space, Beijing, China
‘Reading’, Leo Xu Project, Shanghai, China
‘FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin’, basis voor actuele kunst(BAK),
Utrecht, Netherlands
‘Standing in the Shadow’, OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
‘FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects’,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany
‘The Experimental Practices from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan
Fine Arts Institute’, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
‘I’m Not Involved in Aesthetic Progress: A Rethinking of Performance’,
Star Gallery, Beijing, China
‘Alternatives to Ritual – case of OCAT’, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal
(OCAT Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
‘ON|OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice’, Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
2012 ‘ROUNDTABLE,’ The 9th Gwangju Biennale 2012, Gwangju, South Korea
‘Unfinished Country: New Video from China’, Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston (CAMH), Houston, United States
‘The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie - Contemporary Visions on China’,
Yi&C, Taipei, China
‘Alternatives to Ritual- Artists’ Museum’, Goethe Open Space,
Shanghai, China
‘The First “CAFAM · Future” Exhibition’, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
‘Accidental Message: Art Is Not a System, Not a World’
– The Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art
Terminal (OCAT Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
2011 ‘Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art’, OCT Contemporary
Art Terminal (OCAT Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
‘The Personal Is Public’, AIKE gallery, Shanghai, China
‘In the Perfect World...’, Meulensteen gallery, New York, United States
‘Man for Himself’, Art Channel, Beijing, China
2010 ‘Mummery’, Art Channel, Beijing, China
‘A Project – Incommunicable’, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute,
Beijing, China
‘Use the Hand Do the Job’, Shift Space, Shanghai, China
2009 ‘The 6th Small Productions Event’, Hangzhou, China
2007 ‘Dream Plant Contemporary Art Exhibition’, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute,
Chongqing, China
Selected Group Screening Projects
2018 'Video Lounge Series 1: Before Binge Watching',
Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, China
2017 ‘Performing Dramas II’, K11, Shanghai, China
‘Performing Dramas I’, Center Pompidou, Pairs, France
2016 ‘Before Indulgence, After Freedom’, Cinémathèque québécoise,
Canada, Montréal
2015 ‘Artists’ Film Club: Li Ran’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London,
United Kingdom (personal screening)
2014 ‘File 23: Li Ran‘, Video Bureau, Beijing, China (personal screening and
archive exhibition)
‘Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video’, The Jewish Museum,
New York, United States
‘Hors Pistes Tokyo -ilm festival’, Institut français du Japon, Tokyo, Japan
‘Li Ran + Liu Shiyuan: A Screening with Christopher Phillips’,
Asia Art Archive, New York, United States
2013 ‘Off Course - A Narration Between Italy and Greater China’, Fondazione
Querini Stamplia, Venice, Italy
Residency Programs
2015 7th. September - 13th. November, Nan Yang Technological University
(NTU), Center For Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore
Awards
2017 Nominated, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
2014 Best Artist, IV Moscow International Biennale For Young Art,
The Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Finalist, Pierre Huber Prize, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT
Shanghai), Shanghai, China
Institutional Collections
Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, United States
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, United States
New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai and Beijing, China
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
X Museum, Beijing, China
DSL Collection, Paris, France
Domus Collection, Beijing, China/New York, United States
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States |
