LIAO Fei

Liao Fei (b.1981) explores the relationship and tension in material materials in his works – between reality and geometry, between cognition and mysticism, between duality and simplification. While drawing attention to the broader concepts related to these relationships, his works also reveal the metaphysical temperament contained in everyday materials.

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2024 Liste Art Fair Basel solo project at Vanguard booth, Basel, Switzerland
    2023 “Physics Temple”, Vanguard Gallery x Tihho Art Space, Shanghai, China
    2021 “Depiction”, The Cloister Project, Shanghai, China
    2021 “Is Everything A Contingent Occurrence?”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    2018 “Res Extensa”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2016 “Plain”, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    2016 “Perspective”, YveYang Gallery, Boston, USA
    2016 “The Equater”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2015 “This Sentence is False”, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
    2013 “Surface Material Motion”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

  • Group Exhibitions

    2024 “Unseen Orchestra”, MAKE ROOM Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
    2024 “An Atlas of the Difficult World”, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing
    2024 “Endless Mountains: Spanning Mountains and Seas-An Exhibition of Art and The Tang Poetry Road”,Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan, Osaka, Japan
    2024 “Vanguard Onwards”, Vanguard Onwards, Shanghai, China
    2024 “Picture of the post-80s generation generational leap”,Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    2023 “Tempo Rubato, Days in Yard X PREWORK, Beijing, China
    2022 “A Journey of Love and Memory”, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    2022 “Being Theoria: 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art”, Zhejiang Art Museum, Zhejiang, China
    2022 “Warehouse Story VIII – On Your Mark!”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2021  “Silent Thunder”, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
    2021  “Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Contemporary Video Art from China”, Salamanca Arts Centre, Australia
    2021 “Some Like Them Cold”, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    2021  “Time and Space”, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
    2020  “C”, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    2020  “One Tree Fifty Ideas”, OōEli, Hangzhou, China
    2020 “Annealing”, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    2020 “Twilight” – Points Residency Exhibition, Kunshan, China
    2019 “Warehouse Story VI”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2019 “Exit Plan”, SNAP Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2019 “The Attraction Show”, SNARTE SPACE, Nanchang, China 
    2018 “In the Open or in Stealth – The Unruly Presence of an Intimate Future”, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
    2018 “Botanic Project”, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
    2018 “Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globlisational Politics”, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China
    2018 “Time Square”, YveYang Gallery, New York, USA
    2018 “ _”, Milieu, Bern, Switzerland
    2018 “All happens after sunset…”, Galerie Liusa Wang, Pairs, France
    2018 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
    2017 “Indoors – The 5th Huayu Youth Award”, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China
    2017 “Shanghai Galaxy Ⅱ”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
    2017 “Today’s Yesterday”, Anren Biennial, Chengdu, China
    2017 “All happens after sunset…”, MOCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China
    2017 “Any Ball”,CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    2017 “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017”, UCCA, Beijing, China
    2017 “Trace in The Hidden Slience”, Shenzhen, China
    2017 “A Chemical Love Story”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
    2017 “JUNGLE-Common”, Platform china Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
    2016 “I Can’t Do More Than I Do”, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
    2016 “Why Not Ask Again” – 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    2016 “I Can Not See”, V Space, Shanghai, China
    2016 “We – A Community of Chinese contemporary Artists”, chi K11Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    2015 “Void: There’s Nothing More Left, but a little trace from human being”, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
    2015 “Things – In – Itself, The Invisible Feeling of Deprival”, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
    2015 “Resolution”, SVA-NYC Art Platform, Shanghai, China
    2015 “Hammer Hammer Peng!”, A307, Beijing, China
    2014 “Art Festival”, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
    2014 “Art in the City”, K11, Shanghai, China
    2014 “Get It Louder”, Beijing, China
    2014 “Nihilistic Belief”, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
    2014 “New Power”, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2014 “The 7th A+A: Too Smart To Be Good”, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
    2014 “Social Meditation – The good person of Szechwan”, Education of the German Consulate-General Shanghai, China
    2013 “Shanghai Surprise”, K11, Shanghai, China
    2013 “+ Follow 2013 – Existence”, MOCA Shanghai, China
    2013 “Spectacle – 12 presentations of contemporary museum architecture in China”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    2013 “Current”, The Bund No.18, Shanghai, China
    2013 “Sun”, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2013 “Drawing Expression and Limited”, Art Museum of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
    2013 “Evolution: A Question” (Museum of Unknown project), Yuan Space, Beijing, China
    2013 “Immersive Environment”, Xi’an, China
    2013 “Daily of concept”, The Fifth Shanghai Duo lun Youth Art Exhibition, Duo lun Museum, Shanghai, China
    2012 “All Tomorrow’s Parties, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2012 “Get It Louder” (Museum of Unknown project), Beijing, China
    2012 “Conscious Folly”, AM Space, Shanghai, China
    2012 Zhujiajiao Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
    2012 “Pulse Reaction”(Museum of Unknown project), Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
    2012 “Party” Social Meditation (Museum of Unknown project), Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai
    2012 Chinese Young Artists Contemporary Art Exhibition, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2012 “The Halo Effect”, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2012 “In-Sight”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2011 “Shell Economy”, World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
    2011 “A Museum That Is Not”, Times museum, Guangdong, China
    2011 “Super Organism” (Museum of Unknown project Swirl), CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    2011 “Pattern” (Museum of Unknown project), 798 Art space, Beijing, China
    2011 “Hand Sense”, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2011 “Decoration”, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
    2011 “Follow” (Museum of Unknown project “coral”), Moca Museum, Shanghai, China
    2011 “Yun Lang project”, Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai, China
    2011 “Auto Restart” – Exhibition of Youth Paintings, Shanghai, China
    2010 “Meditation Seat” (Museum of Unknown project), Art House, Shanghai, China
    2010 “The Youth Sales Store”, Fine Arts Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2010 “What We Talk About When We Talk About Art”, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2010 “Use Manuscript”, Shift Art Station, Shanghai, China
    2010 “Solitaire”, Shift Art Station, Shanghai, China
    2010 “Get It Louder” (Museum of Unknown project the Room of Utopia), Beijing, China
    2010 “Floating Clouds”, Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai, China
    2010 “Small Beauty”, Wellside Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2009 “East West Sudden Impulse”, Stereoscopic Gallery, Tianjin, China
    2009 “The youth Sales Store”, M50, Shanghai, Chin
    2008 “Absurd to Be True”, Tu Shan Wan Museum, Shanghai, China
    2008 “Safety First”, Fei Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2008 “Hui Hua Fei Fa hui”, Shanghai, China
    2008 “We Are the World”, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2007 “Young Urban Citizens”, Art Scene Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2007 “Hand sense”, Shanghai, China
    2006      Guilin Landscape, Urban Sculpture Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2005 “Piano Room”, Shanghai, China
    2004 “Do You Need Art”, Shanghai, China
    2004 “Search by Map”, Shanghai, China
    2003 “Sculpture Workshop”, Invisible Gallery, Shanghai, China

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