Ma Liuming Biography
- 1969 Born in Huangshi, Hubei province, China
- 1981 Started to study painting with tutor Cai Erhe
- 1991 MFA, Oil Painting Department, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, China
Selected Solo Exhibitions and performances
- 2007 Marella Gallery, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
- 2007 Galería Dolores de Sierra, Madrid, Spain
- 2005 “Ma Liuming: Chosen Images”, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
- 2004 “Ten Year’s Review of Ma Liuming’s Works”, Top Space, Tai Kang Life Building, Beijing, China
- 2003 “Any Day”, performance at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
- 2002 “Photographs and video’s of performances”, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
- 2001-1996 Series of performances entitled “(Fen-)Ma Liuming in …”, all over the world
- 1999 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
- 1998 “Chaos and Birth / Ma Liuming ’98”, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
- 1998 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
- 1998 “Fen-Ma Liuming Walks the Great Wall”, performance, Beijing, China
- 1997 “Thirty-six Self Taken Photographs by Ma Liuming II”, performance at Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 “Photographs of Performances”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
- 1996 “Ma Liuming (paintings)”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
- 1996 “Fish Child”, performance, Beijing, China
- 1995 “Fen-Ma Liuming and the fish”, performance, Beijing, China
- 1995 “Fen-Ma Liuming’s lunch I & II”, performances, Beijing East Village, Beijing, China
- 1993 “Dialogue with Gilbert and George”, performance, Beijing East Village, Beijing, China
- 1993 “Ma Liuming I, Woman’s face and Man’s body”, performance, Beijing East Village, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2007 “Timerol, Intimacy”, Triennale, Milan, Italy
- 2007 “Dragon’s Evolution”, New York Chian Square Art Center, New York, USA
- 2006 “Process & Expression”, Star 85 Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2006 “Unclear and Clearness – Contemporary Chinese Art”, Heyri Art Foundation, South Korea
- 2004 “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” (travelling exhibition)
- 2005 “Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection”, (travelling exhibition)
- 2005 Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2002 Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia
- 2002 “Chinese Modernity”, Fondation Armando Alvares Penteada, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- 1999 “Pink for Boys / Blue for Girls”, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
- 1998 “Inside Out: New Chinese Art”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
- 1995 Participation in Zhang Huan’s To Raise an Anonymous Mountain by One Meter, Miaofengshan Mountain, Beijing, China
