Liu Bolin 
Born 1973 in Shandong, China. Lives and works in Beijing. 

 

EDUCATION 

2001        
M.F.A., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

1995       
B.A., Shandong University of Arts, Jinan, China 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2024
Mimetismi, Museo di Scienze e Archeologia, Rovereto, Italy
Order out of Chaos, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
Seeing the Invisible by Liu Bolin, Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore

2023
Hiding In Florence, Sala d'Arme of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
(In)visible - the Art of Liu Bolin, Deodato Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

2022
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Bel-Air Fine Art, Geneva, Switzerland

2020
Liu Bolin: Now Now, Amy Li Gallery, Beijing

2019
Liu Bolin: Visible/Invisible, Museo delle Culture, Milan
Liu Bolin: Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, The Gaviria Palace, Madrid, Spain
Liu Bolin/Camouflage - Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
The Bigger Picture - Liu Bolin, Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Almere, The Netherlands
Liu Bolin: Hiding on the 38th Parallel North, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
La forma profonda del reale di Liu Bolin, Bocconi Art Gallery, Milan
New Change, Over the Influence, Hong Kong

2018
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Liu Bolin: The Theatre of Appearances, Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 
Liu Bolin: The Imperceptible, Il Faut Le Faire, Goussainville, France
Liu Bolin - Vanishing Point, BAFA Contemporary - Bel Air Fine Art, London
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Complesso Del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
Liu Bolin: L'homme caméléon, Le DIDAM, Bayonne, France
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man in Tel Aviv, 32 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan

2017
Galerie Party, Centre Pompidou - Acte II with Liu Bolin, Galerie des enfants, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Liu Bolin: Migrants, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Ramacca, Catania, Italy
Liu Bolin: Ghost Stories, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Galerie Corbero, The Peninsula Paris, Paris
Liu Bolin: Revealing Disappearance, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
Portrait(s) 2017 Festival 5th Edition - Liu Bolin Solo Show, Esplanade du lac d'Allier, Vhicy, France
Liu Bolin Hiding in Germany - Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Springmann Gallery, Berlin
Liu Bolin: Hacker Art, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai
Undercover, Odalys Gallery, Madrid, Spain 

2016        
Liu Bolin Performance Show, K11 Museum, Shanghai
Liu Bolin: Art Hacker, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
Liu Bolin Solo Exhibition, Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Hangzhou, China 

2015      
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Liu Bolin: Desapareciendo, Museo de Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Liu Bolin: Hiding in Plain Sight, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan
Liu Bolin: CAMALEÓN, Centro Roberto Garza Sada, Universidad de Monterrey,Monterrey, Mexico
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Concordia College, New York 
CAMUFLAJE, Galería Oscar Román, Mexico City, Mexico
Liu Bolin: Hidden in the City, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, Concordia Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Moorhead, Minnesota
Liu Bolin: Hacker Art, Danysz Gallery, London
Liu Bolin: The Distance to The Eyes, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai
Liu Bolin Solo Show, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2014    
Liu Bolin Solo Show: Nine-Dragon Screen, BAM's sculpture Court, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho    
In Plain Sight: Photographs by Liu Bolin, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut
Liu Bolin: A Colorful World?, Klein Sun Gallery, New York

2013      
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Liu Bolin, Camouflages Urbains, Space Squirrel Foundation for Contemporary Art,Toulouse, France
Liu Bolin - ein Meister der Tarnung, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Liu Bolin Solo Show - "Mimesis", La Cometa Gallery, Bogota, Colombia                         
Liu Bolin: Mask
, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2012        
Hidden Meaning: Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Bolin, The Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 
Liu Bolin: The Sociology of the Invisible Body, California State University Northridge Art Galleries, Northridge, California
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
Liu Bolin: A Secret Tour, Museo H.C. Andersen, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Liu Bolin: Lost in Art, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2011     
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden     
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Vänermuseet, Lidköping, Sweden 
Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2010        
Liu Bolin, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing
Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, El Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela     
Liu Bolin: Hiding in Italy, Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Milan
Liu Bolin: On Fire, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2008        
Liu Bolin, Bridge Art Center, Beijing
Liu Bolin: China Report 2007, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2007         
Liu Bolin: Sculpture, Hotsun Art Space, 798 ArtDist, Beijing
Liu Bolin: Distortion, Hotsun Art Space, 798 ArtDist, Beijing
Liu Bolin Solo Exhibition, Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Miami

2001        
Liu Bolin’s Sculpture, Passage Gallery, Beijing

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024 
The Writings of Today are a Promise for Tomorrow, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art at Jax, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
See France, Being Art Museum, Shanghai
Human, Galleria Gaburro Boxart, Milan 
Gugong: Opening Seals, Contemporary Art of the People’s Republic of China from the Collection of Alexander Chistyakov, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Redefine: Contemporary Portrait Photography Exhibition, Fujifilm X Space, Shanghai

2023
Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York 
Letters from Overseas: Zooming into the De Molina's Collection, Coral Gables Museums, Coral Gables, Florida
The Wild Theatre, Arton Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
Colección Marión Art Gallery, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama

2022
i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
SENSORAMA, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Letter from Overseas: Zooming into the De Molina’s Collection, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
Tumultes, Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier, Orleans, France
Renew - A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
Une vie à l’Opéra, PARIS-B, Paris

2021        
The Supermarket of Images, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
Nourrir le corps nourrit l’esprit, Centre D'art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, France
The Photography is Not What’s Important: Photographs From the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Collective Exhibition, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
Super Fusion - 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu, China
When Matter Becomes Art - Guerlain, private tour FIAC Paris 2021, Paris

2020        
Alien Nations, Coral Gables Museum in online collaboration with Lehman College Art Gallery, Florida
When Speed Become Form - Live in Your Screen, Wind H Art Center, Beijing
Marión Art Gallery: 10 Years, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
UNSCHEDULED, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
CONNECTIONS, Over the Influence, Hong Kong

2019
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Gainesville, Florida [itinerary: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago] Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
I eat, therefore I am, Musée de L'Homme, Paris
ImageSingulières, Maison de L'Image Documentaire, Sète, France
The Gaze of History - Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
Humans, Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, Bordeaux, France
Art Eats Art, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France 
Colors of Contemporary China: A Passion of Collectors, Saint-Remi Museum, Reims,  France
180 Years of Photography in China, The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Ningxia, China
Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK Contemporary Art Collection, Vienna, Austria
Urban Art Biennale 2019, The World Cultural Heritage Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany
The Bigger Picture, Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Almere, The Netherlands
Architectural Representation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Eli Klein Gallery, Miami
The Art Behind Art, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama
Responsive Art, Marión Art Gallery, Panamá, Panama

2018     
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Shenzhen OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Hybridizations: The Ghost of Painting, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing
Evidence: A New State of Art, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy
Replace with Fine Art, Pearlman Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Every Body Talks, Mattatoio Roma, Rome, Italy
C'était Demain! La Fabrik, Espace d'art contemporain, Monthey, Switzerland

2017        
Forty Years of Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition, Shenzhen, China 
Long Island Collects: New Photography, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017), Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
The First Shandong Youth Contemporary Art Documents Exhibition, JiaJian Art Museum, Jinan, China
Portrait(s) Festival 2017, Ville de Vichy, Vichy, France 
Biennale Archipelago Mediterranean, Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa-Palermo Dusseldorf Pavilion, Palermo, Italy 

2016        
Art From The Streets, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Sublimina, Museo Delle Mura, Rome, Italy
Up in Arms: Taking Stock of Guns, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
TAKE ME OUT, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
Camouflage: In Plain Sight, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
21C at 10: A Global Gathering, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
Seeing Now, 21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Chinascape: From Rural to Urban, Spazioborgogno, Milan
We Are What We Eat, Main entrance lobby of United Nations Visitor Center, United Nations Headquarters, New York

2015         
Psycho/Somatic: Visions of the Body in Contemporary East Asian Art, John N. Stern Gallery, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
INTERACT: Deconstructing Spectatorship, North Wing of The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London
Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
A Touch of Classics: 100 Chinese Contemporary Works—Charles Jing Collection of Original Photo Prints, China Millennium Monument World Art Museum, Beijing
L’uomo Nel Paesaggio, San Pietro in Atrio, Como, Italy
Target—Bienal de Performance 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Focus on the Future—What Makes Us “Us”, Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo

2014        
Seeing the Unseen, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Challenge the Tradition – 20th Century Western Classical and Chinese Contemporary Photography, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Photography: 2009–2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Les Esthétiques d'un Monde Désenchanté, Le Centre d'art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, France
Pho-to-graffs: Images of Hip Hop, Graffiti, and Urban Culture, Gold Coast Arts Center, Great Neck, New York
Intersection: Painting, Drawing, and Photography, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania
East by SouthEast, OBS Gallery, Tonbridge School, Kent, United Kingdom
The Camera's Eye, PHOTOJAX 2014, Jacksonville, Florida

2013        
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Aura and Post Aura—The First Beijing Photography Biennale, China Millennium Monument World Art Museum, Beijing
Incarnations, Photographie-Performance de Chine, Institut Confucius des Pays de la Loire d’Angers, Angers, France
Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium 
TED 2013, The Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, California
Portrait(s) Festival, Culture Centre Valery-Larbaud, Vichy, France 
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
War Zone Home, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Art Gallery, New York
Skin Trade, PPOW Gallery, New York
10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003–2013, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York

2012        
Performing for the Camera, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Changement de Décor, Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
Bienne Festival of Photography, Bienne, Switzerland 
Harper’s Bazaar: Inside the Magazine, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine [itinerary: Korobchinskiy Center, Odessa, Ukraine; Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ukraine; Museum of Modern Art, Kiev, Ukraine] 
Abwehr. Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland 

2011        
Exhibition of the Neuflize Collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France 
Urban Play, Landgent Center, Beijing
Biennale della Fotografia, Bogotá, Colombia 
Black and White, Zero Art Center, 798 ArtDist, Beijing
Scenes from Within: Contemporary Art from China, Blackbridge Hall Gallery, Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia

2010        
The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Reflection of Minds—MoCA Shanghai Envisage III, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
HomeLess Home, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Passing China, Sanatorium, Istanbul, Turkey
Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
HIDEntites, mc2 Gallery, Milan

2009        
Animamix Biennial, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing]
Shore—Contemporary Academy Sculpture Exhibition, Moon River Art Museum, Beijing
Blank—Making Life, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul
Erotic—Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, DadiRui City Exhibition Center, Jinan, China 
The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Camouflages, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Passing By China, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2008        
Sunshine International Art Museum International Exhibition, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing
Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers, Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston, Maine 
Force-Form, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bridge Art Center, Beijing
International Exhibition, Rome International Contemporary and Modern Art Center, Rome, Italy
Mixed Maze—Group Photography Exhibition, Red Mansion Foundation, London New Middle Kingdom, Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

2007        
Olympic Landscape Sculpture Exhibition, China Millennium Monument World Art Museum, Beijing
Memory: Contemporary Art Exhibition, New York Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing
Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France 
Made in China—Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
The First “Breathing”—Shandong Modern Art Exhibition, Shandong Museum, Jinan, China 
Since…Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gao Brothers Beijing Art Center, Beijing
Union—Exhibition of Chinese and Chile Artists, No.1 China Art Base, Beijing
Union in June: Chinese Performance Art Exhibition, Songzhuang, Beijing
Resettling—SuoJia Village Modern Art Exhibition, Beijing International Arts Camp II Ka Tsuen, Beijing
China Now: Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York

2006        
Third Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sunshine International Museum, Beijing
Qingzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Qingzhou Museum, Qingzhou, China 
Songzhuang Art Festival, Songzhuang Art Zone, Beijing
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Dismantle, Xiyuantianlu Business Hotel, Beijing

2005        
Beijing Calligraphy Exhibition, Maside Art Center, Beijing
Luxury Times, Chang Chau Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Tianjin Harbor Plaza, Tianjin, China
Dismantle - Dismantle - Dismantle, Beijing International Arts Camp II Ka Tsuen, Beijing
Considerable, West Lake International Sculpture Exhibition, Hangzhou Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 

2001        
The Second Invitational Sculpture Exhibition of Contemporary Young Sculptors, Hangzhou Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 

2000        
Works Exhibition,The First China Sculpture Competition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing 

1999        
The Second Metals Work Exhibition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
88-MOCCA, Vaduz, Liechtenstein 
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
ARTantide Museum, Verona, Italy 
AT&T Art Collection, Dallas, Texas
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Banca Aletti, Milan
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine 
Biblioteca Capitolare, Verona, Italy 
Collection NEUFLIZE VIE, Paris
Collection SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, France
dslcollection, Paris
The Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, Massachusetts 
Fist Art Foundation, Dorado, Puerto Rico 
FMAC, Paris
Fondation Ariane de Rothschild, Madrid, Spain
Fondation Frances, Senlis, France 
Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 
The Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia 
HBC Global Art Collection, New York
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
LAM Museum, Lisse, Netherland
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong 
MART, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy 
Museo Enzo Ferrari, Modena, Italy 
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel 
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida 
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
The Red Mansion Foundation, London
Teutloff Photo & Video Collection, Bielefeld, Germany 
Uli Sigg Collection, Mauensee, Switzerlan
Unicredit Group, Milan