Li Huasheng (

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: Lǐ Huáshēng) (1944–2018) was a Chinese artist from

Yibin Yibin ( zh, s=宜宾 , t=宜賓 , p=Yíbīn , w=I-pin, region=CN-SC-15; Sichuanese Pinyin: ȵi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min ...

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province. He received his first art training in one of

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's culture halls. He met Chen Zizhuang in 1972, and studied traditional Chinese painting under him, mastering his style in just four years. Li's fame was so great that in 1980, he was invited to showcase his art for Chinese paramount leader

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. In 1985 he was elected an honorary member of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and the following year was accepted into the Sichuan Academy of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting. Li's life has been extensively chronicled in Jerome Silbergeld and Gong Jisui's ''Contradictions: Artistic Life, The Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng'', and his life has been said to " pitomizethe path of the artist in socialist China".

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2016 *''Li Huasheng: The Meditation Room'', Mayor Gallery,

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, U.K. *''Li Huasheng'',

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, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center,

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, China 2014 *''Li Huasheng: Process, Mind, and Landscape'', Ink Studio,

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, China 2010 *''Show for 10 Art Cases'', Shanghai 800 Art Zone,

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, China 2006 *''Li Huasheng: New Literati Paintings'', Alisan Fine Arts,

, China 2005 *''Li Huasheng'', Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China 1998 *''Li Huasheng: An Individualistic Artist'',

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, San Francisco, U.S.A.; Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China 1992 *Solo exhibition,

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1991 *Solo exhibition, Hanart Gallery,

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, Taiwan *Solo exhibition,

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, Hong Kong 1987 *Solo exhibition,

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, U.S.A. 1984 *Solo exhibition,

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, China

Major group exhibitions

2017 *''Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China'',

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, New York, U.S.A. 2013 *''Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China'', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. 2010 *''The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in the 21st Century'',

National Art Museum of China The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC; ) is the national art museum of China and one of the largest art museums in the nation. Located in Beijing and opened since 1963, it is a level-1 public welfare institution funded by the Ministry of Cultur ...

, Beijing, China; Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 2007 *''A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection 1950–2000'', Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge;

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, Phoenix;

Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art is an art museum operated by the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. History In 1917, the Kansas City art collector Sallie Casey Thayer donated her collection of over seven thousand works of art, ...

, Lawrence;

Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum in West Palm Beach, Florida. The museum has a collection that includes over 8,200 works, with a concentration in Western art history, European, Visual arts of the United States, American, and Chinese art ...

, West Palm Beach, U.S.A. 2005 *''Metaphysics 2005 – Black and White'',

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, Shanghai, China *''Korean-Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting'',

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, Seoul, South Korea *''Ink and Paper – Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art'', Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China;

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, Weimar, Germany 2001 *''1st Space for Contemporary Ink Work – China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment 1980–2001'', Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 1995 *''Twentieth Century Chinese Painting: Tradition and Innovation'',

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, Hong Kong;

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, Singapore;

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, London, UK;

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, Cologne, Germany. 1983–85 *''Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China'', Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco;

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, Birmingham;

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, New York;

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, Cornell University, Ithaca;

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, Denver;

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, Indianapolis;

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, Kansas City; University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 1981 *''Rivers And Mountains Resemble Paintings: Exhibition of Paintings by Ten People'', National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Selected collections

*National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China *Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China *Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China *

He Xiangning Art Museum He Xiangning Art Museum () is an art museum in Nanshan, Shenzhen, China. Construction of the museum started in 1995 and was opened in 1997. The museum is named after He Xiangning, former leading person in the Revolutionary Committee of the Chi ...

– OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China *

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, Hong Kong, China *The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. *The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

, Los Angeles, U.S.A. *Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, U.S.A. *Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, U.S.A. *Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. *British Museum, London, U.K.

References

External links

Li Huasheng's biography
Ink Studio.
Li Huasheng: ‘A line is nothing. When I paint a vase, its outline does not exist, it is imagined’
Studio International. {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Huasheng 1944 births 2018 deaths Painters from Sichuan People from Yibin Chinese contemporary artists