1963 Born in China
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts in oil Painting, Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1998-1999 Study in Academy of Fine Arts, University of Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Traces: Liu Xiaodong, Angle Gallery, Beijing,China
2008 Qinghai-Tibet Plateau & Beijing Girls - New Paintings by Liu Xiaodong, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2007 Liu Xiaodong Solo Exhibition 2007, Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
2006 The Three Gorges Project---Painting by Liu Xiaodong, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. U.S.A.
Liu Xiaodong: Painting from Life, Art Museum of Guangdong, China
Hot Bed-a painting project by Liu Xiaodong, Tang gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Liu Xiaodong’s new works: Domino, Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 Childhood friend getting fat, LOFT Gallery, Paris
2004 Three Gorges: Displaced Population & Three Gorges: Newly Displaced
Population, Chinablue Gallery & CAAW, Beijing, China
Eighteen Soldiers Between Mainland and Taiwan, Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art. Jinmen, Taiwan
2003 Liu Xiao Dong, Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
2001 Liu Xiao Dong, LOFT Gallery, Paris, France
2000 Liu Xiaodong 1990-2000, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Liu Xiao Dong and His Time, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 10th Biennial Havana, Cuba
2008 China 21Century, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma, Italy
Waiting on the wall - Chinese new realism and avant-garde in the eighties and nineties, Groninger museum-nai publishers
Half-life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
2007 The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London,UK
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Made in China, Israel Museum, Jerusalum, Israel
Energy and Character, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006 Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2005 The Wall - Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Bern Museum, Switzerland
2004 Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation - Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish, Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
2003 Alors, La Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Nude - Ideal and Reality - From Neoclassicism to Today, Bologna Modern Art Museum, Italy
Premieres Lueurs Sur L' Orient--L' aventure de la peinture chinoise au 20 Siecle, Palais de la Porte Doree, Paris, France
2002 A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art - Guanzhou Triennial, Art Museum of Guangdong, Guangzhou, China
2001 China Art Now, Singapore Art Musuem, Singapore
2000 Shanghai Spirit, Shangai Biennial, Shanghai, China