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Li Qing

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b.1981, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

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Li Qing was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1981. Li Qing’s paintings, installations and video works seek rational rifts in similarity and contradiction, acting on the perception and cognition of a viewer through circuitous and overlapped structures. His persistent painting practice no longer focuses on working within the four corners of the picture, but instead constantly expands the painting’s external space and modes of perception. The uninterrupted experimentation and sustained momentum across these various series are outgrowths of the themes Li Qing has been following since 2005: information and image in the technological age, the social mechanisms and power dynamics of seeing, the relationship between people, architecture and the city amidst globalization, the patterns and disciplining of aesthetics in the consumer age, constructing conflict structures and new forms of expression. The capture of micro-politics in everyday spaces and images, the analysis of ideology in aesthetic tradition, result in him a special historical consciousness. 

Li Qing is currently the tutor of the Multi-dimensional Expressionism Studio of China Academy of Art and the associate professor. He has had solo shows at Long Museum, Shanghai; Song Art Museum, Beijing; Prada Rongzhai, Shanghai; Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen; Zhejiang Art Museum; Tomás y Valiente Art Centre (CEART), Madrid; Arario Museum, Seoul; The Orient Foundation, Macao; Goethe Institute, Shanghai; Tang Contemporary Art; Almine Rech; Galerie Eigen+Art; among others. A number of prestigious art institutes have also included his works for group shows, such as Shanghai Biennale; Prague Biennale; Guangzhou Triennial; Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (UABB); Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art; Venice Biennale Special Invitation Exhibition; Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition; Lille3000; Noor Riyadh Light Art Festival; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC USP); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM); Museum Maillol, Paris; Saatchi Gallery, London; Seoul Museum of Art; Gwangju Museum of Art; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; National Gallery of Indonesia; Chile Museum of Contemporary Art; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Shanghai Art Museum; etc. 

Li Qing's works are also widely collected by major institutions and foundations globally, such as Fondazione Prada; Deutsche Bank; Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM); Rubell Museum, Miami; Forbes Group; Art at Swiss Re; Arario Museum, Seoul/Jeju; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Kistefos Museum, Oslo; Kunsthalle HGN, Germany; Initial Access, UK; Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris; DSL Foundation, Paris; Fondazione Imago Mundi, Italy; Logan Foundation, San Francisco; Australia China Art Foundation; Art & Culture Foundation(IAC) of Spain; Long Museum, Shanghai; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Guangdong Museum of Art; Zhejiang Art Museum; TANK Shanghai; Start Museum, Shanghai; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Fosun Foundation, Shanghai; CC Foundation, Shanghai; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; ASE Foundation, Shanghai; The Cloud Collection, Nanjing; Yi Art Museum, Hangzhou; Iris Art Museum, Suzhou; Yue Art Museum, Yantai; Lin Fengmian Art Foundation; Live Forever Foundation, Taichung; Mountain Art Culture & Education Foundation, Taipei; etc. 

Li Qing was awarded the ‘Annual Youth Power’ by <Southern People Weekly> in 2025. In 2023, he was selected for Influential: Forbes China 30 Contemporary Young Artists. In 2017, He was shortlisted for the Jean-François Prat Prize, becoming the first Asian artist to be shortlisted for the prize. In 2013, he was awarded as ‘<Robb Report> Best of the Best’: Artist of the Year.

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