Liu Xintao was born in 1968 in Xi Chang, Sichuan, China. He graduated in 1992 from Sichuan Fine Art Academy. Currently Xintao is Vice Professor at Le Shan Fine Art Academy. Xintao’s work is highly unusual. His Anomalous, sloppy and anxious brushwork stress the fast moving contemporary century and its focus on the materialization of human beings and the lost of their social attitudes. Xintao emphasises this using bilboards, car mirrors and fast food logos as centrepieces of his figures. Placing love near the symbol of consumerism signifies love being disrupted by consumerism or people truckling towards consumerism.
The artist has received a huge amount of coverage, with exhibitions all over China, as well as in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Italy, United Kingdom, Israel, USA and Canada. Xintao was honored with a prize at the second Sichuan Young Artists Exhibition in 2002 and a Special Achievement Award in 2005 at the Lu Shin Cup Painting Competition. He has also been recognised by the media of the art world, with articles in contemporary art magazines like the important Contemporary Fine Art and Oriental Art.
Liu xintao Despondent Nights 200 by 150 cm
Liu Xintao Despondent Night Tiananmen Square 200 by 150 cm
Liu Xintao Despondent Night 200 by 150 cm
Liu Xintao Despondent Night series 150 by 100 cm
Liu Xintao In the Bedroom 200 by 150 cm
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Selected Exhibitions
2009
Red Storm, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, The Netherlands
A Brave New World, Newcastle, UK
Liu Xintao’s solo exhibtion, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
Liu Xintao Solo Exhibition, Bada Art Gallery, 798, Beijing, China (solo)
GO GAME, BEIJING Contemporary Art Exhibition, German Embassy, China
Frieze Art Fair, London, British
Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy
“Art Beijing”Art Fair, Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Many Dimensions Vision-Artworks of 11 Contemporary Chinese Artists, You Gallery, Beijing, China
Asia International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
Selected Works Exhibiotion of China Contemporary galleries, Ge Feng Contemoprary Art Museum, Shen Zhen, China
Virtual City- New power-China Contemporary Art Biennale, Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Gathering And Self-controlling, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, ZuPu Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Shanghai Art Fair 2008, Shanghai, China
Paintings and Sculptures of the Digital Age, No.10 Art Space of Airdrome, Chengdu, China
People·History -Research Exhibition of 20th Century Chinese Art, China Literature & Culture Department and Fine Art Museum of China Central Fine Arts Academy, Beijing,China
Countercurrent – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Opus Gallery, London, British
2007
“New power-China” Nomination Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
“New power-China” Nomination Exhibition, Wuxi Museum, Wuxi, China
“Three years in the Blue House Art Center” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue House Art Center, Chengdu, China
“Chengdu Contemporary Art, North American Roving Exhibition ” in Edmonds Dayton Museum, Canada
“Word of mouth From Four Corners ” The 3rd Guiyang Contemporary Art Biennale, Guiyang Art Museum, China
“Continuation and Transcendence” 30 years of the Sichuan School of Oil Painting, By Ministry of Foreign and Chinese Culture Center, Beijing, China
“Transparent Ju” Y＆G Contemporary Art Series Activity in Tibet Tibet, China
“Israel – Contemporary Art of China ” Exhibition, Israel
2006
“Despondent Night” in Vanessa Art Link, Jakarta – Indonesia (solo)
Shanghai Art Fair 2006, Shanghai, China
China International Gallery Exposition 2006, Vanessa Art Link.
First “New Power China” Contemporary Art Biennale 2006, Shanghai, China
“Art Beijing” Art Exposition, Beijing, China
2005
Fascinating Oil Painting Exhibitions in Shanghai Yipo Gallery
Lu Shin Cup Painting Competition organized by Lu Shin Fine
Art Academy, awarded with Special Achievement Award
2004
The First Szechuan University Teachers Combined Art Exhibition in Chen Du.
October 2004 settled down in Chen Du Lan Ding Art District
2003
Szechuan Oil Painting in Chen Du
The 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibitions in Beijing
2002
The 2nd Szechuan Young Artists Exhibitions in Chen Du, awarded with special mentioned Prize
2001
The Face of 100 Artists Exhibition in Nan Jing
1999
1990′s Contemporary Art Exhibtion in Shanghai
1998
The Fifth China Contemporary Art Exhibition in Chong Qing
1997
The Face of City 1997 – Liu Xintao Oil Painting Solo Exhibitions in Chen Du.
1992
Szechuan Fine Art Academy Oil Painting Exhibition in Hongkong