Li Huasheng (

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: 李华生;

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

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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'',

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

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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'',

Chinese Culture Center The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (or CCC) (; Jyutping: ''Gau6gam1saan1 Zung1waa4 Man4faa3 Zung1sam1'') is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture Foundation locate ...

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

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1991 *Solo exhibition, Hanart Gallery,

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, Taiwan *Solo exhibition, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong 1987 *Solo exhibition,

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; Yale University Art Gallery,

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; University of Michigan Museum of Art,

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; Henry Art Gallery,

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; and

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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'', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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, Beijing, China;

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, 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;

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, Lawrence; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, U.S.A. 2005 *''Metaphysics 2005 – Black and White'', Shanghai Art Museum, 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'', Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore;

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, London, UK; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany. 1983–85 *''Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China'', Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham;

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, New York;

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art ("The Johnson Museum") is an art museum located on the northwest corner of the Arts Quad on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its collection includes two windows from Frank Lloyd W ...

, Cornell University, Ithaca; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 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 KMT ...

– OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China * M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China *The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. *The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. *

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, 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.British Museum Collection
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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