Li Shan's List

Star Gallery is proud to announce its next exhibition — Li Shan’s List — that will be open from 15 May 2021. As the first cooperation between the gallery and the artist, the show will present 53 paintings that Li Shan has created from 2013 to 2021. A publication of the same title will be launched during the exhibition.

Li Shan was one of the Wuming painters, the “No Name Painting Group”, who were active in Beijing during the 1970s. In the beginning of the 1980s, Li Shan gave up painting in order to survive and moved through a host of professional phases, including finance, insurance, and interior design, etc. In 1995, she resumed her role as a painter, thereby continuing and expanding the artistic ideas of the Wuming to a large extent. Never admitted by an art school, Li Shan considers herself “non-official” and chooses to trusts her instincts in art. Her earlier works were mostly plein-air landscapes made in the the outskirts of Beijing, which have formed a free and ingenuous style with settings and compositions not strictly depicting the reality and colors specially emphasizing the subjective experiences of her inner world. Since she began to dabble in painting again, Li Shan has been constantly enlarging her painting list by traveling and painting around the world in a lifestyle that could both be regarded as aimless or delicately arranged.

Li Shan was born in Beijing, 1957, and currently works and lives here too. Her works of art have been presented by Asia Society Hong Kong, China Institute, National Art Museum of China, Asia Society Museum in New York City, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, etc. Her major solo exhibitions include Li Shan’s Solo Project at Art Basel in Hong Kong (2019), Fuxing Renaissance at Don Gallery in Shanghai (2017) and Li Shan: Works from the 1970s at James Cohan Gallery in Shanghai (2014).