Yefu Liu

Liu Yefu focuses on film, sound, drawing and mixed media. Influenced by Asian folk culture, Liu is interested in the expression of black humor with a stream of consciousness style, playfully comments on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By shooting daily life scenes, combined with carefully selected ready-made products in line with his fictional plot, Liu mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory.

Liu’s solo exhibitions including: Fool’s Paradise (Magician Space, 2022), Hehemeimei, (Art Basel Statements Sector, Basel, 2021), No Easy Symbolism (Magician Space, Beijing, 2018), The First Episode (Magician Space, Beijing, 2016). His recent works have been exhibited at 25th Gabrovo Biennial for Humor & Satire in Art (Gabrovo, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2019), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, 2019), OCAT Museum, (Beijing, 2018), He Xiangning Museum (Shenzhen, 2017), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, 2017), Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), YUZ Museum (Shanghai, 2016), Kimberly-Klark Gallery, (New York, 2015) among others. Liu is the nomination of Balois Art Prize (Basel, 2021), Huayu Youth Award (Sanya, 2016) and he is the finalist of Toby Devan Lewis MFA Fellowship (Baltimore, 2014).

• Teaching Experiences
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• 2015-2022
• Film & Video instructor, H-ART International Education, Beijing
• Fine Art instructor, H-ART International Education, Beijing
• MFA Applicant portfolio instructor, majoring in film &video, H-ART International Education, Beijing
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• 2015-2017
• China Representative, Maryland Institute College of Art
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• 2009-2011
• Fine Art instructor at Juming Art Education, Chongqing
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• Public talk & Lecture
• 2022
• CanGlory Education Career Expo, Canada International School Beijing, Online
• Contemporary Art History in China, Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing, Online
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• 2021
• ARTX30, Diplomacy through art, Celebrating Thirty Years of Friendship Between Singapore and China, Online
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• 2017
• Heading to 2046: The Chance and Memory of Media Art, CHAO Art Center, Beijing
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• 2016
• Private Visit in Collaboration with K11 Art Foundation, Beijing
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• Selected Exhibitions
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• Forthcoming
• 4th BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires
• Liu Yefu solo show, Arting Gallery, Baltimore
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• 2022
• 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art, Gabrovo
• Fool’s Paradise, Magician Space, Beijing
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• 2021
• Tangle of Revolution and Political Soul, SGA, Shanghai
• ART BASEL, Statements Sector, Basel
• Get High, Online-Screening, Centre for Experimental Film
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• 2020
• Nanjing Art Fair International, Nanjing
• ART BASEL, Online Viewing Rooms
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• 2019
• Shards From The Mirror of History, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
• Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou
• ART BASEL, Hong Kong
• Hic Sunt Leones, 798 Contemporary Art Center, Surplus Space, Beijing, Wuhan
• Performing Society: The Violence of Gender, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
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• 2018
• NO EASY SYMBOLISM, Magician-Space, Beijing
• Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalization, OCAT, Beijing
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• 2017
• Ecstasy of time, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen
• Dream-atic, Christian Louboutin, Beijing
• VIDEOBOX, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
• Changjiang International Film/video Festival, Chongqing
• The New Normal: China, Art and 2017, UCCA, Beijing
• Screen Spectacle and Post Digital Body, Goethe Institute, Beijing
• The Visibility of Power, J-Gallery, Shanghai
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• 2016
• You Won’t Be Young Forever, 235 Guangfu Rd. Shanghai
• AsiaNow, Paris
• OVERPOP, YUZ Museum, Shanghai
• Episode 1, Magician Space, Beijing
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• 2015
• NO DICE (I), Kimberly-Klark, New York
• S/K, Thesis production by Tingying Ma, Pershing Square Signature Theater, New York
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• 2014
• VOX X: Present Tense, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
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• Nomination & Awards
• 2022
• Nomination, Han Nefkens video production grant, Barcelona
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• 2021
• Nomination Baloise Art Prize, Basel
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• 2016
• Nomination Huayu Youth Awards, Sanya
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• 2014
• Finalist, Toby Devan Lewis MFA Fellowship, Baltimore
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• Press & Publications
• Do It, China 2021, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Director of Serpentine Gallery, London)and Cao Dan
• From Cigarettes To Sex Toys, Liu Yefu Finds Absurdity In Advertising, Frieze Magazine
  Liu Yefu and the Art of Cultural Assimilation at Magician Space, The Beijinger Magazine
  Performing Society: The Violence of Gender, Art Forum China
  Performing Society: The Violence of Gender, Post-ism
  Gallery Weekend Beijing 2019 Review by Alice Bucknell
  Shanghai Synergy by Richard Vine
  Episode 1, Magician-Space, Beijing, Art Forum China

2014

MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

2012

Post-baccalaureate in Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

2009

BA in Painting, Capital Normal University, Beijing