li SHURUI

Li Shurui was born in Chongqing, China in 1981. She is now living in Beijing. Her paintings are strong and powerful, not just because of the large format and striking compositions, but the luminescence she creates with her palette. The idea of painting colourful lighting effects is actually a reflection of LI’s obsession towards fluorescent lights found in music club interiors. Using real photographs for reference, LI’s minimalist canvases are exuberant and uplifting and bring audiences to a new level of appreciation of light and colour.Education 2004     Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China Solo Exhibitions 2005     “Independent Project Space Project 5”, Long March Foundation,              Beijing, China 2008     “Li Shurui”, Seoul, Korea              “Lights”, Connoisseur Contemporary and Connoisseur Art Gallery,              Hong Kong 2010    "LSR - Solo Exhibition of Li Shurui", Connoisseur Contemporary and Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong    Participated Exibition 2001     “Present or Without a Seat”, Group Exhibition, Chongqing, China 2002     “What If Women Ruled the Earth”, Dialogue with Judy Chicago              “A Walking Visual Display”, Lugu Lake, Sichuan Province, China 2003     “Suspension”, Group Exhibition, Chongqing, China              The 2nd Guiyang Oil Painting Exhibition of Guizhou,              Guiyang, China              “Media Centre Project”, Long March Foundation, Beijing, China 2004     “Chengdu 2004”, Group Exhibition, Chengdu, China              “No Space – Chinese Building Construction Site New              Art Exhibition”, Chongqing, China              “Bilateral City Plan”, Chongqing M Commune and Hong Kong Art              Commune Exchange Exhibition, Chongqing, China 2006     “The Young Mandarins 2006 – An Exhibition of Chinese              Contemporary Art”, Mandarin Oriental, Miami, USA              ”Tuttuguale?”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,              Turin, Italy              Long March Capital Exhibited, Beijing, China 2007     “Made in China”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,              Humlebæk, Denmark              The 3rd China National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Beijing, China              “On the Yellow Sea”, Seoul, Korea              Group Exhibition of Young Contemporary Chinese Artists by              82 Republic, Art Singapore 2007, Singapore 2008     “Delirious Beijing”, Beijing, China              “82 Republic – The Birth of a New Generation”, Parallel Event of              Singapore Biennale, Connoisseur Art Gallery, Singapore              “Surfacing”, Shanghai, China 2009    “VIVA! New Art. New Visions”, Connoisseur Contemporary and              Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong              "The Obsession", Special Art Project of CIGE 2009, Beijing,                China              Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland              Scope Miami, Miami, USA 2010    "82 Republic New Year Show", Connoisseur Contemporary and              Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong Press2008     New York Times, July 30, 2008, China’s Female Artists Quietly Emerge http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/arts/design/30arti.html?_r=1 International Herald Tribune, July 31, 2009, China's Female Artists Find a Niche Public Collections The Estella Collection, New York, USA Long March Foundation, Beijing, China Private CollectionsChina, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, U.A.E.Publication2009     "Connoisseur Contemporary", Paperback catalogue, Produced by Connoisseur Contemporary