Tianbing Li Chinese, b. 1974
Upon graduation from international relations and languages in Beijing, TianBing Li moved to Paris to further pursue his studies at the Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Beaux-Arts. The Guilin-born Chinese painter attempts to recapture and reimagine his own childhood, and to explore the social consequences of the most controversial and far-reaching policy China has decreed: the one-child rule.
TianBing Li's artworks peer into China's progression through the years. From his earlier works that capture the mountains of the FuJian province, to his paintings depicting his childhood under China's 1970s Single Child Rule Policy, the artist provides a retrospective on the Chinese identity with his artistic technicalities and expressions of a western painter. TianBing Li’s more recent works show him moving away from his self-portraits which he has now become known for and explore the cataclysms and their eventual social impacts.
Today, TianBing Li's artworks have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the world, including the Today Art Museum in Beijing, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Spain and Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Born in 1974 in Guilin, China.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Lost Childhood, Parallel, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2020 Tianbing Li: A Selection of Recent Artworks, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
2019 Art Central, Hong Kong, China
JD Malat Gallery, Urban Scene, London
2016 Introducing new exclusive works by Li Tianbing, ArtAndOnly, Geneva
2015 Journey of the Lone Monkey, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
2012 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Layers of Time, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zürich, Switzerland
2011 A Game as a Pretense of Being, Curated by Demetrio Paparoni,
Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China
2010 Childhood Fantasy, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009 ADAA Show – L&M Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Me and My Brother, L&M Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Galerie Albert Benamou, France
Galerie Loft, France
Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen, France
2006 Beizitou, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Deborah Zafman, Paris, France
Brand New Works, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Musée de Gajac, Villeneuve, France
Galerie Loft, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2004 Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France
Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Galerie Donzévansaanen, Lausanne, France
2000 Musée Marzelles, Marmande, France
Group Exhibitions
2020 The Contemporary Human Condition, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2019 Summer Exhibition, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2018 Absorption as a Way of Seeing, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong, China
“Sea of Desire", Fondation Carmignac, Ile de Porquerolles, France
Made in Asia, Opera Gallery, New York, USA
2017 MICROCOSM/MACROCOSM, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2016 Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections,
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Us is them - the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2015 “Who's afraid of picture”, l'Ecole supérieure d'art et design de Grenoble,
France
Lumière: Seeing in New Light, Kashya Hildebrand, London
Dusk to Dusk: Unsettled, Unraveled, Unread - Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College
of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2014 Art International, Istanbul, Turkey
20th Anniversary Show, Opera Gallery Singapore, Singapore
“Mind-Beating”, China Millennium Monument - Contemporary Art
Museum, Beijing
Flux - Collective Exhibition, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
Kashya Hildebrand Gallery at Art14 London, London, UK
2013 “Mind-Beating”, the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
Art Plural Gallery at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, Australia
Art Plural Gallery at Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
Biennale d'Issy, Musee de la Carte a Jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
2011 Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM)
2008 Art Basel Miami – L&M Arts
Art Basel - L&M Arts
Du vent dans les branches, Art Senat 2008, Paris
Sport in art - Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007 Musuem of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2006 Mickey dans tous ses etats, Artcurial, Hotel Dassault, Paris, France
2005 Nature Détournée – Institute of France, Munich
2004 Galerie Guislain Etat d'art, Paris, France
Premier Prix Antoine Marin - Galerie Julio Gonzalez, Paris, France
Arts et Justice – Galerie d’Art du Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhone,
Aix-en Provence, France
2003 Biennale d'Issey (award of the Biennale), Issey-les-Moulineaux
Pas n'importe ou, just à coté (painting award), Couvent des Cordeliers,
Paris, France
2002 Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Biennale de la jeune création de Houilles, Ville de Houilles, France
Salon de la jeune creation, Paris, France
1999 Académie des Beaux-arts, Institut de France, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Pavillon Mestrovic, Zagreb, Croatia
Galerie Progres, Belgrade, Serbia
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The Summer Show
Group Exhibition 9 Jul - 2 Aug 2020 ExhibitionsAs part of the gallery’s summer presentation, Cuturi Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition showcasing an eclectic mix of artists, whose artistic practices span mixed media, sculpture and...Read more -
Tianbing Li: A Selection of Recent Artworks
Exhibitions 10 Apr - 2 May 2020 ExhibitionsDuring April, the gallery presents a selection of artworks by Tianbing Li, made from 2017 to 2019.Read more