title: Li Yan (artist)
text: # Li Yan (artist)
  
  Li Yan is an oil painting artist, born in Jilin, China in 1977, who lives and works in Beijing, China.
  
  ## Solo exhibitions
  
  * 2014 Limitless, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
  * 2011 The Catastrophic World-A Chinese paints our age, Ling Galerie, Berlin
  * 2010 Accidents, Ling Galerie, Berlin
  * 2009 Snippet, Yamamoto Gendai Gallery, Tokyo
  * 2008 Quotidian Truths - Paintings by LiYan, Moronokiang Gallery, Los Angeles
  * 2007 Accident, Platform China, Beijing
  
  ## Selected exhibitions
  
  * 2017 China meets Europe, Museum Villa Haiss, Zell am Harmersbach, Germany
  * 2016 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2016, National Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  * 2016 Root Scene – Chinese Contemporary Art Group Show, China Exchange UK, London
  * 2016 Benjamin Sigg Collection "Art of Collecting", Poly Gallery Hong Kong, Cobo House, Hong Kong
  * 2015 All Living Creatures Scene, Taiwan Chia Nan Museum, Tainan
  * 2015 Individual Scene, The Art Gallery of Sichuan University
  * 2015 Exhibition on Summer’s Threshold, Embassy of The Czech Republic in China, Beijing
  * 2015 Reflections of Spring, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
  * 2013 Dreams of China, Python Gallery, Zurich
  * 2013 The Sixth Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
  * 2012 Yan Li - Li Yan: Two Sides of A Mirror, Embassy of the Czech Republic in China, Beijing
  * 2011 Prague Action, China Czech Contemporary Museum, Beijing
  * 2010 Emerging Artists from North, Mountain Art Beijing & Frank Lin Art Center, Beijing
  * 2009 China Urban, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland
  * 2008 The Revolution Continues: New Art From China, Saatchi Gallery, London
  * 2008 Fear, Wedel Fine Art, London
  * 2008 China trifft Berlin, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
  * 2008 <Self-experience> - Young Artists Group Show, Platform China, Beijing
  * 2007 Beijing Lightning Factory First Exhibition, Beijing lightning factory
  * 2005 The Second Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
  * 2004 The 10th National Fine Arts Exhibition—Oil Painting Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
  * 2004 Zhenxing Northeast Industry District Fine Arts Exhibition, Liaoning Art Museum, Shenyang
  * 2002 Graduation Exhibition of Eight Fine Arts Academies, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
  