Art Resume of Li Xinjian

Education:
1991-1992 Fine Art Academy of Paris
1978-1982 Sichuan Fine Art Academy

Working & Living Experience:
Sichuan, Tibet,Beijing, NewYork, Pari
1982-1990
Graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Academy, volunteered to work in Tibet .To be a designer in the Exhibition Hall of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. To explore in various areas of Tibet.
1983 Paint on the Roof of the Dazhao Temple during the Spring Festival . Created oil paintings such as , Lama and Sheep , the Dazhao Temple
Design and plan the Profile of the Tibetan Autonomous Region Exhibition in the Tibetan Revolutionary Exhibition Hall in Lasa.
1984 Invite Mr. Ye Yongqing to Lasa to co-create wall paintings named the Mount Gangdisi and the Sichuan-Tibetan Highway which are 27 meters long and 15 meters high for the newly-built bus station.
Commissioned by Architect Liu Jiakun , design and create 30 meters long and 5 meters high wall paintings Blue Stars and the Qiang Horse for the Naqu Public Art Museum.
1984 Ad-designs for the World Circuit Show of Rauschenberg , the American artist. Create a series of paintings : Gate , Sheep , Long Narrow Flags.
1984 Walk on foot along the Himalayas , the Gangdisi mountains , the Magical Lake and the Ghost Lake ; Complete the action art ‘Hima-Langma’
Copy frescoes on the castle relics of the Aliguge Kingdom in July and August.
1984 Plan the Historical Antique Exhibition of Tibet in Beijing National Cultural Palace.
1991-1993
Study painting materials, techniques and skills at Pincas Studio, State Fine Art Academy of Paris.
1993-1995
Within the 3 years , do the action art about Swastika respectively in Paris and the Great Wall in Beijing three times.
1997 At the end of the year, invited by Sculpture Space Inc. Utica, New York, work and live there for two months.
1998 Begin to write the text of Swastika Detection.

Brief Introduction about Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Oct.2007 the Mediterranean , La Gallery Beijing ,Beijing, China
Jan.1998 Tunnel , Sculpture Space Inc .Utica .New York ,USA
Oct.1995 Great Wall---White Skate, Action ,Simatai, Beijing ,China
Apr.1998 Signe Sombre Chine Profonde,
Centre culturel de la Maugerie，France
Nov.1988 Buddhist Sound , People’s Palace of Culture, Beijing
Jun.1982 Silence , SiChuan Academy of Fine Arts , Chongqing

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Mar. 2007 Start out from the Southwest Guangdong Art Museum
May.2007 Dice 1918 Gallery, Shanghai
Sept.2006 Moca Biennial Exhibition Shanghai Modern Art Museum
Oct. 2003 Change Direction Chongqing Art Museum
Sept.2003 Gallery Cathay, Paris。
Oct.1999 ? Jeune Peinture?. ? l’Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris。
Oct.1997 ? Jeune Peinture?. ? l’Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris。
Oct.1994 Gorbachev’s1918, one-person exhibition,
Mogeye Cultural Center , Orlene
1991 Documentary Exhibition at West Third Ring
Chinese Painting Research Institute in Beijing.
Feb.1989 China Avant-Garde Art Exhibition .
China Art Gallery Beijing
Apr..1987 Tibetan Mountainous Artists Exhibition
Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace
The Library of Peking University.
Jul. 1985 Artists’ Exhibition of the Tibetan Autonomous Region
Tibetan Exhibition Hall , Lasa

1980 Young Artists’ Art Show
Sichuan Provincial Exhibition Hall , Chengdu

Comments on works:
2006 Ni Xianting : Interview Script on Li Xinjian’s Swastika Text ArtHou Hanru: Preface on the text of Swastika Detection --- Questions on Li Xinjian’s Swastika Plan
Francoise Monnie, art editor in chief for Museum wrote comment on Li’s works , France
1993 Swastike Opposites to the Mark of the Nazi essay writte by M. T. Marek on Paris Pamphlet, France
1991 Rebel Brushes by Mark Graham on Sunday Morning, Hongkong
1987 True Pictures they bring us about the Roof of the World by Julian Baum on Christian Maxim, U.S.

Publication:
1998 Religious Art in Tibet Chongqing Publication House