• ABOUT LI XINMO


Li Xinmo (李心沫)

Artist, critic, feminist theory researcher, Li Xinmo was born in Heilongjiang and graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2008.  Li Xinmo works, based on a variety of media, including performance, painting, video, photography and installations, have been exhibited in Toronto Photo Biennial, Prague Art Biennial, National Museums of World Culture in Sweden, Female Museum in Germany. Many other art museums and galleries in France, Italy, America, Canada and Columbia have exhibited and collected her works. Her work has been documented in academic articles including the "National Fine Arts", "Oriental Art for Everyone" and other art professional publications. 

 

SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007

January
"I want to Breathe" Solo Exhibition by Li Xinmo, Juhua Space,
Shanghai, China.

April
"Breath" Major Exhibition, Shandong Museum, Shandong, China.


2008

June
Graduation Exhibition, Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China.

August
Major Exhibition of Young Artists, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China.

September
Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, Beijing Sunshine Art Gallery, Beijing, China.

October
Beijing Dadao Live Arts Festival, Yu Gallery, Beijing, China.

November
Participant in an Italian Video Art Performance, Yuanfen Gallery, Beijing, China.

December
21st Century Invitational Ink- Painting Exhibition, Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.


2009

January
"Chinese Sick Men" exhibition, Art Next Gallery, New York, USA.

February
Great Works of Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, China Central Place, Beijing, China.

July
"Changing Directions and Interconnections" Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Huantie Time Art Museum, Beijing, China.

August
Xi’an International Contemporary Art Fair Participant, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China.

December
Collaboration - Contemporary Works of Video and Performance Art Exhibition, Beijing, China.


2010

April
An Archive of Contemporary Video Art in 2010, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China.

May
"Oaths of Love" Photography Exhibition, Wenjin International Gallery, Beijing, China.


2011

October
Solo Exhibition by Li Xinmo, Tense Space, Beijing, China.

November
"Li Xinmo + Qingshuihuimei " Performance Art Exhibition, Dingshun Contemporary Art Space, Beijing, China.


2012

January
"UN Forbidden City", Macro, Rome, Italy.

January
"100 Anniversary Of Chinese Ink-Painting", Exhibition, Louvre, France.

March
"Bald Girls Exhibition of Xiaolu Lixinmo and Lanjing", Iberia Center for Contemperary Art, Beijing, China.


2013

April
"Secret Love", Exhibition, National Museums of World Cultur, Gothenburg, Sweden.

May
"Bald Girls - A door" Zajialab, Beijing, China.

June
"Different Body" Exhibition, Haian 523, Jiangsu Province, China.


2014

April
"Single Mother"  Exhibition, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany.

May
"Through The Body" A primary exhibition of Contact Photography Festival, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada.

June
"Switch" Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xian Contemporary Museum, Xian, China.

July
"Bald Girls - Pink Solution" Exhibition, LIA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, Colombia.

December
"Guangzhou Live 5 international action art event", Guangzhou Xiaozhou, China.


2015

January
"IN ANOTHER PLACE, AND HERE", Exhibition, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada.

March
"EXCLUDED" Li Xinmo, Solo Exhibition, Kaiser & Cream Art District, Wiesbaden, Germany.


September
“Artress” Exhibition, Research House For Asian Art, Chicago, USA.

October
Performance of contemporary theater “The Mirror of Time”. One-way space, Beijing.

November
“If You are Good.” Art Exhibition that organized by the UN Theme Group on Gender, EU Delegation, Austrian Embassy,
Beijing .

December
“Stifled! More than Smog” Contemporary Art Exhibition. Tree gallery, Beijing.


2016

August
“Ecology-Art-Human” Contemporary Eco Art Exhibition in China. Shijiazhuang Museum, China.

October
“International Improvisational Art day”, Goethe Institute, Beijing.

November
“Dante In China” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Normal University.

“The Thirty Years Literature Exhibition of Chinese Performance Art”, Minsheng Museum,Bejing.

December
Did performance “Reproduction”, Hanfen Building ,Beijing.


2017

March
“Hint - Contemporary Female Art Exhibition”, Tree Gallery, Beijing.

April
“Gan And Gan Meibei International Performance Festival” Meibei, Jiangxi.

June
“Prague China and Europe International Biennale”, Prague, Czech.

September
“I Have No Enemies and No Hatred” Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art.
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York. New York, USA.

September
“Virtual Workshop” Visual Art Exhibition.

December
“Performance Art and Postmodern Theater “ Workshop, Performance and
Forum. UCCA, Beijing, China.


2018

January
“Landscape Society” International Contemporary Art Exhibition. Nanchang, Jiangxi.

April
“Contemporary Chinese Works On Paper”. Inswich Museums(CIMS), UK.

“Mortgaged Time” Exhibition. Red Gate Gallery, 798, Beijing, China.

“Art Beijing”, Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China.

May
“Meibei International Festival of Performing Arts”, Meibei, Jiangxi, China.

April
“New Legal Aliens”, International exhibition, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China.
“Existence - International Feminist Art Exhibition 2018 Changsha”. Meixi Art Space, Changsha, China.

June
“Frankfurt International Performing Arts Festival”, Mercedes Benz center, Frankfurt, Germany.
“Capital and Art” international art exhibition. Mercedes Benz Center. Frankfurt, Germany.

August
“Paper Stories”, East Asian Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.

October
“UP-ON” The 16th International Live Art Festival.  Chengdu, Sichuan.

December
"Art Action 1998-2018" International Performance Art Documentation Exhibition.  Quebec, Canada.


2019

January
“How to Breathe Forever”, Onsite Gallery, OCAD University,  Toronto.

March
“Dumping Plan”, Zero Art Space, 798 Beijing.

May
“What Do We Care About?” Czech China Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing.