Liu Congyun

LIU Congyun is a researcher, art critic and curator in Shanghai where she was born and raised. She started her continuing research on contemporary Chinese art and culture tradition since her time in VCS Master Program. In 2008 she presented “From Landscape Painting to Landscape Images : On Works of Hong Lei, Maleonn and Yang Yongliang”, at the New Development of Photographic Practice International Forum for the Studies of Long Chin-San’s Photography in Shanghai. In March 2009, a portion of her thesis had been turned into a show at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art Gallery in San Francisco, “A (re)Turn to (re)Form: Chinese Classicism in New Media – Works by Wang Tiande, Hong Lei and Gao Yuan”. In December of the same year, in view of her previous writings and the book proposal on contemporary Chinese art, Liu was selected as one of the three finalists for the Chinese Contemporary Art Critic Award founded by collector Uli Sigg in Beijing. In early 2010, she initiated an Artist-in-residency program in Zendai Zhujiajiao, a branch space of the Himalayas Art Museum (Shanghai). The initial idea of the program is to examine the current Chinese culture and art from foreign artists’ point of view especially those of the Asian artists. Currently she has spent her time on researching into ancient Chinese writings, and practicing calligraphy. Seemingly, she is going to find evidences through the long history of the nation that, time is a fiction we use it to back to the fore-known future.

Contact: liu_congyun@126.com