LIAO Fei

Liao Fei explores the relationship and tension in material materials in his works — between reality and geometry, between cognition and mysticism, between duality and simplification. While drawing attention to the broader concepts related to these relationships, his works also reveal the metaphysical temperament contained in everyday materials.

1981  Born in Jiangxi, China
2002-2006  BA in Sculpture, Shanghai Normal University, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2025
    Seeing All Forms, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

    2024
    Liste Art Fair Basel solo project at Vanguard booth, Basel, Switzerland

    2023
    Physics Temple, Vanguard Gallery x Tihho Art Space, Shanghai, China

    2021
    Depiction, The Cloister Project, Shanghai, China
    Is Everything A Contingent Occurrence?, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China

    2018
    Res Extensa, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2016
    Plain, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    Perspective, YveYang Gallery, Boston, USA
    The Equater, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2015
    This Sentence is False, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

    2013
    Surface Material Motion, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2025
    Seeing All Forms, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

    2024
    Liste Art Fair Basel solo project, Vanguard Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
    Physics Temple, Vanguard Gallery x Tihho Art Space, Shanghai, China
    Unseen Orchestra, MAKE ROOM Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
    An Atlas of the Difficult World, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing, China
    Endless Mountains: Spanning Mountains and Seas – An Exhibition of Art and The Tang Poetry Road, Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan, Osaka, Japan
    Vanguard Onwards, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    Picture of the Post-80s Generation Generational Leap, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China

    2023
    Tempo Rubato, Days in Yard x PREWORK, Beijing, China
    A Real Engine, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    Technologic, 33ml offspace, Shanghai, China

    2022
    A Journey of Love and Memory, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Being Theoria: 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
    Warehouse Story VIII – On Your Mark!, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil

    2021
    Silent Thunder, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
    Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Contemporary Video Art from China, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia
    Some Like Them Cold, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    Time and Space, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
    Depiction, The Cloister Project, Shanghai, China
    Is Everything A Contingent Occurrence?, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Hereditary Territory, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China

    2020
    C, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    One Tree Fifty Ideas, OōEli, Hangzhou, China
    Annealing, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    Twilight – Points Residency Exhibition, Kunshan, China
    Over the Real, Lucca, Italy
    Environmental Crisis, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
    The Wake UP! Memorial, New Media Fest 2020, Cologne, Germany

    2019
    Warehouse Story VI, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    Exit Plan, SNAP Art Center, Shanghai, China
    The Attraction Show, SNARTE SPACE, Nanchang, China
    Spread the Virus’ Vol 2, offsiteproject & dateagle, London, UK
    Late at Tate Britain, Tate Britain, London, UK

    2018
    In the Open or in Stealth – The Unruly Presence of an Intimate Future, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
    Botanic Project, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
    Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China
    Time Square, YveYang Gallery, New York, USA
    _, Milieu, Bern, Switzerland
    All Happens After Sunset…, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France
    The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
    Res Extensa, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2017
    Indoors – The 5th Huayu Youth Award, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China
    Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
    Today’s Yesterday, Anren Biennial, Chengdu, China
    All Happens After Sunset…, MOCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China
    Any Ball, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017, UCCA, Beijing, China
    Trace in the Hidden Silence, Shenzhen, China
    A Chemical Love Story, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
    JUNGLE – Common, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China

    2016
    I Can’t Do More Than I Do, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
    Why Not Ask Again – 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    I Can Not See, V Space, Shanghai, China
    We – A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Plain, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
    Perspective, YveYang Gallery, Boston, USA
    The Equater, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2015
    Void: There’s Nothing More Left, but a Little Trace from Human Being, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
    Things – In – Itself, The Invisible Feeling of Deprival, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
    Resolution, SVA-NYC Art Platform, Shanghai, China
    This Sentence is False, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
    Hammer Hammer Peng!, A307, Beijing, China

    2014
    Art Festival, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
    Art in the City, K11, Shanghai, China
    Get It Louder, Beijing, China
    Nihilistic Belief, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
    New Power, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
    The 7th A+A: Too Smart To Be Good, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
    Social Meditation – The Good Person of Szechwan, Education of the German Consulate-General, Shanghai, China

    2013
    Shanghai Surprise, K11, Shanghai, China

    Follow 2013 – Existence, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Spectacle – 12 Presentations of Contemporary Museum Architecture in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    Current, The Bund No.18, Shanghai, China
    Sun, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    Drawing Expression and Limited, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
    Evolution: A Question, Yuan Space, Beijing, China
    Immersive Environment, Xi’an, China
    Daily of Concept, Duo Lun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
    2012
    All Tomorrow’s Parties, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    Get It Louder, Beijing, China
    Conscious Folly, AM Space, Shanghai, China
    Zhujiajiao Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
    Pulse Reaction, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
    Party – Social Meditation, Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai, China
    Chinese Young Artists Contemporary Art Exhibition, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China
    The Halo Effect, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    In-Sight, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2011
    Shell Economy, World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
    A Museum That Is Not, Times Museum, Guangdong, China
    Super Organism, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    Pattern, 798 Art Space, Beijing, China
    Hand Sense, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    Decoration, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
    Follow – Coral, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Yun Lang Project, Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai, China
    Auto Restart – Youth Painting Exhibition, Shanghai, China

    2010
    Meditation Seat, Art House, Shanghai, China
    The Youth Sales Store, Fine Arts Gallery, Shanghai, China
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Art, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
    Use Manuscript, Shift Art Station, Shanghai, China
    Solitaire, Shift Art Station, Shanghai, China
    Get It Louder – The Room of Utopia, Beijing, China
    Floating Clouds, Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai, China
    Small Beauty, Wellside Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2009
    East West Sudden Impulse, Stereoscopic Gallery, Tianjin, China
    The Youth Sales Store, M50, Shanghai, China

    2008
    Absurd to Be True, Tu Shan Wan Museum, Shanghai, China
    Safety First, Fei Art Center, Shanghai, China
    Hui Hua Fei Fa Hui, Shanghai, China
    We Are the World, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2007
    Young Urban Citizens, Art Scene Gallery, Shanghai, China
    Hand Sense, Shanghai, China

    2006
    Guilin Landscape, Urban Sculpture Art Center, Shanghai, China

    2005
    Piano Room, Shanghai, China

    2004
    Do You Need Art, Shanghai, China
    Search by Map, Shanghai, China

    2003
    Sculpture Workshop, Invisible Gallery, Shanghai, China

Fairs

News

2018.03.20

Liao Fei | Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics @OCAT Institute

Artists: Cai Guo-Qiang, Chang Yuhan, Long March Project, Chen Chieh-Jen, Cheng Xinhao, Kao Jun-Honn, Guo Xi & Zhang Jianling, He An, He Xiangyu, Hong Hao, Morgan Wong, Liao Fei, Lin Ke, Liu Xiaodong, Liu Yefu, Liu Yujia, Pu Yingwei, Qin Ga, Shen Xin, Shi Qing, Song Dong, Tao Hui, Wang Bing, Wang Sishun, Wang Yin, Hsu Chia-Wei, J. P. Sniadecki & Huang Xiang & Xu Ruotao, Xu Zhen, Samson Young, Yang Maoyuan,Yang Yuanyuan, Yu Ji, Chien-Chi Chang, Zhang Yue & Bao Xiaowei, Zhao Liang, Zhao Tingyang, Zhao Yao, Zhao Zhao, Zheng Guogu, Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Zhu Yu, Zhuang Hui
Curator: Lu Mingjun
Duration: 2018.03.20-2018.07.31
Venue:OCAT Institute, Beijing