Li Shurui was born in Chongqing, China in 1981. She is now living in Beijing. Her paintings are strong and powerful, not just because of the large format and striking compositions, but the luminescence she creates with her palette. The idea of painting colourful lighting effects is actually a reflection of LI’s obsession towards fluorescent lights found in music club interiors. Using real photographs for reference, LI’s minimalist canvases are exuberant and uplifting and bring audiences to a new level of appreciation of light and colour.

Education
2004    
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute –
Department of Oil Painting

Solo Exhibitions
2005    
“Independent Project Space Project 5”, Long March Foundation,
Beijing, China
2008    
“Li Shurui”, Seoul, Korea
 “Lights”, Connoisseur Contemporary and Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong
 
Participated Exibition
2001    
“Present or Without a Seat”, Group Exhibition, Chongqing, China
2002    
“What If Women Ruled the Earth”, Dialogue with Judy Chicago
“A Walking Visual Display”, Lugu Lake, Sichuan Province, China
2003    
“Suspension”, Group Exhibition, Chongqing, China
The 2nd Guiyang Oil Painting Exhibition of Guizhou, Guiyang, China
“Media Centre Project”, Long March Foundation, Beijing, China
2004    
“Chengdu 2004”, Group Exhibition, Chengdu, China
“No Space – Chinese Building Construction Site New
Art Exhibition”, Chongqing, China
“Bilateral City Plan”, Chongqing M Commune and Hong Kong Art
Commune Exchange Exhibition, Chongqing, China
2006    
“The Young Mandarins 2006 – An Exhibition of Chinese
Contemporary Art”, Mandarin Oriental, Miami, USA
”Tuttuguale?”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Long March Capital Exhibited, Beijing, China
2007    
“Made in China”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Humlebæk, Denmark
The 3rd China National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Beijing, China
“On the Yellow Sea”, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibition of Young Contemporary Chinese Artists by
82 Republic, Art Singapore 2007, Singapore
2008    
“Delirious Beijing”, Beijing, China
“82 Republic – The Birth of a New Generation”, Parallel Event of
Singapore Biennale, Connoisseur Art Gallery, Singapore
“Surfacing”, Shanghai, China

Public Collections
The Estella Collection, New York, USA
Long March Foundation, Beijing, China