1976
born in Changzhou Jiangsu Province, China
2001
established Pink Studio, Nanjing
2004-2005
founder and member of Complete Art Experience Project
2007-2008
artistic director, JoyArt, Beijing, China                   
currently lives and works in Beijing as independent artist 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
"I Simply Appear in the Company of Other Things", Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Aftergallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
I WROTE DOWN SOME OF MY THOUGHTS – LIU DING, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing- Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2008
"Traces of Sperm", L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
"The Ruins of Pleasure", Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
"Tiger", Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing, China
"The Remaining Landscape – New Paintings by Liu Ding", Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
"Samples from the Transition – Products", L.A. Galerie Frankfurt, Germany
2005
"Samples from the Transition – Treasure", Long March Project Room, Beijing, China
2004
"Noah's Living Room – The Power of the Mass", China Unlimited, Berlin, Germany
"Image Beyond Image – Liu Ding's Photography", Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
2001
"White Ecstasy – Liu Ding's Installation", KAYI Gallery, Nanjing, China
1998
"Unbalance – Liu Ding's Paintings", FEIFAN Art Center, Nanjing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
“Personal Frontier – An Inaugural Exhibition by ia32 Space”, ia32 Space, Beijing, China
“Reshaping History – Chinart from 2000 to 2009”, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
“Glass Factory – Art in the New Financial Era”, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“Mush-room”, Aftergallery, Moscow, Russia
“Jungle – A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends”, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
2009
Chinese Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy
"that obscure object of desire", offiCina, Beijing, China
"The Big World: Recent Art from China", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
The 2009-2011 Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
5th Latin-American Biennial of Visual Arts, Instituto Paranaense de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil
2008
"China: Construction Deconstruction", Museum of Art San Paulo, San Paulo, Brazil
"Aurum – Gold in Contemporary Art“, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
"Down Town Prodution – Exhibition of the Artists Who Live in the City“, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
"Far West", Arnolfini Arts Center, Bristol, UK
"Art Multiple", Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
"New World Order", Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
"Global Eurasia", special exhibition in Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
"Community of Tastes", Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
"China Power Station II", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
"Forms of Concepts – The Second Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts", Center for Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
"Chinese Video: Chord Changes in the Megalopolis", Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
"Between and Reality and Illusion", Marty Walker Gallery, Texas, USA
"Foreign Objects", Project Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves", ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Timer – Intimacy", Triennial Bovisa, Milan, Italy
2006
"AllLookSame?" Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
"Dual Realities – The Fourth Seoul International Media Art Biennale", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
"China Power Station I", Battersea Power Station, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
"Beijing Biennial of Architecture 2006", The National Museum of China, Beijing, China
"The Amber Room", Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA
"Chaos City", Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing, China
"The Poetic Reality – A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan", RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
"Fiction @ Love", MOCA, Shanghai, China
2005     
"Renovation – Relations of Production", Long March Space, Beijing, China
"Beyond - the Second Guangzhou Triennial", Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
"Complete Art Experience Project No. 6 – Playground of Authorship", University of Rochester, New York, USA
"Limitation and Freedom", Wuhan Art Archives and Center, Wuhan, China
"Complete Art Experience Project No. 5 – 24 Hours", Beijing Film Studio, Beijing, China
"Archaeology of the Future – The Second Triennial of Chinese Art", Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
"Complete Art Experience Project No. 1 – Incest", Platform China, Beijing, China
2004
Myth and Reality – A Look Towards East", The 55th Edition of Fondazione Premio Michetti, Michetti Museum, Francavilla al mare, Italy
"Temporality", L.A. Gallery, Beijing, China
2003
"Illusion", Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China "Play Not Play", Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
"Aphrodisiac", Hai Shang Shan Art Centre, Shanghai, China "Space – Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition", Guangdong, Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"Lustre – Two-Man Exhibition of Yu Fan & Liu Ding”, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
2002
"Death is Silence", Yan Club, Beijing, China
"New Urbanism – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", Guangdong Museum Of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
"Money Funny Honey", Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China
"Inauguration of the New Gallery", China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
1999
"Restrained Over Restrained – A Short Film", 3M Gallery, Nanjing, China
"Aesthetes and Vagueness – Performance Art Exhibition", Qinliang Park, Nanjing, China
"The Feeling of Floating", Nanjing Normal University Museum, Nanjing, China