Works and lives in Shanghai
1942 
Born in Lanxi, Heilongjiang Province 

Education
1968 
Graduated from Arts Department (oil Painting) of Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai 
1963 
Graduated from Heilongjiang University, Heilongjiang 

Solo Exhibitions
2007 
The Pumpkin Project-Li Shan & Zhang Pingjie Bio-Art Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai 
 Li Shan, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai 
2006 
Reading-Photoworks 2003-2005, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai 
2004 
Li Shan - Small New Works, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai 
2002 
Reading-the New Works by Li Shan, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai 
2001 
Li Shan: Thou are not the fish, A room with a view, Shanghai 
1990 
Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Academy of Drama 

Group Exhibitions
2008 
Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun road No.27, Shanghai Hybrid, ShanghART at Huaihai Rd 796, Shanghai FIAC 2008-Booth B12, Art Fairs Grand Palais, Paris Shanghai Art Fair—ShanghART Gallery Booth Nr. F30, Art Fairs ShanghaiMART 
Accumulations–The Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, Beijing 
Blackbridge 08' Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hall B ArtGallery Blackbridge, Beijing 
Selected, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai 
2007 
85 New Wave-The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 
 ShanghART Autumn Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai 
Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai 
Strategy on Paper-Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Square Gallery of contemporary Art, Nanjing 
2006 
Art in Motion, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai 
Witness, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu 
Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai 
2005 
Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai 
The Wall-Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, UB Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery and Albrigh-Knox Art Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, USA; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing 
2003 
Open Sky-Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai 
Subversion and Poetry-Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal 
Dajia-Studying on Design from Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fudan University, Shanghai 
2002 
The First Guangzhou Trienniale-Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990subtle2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 
Paris-Pekin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France 
2001 
Shanghai Star, Casula Art Centre, Sydney, Australia 
2000 
Futuro Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Macau 
1998 
New Voices: Contemporary Art Dialogue Among, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong; National Taiwan Art Education Institute, Taipei; Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai 
Inside Out-New Chinese Art, Exhibition of Art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Asia Society Galleries; PS1, New York; SFMoMA / Asian Art Galleries, San Francisco; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 
1997 
Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland 
1995 
Chinese New Art 1989-93, Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada 
 Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain 
1994 
Building the Rouge Empire: Paintings from 1976-1992, Alisan Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 
22nd International Biennial of S？o Paolo, Brazil 
1993 
45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale-Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
Chinese Art: Post-1989, Marlborough Gallery, London, Great Britain 
Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney & Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 
China Avant-garde, Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK 
China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre and City Hall, Hong Kong 
1992 
Encountering the Others-Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Dokumenta Kassel, Kassel, Germany 
1989 
China/Avant-garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 
Mordern Painters from the People's Republic of China, Galerie Werner Melletin, Cologne, Germany 
1988 
Second Concave – Convex Installation Exhibition--the last Supper, Shanghai Art Museum 
1987 
A State of Transition:-Contemporary Painting from Shanghai, Asian Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 
1986 
First Shanghai Concave – Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai 
Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum,Shanghai 
1983 
Art and Experiment of 83 (Stage'83: Paintings Experiments), Fudan University, Shanghai 
1982 
Painting the Chinese Dream-Chinese Art 30 Years after the Revolution, Smith College, Northampton Ma; City Hall, Boston, Ma; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA