Liu Xizi 刘溪子

Artist Biography：

Liu Xizi (b. 1992, Jinan, Shandong, China).Liu Xizi is a young artist known for her high-saturation candy-coloured palette and bird’s-eye-view compositions depicting contemporary consumer landscapes. She graduated from the First Studio of the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015, and received her Master’s degree from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. Liu’s artistic development has paralleled the rise of the internet and video games, and her practice is grounded in a solid foundation of both Chinese and Western academic training. Her work focuses on the landscapes of consumer society—supermarket shelves, amusement parks, factory floors—transformed into brilliantly coloured, luminous, dreamlike scenes. Her use of colour is influenced both by the sun-drenched environment of California and the chromatic vibrancy of digital screens; her employment of fluorescent hues lends her work a “quasi-fictional” surreal quality. In terms of perspective, she frequently employs bird’s-eye views, a compositional choice inspired in part by the “god’s-eye view” of video games.Liu maintains an objective, neutral stance toward consumerism—she believes that consumer society rolls forward like an immense wheel that envelops every individual, and that rather than critiquing it, one might as well “take it easy, join in, and experience it.” This non-judgemental position allows her work to retain a cool, observational distance beneath its dazzling surfaces. She also frequently shares her creative process and fitness routines on social media, influencing many young followers with her bright, healthy lifestyle. She currently lives and works between Beijing and Los Angeles.

Exhibition Record

Solo Exhibitions

2025 “Blossom City”, Art Focus, Beijing

2025 “The Unnamed Everyday”, Tong Gallery+Projects, Wuxi

2025 “Floating Light Theatre”, gaga ARTSPACE, Shenzhen

2020 “The Sun City”, Tihu Contemporary Art, Shanghai

2017 “Xizi Liu: Non-Places”, Thomas Paul Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2017 “Indoor Landscape”, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, USA

2016 “Live in The Moment”, University City Public Library Gallery, St. Louis, USA

2016 “Snapshot”, Lewis Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

2015 “Space Game”, Time Space, Beijing

2014 Liu Xizi Solo Exhibition, 798 Time Space, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 “Whispers of the Frame”, M Art Museum, Suzhou

2025 “Passing on Through Love”, X Museum, Beijing

2025 “Metamorphosis of Suhe Haus”, Suhe Haus, Shanghai

2025 “Magical Art World”, K11, Shanghai

2024 “Goodbye Orinoco”, Tong Gallery+Projects

2024 “Developing Painting to Avoid Falling Behind Life”, Author Gallery, Beijing

2023 “The Traces of Light”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

2022 “A Place in the Sun”, Xiaoshan Gallery, Beijing

2022 “Song of the Pathfinders”, CAFA International College Art Center, Beijing

2022 Jinan International Biennale, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan

2022 “On Flight” – Young Artists Special Exhibition, West Bund Art & Design Fair, Shanghai

2021 “Light / Easy Project”, Song Art Museum, Beijing

2020 “Art Wave 2020” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shangfang Art Museum, Beijing

2020 Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, USA

2019 Art Festival, Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing

2019 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing

2019 “Ideal Boundaries – 2019 China-UK Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK

2019 Art at the Beverly Hills, Beverly Gardens Park, Los Angeles, USA

2018 “Encounter Asia – Diversified Youth Artistic Vision”, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum, Chongqing

2017 MFA Exhibition, Midland Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

2016 MFA Candidacy Exhibition Part #2, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, USA

2016 “Calling for Freedom”, The Boyle Family Gallery, St. Louis, USA

2015 Parabola 2015, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, USA

2015 “Restoration” Series, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

2015 Xiamen Art Festival, Xiamen

2014 “Footprints of Youth” Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

2014 “Farewell to Yvel” Group Exhibition, Beijing Xuyuan Art Plaza, Beijing

2014 “Penchant” Group Exhibition, CAFA Sculpture Department Studio, Beijing

Art Fairs

2023 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, presented by Danysz, Shanghai

2020 Los Angeles Art Show, presented by BIAA Art Center, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, USA

2014 Guangzhou University Student Art Fair, Guangzhou