Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Yan Li 严力  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Yan Li

 
 

 严力

 
 

 

 
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1954

Yan Li  严力 was born in Beijing  China.

 

His family is from Ninghai,  Zhejiang Province.

   

1968

He spent his childhood with his grandparents in Shanghai.

 

When his grandfather, a doctor and art collector, was incarcerated, he returned

 

to Beijing.

   

1973

While working in a tool machine factory, he began to write poetry.

 

Friend with Bei Dao and Mang Ke, he joined their poetry group Misty.

 

Their poems were published in the unofficial magazine : Jintian Today

 

He also started painting and became an active member of the Xingxing Stars group*

 

the first avant-garde Art movement in China.

   

1979

He participated in their first wild exhibition in Beijing on the fences of the park outside

 

the National Museum of China . The exhibition was quickly repressed by the police.

   

1980

The group was allowed to exhibit at the Beijing National Art Gallery.

   

1984

His only solo exhibition in China took place in October at the Gallery of the People's

  Park, in Shanghai.
   

1985

He moved to the United States, studied English at Hunter College in New York for

 

a yearn and a half and became an independent artist.

   
 

He participated in the exhibition  Avant-Garde Chinese Art :

1986

24.07 30.08  City Gallery  New York

 

07.11 08.12  Vassar College Art Gallery  New York

   

1987

He founded Yi-Hang, First Line, a trimestial journal featuring contemporary poets

 

Chinese and translations of American poems.

   

1993

Back in China, he settled in Shanghai where he created his studio.

   

1995

He published an anthology.
   

2011

He divides his time between China (Shanghai, Beijing ) and the United States

 

( New York ).

   
 

* The main members of the group of stars were Huang Rui, Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Yan Li,
   Qu Leilei, Mao Lizi, Bo Yun, Zhong Acheng, Yang Yiping, Ai Weiwei and Li Shuang.

   
 

Danièle Sicard

 
 

Yan Li 严力

 

 

AVANT-GARDE CHINESE ART 1986  

AVANT-GARDE CHINESE ART

1986

 

中国前卫艺术

 

 

Beijing /New York

 
 

Ai Wei Wei . Li Shuang . Ma Desheng .Xing Fei .

 
 

Yan Li .Yang Yiping .Yin Guanzhong .

 
 

Zhang Wei. Zhao Gang . Zhu Jinshi

 
 

Text : Michael Murray

 
 

In ENGLISH

 
   

17,8 cm x 20,3 cm

 
       

 

 
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