Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Liu Dan  刘丹  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Liu Dan

 
 

刘丹

 
     
 

Liu Dan  刘丹  -  portrait  -  chinesenewart

 
     
 
 
   

1953

Liu Dan  刘丹 was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in eastern China.

 

He grew up with his parents, both teachers, and his grandfather who introduced

 

him to calligraphy, poetry and Confucian classics.

   

1968

He was sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the peasants.

 

 

1978

He entered the Academy of Traditional Painting in Hangzhou.

 

He studied under the guidance of the renowned artist Ya Ming 葉明 ( 1924-2002 )

 

and spent two months studying the rock paintings of Dunhuang.

   

1980

He married  Elizabeth Wichmann, an American academic and theater artist,

 

who came to China to work on her thesis.

   

1981

He graduated from the Jiangsu Academy of Chinese Painting.

 

The couple moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where the young woman taught

 

at the university.

   
 

His ink paintings of landscapes and rocks made him known.

   

1992

He moved to New York United States.

   
 

The following year, the Gallery at Takashimaya in New York presented his work

 

in its inaugural exhibition in New York and in its galleries in Japan Tokyo, Kyoto,

 

Yokohama, and Osaka.

1993

23.04 12.05  Alternative Visions: Liu Dan and Hiromitsu Morimoto Gallery at Takashimaya

 

New York  United States

1993

30.09 09.11 Alternative Visions: Liu Dan and Hiromitsu Morimoto Gallery at Takashimaya Tokyo,

 

Kyoto, Yokohama, and Osaka  Japan

   
 

From then on, he had a series of exhibitions.

   

2005

He returned to China, to Beijing.

   
  Daniele Sicard
   


 

 

  collections  selection
 

United States

San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego

The Harvard Sackler Museum

Cambridge

The Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn

Andrew Mellon Foundation

New York

France

Guimet Museum    Paris

United Kingdom

British Museum  

London

 

 


   
  exhibitions  selection
   

1989

Académy of Art  Honolulu  Hawai

1992

Contemporary Art Museum  Honolulu  Hawai

1999

San Diego Art Museum  United States

2003

Wanyutang Gallery New York  United States

2004

High Mountain Flowing Water Shanghai Museum  China

2005

East Asian Arts Museum Berlin  Germany

2006

Arthur M. Sackler Museum Harvard University  United States

2008

Contemporary Art Museum  Shanghai  China

2009

Princeton  University Museum United States

2010

Museum of Fine Arts Boston  United States

2012

Today Art Museum  Beijing  China

2012

28.03 25.06 Rochers de Lettrés Musée Guimet Paris  France

2013

Suzhou Museum Jiangsu  China

2013

27.07 08.09  New Poetry - Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Soka Art Center Taipei  Taiwan

2014

10.04 07.06 Reset Chinese Contemporary Art Soka Art Center Beijing  China

2015

26.11 09.01 The Shape of Time Gagosian Gallery  Hong Kong  China

2015

A Window to the World - Asia’s New Trend Soka Art Center Beijing  China

2016

20.10 26.02 New Landscapes and Old Masters Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology  

 

Oxford  University  United Kingdom

2017

06.10 07.01 Art And China After 1989 - Theater Of The World Guggenheim Museum  New York   

 

United States

2017

Ink Unbound : Paintings by Liu Dan  Institute of Art Minneapolis  United States

2019

04.10 07.10 Ink Asia Art Fair Hong Kong Convention Hong Kong  China
   


 
 

Liu Dan  刘丹 -  Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man  -  ink on paper  -  2010

Liu Dan  刘丹  -  Ten Differentiated Views of the Honorable Old Man  -  ink on paper  -  2010

 

Liu Dan  刘丹 -  Dictionary  -  exhibited  27.04 11.08 2013  Rockbund Art Museum  Shanghai

Liu Dan  刘丹  -  Dictionary  -  exhibited  27.04 11.08 2013  Rockbund Art Museum  Shanghai



Liu Dan  刘丹  -  New Landscapes and Old Masters  

Liu Dan

Ashmolean

 

New Landscapes and Old Masters

Museum of Art and Archaeology

 

Exhibition Catalogue

University of Oxford

 

20.10 2016 26.02 2017 Ashmolean Museum

 
 

Shelagh Vainker

 
 

28 x 22 cm

 
  in english  
 

60 p

 
   

isbn 13 : 978 1 910807  11 8  

 
       



 
 

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