Li Shun, born in 1988 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the School of Intermedia Art of the China Academy of Art, a member of the China Photographers Association, and deputy director of the Youth Photography Working Committee of the Zhejiang Photographers Association, now lives and works in Hangzhou. Li Shun is a member of the China Photographic Association.
Li Shun's creative inspiration comes from photography, in which light is the absolute protagonist, and the transformation between positive and negative images becomes the logical root of his works. His creations show diversity, especially focusing on the expressive power of various media. His works are dense with connotations. For him, the purpose of photographic art is always how to focus on the image as some kind of experience or feeling, for which one should go for the generation of ideas and the metaphor of comprehension, His work moves from receptive visual impression to positive visual expression, further digging out abstraction and uncertainty, thus integrating Chinese traditional aesthetics into it, and opening up the possibilities for the development of the contemporaryization of Chinese traditional art.
Li Shun's significant solo exhibitions include: Li Shun: Re-de-coding (Ginkgo Space, Shenzhen, 2024); Nostalgia From Nowhereland (Hao Art Museum, Shanghai, 2024); Steam of ideas in mountains and seas (Ginkgo Space, Shanghai, 2023); Captured Light and Shadow (Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, 2023); Chinglish (Make Room, Los Angeles, 2019); Art Basel (Hong Kong) Li Shun - Solo Project (Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, 2018). His works have been collected by Zhejiang Museum of Art (Hangzhou), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), White Rabbit Art Museum (Australia), Guangdong Center for Contemporary Art (Guangzhou), Hao Art Museum (Shanghai), Zhi Art Museum (Chengdu), Lishui Museum of Photography (Lishui), Foundation Tichy Ocean (Switzerland), and HL Art Collection (USA) Collections.
EDUCATION
2015 Master’s degree at the China Academy of Art School of Intermedia Art
2011 Bachelor’s degree at the China Academy of Art School of Intermedia Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Li Shun: Re-de-coding, Ginkgo Space, Shenzhen
2024 Nostalgia From Nowhereland，HOW Art Museum，Shanghai
2023 Stream of Ideas in Mountains and Seas, Ginkgo Space, Shanghai
2023 Capture Light and Shadow, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
2022 “Brave New World”, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhe
2019 Imaginary Tour, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2019 Chinglish, Make Room, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Oceanic Scroll, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2018 Hong Kong Art Basel-Li Shun Project, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
2016 Li Shun Solo Exhibition, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Time Gravity-Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu
2022 In Virtual Bodies: Absence/Presence in Media, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2021 The 10th Anniversary Academic Review Exhibition of Top 20, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
2021 Futurism of the Past —Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing
2018 Post-Brushwork Era : Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art & Zhejiang Art Museum, Guangzhou & Hangzhou
2015 Calligraphic Time and Space: Abstract Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Zhejiang Art Museum(Hangzhou)
Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou)
White Rabbit Gallery (Australia)
Guangdong Contemporary Art Center (Guangzhou)
HOW Art Museum (Shanghai)
ZHI Art Museum (Chengdu)
Lishui Photography Museum (Lishui)
Foundation Tichy Ocean (Switzerland)
HL Art Collection (America)
Prizes & Awards
selected in the 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2020 annual list of Chinese Photography
2021\2017 TOP20 Chinese Cutting-Edge Contemporary Photographer
Nomination for JIMEI x ARLES Discovery Award 2020
2015 Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Silver Award
