1969      Born in Huangshi, China

1991      BFA Department of Oil Painting, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China

 

Lives and works in Beijing

 

 

 

Solo Performances and Exhibitions

 

2014      A Tenth of a Second, Hakgojae Shanghai, Shanghai

2013      Tenth of a Second: Fen-Ma Liuming,White BoxMuseum of Art, Beijing

2011      Dissociation2011 Art Changsha, HunanProvincialMuseum, Changsha, China

2009      Ma LiumingNew Work Exhibition, Galeria Dolores de Sierra, Madrid

2007      A brief Introduction of Ma Liuming, Galeria Dolores de Sierra, Madrid

2006      Ma Liuming, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy

            Ma Liuming, Gallery Artside, Seoul

2005      Ma Liuming, Gallery Albert Benamou, Paris

            Ma Liuming, Art Now Gallery, Beijing

            Ma Liuming Performance Chosen Images, Aura Gallery, Shanghai

2004      Fen· Ma Liuming, Taikang Top Space, Beijing

2003      Any Day, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

            Ma Liuming, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

2002      Ma Liuming, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore

2001      Ma Liuming, Tensta Konsthall,Spanga,Sweden

            Ma Liuming, Gallery Q, Tokyo

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Montreal, Festival Art Action Actual, Studio 303, Montreal, Canada

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Lyon, Festival Polysonneries,LesSubsistances, Lyon, France

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Odense, The 3rd International Performance Festival, Odense, Denmark

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Istanbul, The 7th InternationalIstanbul Biennial, Istanbul,Turkey

            Perfect day II, The 7th International Istanbul Biennial,Istanbul, Turkey

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Lisbon, Filomena Gallery, Lisbon

            Untitled, Span 2 International Performance Art,Dilston Grove Church, London

2000      Fen· Ma Liuming in Jakarta, JIPAF2000, Utan KayuTheater, Jakarta

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Gwangju, 2000 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Düsseldorf, Art in NRW 2000, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf,Germany

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Münster,Art in NRW 2000,Kunsthalle Münster, Münster,Germany

            Five Minutes ofPerformance, Art in NRW 2000, Maschinenhaus/Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany

            Perfect Day I,The 3rd International Performance Art Festivalin Bangkok,Baan Chaopraya, Bangkok

1999      Ma Liuming, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

            Fen· Ma Liuming in London, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Geneva,Performance Index Festival,Geneva, Switzerland

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Basel, Performance Index Festival,Basel, Switzerland

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Enns, Performance Festival, Enns, Austria

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Nagoya, NIPAF Summer Seminar ’99, Nagoya, Japan

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Tokyo II, NIPAF Summer Seminar ’99, Tokyo

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Lizuna Heights,NIPAF Summer Seminar ’99, Nagano, Japan

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Nagano II, NIPAF Summer Seminar ’99, Nagano, Japan

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Münich, Theater Festival Spielaet ’99, Munich, Germany

1998      Chaos & Birth: Ma Liuming’98, Gallery Q, Tokyo

            Fen· Ma Liuming Walks the Great Wall, Simatai, Beijing

            Fen· Ma Liuming at P.S.1, a part of “Inside Out: New Chinese Art”,P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York

1997      Fen· Ma Liuming at the Setagaya Art Museum, De-GenderismDetruireDit-Elle/Il,Setagaya Art Museum,Tokyo

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Alma, Performance Asiatiques, Alma, Canada

            Fen· Ma Liuming at Le Lieu, Performance Asiatiques, QuebecCity, Canada

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Trois-Rivieres, Performance Asiatiques, Trois-Rivieres, Canada

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Toronto, Performance Asiatiques, Toronto, Canada

1996      Ma Liuming, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Tokyo I, NIPAF ’96,International Forum, Tokyo

            Fen· Ma Liuming in Nagano I, NIPAF’96,Worker Welfare Cultural Center,Nagano, Japan

            Fen· Ma Liuming III, Beijing

            Fish Child, Beijing

            36 Self Taken Photographs by Fen· Ma Liuming I, Beijing

1995      Fen· Ma Liuming and the Fish,Beijing

            Original Sound, 10 Artists Solo Performances, Beijing

1994      Fen· Ma Liuming II, Beijing East Village, Beijing

            Fen· Ma Liuming’s LunchI, Beijing East Village, Beijing

            Fen· Ma Liuming’s Lunch II, Beijing East Village, Beijing

1993      Dialogue with Gilbert and George, Beijing East Village, Beijing

            Fen· Ma Liuming I, Beijing East Village, Beijing

            Fen· Ma Liuming Says, Beijing East Village, Beijing

 

 

Group Performances and Exhibitions

 

2014      On the way, Zhong Gallery, Beijing

2013      Dali and Tengchong Diary, Blue Roof Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

            I’m Not Involved in Aesthetic Progress: A Rethinking of Performance, Star Gallery, Beijing

            Passage to History: The 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Veneziacollateral exhibition, Arsenale

            NordNappa 89, Venice, Italy;Chengdu MoMA, Chengdu, China

            Secret Love, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden

            Evolution, Avant-garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China

            A Journal of the Plague Year, Para/SiteArt Space,HongKong

            Altitude Stress, Snow Mountain Art Festival, Lijing,Guangzhou, China

            Various Tongue, Unique Tone, Beijing

            Spectacle Reconstruction: Chinese Contemporary Art, MODEMCentre for Modern and ContemporaryArts,Debrecen, Hungary

2012      Re-History: Chinese Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangzhou

            ShijiazhuangArtMuseum, Shijiazhuang; G-Dot Art Space,Beijing; Hubei Museumof Art, Wuhan, China

            Xi Chang Diary, Blue Roof Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

            Secret Love, Museum of Art Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm

            Magnanimity: Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists, White BoxMuseum of Art, Beijing

            Conceptual Renewal: Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing

2011      The Document of Chinese Performance 1986-2009,Song Zhuang Art Museum, Beijing

            Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art,Today Art Museum,Beijing

            Balance of Movement–Attitude to Asian Contemporary,Soka Art Center, Beijing

            Retrospect and Prospect: Hubei Oil painting Art Exhibition,Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

            Our Home Land,Beijing Business Today, Beijing

            Relation,Cross the Duplicity, Art Side Gallery, Beijing

            The Red Exhibition,10 Chancery Lane Gauery, Hong Kong

2010      Reshaping History, China National Convention Center, Beijing

            Nanjing Biennale: And Writers 2010, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China

2009      Contemporary Chinese Photography, Florida Museum of PhotographyArts,Tampa,USA

            Action-Camera; Beijing Performance Photography, Morrisand Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

            Trends in Hubei and Hunan, Guangdong Museumof Art, Guangzhou, China

            Retrospect and Exploration - A Selected Collection From Fine Arts Literature Art

            Center,HubeiMuseumofArt,Wuhan,China

            China Revisualized & The Banner of Urban Culture,Xi’an Qujiang International Contemporary Art Festival,Xi’an,China

            China: The Contemporary Rebirth, Palszzo Reale, Milan, Italy

2008      China Gold, MuseumMaillol, Paris

            Beijing-Athens:Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City of Athens, Athens

            China, Beyond Socialist Realism, ChosunIlbo Art Museum, Seoul

            Avant-Garde China, The National Art Center, Tokyo;Aichi Prefectural Museumof Art, Nagoya; The NationalMuseum of Art, Osaka,Japan

            China Forward, Tsum Department Store, Moscow

            Encounters, Pace Gallery Beijing, Beijing

            Chinese Contemporary, From Side to the Center, ArtSide Gallery, Beijing

            Telltale Paintings, Dialogue of Dialogue Space, Beijing

            Interactive- 2008, Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan,China

2007      Timerol,Intimacy Triennale, Milan, Italy

            Political art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

            Made in China: Works from the Estella Collection, Louisiana MuseumofModern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

            Dragon’s Evolution, New York China-Square Art Center,New York

            Art Now–Shanghai, Beijing Art Now Gallery (Shanghai Station), Shanghai

            Photography of Performance in China, Ying Gallery, Beijing

            Works on Paper, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York

            Roosting in Beijing: Recent Performance Art videos from China, Part of the "Aftermath", Artspace, Sydney

            The Scenery of Desire Shang Yang and His Students Art Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Beijing; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shijiazhuang, China

            One Sleep for Ten Years, Hejing Yuan Art Gallery, Beijing

            Moli, 15 Chinese Contemporary Artist in Art Seasons Lake Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

            A New Realm, A Grand Vision of Contemporary Chinese Art, Soka Art Center, Taipei

            China Next Door, PAN Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy

2006      Jiang Hu: Contemporary Chinese Art, Tilton Gallery, New York

            A Point in Time- Wuhan, Wuhan City Fine Arts Literature, Wuhan, China

            The Great Performance, Max Protech Gallery, New York

            Long March Capital, Long March Space, Beijing

            2006 China Contemporary Art Festival, Korea

            Re-Excavate the Contemporary Realism, Soka Art Center, Beijing

            Process & Expression, Star 85 Gallery, Taipei

            Chinese Avant-gardePhotography Since 1990-Self- Landscape in Changing, Asia Art Center, Beijing

            Beyond Foreordination -Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing

            Common Link, Vanessa Art link, Beijing

2005      China,Palazzo Saraceni and San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy

            Dream Producers (II/VI): The Imaginary Museum of Chinese ContemporaryArt,Xin Dong Cheng Space for

            Contemporary Art, Beijing

            New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Prague Biennale2, Prague

            Mahjong, Bern Kunstmuseum, Bern

            The Gesture,A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki,Greece;Quarter-

            Centro Produzione Arte, Florence,Italy

            The Strange Heaven-Contemporary Chinese photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Helsinki

            Beijing Contemporary, Gallery Kamp, Munich, Germany

            Exhilaration, Aura Gallery, Shanghai

            Xianfeng -Chinese avant-garde sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, The Netherlands

            The Wall-Reshaping ContemporaryChinese Art,Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

            Mayfly, Beijing Commune, Beijing

            From Jing De Zhen to PVC, Chinese Contemporary, Beijing

            Tirana Biennial, Albania, Tirana

            Cina, Pitta Contemporanea, Palazzo Bricherasio,Turin, Italy

            Cina, Prospettive Contemporanea, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

2004      Me, Me, Me, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing

            China, The body Everywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France

            Forbidden Senses?,L'Espace Culturel Francois Mitterrand,Perigueux, France

            Examining My Own Practice, Flavia Muller Medeiros, London

            Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

            Chinese Eyes, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York

            New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

            Hua Jia Di, China Art Seasons, Beijing

            Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography,New

            York;David Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA;Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria Albert Museum, London

            Camera/Action: Performance and Photography, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA

            Posers, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing

            Face to Face, Aura Gallery, Shanghai

            Entrance, Aura Gallery, Shanghai

2003      China Art Now-Out of the Red, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy; Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy

            Corps de Chine, Gallery Anne Lettree, Paris

            Femmes de Chine, Gallery Veronique Maxe, Paris

            The Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France

            The Strange Heaven-Contemporary Chinese photography, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague

            Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1, Prague

            Bare Androgyny, Factory 798, Beijing

2002      The Rebelling Bodies, Art Moscow, Moscow

            Korean and Chinese Painting-2002 New Expression, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

            International Exhibitionist, Curzon Soho Cinema, London

            Chinese Modernity, Fondation Armando Alvares Penteada, Sao Paulo, Brazil

            Paris-Pekin, Escape Pierre Cardin, Paris

            New Photography from China, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing

            Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China

            Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Carrillo Gil Museum), MexicoCity

            The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival: Chinese’s New Photography, Pingyao, China

            When It Rains It Pours, DDMWarehouse, Shanghai

2001      Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Hot Pot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

            On Boys and Girls, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China

            Egofugal,The 7th International, The Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

            Naked, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA

2000      Manly, Art in General, New York

            Man and Space, 2000 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

            Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art, Asian Section of Gwangju Biennale 2000, Gwangju, Korea; Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan

            Time of Reviving, Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in 2000, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China

            The Figure Another Side Of Modernism, Sung-Harbor Cultural Center, INC, New York

            Our Chinese Friends, ACC Gallery,Neudeli-Gallerie der Bauhaus(in collaboration with Gallerie Urs Meile, Lucerne,

            (Switzerland) Weimar, Germany

            Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway

            Chinese Performance, JGM Gallery, Paris

1999      Pink for Boys/Blue for Girls, NGBK, Berlin

            Aperto Over All, The 48th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

            Inside Out: New Chinese Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

1998      Autonomous Action, The large Glass,Auckland, New Zealand

            TAMA VIVANT’98, Tama Art University, Tokyo

            Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York;San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,San 

            Francisco,USA; Mexico;Australia;Hong Kong

1997      Degenderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

            Photographs of Performances, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

            Photographs and Video from China, Max Protech Gallery, New York

            Another Long March, Breda,TheNetherlands

1996      China Avant-garde Material Exhibition, Gallery Q & QS, Tokyo,Fukuoka, Japan

1995      Contact of the Third Kind, Beijing

            The Anonymous Mountain Raised by a Meter, Beijng

            Nine Holes, Beijing

1992      The Oil Painting Section,The 1st 1990’s BiennialArt Fair, Guangzhou, China

1989      Series of Situations, Hubei Instituteof Fine Arts, Wuhan, China