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Liu Shuai
Liu Shuai is an artist and insect researcher who graduated from the China Academy of Art. His practice grows out of long-term observation of individual living beings, including insects, birds, and plants. Through the perceptual modes and temporal scales of different species, he seeks to reinterpret the complex realities at the intersection of society, history, and nature. Grounded in fieldwork, his practice encompasses installation, video, and public programmes.
Member of the Entomological Society of China
Education
China academy of art, China, 2019(MA)
Awards, Grants, Nominations
2026 Shortlisted, Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year, Art & Science
2024 UCCA&XINTIANDI RANRAN - The Exploration Award
2024 Sailor Program · Art, One way street foundation
2024 Bio Art & Design Award
2023 Prince Claus Seed Award
2022 Goethe-Institut's project: Local Knowledge and Diversified Ecological PerceptionSolo Exhibitions & Projects
2022 Insect Footprints, Human Traces, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing,China
2022 Nomadism and Imagination·7th art book in China:When animals pass through the homeland of human, Tianmuli, Hangzhou, China
2020 Tunnel: Clockwise sound of water, Random Play, Hangzhou,China
Main group exhibitions
2026 “Entering the Body through Traces,” Berggruen Research Center, Peking University, Beijing
2026 “Encounters with Birds, Plants, and Insects: A Day of Unequal Lengths,” JIAZAZHI, Ningbo2025 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China· Art & Science,798 Art District, Beijing,
2025 The 15th Shanghai Biennale: Does the Flower Hear the Bee?
2025 Dive into the field, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai
2025 Plasmo desmata, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
2024 Sparking Into Sparking, XINTIANDI, Shanghai, China2024 Seeing Birds, Hushiguang, Longyou, China
2023 See Animal See Me, Pidan gallery, Shanghai, China
2022 The 9th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China
2021 Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse-online residency show, PSA, Shanghai, China
2020 Clustering And Resonance,Art Museum Of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2020 Leming Expo - An annual exchange of agriculture and art ,Yuan Museum, Guangzhou, China
2019 New Species-Heredity&Variation ,Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, China
Lectures & Talks
2026 “Entering the Body through Traces,” Berggruen Research Center, Peking University, Beijing
2026 “Encounters with Birds, Plants, and Insects: A Day of Unequal Length,” JIAZAZHI, Ningbo2025 “Muscle, Ailment, Self, Memory: Practices from the Body,” Spanish Cultural Center – Instituto Cervantes, Shanghai
2025 “Traversing the Floral Atmosphere”，Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2025 “City in touch,” Ranran Project 2025, Xintiandi Dongtai Plaza, Shanghai
2025 15th Shanghai Biennale: Artist–Curator Roundtable, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2025 Sailors Program: Going to the Site – The Multidimensional Significance and Contemporary Practices of Returning Onsite, Tank Art Center, Shanghai
2025 Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, Parallel Programs:UCCA x Berggruen Research Center Conversation Series: Zhang Guojie x Liu Shuai "With Ants as a Prelude", UCCA, Beijing, China
2022 Birds, insects, dialects, Tianmuli,Hangzhou, China
2022 Insects, starry sky and road, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China
Workshops
2026 “What Will the River Remember?”, Yangtze River No. 11 Post Office, Shanghai
2026 “Flight Practice of Flowers,” Object Theatre Workshop, Gucheng Park, Shanghai
2025 15th Shanghai Biennale:“When Nature Is Taken for Something Else,” Jiayuanhai Art Museum,Shanghai
2024 Leave the Zoo, Return to the Zoo, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China
2023 Fish bone and flamingo, Aral Sea Camp, Nukus, Uzbekistan
2022-2024 Invasion of Alien Species - Nature Around Us, Huitong school, Shenzhen,China
2021-Ongoing Can I come to your house to look for insects? Huzhou, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Damascus,etc.
Interview
2026 Bamboo Bee Boreholes, Red Imported Fire Ant Migrations…Power Station of Art (PSA)
2025 Attending to the Small and Time-Buried Traces, Freitag2023 Egrets, snails, red fire ants... Do animals experience homesickness, CITY+ Sanlian Lifeweek
2022 Conceiving homesickness stories for some "villain creatures", art book in China
Publications
2025 A Visit to Damascus Zoo, Stasis space
2024 At both ends of the Earth are ant nests, Unofficial Pan-American Conference
2022 I was observing bees in a mountain village in Guangdong, Mapping workshop
2022 Liu Shuai: Spider Web and Tadpole, Taoxichuan
2021 The Snake's Moonlit Escape into the Reeds
2020 Tunnel | October: Clockwise sound of water, RANDOM PLAY
2019 The lacquer garden I heard, Homeland 2019
刘 帅
刘帅，艺术家与昆虫研究者，毕业于中国美术学院。他的创作源于对昆虫、鸟类与植物等生命个体的长期观察。他尝试通过不同物种的感知方式与时间尺度，重新解读社会、历史与自然交汇处的复杂现实。他以田野现场为工作基础，实践涵盖装置、影像与公共活动。
刘帅入选2026 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year艺术与科学类别短名单，入选第四届单向街基金会·水手计划，获燃冉青年艺术家扶持计划锐意探索奖、生物艺术与设计奖（Bio Art & Design Award）、克劳斯亲王基金会种子奖（Prince Claus Seed Award），并获歌德学院“地方知识与多元化生态感知”项目支持。他近期的展览有第15届上海双年展，“花儿听到蜜蜂了吗？”；“水手计划，走向现场”，上海油罐艺术中心；“胞间连丝”，香格纳画廊。
教育
中国美术学院 硕士
奖项/资助/提名
2026 Shortlisted, Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year, Art & Science，德国
2024 新天地&UCCA 燃冉青年艺术家扶持计划 锐意探索奖，中国
2024 生物艺术 & 设计奖，荷兰
2024 第四届单向街基金会·水手计划，中国
2023 克劳斯亲王基金会种子奖，荷兰
2022 歌德学院“地方知识与多元化生态感知”，中国
个人展览/项目
2022 “昆虫·家”，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京
2022 “游牧与想象”-“动物乡愁”，天目里，杭州
群展
2025 中国当代艺术年鉴展 · 艺术与科技，798 艺术中心, 北京
2025 第15届上海双年展，“花儿听到蜜蜂了吗？”
2025 “水手计划，走向现场”，油罐艺术中心，上海
2025 “胞间连丝”，香格纳画廊，上海
2024 "响亮的吻"-燃冉艺术季，新天地壹号，上海
2024 "瀫石光-看见鸟"，龙游
2023 “动物看见了吗”，Pidan gallery，上海
2022 第九届深港城市建筑双年展-“看见最初500米”，深圳
讲座
2026 “从痕迹进入身体”，北京大学博古睿研究中心，北京
2026 与鸟类、植物、昆虫相遇：不等长的一天，假杂志，宁波
2025 “回到街区”，2025燃冉计划，新天地东台广场，上海
2025 肌、疾、己、记：从身体出发练习，西班牙文化中心-塞万提斯学院，上海
2025 第15届上海双年展：艺术家x策展人圆桌(三)，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
2025 水手计划·走向现场，重返现场的多维意义与当代实践，油罐艺术中心，上海
2025 张国捷 x 刘帅：以蚁为序的生命网络，UCCA当代艺术中心&北京大学博古睿研究中心，北京
2022-2024 身边的自然 - 外来物种入侵，荟同学校, 深圳
2023 鱼骨与火烈鸟，咸海湖畔，努库斯，乌兹别克斯坦
2022 鸟虫、方言，天目里，杭州
2022 昆虫、星空、乡路，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京
工作坊
2026 “河流会记得什么?”长江11号邮局，上海
2025 “花的飞行练习”物体剧场工作坊，古城公园，上海2025 “花径旅行团”-Chautauqua，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
2025 第15届上海双年展：自然的“误读”练习，嘉源海美术馆，上海
2024 Leave the Zoo, Return to the Zoo，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京
2021至今 我可以去你家捉虫吗？湖州、上海、大马士革、阿勒颇、埃因霍温、巴塞罗那
采访
2026 竹蜂蛀孔、红火蚁迁徙……重新看见被忽略的生命，上海当代艺术博物馆
2025 关注微小事物和被时间掩埋的痕迹，Freitag2023 白鹭、蜗牛、红火蚁……动物也有乡愁？，三联人文城市
2022 刘帅：为一些“反派生物”构想它们的思乡记 ，abC
写作
2025 大马士革动物园手记，龟力空间
2024 地球的两端是蚁穴，非官方泛美大会
2022 我在广东一个山村观察蜜蜂的附近，Mapping workshop
2022 刘帅：蛛网与蝌蚪二三事，陶溪川
2021 “看着一条水蛇破开河面的月光滑进芦苇丛”，去野艺术公益基金
2020 Tunnel：顺时针的水声，RANDOM PLAY
2019 我听到的漆园，Homeland