LIU SHUAI

Liu Shuai is an artist and an insect researcher. He looks back and previews the relationships between the land, weather, human, and non-human life from the perspective of natural objects such as insects, birds, fish, plants, sand and stones, letting the subtle tingles and shimmers of them emerge.He utilizes installation, sound, video, and folkloric techniques to intertwine the laws of nature, biological habits, and human emotions and history. Through this, he narrates the constancy and impermanence of both nature and the human world. Liu Shuai has long been concerned with the connections between local and distant places brought about by phenomena such as the invasion of alien species, the pet trade, and human wars.

Member of the Entomological Society of China

Education

China academy of art, China, 2019(MA)

Awards/Sponsorship

2024 UCCA&XINTIANDI RANRAN - The Exploration Award

2024 Sailor Program · Art, One way street foundation&Georg Jensen

2024 Bio Art & Design Award

2023 Prince Claus Seed Award
2022 Supported by the Goethe-Institut's project: Local Knowledge and Diversified Ecological Perception

Solo exhibitions / project

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

2024

Sparking Into Sparking, XINTIANDI, Shanghai, China

Seeing Birds, Hushiguang, Longyou, China

2023
Home Away from Home, Larnaca, Cyprus

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

Leming Expo - An annual exchange of agriculture and art ,Yuan Museum, Guangzhou, China

2019

New Species-Heredity&Variation ,Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, China

刘 帅

刘帅常以动物、植物、沙石等自然物的视角去回望和预演土地、气象、人、非人生命之间的联系。刘帅长期关注由战争、外来物种入侵、宠物贸易等现象连结起的此地与彼方。他使用装置、声音、影像和民间技艺等媒介，呈现自然与人世中易被忽略的刺痒和微光。

刘帅2019年硕士毕业于中国美术学院，中国昆虫学会会员，曾任教于四川美术学院。刘帅获得燃冉青年艺术家扶持计划 “锐意探索奖”（2024），荷兰生物艺术 & 设计奖（2024），入选单向街基金会·水手计划（2024），获得克劳斯亲王基金会种子奖（2023），获得歌德学院“地方知识与多元化生态感知”项目资助（2022）。

近期主要个人项目包括“昆虫·家”（德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京，2022），“abC 游牧与想象：动物乡愁”（天目里，杭州，2022）“顺时针的水声”（Random Play，杭州，2020）；群展包括"看见鸟"（瀫石光，龙游，2024），“家外之家”（拉纳卡，塞浦路斯，2023），“动物看见了吗”（Pidan gallery，上海，2023），第九届深港城市建筑双年展-“看见最初500米”（深圳，2022）等。