Li Shan was born in Lanxi, Heilongjiang Province in 1942. He graduated from Heilongjiang University in 1963. And in 1964, he studied at Arts Department (oil Painting) of Shanghai Theater Academy. Solo Exhibitions: 1990, Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Academy of Drama; 2001, “Li Shan: Thou are not the fish”, A room with a view, Shanghai; 2002, “Reading - the New Works by Li Shan”, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai; 2004, “Li Shan - Small New Works”, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai; 2006, “Reading - Photoworks 2003-2005”, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai; 2007, “The Pumpkin Project - Li Shan & Zhang Pingjie Bio-Art Exhibition”, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai. Group Exhibitions: 1982, “Painting the Chinese Dream - Chinese Art 30 Years after the Revolution”, Smith College, Northampton Ma; City Hall, Boston, Ma; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; 1983, “Art and Experiment of 83” (Stage'83: Paintings Experiments), Fudan University, Shanghai; 1986, “First Shanghai Concave – Convex Exhibition”, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai; 1987, “A State of Transition: Contemporary Painting from Shanghai”, Asian Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; 1989, “China/Avant-garde Art Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; 1992, “Encountering the Others - Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel”, Dokumenta Kassel, Kassel, Germany; 1993, “45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points of the Arts”, Venice, Italy; 1994, “22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo”, Brazil; 1995, “Chinese New Art 1989-93”, Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada; 1997, Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland; 1998, New Voices: Contemporary Art Dialogue Among, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong; National Taiwan Art Education Institute, Taipei; Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai; 2000, Futuro Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Macau; 2001, Shanghai Star, Casula Art Centre, Sydney, Australia; 2002, Paris-Pekin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France; 2003, Subversion and Poetry-Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; 2005, Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai; 2006, Art in Motion, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai; 2007, 85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; 2008, Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Collision-Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China; 2010, Fairy Tales Selections from the MaGMA's collection, Opera Gallery Singapore.
