Xinran Liu

Born 1998 in Chengdu, China

Lives and works in London, UK

Xinran completed a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her MA in painting at the Royal College of Art. Drawing on her personal experiences, Xinran captures fragments of personal memories on canvas. Synthesising divergent artistic genres, time periods, and modes of representation, Xinran’s paintings simultaneously invoke and destabilise their own formal and conceptual traditions–from traditional Chinese ink painting to Western excursions into abstraction and movement. The artist was shortlisted for the Chadwell Award in 2023.

EDUCATION

BFA Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘The Torrent & The Fold’, LBF Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2024 ‘On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon’, Yveyang Gallery, New York, US (Solo)

2024 ‘Pacing the Void’, Alma Pearl Gallery, London, UK (Solo)

2024 ‘Between Ambiguity and Clarity’, Backstage/Whitestone Gallery, Shanghai, China (Group)

2024 ‘Airy Disk’, River Art Gallery, Taichung City, China (Group)

2023 Imagined States: Chapter 2 "Intrinsicality", WOAW Gallery, Central, Hong Kong (Group)

2023 ‘Momentary Bond’, ST.ART Gallery, London, UK (Group) 

2023 ‘Paris, Texas’, SOKA Art, Beijing, China (Group) 

2023 YA! Young Art 2023, 3812 Gallery, London, UK (Group) 

2023 The Fading Spaciousness, Bargehouse, London, UK (Group) 

2023 Lucky no. 8, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK (Group) 

2022 Dwelling on the Cloud, Ugly Duck, London, UK (Group)

2022 ArtWorks Open 2022, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK (Group)  

2022 Tiny Things, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga Come One, Come All, The Escape, London  2022 RAW, Soho Revue, London, UK (Group)