January 6–February 3, 2024
Installation Views
Works
Steve Turner is pleased to present Out of the Flow, a solo exhibition by Hangzhou-based Zigsen Liu which features recent paintings that are inspired by digital media and a sense of alienation. Liu uses bright electronic colors and image distorting brushstrokes to depict images that have no apparent connection–a cowboy standing on a lion, four women in swimsuits in an empty green landscape and a man with a crystal ball in the form of a skull. Images represent recurring themes of knowledge, power, life, death, fragility and eternity. The works contain scenes of the artist’s invention and destruction. To Liu, they are like logic errors in the realm of data flow and their short life span mirrors the fast pace of the internet.
Zigsen Liu (born 1992, Anhui Province, China) earned both a BA and an MA at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (2010 & 2018). He has had solo exhibitions at Beijing Art Depot Gallery (2023); KEYI Gallery, Hefei (2022) and Mofeimo Gallery, Qingdao (2019) and has regularly had work included in group exhibitions in China since 2016. Out of the Flow is Liu’s debut exhibition outside of China.
Born 1992, Anhui Province, China
Lives and works in Hangzhou and Shanghai
Education
2018
MA, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou 2010 BA, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Out of the Flow, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Champaign Odyssey, Beijing Art Depot Gallery, China
2019
Enchantment, Mofeimo Gallery, Qingdao, China
Group Exhibitions
2022
The Calling of Harsh, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai Garden of Dreams, Hoey Art Centre, Hangzhou
Portal, Paral Space, Hangzhou
2021
Inter-Youth Painting Exhibition by China Academy of Art Artistic Innovation and Promotion Exhibition, West Bund Dome, Shanghai
New West Lake, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai
Cong Sheng, Cang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
The Golden Times, Shanghai Jinzhuan Building, Shanghai
Ode to the Wine God – The First Longwu Art Festival, Hangzhou Pseudo Human Sand Tabel, Greenhandlab, Hangzhou
2020
Beijing Contemporary Art EXPO 2020, Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
@ All Shining Brightly, Mofeimo Gallery, Qingdao, China
Twenty Twenty 2020 Hangzhou Urban Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou
The Midnight, MO Gallery, Shanghai, China
Poly Stellardemia, Yiwu International Expo Centre, Yiwu, China
Inter-Youth, Luo Zhongli Art Museum, Art Gallery of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, Shenyang, China
2018
China Academy of Art Graduation Exhibition, CAA Art Museums, Hangzhou
Simulacra & Truth, Mofeimo Gallery, Qingdao, China
Inter-Youth International Youth Painting Exhibition, CAA Art Museums, Hangzhou
2017
New Star Art Awards Top100 Exhibition, MoCA STAR, Nanjing, China
Inter-Youth, CAA Art Museums, Hangzhou, China
2016
Youth Arts Cross-Strait Exchanges Visual Exhibition, Art Exhibition Hall of Cheng Shiu University, Gaoxiong, China
Originality by the Academics Creative Art, Luo Zhongli Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Inter-Youth, CAA Art Museums, Hangzhou, China
Grants, Residencies and Awards
2018
“Lin Fengmian scholarship” Bronze Award
2017
New Star Art Awards Top 100
INTER-YOUTH International Youth Painting Exhibition Theme Award
2016
INTER-YOUTH International Youth Painting Exhibition Outstanding Creation Award