YI LIAN
 
Born in 1987 in Jiangxi, China
Live & work in Hangzhou , China
E-mail: elianart@qq.com
 
 
Education
2009 B.A obtained from the New Media Art Department, China Academy of Art,
2012 M.A obtained from the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art,
Hangzhou , China
 
 
Solo Exhibition2016  -  “The Desolate Timeline”: Yi Lian’s Solo Exhibition, Telescope Art Space, Beijing
2015  -  “DEMIBEAST”: YI Lian’s Solo Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou
 
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2016  - The 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany

• 2016 Chinese Short Film Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian National Art Museum, Ulaanbaatar
• The 21st Split Film Festival / International Festival of New Film，Split, Croatia
• The 33rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
• “The Liver” contemporary art exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
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2015 - “CHINA8 -- Contemporary art form China on the Rhine and Ruhr”, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany

• “Small Is Beautiful”- a contemporary art exhibition, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
• “The Civil Power” – Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Beijing
• “Hidden Sentiment” comtemporaray art exhibition, L-Art Gallery, Chengdu
• “The Laocoön Dilemma” A curated on-screen programm, Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Germany
• “Moving In Time: B3+BEIJING” Moving image exhibition, CAFA Art Museum,Beijing
• “I Am Your Labyrinth” contemporary art exhibition, 1933 art space, Shanghai
• CONTEMPORARY OSMOSIS-Audiovisual Media Festival, N-Minute video art project, Taipei
• “NO.0 Festival-Be Yourself” a contemporary art exhibition, in construction site, Hangzhou.

 
2014  - Chinese Video Art In MADATAC 06, Spain, Madrid

• “Memorandum for Gaia”, The 1st PSA Emerging Curators Program, PSA(Power Station of Art), Shanghai
• The 11th CIFF(China Independent Film Festival), Xiamen, China
• “Landscape of Mind”, A Group Exhibition of Young Chinese Artists, ARTMIA Foundation, Beijing
• Photo Shanghai, The Exhibition Center of Shanghai, Shanghai
• AVIFF(Cannes International art Film Festival), Cannes, France
• “Reformation”, White Rabbit Collection Exhibition, White Rabbit Art Museum, Sydney, Australia

 
2013  - The 1st Zhejiang Youth Film Festival, Hangzhou

• The 10th CIFF(China Independent Film Festival), Xiamen, China
• “West Bound 2013” A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai
• EXIN Asia Experimental Film and Video Art Forum, Yuan Museum, Beijing
• “Green Box”, The Media art exhibition, Hangzhou

 
2012  - “Reactivation”-9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai.

• “The Creative M50 Award”, 5 Years Review Exhibition, M space, Shanghai,
• "The 8090 youth work", Zhejiang Young Artists Exhibition, The Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China
• The 1st Italy-China Biennial, Monza Royal Manor, Italy
• The 2nd “N-Minutes Video Art Festival” N-Box premiere, CITIC Square, Shanghai
• “Micro Experience”, The Young Artists Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum 
• “Reading at Night”, Art Exhibition, Gold Square Art Space, London, UK

 
2011  - “Things’ Differences”, Art Plan in TOP Building, Shanghai        

• “Chain of Things”, A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Peace International         Exhibition Center, Hangzhou
• “LIVE”, Web Video Art Exhibition, www.ftchinese.com

      
2010  - “Youth in Combustion”, A Large-scale Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou  
       - "Fixed = Death ",Multimedia Physical Performance, Hangzhou
        
2009  - The 7th “Little Making”, Art Exhibition, Gonglian Granary, Hangzhou
       - “eARTS BEYOND”, 2009 Shanghai eArts Festival, Shanghai.        -
       - “Involved in the Future”, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai.
     
2008  - “My China Now”, Video Art Exhibition, UK/HK
- “Pink China”, The Exchange Exhibition of Experimental Art Between Britain and   China, London, UK
- The 5th “Little Making”, Shopping Gallery, Shanghai.
 
 
Collections
 
- The White Rabbit Art Museum, Sydney, Australia.