Born in Beijing in 1964, Liu Ye came of age during the Cultural Revolution, a period between 1966 and 1976 when all art was at the service of the state and individual expression was explicitly forbidden. His father was a children’s book author, and one afternoon, Liu Ye discovered a collection of Western literature— books by Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Anderson, Tolstoy, Petrus Christus and many others—hidden in a black chest beneath his parents’ bed.
Although these books were banned at the time, Liu Ye nonetheless studied their illustrations intensely. As a young adult, the artist went on to study industrial design and mural painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Germany to pursue an MFA at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin from 1990 to 1994.
He later spent time in Amsterdam as an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie, where the artist first encountered works of art by Mondrian, Vermeer, Klee, and Dick Bruna. His work has been exhibited extensively in China and Germany. His last major solo museum exhibition took place at the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland in 2007. Most recently, Liu Ye’s work was included in a major group exhibition, “Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection”, which opened at the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland in 2005, and traveled to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany, the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria, and ended at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2005-2009).
There will be an opening reception in Sperone Westwater gallery for the artist on Saturday 7 November from 6-8 pm. A catalogue with color reproductions accompanies the exhibition.
For more information as well as photographic images, please contact Maryse Brand at Sperone Westwater at (212) 999-7337, or maryse@speronewestwater.com. Please find further information on the website: www.speronewestwater.com.


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