The family name is Liu.
Liu Dan 刘丹 (born 1953) is a Chinese artist, known for his synthesis of Western and Chinese painting, especially in ink painting.
Biography Born in Nanjing, Liu studied the Confucian classics, poetry, painting and calligraphy with his grandfather. After the Cultural Revolution he studied traditional Chinese painting under Ya Ming 亚明 (1924-2002) at the Academy of Chinese Painting, Hangzhou, 1978-1981. In 1981 he moved to Hawaii, where he studied Western art, and developed his distinctive style: a combination of classical Chinese painting and photo-realism. In 1992 he moved to New York where he met Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing and other artists from China. In 2006 he returned to China to mentor young artists.
Exhibitions Source: 1989 – Honolulu Academy of Arts (solo exhibition) 1993 - Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (solo exhibition) 1999 – Yale University Art Gallery 1999 – Art Institute of Chicago 1999 – San Diego Museum of Art (solo exhibition) 2004 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai 2005 - Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Berlin (solo exhibition) 2006 – Metropolitan Museum 2006 – Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University 2006 - The 6th Shanghai Biennale 2006 – China Institute Gallery, New York 2007 – Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark 2008 – Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2009 – Princeton University Art Museum 2011 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013 – Suzhou Museum, China (solo exhibition) 2014 – China Institute Gallery, New York 2014 – Metropolitan Museum - Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China 2016 – Minneapolis Institute of art (solo exhibition) – Ink Unbound, Paintings by Liu Dan 2016 – Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (solo exhibition) 2017-2018 – Guggenheim Museum - Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World 2019 – Centre Pompidou
Further reading Shelagh Vainker, Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters (Ashmolean Museum, 2017) ISBN 978-1910807118 Alternative Visions: Liu Dan and Hiromitsu Morimoto (exhibition catalogue) Michael Goedhuis, Ink: The Art of China (2012) ISBN 978-0904221190 Maxwell K. Hearn and Wu Hung, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013) ISBN 978-0300197037 Interview: Chinese artist Liu Dan, Financial Times, 30 Oct 2015 Liu Dan in Conversation with Jane DeBevoise and Colleagues, Asian Art Archive in America, March 25, 2010
References
External links Liu Dan on Artnet