LI Mu 李牧

Li Mu was born in 1974, Feng County, Jiangsu Province, China and lives and works in Feng County and Su Zhou of China. He graduated from the Suzhou School of Art and Design, Suzhou in 1995 and the Academy of Art of Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2001. Li Mu created works of different categories, including video, photography, installation and performance. He looked forward to transcending the boundaries of himself and broadening his understanding towards art via these works. Everyday life played an important role in his works. A relationship between the environment, the general public and him was established, blurring the boundary between art and life by resorting to his life experience.

 

Li Mu had Fellowship of Asia Culture Council (ACC) and 5 months residency program in ISCP in New York in 2012.

 

Now Li Mu is working on a ongoing project Qiuzhuang Project---Collections from Van Abbemuseum in his hometown Qiuzhuang village in Feng County of China.

 

Li Mu has had numerous group exhibitions and solo exhibitions including:  51m2: 5# LI MU TAIKANG Space, Beijing, China (2010); Anafranil- Li Mu Video works Exhibition Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China (2006); Open Studio Project-FUN ART Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China ; Survival Techniques :Narratives of Resistance  Museum of Contemporary Photograph, Chicago, US; Credit Suisse Today Art Award 2011 Finalists Exhibition ,Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2011); Gate Keeper, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands(2010);Double Infinity, Van Abbemuseum, Dutch Culture Centre, Shanghai, China(2010);Apart, we are together, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia(2010); Urban Stories: The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania(2009); History in the Making: Shanghai 1979 – 2009 436 Jumen Rd, Shanghai, China(2009);A Starting Point: Intrude Art & Life 366, Shanghai Zendai MoMA. Shanghai, China (2009); Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists Shanghai Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, China / ARARIO BEIJING, Beijing, China (2007); 920 Kilograms Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. Shanghai, China (2005).