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,
Award/nomination
2019
- Won the 2019 Jimei x Arles Discovery Award. Jime x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen.
2018
- Shortlisted for the Sanya Art Season HUAYU Youth Award, Sanya.
- The 3rd Wallpost Artist Award,won the "Excellence Award",Today Art Museum, Beijing.
- The 4th Art 8 Chinese Young Artist Award(nomination), Beijing.
2012
- China Academy of Art graduate creative and Lin Fengmian Creation Award, won the “Gold Award”, Hangzhou.
2010
- M50 creative 2010 new selection, won the "Judges Award". Shanghai.
Residency
2019
- S-AIR Sapporo Artist In Residence, Sapporo, Japan
- Points Center of Contemporary ART (spring residency), Jinxi, Jiangsu
2018
- Gaoligong Mountain Artist-In-Residency Project, Tengchong, Yunnan.
Solo Exhibition
2018 - “Yi Lian: Cinema Paradiso”, Bonacon Gallery, Guangzhou
2016 - “The Desolate Timeline”: Yi Lian Solo Exhibition, Telescope Art Space, Beijing
2015 - “DEMIBEAST”: YI Lian Solo Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
- “Shanghai Salon”Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Bao Collection, Lane 396 South Urumqi Road Space, Shanghai.
- “Whisper of the Frozen River, A Breath in the Mist And Blowing out the Candle With Gazes”, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou.
- “One Tree, Fifty Ideas”, public Art project, OoEli, Hangzhou.
2019 -
- Points International Residency Project II : Leading a Life of Idle Pleasure, Points Center for Contemporary Art , Jinxi, Jiangsu.
- “A Glass Without Water”, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou.
- “The Students of Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi”, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai.
- 2019 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival. Xiamen.
- “Blank-Filler”, the Exhibition of S-Air Residency project, S-Air Exhibition Space, Sapporo, Japan.
2018
- “Condition” -HUAYU Youth Award Finalist Exhibition, HUAYU Art Center, Sanya.
- “Proregress”-the 12th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai.
- “The Frist Decade”-the 10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition of Inna Art Space , Inna Art Space, Hangzhou.
- From/to: the Frontier of Chinese Art Education, San Francisco Art Institute, U.S
- “The Post Southern Song Dynasty” -Hangzhou Artist Exhibition, KWM Art Center, Beijing
- “Presence” -Young Artist Exhibition, CAA, Hangzhou
- ”Taking December 12 as a reason“- Memories Geng Jianyi, Imago kinetics Lab, Hangzhou.
- TODAY WALL POWER-The 3rd Edition of Wallpost Artist Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing.
2017
- “Desolation Observer”-the 13th Art Film Screening, Shenzhen OCT Creative Culture Park, Shenzhen
- “Partial Archive”-Yellspace Programme Exhibition, Yellspace, Shanghai
- “Parallel Time”- Contemporary Art Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou
- URBAN NOMADISM: 2017 HANGZHOU LIANGZHU BIG ROOF INTERNATIONAL MOVING IMAGE EXHIBITION, HANGZHOU
- The Biennial of Art Night in Kempten, Germany
- Meditation Screening Field: The 1st SuZhou International Short Art Film Week, Han Shan Art Museum, SuZhou
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
2015
- “CHINA8 -- Contemporary art form China along 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” contemporaray 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, Shanghai Exhibition Center, 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 Cement Plant & Oil Tank, and Bankside, Shanghai
- EXIN Asia Experimental Film and Video Art Forum, Yuan Museum, Beijing
- “Green Box”, The Media art exhibition, Hangzhou
2012
- “Reactivation”-the 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
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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.
- Blue Mountain Contemporary Art, Hongkong.