Liu Qiming is Cross-media artist, Curator. Executive Director & Art Director of USAGAF.
He is a distinguished artist, curator, and nonprofit organization manager from China. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1995 and taught in art colleges at Chinese universities from 1995 to 2006. From 2006 to 2017, he worked as a professional artist in Beijing. In 2017, he immigrated to the United States through the EB1A Extraordinary Ability program and is now based in New York, engaging in independent art creation and nonprofit organization management.
From 2017 to 2024, he operated the sustainable Non-profit arts organizations NYRCA project, which focused on social intervention, exhibitions, and international exchange. In 2022, the project received funding from the “Creatives Rebuild New York” art fund. In 2024, he joined the U.S. Golf Art Foundation Board and assumed the role of Executive Director & Art Director .
His work spans performance, installation, video, and painting and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across multiple countries and regions, with over 100 art institutions and private collectors acquiring his pieces. His notable works include Sensitive Words, Buying American Lottery Tickets for You, 5·12, and 272 Days and Nights for You, which explore themes of historical memory, contemporary society, and the ultimate expressions of human suffering and the struggle of fate.
Solo Exhibitions/Organization planning/independent art project
2021
“AAC”Liu Qiming’s independent art project,New York.
2020
“Mask” Liu Qiming’s independent art project,New York.
“New York COVID-19 Color diary” Liu Qiming’s independent art project, New York.
2019
“Private car plan”Liu Qiming’s independent art project,New York.
2017-2019
“Multinational agent purchase” Liu Qiming’s independent art project, the project consists of “Pudding · Life Party” ” Beauty Dream” and “Ballot” , New York.
2017
“New York State Driver License” Liu Qiming’s independent art project,New York.
“Exhibition ‘Suojia Village’ ” Liu Qiming’s independent art project, Beijing.
Organization planning exhibition “Historical Records: Suojia Village·Beijing International Art Camp (BIAC) Line Field” Beijing.
2015
“5·12—Liu Qiming Personal exhibition”, Intelligentsia gallery, Beijing.
2013
“FLOATINGCLOUDS”@Liu Qiming, Studio67,Singapore.
“Liu Qiming(39.998595,116.507515) Sun·Human bodyMeasure”Caochang Art allery, Beijing.
“I give youmy 272 days and nights” Liu Qiming’s independent art project,,Studio67,Singapore.
2008
“One lineon life” Liu Qiming solo Exhibition Vasion.Peak Art Space, Beijing.
Harmonious ButDifferent, ArtsMansion, Beijing.
2007
Organization planning exhibition “Restart: Suojia Village·Beijing International Art Camp (BIAC) Exhibition， Beijing.
2006
Deportation, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich.
2001
Liu Qiming, Zhongding Gallery, Taizhong.
1995
Fluidityand Limitation of Radon and Tritium, SichuanFine ArtsInstitute,Chongqing.
GroupExhibitions:
2021
Memorandum: 12 Artists to the World. ACCA gallery，Los Angeles.
2020
“Epidemic • Empathy” Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Artists from Outside the Territory, New York.
“The Present in the Eyes of Overseas Chinese Artists” Online Exhibition.
“PRECIPITATION” Selected Video Artists and Their Works in the Era of Epidemic,
Chinese Contemporary Art Museum,Chongqing.
2019
《EXPORT —2019 Joint Exhibition of international Artists》 Hudson River Museum, New York
2018
“Artists Rewrite New York Map”, China Songzhuang Art Development Foundation, New York
2017
“Historical Records: Suojia Village·Beijing International Art Camp (BIAC) Line Field” Beijing
2016
Jian: The Cultural Symbolism of GenderViolence , ARTTALK, Beijing.
“Times Face book”Chinesecontemporaryart Nomination Exhibition，Qingdao Art Museum，Qingdao.
“METAMORPHOSIS”BIENNALECHINA-ITALIA, BEING 3GALLERY,Beijing.
“DdilyReflect”On-lineLive Show Performance Art Festival, YIlive ，Beijing.
Standinginthe clouds，360 SkyDrive, Internet Online.
QHFJ ART CROSS-CIRCLE, Fen Museum,Taiyuan.
2016 AnnualContemporary Eco Art Exhibition, Art Museum of Shijiazhuang,ShiJiazhuang.
