Dr. Lü Peng, born in Chongqing, Sichuan province in 1956, attained a doctoral degree from the China Academy of Art in 2004. I am dedicated to the study of Chinese art history, particularly focusing on the period from the 19th century onwards, with a central emphasis on the 20th century. The triad of writing, critique, and curation methodologies has been integral throughout my entire research trajectory.
Experience
- 1982 - 1985
- Chief editor of the journal Theatre and Film
- 1986 - 1991
- Vice-secretary of the Sichuan Dramatists Society
- 1990 - 1993
- Executive editor at the magazine Art and Market
- 2005 - 2016
- Director of Institutions of CHINART
- 2011 - 2014
- Director of Chengdu MoCA
- 2015 to present
- Artistic Director of Yinchuan MoCA
- 2017 to present
- Founder of L-Art University
- 2017 to present
- Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Theory, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
- 2017 to present
- Professor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Curatorial Projects (selected)
- 1992
- Artistic Director of First Guangzhou Biennale, Guangzhou, China
- 2009
- A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice Biennale, Italy (cooperating with Achille Bonito Oliva)
- 2010
- Reshaping History, Beijing, China
- 2011
- Changing Vistas: Creative Duration - 2011 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
- 2012
- New Art History from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
- 2013
- Passage to History 20 Years, Venice Biennale (cooperating with Achille Bonito Oliva) Pure Views: Transforms of Chinese Contemporary Art, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
- Passage to History 20 Years, Venice Biennale (cooperating with Achille Bonito Oliva) Pure Views: Transforms of Chinese Contemporary Art, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
- 2014
- Our Generation:The Context and Portraits of History, Chengdu MoCA, China
- 2015
- Painting: 20x20, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China
- 2016
- Time.Turning Pages, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
- 2017
- Nanjing International Art Festival, Historicode: Scarcity and Supply, BaiJia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China
- First Anren Biennial, Anren, China
- 2018
- 40 x 40: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Powerlong Musuem, Shanghai, China
- 2021
- Academic Committee Director, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
- 2023
- Academic Committee Director, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
- 2023
- Global Painting——La Nuova pittura in China, Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Publication (selected)
- Modern European Aesthetics of Painting (Lingnan Fine Arts Press, 1989)
- Modern Painting: New Imagery Language (Shandong Literature and Art Press, 1987)
- Art-Revelation of Man (Lingnan Fine Arts Press, 1990)
- Twentieth-Century Art Culture (with Yi Dan ,Hunan Fine Arts Press, 1990)
- Critique of Modern Art and Culture (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1992)
- History of China Modern Art: 1979-1989 (with Yi Dan, Hunan Fine Arts Press, 1992)
- The Operation of Art (Chengdu Publishing House, 1994)
- History of China Modern Art: 1990-1999 (Hunan Fine Arts Press, 2000)
Translated books (selected)
- Herschel B. Chipp, Selected Letters of Paul Cezanne (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1986; 2nd edition: Guangxi
- Normal University Press, 2003; 3rd edition: Chinese People’s University Publishing House, 2004)
- W. Kandinsky, The Spirit in Art, (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1986)
- Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art, (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1988)
- Various critical writings on Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin