劉國夫

Liu Guofu was born in 1964 in Nanjing, China, and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Nanjing Institute of Arts in 1985. With a unique artistic language that is at once sensual and spiritual, Liu Guofu is one-of-a-kind in the Chinese contemporary art world. His oil paintings have been exhibited in many major cities. Highlights include a group exhibition in Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany in 2014, a solo show in 2011 that toured the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, Today Art Museum, Beijing, and the Shanghai Art Museum; In the same year, he also participated in the Parallel Exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale.

He was commissioned by MGM Cotai to create a large-formatted painting for the MGM Cotai Chairman’s Collection which is permanently displayed in Macau. His paintings are in the permanent collections of Shanghai Art Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing and Zhuzhong Museum of Art, Beijing.