Contemporary Artist · Oil Painting

Enlightenment Blue No. 72
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 120 × 120 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 73
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 140 × 100 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 74
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 140 × 100 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 75
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 130 × 160 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 76
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 130 × 160 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 78
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 160 × 160 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 84
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 200 × 160 cm

Enlightenment Blue No. 87
Oil on Canvas · 2024 · 200 × 160 cm

About the Artist

Liu Jinghong, born in Heilongjiang in 1985, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2008.

He currently lives and works in Dali, Shanghai and Beijing.

His artistic practice focuses on oil painting and explores perception, inner experience and the relationship between colour, space and form.

Artist Statement

For Liu Jinghong, painting is a way of exploring truth and personal perception. His artistic practice grows from observation, experience and an ongoing search for an inner state that cannot always be expressed through words.

Through oil painting, he works with colour, form, light and space to create an atmosphere in which viewers can experience the work in their own way.

Rather than describing a specific scene, his paintings invite the viewer to enter a visual and emotional space.

The “Enlightenment Blue” Series

The “Enlightenment Blue” series is a central body of Liu Jinghong’s artistic practice.

Blue is not simply a colour in these paintings. It becomes a visual space through which the artist explores perception, stillness and inner experience.

Across the series, flowing forms, layered surfaces and subtle changes of blue create an open and contemplative space. Each painting offers a different visual experience while remaining connected to the artist’s continuing exploration of “Enlightenment Blue”.

Vita & Exhibitions

Liu Jinghong was born in Heilongjiang, China, in 1985. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2008.

He currently lives and works between Dali, Shanghai and Beijing.

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Mingtai Emerging Artists Solo Exhibition Promotion Program, No. 10
Mingtai Space, Beijing, China

2013
“Enlightenment” — Liu Jinghong Solo Exhibition
Jue De Art Museum, Beijing, China

2013
Young Artists Solo Exhibition Show, 3rd Edition — Liu Jinghong & Fan Xuqi
Shengzhi Space, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015
Art Beijing, National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

2014
“Shijie (释) Jie” Contemporary Buddhist Art Invitational Exhibition, Famen Temple, Xi’an, China

2014
China-France 50th Anniversary — Carrousel du Louvre Art Exhibition, Paris, France

2013
“Young Artists 100”, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau, China

2012
“Juhui” China · Famen Temple Contemporary Buddhist Art Exhibition, Xi’an, China

2012
“Qiwulun” — Recommended Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Young Artists, National Convention Center, Beijing, China

2011
“70s & 80s Contemporary Art Exhibition”, White Space, Beijing, China

2010
Hongchang — Emerging Artists Invitational Exhibition, Hongchang Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

Awards & Publications

2014

Gold Award, Oil Painting Category, Carrousel du Louvre Art Exhibition, Paris, France

Awarded for Enlightenment No. 43 as part of the China-France 50th Anniversary cultural program.

Selected Publications

Liu Jinghong — Young Artists Series

Enlightenment — Jue De Art Museum, Solo Exhibition Catalogue, 2013

SNBA 2014 — Carrousel du Louvre, Enlightenment No. 43

Young Artists 100, 2011–2013

Art & Wealth

Bazaar Art, September 2013