2018
Passed away in Chengdu, Sichuan, China
1987
Visiting artist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (invited by the university's Center for Chinese Studies)
Visited Harvard University, the University of Washington, and Yale University
1986
Accepted into Sichuan Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting Academy
1985
Became member of Sichuan Painting Academy
Moved to Chengdu
1980
Became member of the Sichuan Provincial Artists Association
1979
Visited Beijing for the first time, stayed for almost 3 months
1965-1985
Art worker, Chongqing bureau of the China Changjiang National Shipping Corporation
1963
Enrolled in Yangzi River Shipping School
1944
Born in Yibin, Sichuan, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Li Huasheng, Wuhouci Art Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2016
Li Huasheng: The Meditation Room, Major Gallery, London, U.K.
Li Huasheng, Basel Hongkong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
2014
Li Huasheng: Process, Mind, and Landscape, INKstudio, Beijing, China
2010
Show for 10 Art Cases, Shanghai 800 Art Zone, Shanghai, China
2006
Li Huasheng: New Literati Paintings, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
2005
Li Huasheng, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
1998
Li Huasheng: An Individualistic Artist, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, U.S.A.; Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
1992
Solo exhibition, organized by HanartTZ Gallery at the National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
1991
Solo exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Solo exhibition, organized by Hanart2 Gallery, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
1987
Solo exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; and Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan, U.S.A.
1984
Solo exhibition, Du Fu Thatched Hut, Chengdu, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum, Singapore
2023
Gaze of Time - OCAT 18th Anniversary Collections Exhibition in Guangming, Art Museum of Guangming Culture and Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Chengdu, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Getting Righteousness and Formlessness - Abstract Narratives of Instantaneous Perception, Mingyuan Museum, Shanghai, China
Mastering Ink, ART ASSETS x ESG, Art Taipei 2023, Taiwan
Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Global INK: INKstudio's Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, INKstudio, Beijing, China
Symphony of All the Changes - The 7th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China
2022
Walking the Crack, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2021
Sounds as Silence: The Academic Value of Life, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Painting the Heart-Mind: The Art of Inoue Yūichi and Li Huasheng, INKstudio, Beijing, China
2020
White into Blank, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing, China
2019
Awareness & Transfinite: Awareness Art -Speech on Existence and Time, Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2018
Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscape, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Tradition and Change: Dialogue in the Process of Ink Painting, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2017
The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
Luminous Shadows, INKstudio, Beijing, China
Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China.
2016
0669 exhibited in Chinese art galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
INK/ASIA, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Ink and the Mind, INKstudio, Beijing, China
Scenes from the Village, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
2015
Jing Shen: The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2014
Immaculate, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan, China
2013
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
Collection from OCAT Shenzhen, He Xiangning Art Museum - OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
RE-INK: 2013 Chengdu Invitation Exhibition, K. Gallery, Chengdu, China
Washing Painting New Dimension - 2013 Critics Nomination Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2012
Original Forms of Chinese Water Ink Painting, Nanjing Sanchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Chinese Contemporary Abstract, 1980s Until Present: MINDMAP, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
2011
2011 Chengdu Biennale, East Chengdu Music Park, Chengdu, China
Expressions of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010
The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in the 21st Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Temperament and Civilization - Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Centre, Beijing, China
Back to the Essence: From Ink Painting to Ink, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
Unending Distance - The 3rd Exhibition of Abstract Art, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China
The Pleasure of Transforming: Contemporary Ink Painting Topical Exhibition, K. Gallery, Chengdu, China
2009
Contemporary Ink Painting: 2009 Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Water and Color Contemporary Ink Art Show, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Points & Crosses: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China, Shanghai 2010 Art Center, Shanghai, China
The First Linzhou Ink Painting Biennial, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Shang Elements Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China; Linzhou International Beilin Museum of Fine Arts, Linzhou, China; Linzhou Ink Painting Museum, Linzhou, China
Back to Basics: Traditional Ink Wash as a Contemporary Vision, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Traditional Ink Painting and Personal Feeling, Beijing East Region Art Center, Beijing, China
Yi Pai - Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
Ink Is Not Equivocal to Ink Painting: Li Huasheng, Zhang Yu, Liang Quan Art Exhibition, He Jing Yuan Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Second Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm: New Aspects of Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Ink-Not-Ink: China Contemporary Ink Painting Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Bossone Research Center, Paul Peck Alumni Center, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China; CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Art Is Not Anything - 45 Surveys of China Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2007
A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection 1950-2000, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, U.S.A.
Everloving Shuimo; The Second Invitational Exhibition of the Shuimo Union of Songzhuang China, Beijing East Region Art Center, Beijing, China
Post Avant-Garde Chinese Contemporary Art: Four Directions of the New Era, 633 Kings Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
The Third Chengdu Biennale: Reboot, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Ink Narrative, ZAIMU Museum, Yokohama, Japan
Esthetics and Abstract, Deshan Art Space, Beijing, China
Contemporary Cultural Venation - China Version, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Qi Yun: The International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, He Xiangning Art Museum - OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China; Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China; Artist Commune, Hong Kong S.A.R., China; ChinaSquare, New York, U.S.A.
Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2006
DU: Expressions of Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting, Art Museum of Tianjin Art College, Tianjin, China
Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai; Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2005
Metaphysics 2005 - Black and White, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Korean-Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Ink and Paper - Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China; Kunsthalle, Weimar, Germany
Retrospection of Experimental Ink & Wash 1985-2000, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
2004
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2003
Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
Chinese Maximalism, China Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, China; UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.; Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A.
An Opening Era: Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Founding of China National Museum of Fine Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2002
The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2001
1st Space for Contemporary Ink Work - China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment 1980-2001, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2000
Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1995
Twentieth Century Chinese Painting: -Tradition and Innovation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; British Museum, London, UK; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Köln, Germany
1992
Ancient Lands Through Modern Eyes: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
1983-1985
Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Asia Society, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University), Ithaca; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; University Art Museum (University of Minnesota), Minneapolis, U.S.A.
1981
Rivers And Mountains Resemble Paintings: Exhibition of Paintings by Ten People, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Exhibition of Famous Traditional Painters, Guangdong Provincial Fine Arts Gallery, Guangzhou, China
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
British Museum, London, U.K.
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Jiangsu Provincial Museum, Nanjing, China
He Xiangning Art Museum - OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, U.S.A.
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, U.S.A.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
M+ Museum, Hong Kong S.A.R.