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Haixia
Liu
Haixia
Liu was born to a family of artists in 1962 in Hubei
Province, China. Encouraged and instructed by
his father and grandfather, he began to draw at very
early age. He did decorative painting for
local businesses at age 12. Between 1981 and
1983 Liu chose to learn graphic design at the Hubei
Industry Institute. From 1983 to 1987, by
dreaming to be an artist, he continued to seek his
BFA at the Hubei Fine Art Academy, one of the
best fine art schools in China.
From
1987 to 1999, after obtaining his BFA, he
worked as a graphic designer at the China
Packaging Import & Export Corporation.
At the same time he had been doing his relaistic
oil paintings. His art directly reflected
the passion of natural beauty. Liu attended
many group and solo shows, and sold his paintings
from province-wide to nationwide. In the
last five years while he was in China, he started
experimenting with abstract art on large canvases.
Liu moved to United States in 1999, where he
concentrated on painting as an independent
artist. He gradually developed his art style
into contemporary impressionistic realism by using
the palette knife on canvas while the theme was
focused on landscape. The emotional impact
of his canvases comes from his desire to share the
joint beauty of nature and art, and from the
magical use of texture, color and light, which
leads viewers into an intimate but
mysteriously-built surroundings that might only be
seen in their dreams. His artwork was
represented and sold through galleries and
exhibitions and deatured in magazines in New York.
He
moved to reside in Vancouver, Canada in March,
2003 and continued to paint there. By being
a member of the Federation of Canadian Artist and
in winning of Excellence Award from FCA's juried
show as his first presence, he began to introduce
his art in Canada while more and more of his
artworks are shown in USA.
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Exhibitions
June,
2001
Art Forum Gallery group show, New York, USA
February, 2002 West House Gallery
solo show, New York, USA
January, 2004 Gallery of
Federation of Canadian Artist,
Juried
show, Vancouver, Canada. Award of excellence
Membership
2001-2003
National
Association of Independent Artists, USA
2003-2004 Federation of Canadian Artist, Canada
Biography
1962
Born in
Hubei, China
1983-1987 Hubei Fine Art
Academy
1987-1999 Graphice Designer and
artist in China
1999-2003 Independent artist in
USA
2003-Present Independent artist in Canada
Publications
1.
ArtCrowd
Magazine, Volume.3 No.1, 2002 New York USA
2. ArtisSpectrum Magazine, Volume 10,
2001 New York US
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