| Zhenchen LIU | |
| Born 1976 in Shanghai lives and works in Paris |
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| 2008-2009 | Residence at Cité International des Arts, Paris |
| 2005-2007 | Residence at Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts (MA) |
| 2002-2005 | VILLA ARSON, National Art School of Nice, DNAP & DNSEP (BA & MA of Art) |
| China Academy of Art, Hang Zhou | |
| Chelsea College of Art and Design, London | |
| 1996-2000 | Fine Art College of Shanghai University (BA of painting) |
| Awards (selection) | |
| 2009 | Excellence Award / Tokyo Video Festival, Japan Special Mention / MiradasDoc, Spain Special Mention / 3rd Barcelona Film Essay Award UAB, Spain |
| 2008 | Prix Jeune Cr¨Śation 2008, Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris Best Film / 8th International Bunker Film Festival, Italy Best Film / 6th Salento Finibus Terrae International Short Film Festival, Italy Best Film on Architecture and Design" & Best Competing Film / 27th AsoloArtFilmFestival, Italy Best Experimental / 9th Aubagne International Film Festival, France Best Experimental / 5th Naoussa international film festival, Greece Best Experimental / 3rd Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japon Best Digital Film / 24th Lille European Film Festival, France Best Documentary / 12th International Student Film Festival, Tel-Aviv, Isreal Best Short Film / Bolzano International Film Festival, Italy Grand Prix / 25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia Grand Prix / Cine'Eco - 14th International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Seia, Portugal Grand Prix of Youth / Cine'Eco - 14th International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Seia, Portugal Honorable Mention / Cine'Eco - 14th International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Seia, Portugal Prix de lĄŻinnovation / Festival de lĄŻAcharni¨¨re, Lille, France Special Mention / 13th Ourense International Film Festival, Spain Special Mention / 6th International Non-Budget Film Festival, Cuba Special Mention / 7th Orleans Video Festival, France Special Mention / Les Ecrans Documentaires, Arcueil, France |
| 2007 | 1st Prix Studio Collector awarded by Isabelle & Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, France Best Short Film / 31st Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brasil Best Short Film / 13th Lyon Asian Film Festival, France Best Video / TRUNK - The Nordic Art Video Festival, Sweden Best International Documentary / 15th Santiago International Short Film Festival, Chile Best Picture Award / 9th International Student Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia Special Mention / 20th Exground Filmfest, Germany Special Mention / AURORA Festival, UK Special Mention / LĄŻAlternativa - 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain Special Mention of the Artistic Direction / 11th Unimovie, Italy The City of Neubrandenburg Award / 16th dokumentART, Germany Camp Interaction Award / 9th International Student Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia International Praiseworthy Performance Award / 9th Backup_Festival, Germany |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2010 | "Kaleidoscope" - Galerie Briobox, Paris |
| 2009 | "Photographies from a native district" - Sundsvalls Museum, Sweden "Re-evolution" - Laboratoire dĄŻart, Toronto, Canada |
| 2008 | "Zhenchen Liu" - Studio44, in partnership with twochange, Stockholm, Sweden "Shanghai Shanghai" - City Hall Art Gallery, in partnership with Saw Video, Ottawa, Canada "Under construction" - Gallery Allegra Ravizza Art Project, Milan, Italy |
| Group Exhibitions & Festivals (selection) | |
| 2010 | "Cue: ArtistsĄŻs Videos" -Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada "Imaginez Maintenant" - Cite de lĄŻarchitecture & du patrimoine, Paris "Paradise is somewhere else" - Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt "Animated Images" - Goethe-Institut, Taipei Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam VideoĄŻVal - Festival dĄŻart Video, Creteil, France "Renovation" - Incheon Art Platform, Korea "A Monumental Tour" - Seoul Museum of Art, Korea |
| 2009 | "Videonale" - Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany "Spectrum Eyes" - Daejeon Art Center, Korea "DocPoint" - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland "Espaclos Urbanos" - Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires "OVNI" - CCCB, Barcelona "Biennial of Video and New Media" - Santiago de Chile "Detruire, dissent-ils" - Galeries du Cloitre, Rennes, France Festival Cote Court, Pantin, France "Arte Video Night" - Arte television, France & Germany Video_Dumbo Festival, New York |
| 2008 | "Dans la nuit, des images" - Grand Palais, Paris "Down Town Production" - Chinese Urban Art, The Red Mansion Foundation, London Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria "Single channel" - Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin "Worlds on Video" - international video art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Internationell Konstfilm Utstallning, Jonkoping, Sweden "Loop Festival" - Galerie Anita Beckers, Barcelona "Tea time - Living with Art" - Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, France Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid International Non-Budget Film Festival, Cuba Dislocate 08, Tokyo Trunk - Fargfabriken, Stockholm "Cin¨Śma du r¨Śel" - Centre Pompidou, Paris "Studio - invitation ¨¤ Madeleine Van Doren pour le Fresnoy" - Galerie des Filles du Calvaire, Paris "Transmediale 08" - CONSPIRE, Berlin Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia BanjaLuka Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina Festival Courtisane, Gent, Belgium Festival Premiers Plans dĄŻAngers, France |
| 2007 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid "Territoires de lĄŻimage" - 10 ans du Fresnoy, France "Who do you think you are?" BaseB, Milan DE07, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, UK Festival Temps dĄŻimages, Ferme du Buisson, France IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam International Leipzig Festival, Germany Exis - Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul, Corea Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, German PANORAMA 8, Le Fresnoy, France Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 2006 | "Nuit Blanche", Paris Manifestation internationale video et art electronique, Montreal Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil 35th Festival du Nouveau Cin¨Śma, Montr¨Śal PANORAMA 7, Le Fresnoy, France |
| 2005 | Biennale International dĄŻArt Contemporain Chinois, Montpellier, France Biennale de IĄŻimage en mouvement, Geneva, Switzerland |