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Byard
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2002
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Geneva
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2001
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Singapore
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2000
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Galerie
Leda Fletcher, Geneva
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1999
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Old
Truman Brewery, London
The Redfern Gallery, London
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1997
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Chinese
Contemporary Gallery, London
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1993
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Tricycle
Gallery, London
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1992
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The
Centre Gallery, Covent Garden, London
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1991
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Barclays
Business Centre, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2003
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Redfern
Gallery, London
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2002
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Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford
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2001
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49th
Bienniale Di Venezia
Salon de Mars, Geneva, Switzerland
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2000
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Gernika
Museum, Spain
Tokyo, Japan
Salon de Mars, Geneva, Switzerland
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1999
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Le
Manoir, Geneva, Switzerland
48th Bienniale Di Venezia
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1998
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Redfern
Gallery, London
Montbron, France
Bilbao, Spain
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1997
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Pitshanger
Manor & Gallery, London
Art’97, Islington, London
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1996
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Galleri
Asur, Oslo, Norway
Redfern Gallery, London
Christie’s, Paris
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1995
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Cransford,
Suffolk
The Blue Gallery, London
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1994
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The
Gallery, London
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1989
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Pompidou
Centre, Paris
The Arena Broadgate, London
Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong & Taipei
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Background
- 1951
Born Northern China
- 1958
- 64 Traditional
Painting & Calligraphy from Private Master Tan Wan-Cun,
Beijing, China
- 1977
– 78 Anatomy
study, Beijing Medical University
- 1979
Founder member of Stars (Xing Xing) group, which
organised the first avant-garde exhibition in China, at the
Shufang Studio in Beijing.
- 1986
– 88 Painting
and Drawing, Central School of Art & Design, London
Experience
- 1958
– 64 Art
Director, China Central TV
- 1989
onwards. Freelance artist, London
- 1990
onwards. Chinese Art tutor, Mary Ward Centre, London
- 1992
– 96 Art
Tutor V&A Museum, London
- 1994
onwards. Visiting Tutor, Ruskin School of Art, London
- 1998
onwards. Guest lecturer, SOAS/Christie’s Institute, London
- 2001
onwards. Guest lecturer Sotheby’s Institute
- 2002
onwards. Guest lecturer, The British Museum, London
Awards
- 1979
‘The Art Exhibition’, Shanghai, China, 2nd
Prize
- 1983
‘The Hard Time’, TV film National Award, 1st
Prize
- 1999
onwards Honorary
President, Chinese Brush Painters Society, UK
Publications
- Twentieth
Century Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, The British Museum
1994
- A
Visual Diary by Qu Lei Lei, LL Books 1996
- Here
and Now by Qu Lei Lei, The Loading Bay Gallery, 1999
- Simple
Art of Chinese Calligraphy, by Qu Lei Lei, Watson-Guptill Pubns.
Oct 2002
Collections
- The
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- The
private collection of HRH The Prince of Wales
- Barclays
Bank, London
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Qu
was 15 when the Cultural Revolution started.
As an artist he found it difficult to express the
intense emotions he felt at the terrible events that ensured
the eventual break up of his family.
Increasingly frustrated by the limitations of
traditional Chinese techniques he turned to the more
expressive possibilities of modern Western painting.
Qu has developed the narrative aspect of his art ,
extending an invitation to the viewer to contemplate. |
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