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About the Exhibition
New Directions: Li Ming, the third installment of the New Directions series, is accompanied by a monograph supported by Post Wave Publishing Consulting. Barco is the video equipment sponsor; GENELEC is the exclusive sound equipment support. Additional support comes from Antenna Space for the production of MEIWE. New Directions is initiated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari. "New Directions: Li Ming" is curated by Zoe Diao.
About the Artist
Currently based in Hangzhou, Li Ming (b. 1986, Hunan) graduated from the China Academy of Art, New Media Art Department in 2008. A member of the art collective Double Fly Art Center, his works have been shown at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Fremantle Arts Centre, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM), Beijing, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, MOCA Shanghai, and Today Art Museum, Beijing. Li Ming's works are in public collections including Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, and White Rabbit Collection, Sydney.
About New Directions
New Directions is an ongoing series of project-based exhibitions by young artists from Greater China. Planned for an initial run of ten periodic installments, the series offers a platform for artists to realize a first institutional solo exhibition and bilingual monograph. Building on UCCA's longstanding commitment to emerging practices, pioneered by shows including "ON | OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice" (2013), "Breaking Forecast" (2009), and the Curated By… series (2010-2012), New Directions aims both to broaden the institutional exhibition system for new art in China today, and to highlight its richness and complexity for audiences in Beijing and beyond.