LIU SHUAI

Liu Shuai is an artist and entomology researcher whose work often adopts the perspective of tiny organisms displaced by human activity, narrating the micro-epics unfolding between land, weather, humans, and non-human life. His long-term practice focuses on issues such as invasive species and the animal trade. In recent years, his work has extended to war-affected regions of the Middle East, where he observes local ecologies and living beings to trace the lingering impacts of warfare and military pollution, aiming to reveal the often-overlooked, layered, and ongoing traumas caused by war.

Liu Shuai’s practice has been recognized with important awards such as the UCCA & XINTIANDI RANRAN-Exploration Award, the Bio Art & Design Award, and the Prince Claus Seed Award, It has also received support through the Sailor Program Grant (One Way Street Foundation & Georg Jensen) and the Goethe-Institut.

Member of the Entomological Society of China

Education

China academy of art, China, 2019(MA)

Awards/Grants

2024 UCCA&XINTIANDI RANRAN - The Exploration Award

2024 Sailor Program · Art, One way street foundation&Georg Jensen

2024 Bio Art & Design Award

2023 Prince Claus Seed Award
2022 Goethe-Institut's project: Local Knowledge and Diversified Ecological Perception

Solo exhibitions / project

2022 Insect Footprints, Human Traces, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing,China

2022 Nomadism and Imagination·7th art book in China:When animals pass through the homeland of human, Tianmuli, Hangzhou, China

2020 Tunnel: Clockwise sound of water, Random Play, Hangzhou,China

Main group exhibitions

2025 Dive into the field, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai

2025 Plasmo desmata, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
2024 Sparking Into Sparking, XINTIANDI, Shanghai, China

2024 Seeing Birds, Hushiguang, Longyou, China

2023 Home Away from Home, Larnaca, Cyprus

2023 See Animal See Me, Pidan gallery, Shanghai, China

2022 The 9th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China

2021 Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse-online residency show, PSA, Shanghai, China

2020 Clustering And Resonance,Art Museum Of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

2020 Leming Expo - An annual exchange of agriculture and art ,Yuan Museum, Guangzhou, China

2019 New Species-Heredity&Variation ,Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, China

Speech/workshop

2025 Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution,But In This One, Parallel Programs:UCCA x Berggruen Research Center Conversation Series: Zhang Guojie x Liu Shuai"With Ants as a Prelude", UCCA, Beijing, China

2024 Leave the Zoo, Return to the Zoo, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China

2022-2024 Invasion of Alien Species - Nature Around Us, Huitong school, Shenzhen,China

2023 Fish bone and flamingo, Aral Sea Camp, Nukus, Uzbekistan

2022 Birds, insects, dialects, Tianmuli,Hangzhou, China

2022 Insects, starry sky and road, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China

2021 Can I come to your house to look for insects? Lianshi Town, Huzhou, China

Interview

2023 Egrets, snails, red fire ants... Do animals experience homesickness, CITY+ Sanlian Lifeweek

2022 Conceiving homesickness stories for some "villain creatures", art book in China

Publications

2025 A Visit to Damascus Zoo, Stasis space

2024 At both ends of the Earth are ant nests, Unofficial Pan-American Conference

2022 I was observing bees in a mountain village in Guangdong, Mapping workshop

2022 Liu Shuai: Spider Web and Tadpole, Taoxichuan

2021 The Snake's Moonlit Escape into the Reeds

2020 Tunnel | October: Clockwise sound of water, RANDOM PLAY

2019 The lacquer garden I heard, Homeland 2019

刘 帅

艺术家、昆虫研究者。他常以迁徙中的生物视角，捕捉土地、气象、人类与非人生命之间易被忽略的微光与刺痛，将其编织为自然与人世交汇处的微观史诗。他长期关注外来物种入侵与动物贸易问题，近年来研究拓展至中东与中亚，通过田野实践深入探讨军事污染等战争次生灾害对生态系统造成的持续性创伤。刘帅曾获UCCA&新天地燃冉青年艺术家扶持计划锐意探索奖、荷兰生物艺术设计奖（Bio Art & Design Award）、克劳斯亲王种子奖（Prince Claus Seed Award），并获单向街基金会·水手计划及歌德学院"地方知识与多元化生态感知"项目支持。

硕士毕业于中国美术学院 中国昆虫学会会员

奖项/资助

2024 新天地&UCCA 燃冉青年艺术家扶持计划 锐意探索奖

2024 荷兰生物艺术 & 设计奖

2024 单向街基金会·水手计划

2023 克劳斯亲王种子奖

2022 歌德学院“地方知识与多元化生态感知”

个人展览/项目

2022 “昆虫·家”，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京

2022 “游牧与想象”-“动物乡愁”，天目里，杭州

2021 “顺时针的水声”，Random Play，杭州

部分群展

2025 “水手计划，走向现场”，油罐艺术中心，上海

2025 “胞间连丝”，香格纳画廊，上海

2024 "响亮的吻"-燃冉艺术季，新天地壹号，上海

2024 "瀫石光-看见鸟"，龙游

2023 “Home Away from Home”，拉纳卡，塞浦路斯

2023 “动物看见了吗”，Pidan gallery，上海

2022 第九届深港城市建筑双年展-“看见最初500米”，深圳

演讲/工作坊

2025 水手计划·走向现场，重返现场的多维意义与当代实践，油罐艺术中心，上海

2025 张国捷 x 刘帅：以蚁为序的生命网络，UCCA当代艺术中心&北京大学博古瑞中心，北京

2024 Leave the Zoo, Return to the Zoo，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京

2022-2024 身边的自然 - 外来物种入侵，荟同学校, 深圳

2023 鱼骨与火烈鸟，咸海湖畔，努库斯，乌兹别克斯坦

2022 鸟虫方言，天目里，杭州

2022 昆虫、星空、乡路，德国文化中心·歌德学院，北京

2021 我可以去你家捉虫吗？练市镇，湖州

采访

2023 白鹭、蜗牛、红火蚁……动物也有乡愁？，三联人文城市，

2022 刘帅：为一些“反派生物”构想它们的思乡记 ，abC

写作

2025 大马士革动物园手记，龟力空间

2024 地球的两端是蚁穴，非官方泛美大会

2022 我在广东一个山村观察蜜蜂的附近，Mapping workshop

2022 刘帅：蛛网与蝌蚪二三事，陶溪川

2021 “看着一条水蛇破开河面的月光滑进芦苇丛”，去野艺术公益基金

2020 Tunnel：顺时针的水声，RANDOM PLAY

2019 我听到的漆园，Homeland