Dapeng Liu (b. 1982, Beijing, China) lives and works in Sydney. Liu’s quest to strike a balance between the depth of human thought and the quality of artistic technique and style is the hallmark of his artistic endeavours. His paintings, often enriched with emotion and storytelling, have a seeming fusion of the East and the West, as well as the old and the new. The intrinsic consciousness reflected in his works blur the boundaries between different time, space and dimension, and delve into the intangible realms.
In 2014, Liu was a finalist of the Archibald Prize. In 2015, he was a finalist of the Sulman Prize for his landscape painting which explored the timelessness of the vast Chinese landscapes as well as the Australian landscape, which has endured from time immemorial.
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| 1982 | Born in Beijing |
| 2005 | Graduated from University of Northumbria at Newcastle in Visual Communication |
| 2011 | Master’s Degree of Arts by Research, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney |
| 2014 | PhD candidature, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney |
| Present | Lives and works in Sydney, Australia |
| 2021 | Archibald Finalist Prize Exhibition, Group show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| Land Water Shapes, Solo show, Art Atrium, Sydney | |
| Sydney Contemporary, Art fair, Carriageworks, Sydney | |
| 2019 | Summer Sojourn, Group Show, Art Atrium, Sydney |
| Vault of Asia, Group Show, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney | |
| Winter Group Show, Group show, Vermilion Art, Sydney | |
| 2018 | Shan Shui Australis, Solo show, Vermilion Art, Sydney |
| 2018 Between Arts, Group show, 541 Art Space, Sydney | |
| 2017 | Mosman Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Group Show, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
| 2015 | Peaks and Valleys, Group show, NockArt Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Summer Sojourn, Group show, Art Atrium, Sydney | |
| A Retrospective of Chinese Archibald Finalists, Group, show, China Cultural Centre, Sydney | |
| Sulman Prize Finalist Exhibition, Group show, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney | |
| Salon des Refuses Archibald Prize Exhibition, Group show, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2014 | Archibald Prize Finalist Exhibition, Group show Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney |
| 2017 | Finalist, Mosman Art Prize |
| 2015 | Finalist, Sulman Prize |
| Salon des Refuses, Archibald Prize | |
| Residency, Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong | |
| 2014 | Finalist, top six, Archibald Prize |
| 2019 | March – Fashion Harper’s Bazaar, China |
| 2018 | December – The Good Good Times, Australia |
| March – Belle, Australia | |
| 2015 | December – Fine Art Connoisseur, USA |
| September – Harper’s Bazaar Art, China | |
| Issue 33 – Artist Profile, Australia | |
| August – Daily Telegraph, Australia |
