• 1942 Born in Lanxi County, Heilongjiang Province, China
• 1963 Studies at the University of Heilongjiang, China
• 1964-68 Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Drama, Arts Department (oil painting), Shanghai, China
• 1969 Works in a military farm in Zhejiang Province, China
• 1985-94 Lecturer at the Art Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Drama, Shanghai, China

Exhibitions

• 1982 Painting the Chinese Dream: Chinese Art 30 years after the Revolution, Smith College, Northampton Ma.; City Hall, Boston, Ma.; Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.
• 1983 Stage '83: Painting Experiments, Futan University, Shanghai, China
• 1986 Grand Opening Exhibition at Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China
• 1986 1st Concave/Convex Installation Exhibition, organised with sculptor Yu Shen, Shanghai, China
• 1986 9th Exhibition of the Japanese Artists Group, Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
• 1987 A State of Transition: Contemporary Painting From Shanghai, organised by Alisan Fine Arts at The Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
• 1988 2nd Concave/Convex Installation Exhibition, organised with sculptor Yu Shen, Shanghai, China
• 1989 Contemporary Chinese Art, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 1989 7 Modern Painters from the People's Republic of China, Galerie Werner Melletin, Cologne, Germany
• 1990 Solo exhibition at the Shanghai Academy of Drama, Shanghai, China
• 1992 Begegnung mit den Anderen, Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Dokumenta Kassel und Hamm; Munich; Germany
• 1993 Chinese Art: Post 1989, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; Sydney, Australia; New York, U.S.A.
• 1993 The 45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
• 1993 Chinese Art: Post-1989, Marlborough Gallery, London, Great Britain
• 1994 Building the Rouge Empire: Paintings from 1976-1992, Alisan Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
• 1998-00 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, NY, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA, USA; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• 2000 Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong; ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China; Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
• 2003 Dajia-Studies on Design from Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fudan University, Shanghai Open Sky, Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
• 2005 Li Shan: Small new works, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai

Bibliography

• Shui Fen Hua (Watercolour Painting), 2/1979, Shanghai
• Shanghai Hua Bao, 3/1983, Shanghai
• Jiao Liu (Communication), 3/1983, U.S.A.
• Jiangsu Pictorial Art Monthly, 7/1985, Jiangsu
• Painter, 3/1985, Hunan
• Mei Shu (Art), 7/1986, Beijing
• Zhong Guo Zhong Qing Nian Hua Jia Zi Xuan Ji (Self selected young and middle aged Chinese painters), Guilin, 1987
• Jiangsu Pictorial Art Monthly, 2/1987, Jiangsu
• A State of Transition. Contemporary Painting from Shanghai, Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, 1987
• J. Lebold-Cohen, The New Chinese Painting 1949-86, New York, Abrams, 1987
• Mei Shu Si Chao (Art Trend), 5/1987, Hubei
• Hua Bao 427, 1987?, Zhejiang
• Jiangsu Pictorial Art Monthly, 10/1988, Jiangsu
• Contemporary Nude Art, Lijiang, Yunnan, 1988
• Shanghai Artists, 5.6/1988, Shanghai
• Artist 174, 11/1989, Taiwan
• Shanghai Artists, 2/1989, Shanghai
• Shanghai Artists, 5/1989, Shanghai
• Hsiung Shih Art Monthly 56, 11/1989, Taiwan
• Jiangsu Pictorial Art Monthly, 6/1990, Jiangsu
• Zhong Guo Nan Ren (The Chinese Male), 1990, Taiwan
• Scarlet Cheng, "Pop Goes Political," Asian Art News, 3/1, 1993, Hong Kong
• South China Morning Post, June 9, 1993, Hong Kong
• Div. Authors, China's New Art, Post 1989. With a retrospective from 1979-1989, Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, 1993
• Paroles, March 1993, Hong Kong
• Guo Minglu, Zhong Guo Mei Shu Shi 1985-1986 (Contemporary Chinese Art History 1985-1986), Shanghai, 1991
• Chong-Pin Lin, "On the March," in Amcham, March 1994, Hong Kong

Collections

• Shenzhen Art Museum, China
• Heilongjiang Art Gallery, China
• Private collections in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Great Britain, USA