Personal record:
Professor Liu Kemin (Shanghai, China)

Wall carpet "Nightboat" in a hotel lobby
Mural relief at German Centre

Pictures with works of Professor Liu you can also watch in Gallery D

Contact:
Professor Liu Kemin at College of Architecture and Urban Planning Tongji-university, Shanghai
E-mail: yinjiazz@sohu.com


VITA

Mr. Liu Kemin - the professor and master tutor of architecture and city program college of Tongji University. He, born in 1938, used to be a student of the oil painting department of the Central Art College of China. He was the director of Tongji art teaching and research section of the architecture department, the director of the environment art research center, the executive manager and deputy secretary-general of Shanghai Colleges and Universities Art Education and Research Association, the member of China Artist Association. He began to manage "Liu Kemin environment art working room" in 1996, which belongs to the architecture and city program college.

He has created the shelf painting for a long period, whose works, more than one hundred, were published and were chosen to the whole country art exhibition and Shanghai art exhibition. And some of his oil painting works were collected by personally of several foreign countries such as Australia, England, Japan etc. He started researching the environment art at the beginning of 1980s, which included mural, relief sculpture, sculpture and environment art design. And now he has created more than 100 productions in these fields. Also, he has published 5 pieces of thesis, a monograph and articles about art technique and method with dozens of thousand words.

In 1995, Liu kemin´s and his master student´s Yin jia environment art productions exhibition was separately held in Tongji University, Shanghai East China Architecture Design Research Institute, Shanghai Civil Architecture Design Research Association.

In 1999, "chunhua & qiushi" (the magnificent of spring and the rich of autumn) and other three productions were selected to the 9th whole country art exhibition, in which "chunhua & qiushi" won the copper prize.

In 2000, six productions including "Green Homeland" were chosen to shanghai "Run to 21 century Art Design Exhibition", in which the work, "Zhihuang Monument" gained the third price.

In 2004, "Green Homeland", "chunhua & qiushi", “the Melody of the Neon Lights” and ”Night-Boat” were chosen for the “First Chinese Mural Exhibition” and the book “One Hundred Year of Chinese Mural”.

 

Artwork in public space of Professor Liu Kemin

1 Bright, Peace and Happiness
the mosaic mural 1985
Quyang new residential quarter, Shanghai

2 the Monument of Shanghai People´s Hero
the scheme won bid 1988
the Bound of Shanghai

3 berth in the night
soft sculpture (six pieces) 1989
Shanghai new Jinjiang Hotel

4 friendship and inspect
monument relief sculpture (twelve pieces) 1984
Xishuangbanna Jinghong of Yunan Province

5 the Magnificent of Spring and the Rich of Autumn
wooden mural
Shanghai Science Hall
To be chosen to the 9th whole country art exhibition, the copper price

6 hunt, ferment, pick
(ten pieces) relief sculpture 1993
Qufu Shandong Province

7 the song of electric to the space
mural 1992
Shanghai No.1 underground railway the caobao road-station

8 the melody of the life
relief sculpture 1992
Shanghai No.1 underground railway, the stadium station

9 the Charm of Shanghai Construction
relief sculpture 1994
Shanghai No.1 underground railway, the people´s square-station
To be chosen to the ninth whole country art exhibition

10 Speed
relief sculpture 1994
Shanghai No.1 underground railway, the Henshan road-station

11 the Rolling of the Wheels
relief sculpture 1994
Shanghai No.1 underground railway, the central-station

12 Great Achievement
relief sculpture 1994
the German Center of Tingji University

13 The Full of Auspicious
sculpture 1996
Shanghai pudong sanlinyuan residential quarter
To be chosen to the ninth whole country art exhibition

14 None
mural 1995
America Research Center of Fudan University

15 Rise Rapidly
sculpture 1997
Yangquan, Shanxi Province

16 the indoor sculpture design for Zhejiang hemudu museums second project (44products), environment sculpture design (4 products), monument design (2 products) 1997-1999
Yuyiao Hemudu Museum of Zhejiang Province

17 Zhongshan Warship Monument
the scheme won bid 1997
Wuhan, Hubei Province

18 the Circle of Wisdom and the Square of Behave
sculpture 1999
Tongji University

19 the Song for the Teachers
mural (two) 2000
the graduate college building of Tongji University

20 Green Homeland
mural 1999-2000
shanghai No.2 underground railway, the century park-station
To be chosen to 2001, Shanghai art design exhibition

21 the Melody of the Neon Lights
mural 1999-2000
shanghai No.2 underground railway, the shimen road-station
To be chosen to 2001, Shanghai art design exhibition

22 the indoor environment design of the state banquet hall of Beijing 2001
Beijing people civic auditorium

23 the environment design of shanghai people representative
conference center 2002
Shanghai people representative conference center

24 the Wheel
mural 2003
highway control center of North-China