Luo Xu

1956 Born to a small merchant family in Mile, Yunnan

1972 Was "provided for" by being sent to work at a procelain factory, Mile, Yunnan

1977 Assigned to work on a construction team and had dreams of becoming an architect, but gave them up after discovering mathematical skills were needed, Mile, Yunnan

1979 Decided to be an artist, and started studying the “counter-revolutionary, wrong and rightist” way of painting

1985 Worked in the county culture house as an art designer, Mile, Yunnan

1988 Studied body and form in the sculpture department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

1992 Got tired of starvation, quit job at the county culture house, and moved to Kunming with lofty aspirations

1994 Founded an art institution, Yunnan

1996 Started to build earth nests, Yunnan

2000 Has been gardening, lounging on the porch, raising chickens and ducks, and playing with clay, while having solo and group exhibitions here and there

Exhibitions

2006 “Part II: The Soliloquy of Life”, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China

2005 “Awakening: La France Mandarine--The French Influence on Chinese Art”, Beijing at the National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China

2005 “Contrasts and Contradictions”, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China

2004 Awakening: La France Mandarine--The French Influence on Chinese Art”, Shanghai at Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China

2004 “Luo Xu's solo exhibition”, Galerie Anne de Villlepoix, Paris, France

2004 “Liu Shui Zhang--Luo Xu's unique thoughts and actions”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2003 “Luo Xu's solo exhibition”, Galerie Anne de Villlepoix, Paris, France

2001 “Luo Xu's solo exhibition”, Cheng Xindong International Art Center, Beijing, China

2000 “Luo Xu's solo exhibition”, Upriver Art Museum, Kunming, China

1999 “Luo Xu's solo exhibition”, Yunnan Art Museum, China