Ma Liang, pseudonym Maleonn, was born in 1972 in Shanghai (China), where he still lives and works. From 1984 to 1995 he attended the Art School Shanghai Huashan, and in 2003 he graduated in Graphic Design at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University. After working as an art director for many films, in 2004 he decided to devote himself entirely to the creation of artistic productions, specifically to photography.
With an original visual language that betrays his great passion for theater and set design, Ma Liang choses subjects and locations that seem to take a life of their own. The true protagonists of this intensely creative performance are fantasy, imagination, and expressive joy. Ma Liang is the spokesman of such forgotten lightness, and he evokes the continual need for dreams, for escape from the world in which we live, by catapulting the observer into a reality of intense colors, fabled castles and peculiar characters who return our gaze expectantly. Liano was accepted immediately with great interest from the contemporary art scene. He not only boasts large exhibitions in China, as in the Aura Gallery and Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, but also participation in solo and collective international shows. Equally notable is his participation in the V&A Museum in London and Museum of Chinese Art in New York.
Solo shows
2009
White on white – 18 gallery/Magda Danizs, Shanghai, China
The kingdom of illusions - Galerie ParisBeijing, Paris, France
What love is – Ofoto Gallery, Shanghai, China
Shanghai legendary – artnextgallery, New York, USA
2008
Endless Dreamers, CO2 Contemporary Art, Roma, Italy
Days on the Cotton Candy, Kasia Art Project Gallery, Chicago, USA
Marbles, Gossip Gallery. Bangkok, Thailand
2007
Nostalgia, Around Space, Shanghai, China
Labyrinth, Craig Scott Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Cicada, Zendai Moma, Shanghai, China
2006
Sweets and Sours, Art Sea Gallery, M50, Shanghai, China
Transfigurations, Craig Scott Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Wonderland, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005
Face to mask, Advance Gallery, Shanghai, China
CO2 contemporary art . Via Piave 66 . 00187 Roma . Italy . t.+39.06.45471209 . www.co2gallery.com . info@co2gallery.com
Group Shows (selection)
2011
“Growing pains of a Lotus” ART LEXING, Miami USA
2010
ART ASIA 2010, ART LEXING, Miami USA
Stand CO2 ROMA. The Road to Contemporary Art, Roma, Italy
2008
House arrest, Gallery Mai36, Zurich, Switzerland
China Design Now, V&A Museum, London, Great Britain
Out of Spotlight, Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art, New York, USA
2007
Chinese Walls, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, Nederlands
Post-Vanguard, Chinese contemporary Art’, Hong Kong
What makes Shanghai Addictive?, Oranienburgerstrasse Kuppelhalle(Dome) of the
‘Rodeo-Club’, Berlin, Germany
Asiana – A Survey of Contemporary Asian Art, Toronto, Canada
Whispering Wind: recent Chinese Photography, Nashville, USA
Dragon’s Evolution, China-Square Art Center, New York, USA
Shanghai New Art, Washington Art Fair, DC, USA
2006
Happily Ever After, Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Miami, USA
Diaporama Festival, Nantes, France
IDAA (International Digital Art Awards), Queensland, Australia
The Virtual Salon, MOCA, New York, USA
2005
Creation, Olive Hyde Gallery, San Francisco, USA
