刘小东：
1963年生于辽宁
1988年获中央美术学院油画系学士学位
1998－1999年在西班牙马德里康普鲁登塞大学美术学院研读
1994年至今在中央美术学院任教
2009年被聘为中国当代艺术院特聘艺术家
现生活工作于北京

1963 Born in Liaoning Province, China
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Oil Painting, Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1998–1999 Study in Academy of Fine Arts, University of Complutense, Madrid, Spain
1994–Now Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts
2009 Specially-appointed Artist of Contemporary Art Academy of China
Currently Lives and Works in Beijing, China

　　刘小东在绘画领域里有持续和充分的兴味，从来没有丧失对于绘画的坚定信念，而且鲜明地表示出自己对于绘画价值的肯定；即使在上世纪 80年代后期现代艺术运动一统天下之时，刘小东仍旧坚持本分的写实主义，将目光聚焦于日常生活与熟悉人物，着力表现普通人生存遭遇的独立与疏离，“现实主义”对于他来说是具有纪实性的。

　　作为“新生代”的代表人物，如今的刘小东不仅成为主流热点，他的画作也得到收藏家的热捧。他对于时代变迁的阵痛如此敏感，抛却形式的浮华与宏大的叙事之外，能将个体的真实与时代的荒谬紧密衔接，让每一个普通人物在他的作品中都能不同程度地形成对生命的深意凝视。

　　Liu Xiaodong has always had a strong and lasting interest in painting. His faith in the art form has never wavered, and he has always clearly expressed his affirmations of the value of painting in his work. Even as the modern art movement swept across the country in the 1980s, Liu persevered in realism, turning his attention to daily life and familiar figures, and striving to express the independence and estrangement that common people faced. For him, “modernity” is direct and documentary.

　　As a representative of the “Cenozoic” painters, Liu Xiaodong today is more than just a hotspot in the mainstream, he is also highly coveted by collectors. A keen observer of our changing times, not only has he discarded with flashy and overarching narratives, he has made a tight connection between the reality of the individual and the absurdity of the era. To varying degrees, every common person depicted in his works comes to form a penetrating look at life.

 

刘小东