Liu Xiaohui

Liu Xiaohui was born in 1975 in Shandong Province, China. He graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing in 1995, then completed a Bachelor of Arts in the Mural Painting Department at CAFA in 1999 and a Master of Arts in the same department in 2010. He continues to teach in CAFA's Mural Painting Department and lives and works in Beijing. One gallery source lists his bachelor's year as 1990, but that conflicts with his birth year and with two independent gallery sources that both give 1999, so this profile follows the corroborated date.

His paintings work at the boundary of figuration and abstraction, often built around scenes of ordinary domestic life, personal history, and compositional motifs reworked over time. Recent solo exhibitions include Hibiscus at White Space in Beijing in 2023 and Flowers of Hong Kong at Kiang Malingue in Hong Kong in 2024. Earlier solo exhibitions include Movements at ShanghART Beijing in 2018 and The Mystery of Sisyphus at Antenna Space in Shanghai in 2015. His work has also appeared in institutional exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China, the CAFA Art Museum, and the Guangdong Museum of Art.

No verbatim critic commentary about Liu Xiaohui from a named critic in a major outlet could be confirmed for this profile. The available framing comes primarily from his representing galleries, which describe a practice that moves between figuration and abstraction while returning to scenes of everyday life and personal history. He is sometimes discussed alongside fellow Chinese painters born in the 1970s, including Song Kun and Wang Guangle, as part of a generation trained at CAFA that came to prominence through the 2010s and 2020s.

Public auction data on Liu Xiaohui is limited. Artsy maintains an artist profile and a separate auction results page for him, and Asia Art Archive has announced a collaboration with Christie's involving a work donated by the artist, indicating some secondary market activity. No single sale price, work, auction house, and date could be confirmed to a standard suitable for citing an all-time auction record as of this writing, and this profile does not report one rather than estimate it. His market is presently gallery driven, anchored by Kiang Malingue and White Space, and by his presence in the foundation and museum collections of the K11 Art Foundation, A4 Art Museum, and X Museum.

Liu Xiaohui's market sits closer to the primary gallery system than to a deep, well documented auction history. There is no catalogue raisonne, so provenance is best established through his two representing galleries, Kiang Malingue and White Space, and through direct reference to his exhibition and collection record. Collectors should treat any auction price claim about this artist with caution until it can be tied to a specific, verifiable lot, and should weight his growing presence in foundation and museum collections in Hong Kong, Chengdu, and Beijing as the clearer signal of institutional traction to date.