About this Event
TRACES
October 7 - October 31, 2025
The Liu Shiming Art Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Traces, bringing together the work of Liu Shiming and Lite Zhang: two artists from different generations who share a desire to understand how art can capture both the fragility and the strength of human existence.
For them, the body lies at the center of their practice, not as a heroic or idealized representation, but as a site of passage, experience, and transformation. Liu Shiming’s busts and reclining figures, with their simple and sensitive forms, embody a universal humanity rooted in everyday life. They bear the traces of the sculptural gesture, but also of life itself: a face, a moment of rest, a vulnerability.
Lite Zhang, on the other hand, explores the body through displacement, migration, and the transformation of materials. His works, at the crossroads of installation, performance, and sculpture, inscribe within space unstable presences, oscillating between grounding and drifting.
The shared sensibility seeks to make visible fragile instants, ordinary lives, and inner landscapes, while also questioning the movements of bodies, their perception, and their impact on what endures and what undergoes metamorphosis.
Through this encounter, Traces invites us to contemplate what connects us to others, to nature, and to the world: fleeting marks, suspended fragments, imprints that speak of both permanence and passage.
Join us for a conversation with Dolores Zinny, Alexandra Grant and Lite Zhang at the Liu Shiming Art Gallery.
📅 October 10, 2025
🕓 4:00 – 6:00 PM
📍 Liu Shiming Art Gallery, 15 E 40th St, 5th Floor, New York
About the Artists
Liu Shiming (1926–2010)studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. In his works, he skillfully blended Chinese tradition with European modernist influences. Deeply rooted in the everyday life and cultural heritage, Liu Shiming is recognized as a visionary figure with a very distinct humanist style. Exhibited worldwide, his legacy continues through the Liu Shiming Sculpture Museum in Beijing and the Liu Shiming Art Foundation in New York.
Lite Zhang (b. 1998, China)An artist based in Los Angeles and Baltimore, Lite Zhang’s practice spans installation, performance, and sculpture. His work explores space, audience interaction, and the transformative potential of everyday materials, often incorporating found objects and discarded matter to reflect on social phenomena.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Liu Shiming Art Foundation, 15 East 40th Street, New York, United States
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