1979 Born in Yunnan, China. Artist based in Småland Sweden and Kunming China. Lifen graduated from Yunnan Arts Institute, majoring in Traditional Chinese Painting with bachelor degree.
In recent years, my practice has centered on oil painting on canvas and works on paper. Through a distilled nocturnal palette, I explore emotional introspection and the quiet strength of stillness—a space where silence becomes a source of resilience, absorbing and releasing its subtle force.
The Forest Wanderings series is rooted in my experience of living with my child in the countryside. Within the forest, feelings of smallness, solitude, and tranquility coexist. The intertwined rhythms of caring for oneself and caring for another life gradually unfold as layered relationships of stillness and movement, coolness and vitality.
Lifen has received scholarships and participate in artist residency programs/exhibitions in Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, the United States, Thailand and China.
Recent solo exhibition including:
“Walk in the Woods”, Piratenhuset in Trånas (2025);
“Growing Toward the Sun”, Kultivera, Tranås (2025)
“Lullaby: Liu Lifen 2022-2024”, Luo Xu Museum in Kunming, China (2024);
“Sweet Home”, Konstnärshuset Svavel in Jönköping (2024);
“Kinesiska skogsmeditationer”, Eksjö Museum (2023);
“Nattalv”, F48 Gallery, Oslo (2021).
Collection
Jönköpings läns museum, Jönköping Region, Eksjö Kommun, Tranås Kommun, Gislaveds Kommun, Våra Gårdar, Tranås Konstförening, Hyllie Park Folkhögskola, and international private collections.
Member
Smålands Konstnärsförbund
Konstgrafikerna (Jönköping)
Contact
liulifenart@gmail.com
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