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Liu Youju Liu Youju (born in 1955, Jiexi, Guangdong, China) is a contemporary Chinese art critic, calligrapher, avant-garde artist, and practitioner of "illusionist painting".[1] In his early years, he was engaged in poetry, prose, and literary criticism. Some of his poems were included in the Selection of Contemporary Poems by A Thousand of Authors (Chinese: "當代千家詩選粹").[2] In 2011, he left the Chinese Calligrapher's Association[3] and later founded illusionist painting.[4] His illusionist paintings have been exhibited at the Nixon Presidential Museum in the U.S.,[5] the British Museum,[6] the Louvre Museum of Art in France,[7] and the art gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence (Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze) in Italy.[8] In 2016, Liu organized a personal workshop on his personal artworks at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.[9] In 2017, a solo art exhibition was held at Centre Georges-Pompidou, and a speech was delivered during an art research seminar at the same center.[10] In 2019, the Guangdong artist Liu Youju was awarded the Michelangelo Prize, making him the first Chinese artist to receive this honor in the field of painting.[11] In 2021, Liu Youju's inauguration ceremony as an honorary fellow of the Italian Academy of Art took place in Florence.[11] Exhibitions
AuctionOne of Liu's untitled work was sold at Poly International Auction Co. in 2017, realizing the price of 22,515 US dollars.[17] References
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