I attempt to search for a way to walk between the line of realism and expressionism, meaningful narrative and visual power, as well as between modernist formalism approach and traditional master technique.
Born in Helongjing Province, China in 1964, Qimin Liu earned a Teaching Certificate from Haerbin Normal University (1985), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Institute of Chinese Traditional Opera (1991). In December 1991 he relocated to the United States, where he received a Master of Arts from Iowa State University (1997), and a Master of Fine Arts from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1999). Liu is a tenured associate professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he has taught painting and drawing since 2000. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Philadelphia University.Liu’s work has been displayed in more than fifty exhibits across the United States, and has garnered praise from many national and local newspapers and magazines. His exhibits have included“Connecticut Contemporary” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and “10 Contemporary Artists 5x2”at theAllentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania. He has also won more than twodozen awards, honors and grants.