Li Yan (Chinese: 李演; pinyin: Lǐ Yǎn) is an oil painting artist, born in Jilin, China in 1977, who lives and works in Beijing, China.
Li Yan was born in Jilin, China, in 1977.[1][2] His solo exhibition Accident was held at the Platform China art gallery in Beijing in 2007 and was about terrorism and the Iraq War.[3][4] His solo debut in the United States was at the Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles. Named Quotidian Truths, it discusses how politics and sports in China converge with each other.[3]
Libor Sečka[5]
, the ambassador of the Czech Republic to China from 2009 to 2015, wrote, "Li Yan is a reporter, chronicler, catcher, who mercilessly inscribes into his paintings all that is unusual, unexpected, destructive and cruel. All that got out of the traditional order and control. All that in one second changed the lives not only of individuals, but of hundreds and thousands in misfortune and disaster."