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吕德安 / Lü De'an
Born on March 18, 1960
1981 graduated from Fujian Academy of Art & Crafts
Poet and Painter
Literary Background:
In the early 1980s, along with other poets and painters, he founded the Friday Poetry Society and became an important member of the Nanjing poetry society,“They”. During this period, he published several poetry collections, Paper Snake, The Other Half of Life, and The South to the North. He moved to New York in 1992 and made his living by painting. He also wrote the long poem, "Mankato". In 1994, he won the "They" Poetry Prize. That same year, he built a residence in the mountains of his hometown in Fujian, and wrote the long poem, "Right Where One Belongs". He also devoted a great deal of time to painting, and participated in Mou Sen's Theater Workshop in Beijing. He went abroad again in 1998. During this period he published his poetry collection, Obstinate Stones, and in 2011 he published his collection, Right Where One Belongs. That same year he won the Yunnan Gaoligong Poetry Prize, and also established Fujian's "Friday Painting Society." In 2012 he became a poetry moderator of the website, Impact China. He currently resides in Beijing where he devotes his time to painting.
Painting Exhibits:
1986 National Xinhua Bookstore Artists' Painting Exhibit, Beijing Museum of Art
2005 Fujian Abstract Art Exhibit, Fujian Provincial Art Museum
2007 Modernity Without Restraint--Chinese Contemporary Invitational Exhibit, Shanghai Sacred East Gallery
2009 Fujian Contemporary Artists Invitational Exhibit, Fujian Provincial Art Museum
2011 Fuzhou's, "Unperturbed" Exhibit
2011 "Poetry School" Contemporary Chinese Poets Painting Exhibit, Chongqing
2011 "Poetic Tones Painting and Calligraphy" Exhibit, Fujian Provincial Painting Institute
2013 "Summoned Sea" Exhibit, Qingdao
2014 "Thatched Hut Damaged By The West Wind-- Lü De'an's Painting Exhibit," Tree Gallery, Beijing
2014 “Romantic Drop”, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou
