Hong Liu-Sertti
Finnish artist rooted from China, director of Galleria Kookos Finland
Theme: freedom achieved from harmony of mankind and mankind with nature.
Key element: birds as metaphor of freedom, universal love and unity.
1996-2000 BFA, The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
2006-2007 Studied in Aalto University School of Art and Design, Sibelius Academy, Finland
2006–2007 Workshop lecturer in Aalto University School of Art and Design and art college Taidekoulumaa, Finland
2000-2003 Teacher of The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, China
Grants: Espoo city, Arts Promotion Center Finland and Finnish Minstry of Education and Culture
Awards: Woman Art Award, CASSANOVA International Art Prize Italy; Palm Art Award, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Wings of Mind, South China Art Museum
2019 Wings, YueYi Art Museum, China
2018 The Flying seeds, Galleria Poriginal of Pori Art Museum, Finland;
2018 Fly over, Nanxin Art museum, China
2017 Fly over, Gallery RanDengShanFang, China
2017 The Flying seeds, Galleria Katariina, Helsinki
2016 The messenger of love, Gallery of Forssa Museum, Finland
2014 Bird-forest-lake, Galleria Dix, Helsinki
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Gallery No.6 in Zini art town, Guangzhou, China
2019 BRNO Auction House, Prague, Czech
2019 Daiichi Modern Art Gallery 20th Anniversary International Academic Art Exhibition, Malaysia
2019 4W43 Gallery, New York
2019 Enokojima Art Center, Japan
2019 Official Pavilion of Bangladesh 58th Venice Biennale, Italy
2018 Galleria Kookos, Helsinki.
2018 The gallery STEINER – Vienna, Austria.
2018 LingNan Museum of Fine Arts, Dongguan, China.
2017 Espace Commines, Paris.
2016 Galleria De Marchi, Bologna, Italy.
2016 Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, Holland.
2016 Jyväskylä art museum, Finland.
2015 Miami River Art Fair 2015, satellite art fair of Art Basel Miami Beach, USA.
2015 ART Salon in Louvre Museum – Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
2015 Oxford International Art Fair, UK.
2011 The 1st Internatıonal Izmir Bıennıal of Arts, Turkey.
2011 Marziart Internationale Galerie, Hamburg, Germany.
2010 Gallery Red Gate, London.
2009 The 9-th international biennial of contemporary art DIALOGUES, Petersburg, Russia.
2009 Tetouan CASA ESPANA, Morocco.
2009 Gallery Riddaren, Stockhlom.
“Her artwork appears in a tactile interplay of spaces and forms using a meditative symphony of brush strokes in elegant compositions”. ( Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, Art Historian)