Exhibition Overview

The Liu Shiming Art Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Traces, bringing together the work of Liu Shiming and Lite Zhang: two artists from different generations who share a desire to understand how art can capture both the fragility and the strength of human existence.

For them, the body lies at the center of their practice, not as a heroic or idealized representation, but as a site of passage, experience, and transformation. Liu Shiming’s busts and reclining figures, with their simple and sensitive forms, embody a universal humanity rooted in everyday life. They bear the traces of the sculptural gesture, but also of life itself: a face, a moment of rest, a vulnerability.

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Lite Zhang, on the other hand, explores the body through displacement, migration, and the transformation of materials. His works, at the crossroads of installation, performance, and sculpture, inscribe within space unstable presences, oscillating between grounding and drifting. The shared sensibility seeks to make visible fragile instants, ordinary lives, and inner landscapes, while also questioning the movements of bodies, their perception, and their impact on what endures and what undergoes metamorphosis.

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Through this encounter, Traces invites us to contemplate what connects us to others, to nature, and to the world: fleeting marks, suspended fragments, imprints that speak of both permanence and passage.

Artists:​
​Liu Shiming

Lite Zhang

Lite Zhang 张里特 (b. 1998, China) is a Los Angeles and Baltimore based artist who is interested in space and audience interaction. He received an MFA degree in Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in spring 2024. Zhang's installations engage different senses, including auditory, tactile, and immersive components, while exploring the infinite possibilities of materials, found objects, and trash to reflect social phenomena. He has shown in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Rockville, and Baltimore, Maryland, including locally cutting-edge galleries like Current Space, AREA 405, and VisArts.

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“Space and audience interaction are important to me. I love converting existing objects and topics into my unique vision. Through my research and contemplation of reflecting on objects, I strive to provide my audience with a completely sensory experience. I treat space as a creative material and architecture as an empty canvas, thereby inviting the viewer to become part of the artwork. 

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Intervening in the stage of perception is the most direct way for me to create a dialogue with the audience, to regenerate a surreal fantasy by changing or replacing the original perception and thinking. Cognition refers to understanding the world through perception, thinking, memory, and logical reasoning. I believe that human cognitive ability begins with perception, which leads to acquiring knowledge and insights. 

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I reimagined a lot of traditional Chinese folk art and expressed it humorously and nonsensically. My passion lies in delving into the infinite potential of everyday materials, including discarded objects, to convey my reflections on different social phenomena through various forms and properties.”​

Time & Location

Liu Shiming Art Gallery. 15 E 40th St., 5th Floor

New York, NY 10016
OCT 7 – 31, 2025. Open Monday–Friday 11AM–5PM

Public Events

Oct.10, 4-6PM Panel with

Director of Rinehart School of Sculpture MFA at MICA: Dolores Zinny

Artists: Alexandra Grant Lite Zhangy.​