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刘建华以综合材料为主要媒介，是中国当代艺术领域最具实验性、代表性的艺术家之一。1989年大学毕业后，他尝试在当代背景下进行实验性的创作。刘建华的陶瓷和综合材料作品反映了近年来不断困扰中国的经济和社会变化。他的《日常·易碎》系列于2003年威尼斯双年展中国馆中首次展出，刘建华将日常用品复制成外表和象征意义大于实用性的神秘物体。2008年，他一反先前多年对全球化及中国社会急剧转型引发的诸多问题、焦点的近距离直接关注，提出“无意义、无内容”的理念来进行创作，从2008年作品《无题》开始了一个全新方向的探索，并形成了当代艺术创作的个人语言体系。
Liu Jianhua 刘建华 Chinese, born 1962 My works are meaningless and have no content
Liu Jianhua, Black Flame, 2017. Installation view, The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019–20. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. ■ Born in 1962 in Jian, Jiangxi Province, Liu Jianhua began working in a porcelain sculpture studio in Jingdezhen in 1977. In 1985, he was admitted to the Fine Arts Department of the Jingdezhen Pottery & Porcelain College, majoring in Sculpture. Liu graduated from the Jingdezhen Pottery & Porcelain College in 1989 and went on to teach at the College of Fine Arts at the Yunnan Institute of the Arts. He is currently an associate professor at the Yunnan Institute of Arts.
Liu Jianhua installing Black Flame (2017) for an exhibition at the Today Art Museum, Beijing. Photo courtesy of the artist. 艺术家 · ARTIST / ©LIU JIANHUA发行推广·LSSUANCE OF PROMOTION / ©AN ART SPACE
Liu Jianhua, Square No. 17, 2014, porcelain, steel, 6.2 cm x 222 cm x 222 cm (2-7/16" x 87-3/8" x 87-3/8") © Liu Jianhua
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