His paintings recreate public resource images of modern Chinese history,[1] such as the National People's Congress.

[3] Li Songsong is renowned for his thickly layered paintings that animate the fragmentary nature of images and memory, paying particular attention to the people, events, and themes of modern and contemporary Chinese history.

[6] This status sets him apart both from his older peers who lived through the Cultural Revolution and from younger colleagues who have known only relative openness and growing international awareness of China's experimental art scene.

Li uses strictly brushes to create his artwork, though many of his paintings display a variety of textures and techniques almost bursting off the surface.

"[13] When describing his view of his artwork, Li says, "It's like telling a story packed with violence and gore with a huge smile on your face.

"Li Songsong is concerned with the intrinsic humanity that underpins all the images he appropriates and the memories they have the potential to bring to mind in his audience.

This is because art during the post-Cultural Revolution era was dramatically affected by this interrelationship in many different ways, making it nearly impossible for photographers and oil painters to ignore.

[16] Li was also heavily influenced by a book series known as the "old photo craze" (lao zhaopian re) published during contemporary China.

The poster, titled Beast, was inspired by a photograph but was altered with Li's style of multiple layers of paint and sections.

The work invites interpretation and was a unique choice for the show because the posters chosen in the past have traditionally been bold and brightly colored.

The two abstract figures in the poster can be interpreted to be connected with the subject of the festival, as one of the opera productions "Feng Yi Ting" by Chinese composer Guo Wenging.

It included 16 paintings executed with Li's characteristic patchwork style and depicting dangerous situations involving planes.

Six Men (2008), depicting Japanese Kamikaze pilots, and Public Enemy (2008), loosely based on a newspaper photo of Yang Jia who allegedly killed several police officers after being accused and tortured over stealing a bicycle, were two other pieces included in the exhibit.

Red Storm, Rijksmuseum Twenthe Museum voor oudeen moderne kunst, Enschede, Holland Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China The Revolution Continues, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Encounters, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China New World Order – Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Holland 2D/3D Negotiating Visual Languages, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China Half-Life of a Dream, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA Altered, Stitched & Gathered, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria Through the Painting, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia Time Different - New Works from the Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, Great Britain Art from China - Collection Uli Sigg, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hypnogenesis, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland Hypnogenesis, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China CHINA NOW - Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany PICTORIAL DNA made in China, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern Switzerland CHINA: as seen BY CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy Received an honorable mention at the 4th China Contemporary Art Awards [21] China's Photographic Painting, China Art Season Gallery, Beijing China und was mich sonst bewegt, Galerie 99, Aschaffenburg Solo exhibition, Belgische Botschaft Beijing Left Hand, Right Hand, Deutsch-Chinesische Gemeinschaftsausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst, 798 Space, Beijing 3. fade in, Fotografie Ausstellung, 798 Art Space, Beijing China Contempo, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore Face to Face, Chinese and Indian Contemporary Art, Shen Gallery, Singapore Images, texts, biography and further information at the Saatchi Gallery Images of Li Songsong's work, biography and interview from Galerie Meile Archived 16 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine