1964 年出生于北京，现生活于北京。他曾就读于北京工艺美术学校工业设计专业和中央美术学院壁画专业，1989年前往柏林，在柏林艺术学院的造型艺术专业学习，1994年获硕士学位。
在刘野丰富多样的意象中，可以看到对一系列影响自身的艺术家的视觉引用（例如蒙德里安），对卡通、童话和文学的迷恋和对静物和场景的凝视，组成这些意象的活力和生机是以观察、记忆、想象、情感和艺术史为支撑的，虽然刘野的作品主题拥有“自画像”的内涵，画家意象的本质却拒绝任何直接的诠释。最后，绘画自己会倾诉，正是图像所蕴含着的一切人的痕迹（最为细致的工作的痕迹），浮现出精微的精神附体的形状。
Born in 1964 in Beijing, lives and works in Beijing. After studying at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown Beijing between 1984 and 1989, Liu Ye went to Berlin and received a degree of MFA Bildende Kunst from Universität der Künste, Berlin (University of Fine Arts in Berlin), in 1994. He later attended two artist-in-residence programs at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and the Delfina Studios in London.
Liu Ye’s diverse imagery has ranged from a compendium of references to Western artists (such as Mondriaan), to invented tableaus involving children, and beyond these, to visual situations featuring cartoon and fairly-tale characters, celebrities and still-life subjects since 1990’s. His paintings combine these disparate elements, the formation of the image underpinned by observation, memory, imagination and art history as dynamic forces. While it is tempting to read his work as self-revelatory, the nature of his imagery nevertheless resists any such straightforward interpretation. Throughout his artistic development, the questions of what to paint and how to paint have been twin imperatives, and at various moments these respective issues have assumed different degrees of emphasis.
