Sui Jianguo
1956
Born in Qingdao, China
1984
BA Shandong University of Arts, Ji’nan, China
1989
MA Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Professor and Dean, Department of Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Beijing
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Physical Trace, Pace Hong Kong, ChinaPlanting Tarce, Pace Beijing, China
2015
Tachable, Pace Beijing, China
2014
Blind Portrait, Doris C Freedman Plaza, The Central Park, New York, US
Sui Jianguo, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2013
Sui Jianguo: Physical Trace2, English Church, Galerie Scheffel, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
Physical Trace-Sui Jianguo Gallery Sheffle, Bad Humbeger, Germany
Sui Jianguo's Discus Thrower, The British Museum, London, UK.
Sui Jianguo, Pace Beijing, 798, BeijingRestrained Power:
Sui Jianguo's Work, MOCA, Singapore
2011
The Hague Under Heaven: Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Hague, Holland
2010
Made in China by Sui Jianguo: Art Issue Projects, Beigao Art District, Beijing, China
Sui Jianguo: Dream Stone, JGM Gallery, Paris, France
Lost Utopia, MOT Arts, Taipei, China
2009
Motion / Tension: New Work by Sui Jianguo, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
Art Time Square: Exhibition of works by Sui Jianguo, Times Square, Hong Kong, China
Revealing Traces, Joyart, Beijing, China
2007
Dian Xue: Sui Jianguo Art Works, OCAT, Shanghai, China
Speeding up: Sui Jianguo Space Video, Arario, Beijing, China
2005
Sui Jianguo: The Sleep of Reason, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
1999
Clothes Veins Study, Passage Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
You Meet the Shadow of Hundred Years, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1996
Exhibition of Works by Sui Jianguo, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China
1995
Deposit and Fault, New Delhi Culture Center, New Delhi, India
1994
Exhibition of Works by Sui Jianguo, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, China
Remembrance of Space, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Memory & Contemporary——From China, Venice, Italy
Rodin L’exposition du centenaire, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Versus Rodin, AGSA, Adelaide, Australia
2016
Everyday Legend: Reinventing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China
2015
Three men in a boat, Foundation Maeght, France
La China Ardente, Mons, Belgium
Situated in Future/Beyond Today, Today’s Art Museum, Beijing, China
Objecthood, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China
2014
Post Pop: East Meets West · Saatchi Gallery, London, England Busan Biennale 2014, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edy the Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, USA
2013
Beijing Voice, Pace Beijing, 798, China
Blickachsen 9-Sculpture in Bad Homburg, Frankfort, Germany
Space Drawing, Amersfoort, Museum Kade, Holland
Basic Department, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Portraits of Time-30Years of Contemporary Art in China, Shanghai Power Station, China
Venice Biennale and 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The 55th Venice Biennale Special invitation Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2012
Sculpture 2012, Hubei Art Museum, China
Media Study: Motif and Cases, Linda Gallery, 798 Beijing, China
Reactivation, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, China
The Unseen, Fourth GZ Triennial, Guang Zhou Art Museum, China
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale: Accidental Message, OCAT, Shenzhen, China.
The Special Show for The First International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture 2012, Kiev, Ukraine
2011
The 2nd Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
2010
The Evolving Art: the collection of works from the Founding of the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University & The Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,
Museum of Academy of Arts & Design; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Western International Art Biennale, Yinchuan Cultural Art Center, Yinchuan, China
Care: Ten artists and their age of twenty, Angle Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Property of China: 2010 Exhibition of Contemporary Art literature, True Color Museum, Suzhou, China
Sculpture: Sui Jianguo and his students, A4 gallery, Chengdu, China
Image Files Show 2010, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
Regulator: Today’s Literature Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Mild winter: 20 Art District Tour creative exchange program, 008 Art District, Beijing, China
Sharing classic: the Exhibition of modern sculpture, prints and designer original, Shin Kong Place, Beijing, China
Meet by Chance: Project Exhibition, Joyart, Beijing, China
Zao Xing: Artwork from the Faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing , China
The City of Forking Paths: The Sculpture Project of the Expo Boulevard, World Expo Shanghai 2010, Shanghai, China
Jungle: A Looking in View the Contemporary Art in China, Platform China, Beijing, China
The constructed dimension: 2010 Chinese contemporary art invitational exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2009
The Home Court, Whitebox Museum of Art, Beijing, China
The Shape of Things: The Contemporary Art Exchanging Exhibition between China and Belgium, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Beijing-Havana: the Revolution of Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
I Can Believe, Chinese Contemporary Artist’s (Invitation) Exhibition & Star Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Star Art Museum, Beijing, China 09 Art Changsha, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China
Embrace Suzhou: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
State Legacy: Research in the visualization of political history, Manchester MMU, Manchester, UK
Spectacle: To each his own, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, China
Conversation with Chinese Contemporary Sculpture, Millennium Park, Chicago, USA
2008
Art and Chinese Revolution, Asia Society, New York, USA
Beyond: Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Chatsworth, UK
Conciliatory: Bozinan Biennalia, Bozinan Art Museum, Bozinan, PolandCome Over, Li Space, Beijing, China
Hanging in Sky Drifting on Surface, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China
Reflective Asia: 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Hypallage: The Post Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, The OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Half life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Ships at Sea: Henk Visch & Sui Jianguo, C: Space, Beijing, China New World Order, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The NetherlandsFree Fall, Chen Linghui Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
Crouching Paper Hidden Dragon, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Hunting Birds, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
Material world II: Suo Luo Gallery Lecture Exhibition, Suo Luo Gallery, Beijing, China
The Prints Group Exhibition of Famous Artists, 3+3 Art Space, Beijing, China
Chinese Fantasy: Found Museum Opening Exhibition, Found Museum, Beijing, China
A Tale of Two Cities: Contemporary Art Exchanging Exhibition between Chengdu and Qingdao, Tianyuan Gallery, Qingdao, China
Beijing: Athens, Contemporary Art from China, Athens, GreeceSky: Red Space Opening Exhibition, Red Space, Beijing, China
Our Future, UCCA, Beijing, China
2007
Energy-Spirit, Body, Material: The First Today’s Documents 2007, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Forms of Concepts: The reform of concepts of Chinese contemporary Art 1987-2007, Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, FinlandFashion Accidentally, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, China
What is Monoha, B.T.A.P, Beijing, China
Top 10 Chinese Contemporary Sculptors, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Socart, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, RussiaWe Are Your Future: Special Project for 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow Central House of Artist, Moscow, RussiaAbsence, Zhengyang Creative Art District, Beijing, China
Fierce Animals, Mo Gallery, Beijing, China
A Message from Qingdao, Yi Space, Beijing, China
Things Rather Than: 14 Chinese Artists to Explore the True Image of the variation, Doosan Art Center, Seoul, South KoreaWithdraw Its Role: Save from Traditional and Revolutionary Language, Square Gallery, Nanjing, China
Top 10 Chinese Contemporary Sculptors: The Contemporary Path between Medium and Tradition, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
The Progress of China: The Contemporary Art of Estella Collection Exhibition, Louisiana Contemporary Art Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Double kick Cracker, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
Absolute Images: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Arario Gallery,Changan, South Korea
China Trade, International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, CanadaJianghu, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
On the Edge, Davis Museum and Culture Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
Open Road: Second China Songzhuang Public Sculpture Exhibition of Art, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
2005
Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
Ten Thousands Year, Postmodern City, Beijing, China
Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-garde sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The NetherlandsTransparent Box, SOHO modern city, Beijing, China
Fitment, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Play Tricks, TS1 Art Space Songzhuang, Beijing, China
Sculpture and Installation Exhibition in Chinese Cultural Year, Kennedy Art Center, Washington, USA
On the Edge : Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2004
Now: Conceptual Estate in Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
Gods Becoming Men, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Playing With Chi Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
Exposition des Sculptures Chinoises, Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, France
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography/Asia Society, New York, USA
Le Moine et le Démon, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
Busan Sculpture Project, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
Light as Fuck, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, NorwayBeyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Hanart Celebration of Two Decades, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2003
Open the Sky: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Left Wing, Left Bank Plaza, Beijing, China
Second Reality, Pingod Space, Beijing, China
Today’s Chinese Fine Art, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
Open Time, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Contemporary Sculpture: China Korea Japan, Osaka Museum, Osaka, Japan
Beaufort Triennial Contemporary Art by the Sea, Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, BelgiumChinese Contemporary Art Travelling Exhibition, Rome Contemporary Art Museum, Rome, Italy ; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2002
Paris-Pékin, Palace Cardin, Paris, France
Mirage, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Triennial of Chinese Art, Guangzhou Museum, Guangzhou, China Modernity in China: 1980-2002, Fondacion Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), Sao Paolo, Brazil
Artists of Ideal, Contemporary Art Center, Verona, Italy
Made In China, Gallery Enrico Navara, Paris, France
Excess Interset, Ke Gallery, Singapore
Asia Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, South Korea International Expo, Seoul, South KoreaMade in China, Duisburg Museum, Duisburg, German
2001
Transplantation in Situ, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Dream 2001: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Red Mansion, London, UK
Forever, Canadian Embassy, Beijing, China
Art on the Beach, Nice, France
Between Earth and Heaven: New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, Oostende Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium
Made in China, Essen Gallery, New York, USA
Signs of the Future, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Art and Science, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Made in China, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, USA
Celebration of Life, East Square, Beijing, China
2000
Shanghai Spirit: Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Sui Jianguo and Zhan Wang, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Sharing Exoticisms: Contemporary Art Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao, China
Documentation of Chinese Avant-garde Art in 90s, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Open 2000: The International Sculpture and Installation Exhibition, Lido, Venice, ItalySculpture Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1999
Second Annual Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Gate of the Century, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, ChinaAvant-garde in China, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Les Champs de la Sculpture 2000, Champs Elysees, Paris, France
The Fourteenth International Asia Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Volume and Form: Singapore Art Festival, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Four Artists, Beijing Art Warehouse, Beijing, China
Departure from China, Beijing Design Museum, Beijing, China
China 1999, Limn Gallery, St Francisco, USA
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Contemporary Art Exhibition of China, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998
Personal Touch: Chinese Contemporary Art, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
First Annual Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Im Spiegel der Eigenen Tradition: Contemporary Chinese Art, German Embassy, Beijing, China
Vivre Life: Eight Artists Exhibition, Yun Feng Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Dream of China: Chinese Contemporary Art, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Continue: Five Sculptors’ Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Sui Jianguo & Li Gang:Contemporary Chinese Sculpture, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
A Point of Contact: Korean, Chinese and Japanese Contemporary Art, Taegu Culture Hall, Taegu, South Korea
Eternal Return: The Sculpture Exhibition of Nanshan in 1997, Nanshan Sculpture College, Shenzhen, China
Contemporary Art Exhibition of China, Chinese Painting Gallery, Hong Kong, China
1996
First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, China
Reality, Present and Future: Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing International Art Museum, Beijing, China
From the East of Asia: Installation & Painting, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Contemporary Art Academic Invitational Exhibition, National Art Museum of China. Beijing, China
Four Asia Countries Field Sculpture Communication Exhibition, Waterfront Park, Fukuoka, Japan
1995
Plan for Development, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
From the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Avant-garde Art since 1979, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Substance and Creativity: Asian Arts and Craft from Its Origin to the Present Day, Hiroshima, Japan
Sculpture 1994·Series Solo Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China