Manuscript Exhibition | Yang Xiaoyan: Manuscripts May Reveal a Hidden Art History

Critical Review

2018.01.09

Manuscripts May Reveal a Hidden Art History

Recently, I was guiding my students to write a quite complex master's thesis on art history about Leonardo da Vinci’s Notes on Paintings, which is actually a record of his thoughts. Judging by the notes, he is a good writer and painter who was keen on expressing his understanding of the world through words and images. His research is very extensive. As a homosexual, he studied the womb and the process of pregnancy with handmade pictures. He is also the earliest proponent of tanks, spacecrafts, and submarines, all recorded in the notes.

Based on this, I think sketches, or manuscripts, are not simply sketches and manuscripts. I think we should concern ourselves about the following point: the manuscript itself is a history of art, or rather, a secret art history. We have an established art history about outstanding artists from one generation to another as well as the glory, the mostly favorable review and positioning of their works. This is basically what we know about art history. As for whether the positioning is accurate, whether the evaluation is appropriate, and whether the works deserve such recognition, these are controversial issues that have aroused endless debate. However, hidden behind such a “normal” art history, is there another one? The manuscript presents such a possibility. It not only reveals the artist's creative thinking and vividly documents the development of their thinking, but also may lead historians to make conclusions which run counter to the established stories because of their grassroots nature. It is for this reason that I’m saying that sketches and manuscripts constitute another hidden history. In the 1990s, I got acquainted with Zhu Xueqin, a scholar from Shanghai. He told me once that Gombrich gave him an important idea that one should pay attention to the manuscript. He was then prompted to reexamine the thinkers who failed to make fame. He called them the “draft-like thinkers”, who raised good questions, but for a variety of reasons these questions were not solved, nor thoroughly studied, and they vanished because they were not developed into a system. Based on this view, Zhu Xueqin wrote an article discussing the disappeared Chinese draft-like thinkers whose notable ideas sparkled but soon died out in the time of political extremism. Some of them managed to become great thinkers of the time as the situation improved. One of the most typical examples is Mr. Yang Xiguang, the well-known economist who made his mark in the field of classical economics. He was first imprisoned because of his revolutionary ideas, then re-entered university after the reform and opening-up policy and became a professor. In contrast, Yang Xiguang is indeed lucky, because there are many such thinkers who were like a flash in the pan and did not even leave their names.

This indicates that the meaning of the manuscript must go beyond our imagination and allow historians to re-examine the history of art with such material and bring about potentially disruptive conclusions. The manuscript reveals a secret art history. I think this view is very important.

In the afterword of my book Commend on Pictures, I pointed out that art criticism is a primary history. By "primary" I mean the opinion recorded for the first time. The “primary history" is actually a journalistic concept. In journalism, the news is considered as a primary history, because all events are first recorded by the media, and then they are read and interpreted by the posterity. For example, Mr. Sang Bing, a famous professor from the Department of History at Sun Yat-sen University, studied the phenomenon of academic associations in the late Qing and early Republic period based on the various newspapers of that time, without which there’s no way for us to restore the history of those years.

Back to the history of art, do we also have a primary history? Needless to say, there is one indeed, because the art criticism we are engaged in is a primary history of art, leaving behind the initial impression of the emerged art. The art historians seem to have always had a prejudice against the study of contemporary art, which is deemed less academic than the study of ancient art. But I think this view is biased. Think about it. In five hundred years, this conference on the value of manuscripts we are having today will become the basic subject of study for several doctoral dissertations. In fact, the past reviews that we study were nothing more than contemporary art criticism from the ancient times? Why the study of the past is considered academic, while studying the contemporary is not?

The point is that we may be able to discover something different from the description of orthodox art history and deepen our understanding of the artist's uniqueness through art history. For example, I interviewed Li Xiaobin in Beijing, a photographer who was the core figure in the“April Photography Society” and an important vanguard of documentary photography during the reform and opening-up policy. I looked at his photographs taken in the ’70s and ‘80s, and was surprised to find that he was the key figure in connecting the underground cultures of Beijing in the 1970s. He left a lot of visual materials, wandered around the "Today" literature circle, “No Name” and “The Stars” art circles with a camera in the hand. Without these photos, how could we be acquainted with the underground cultural movement in that particular era? So Li Xiaobin's photos provide an opportunity for us to see China's cultural history in the 1970s in a different light. In photography, randomly-taken photos are similar to the manuscript, revealing a secret art history, or at least a primary art history.

Of course, we have to pay attention to another serious problem, that is, the manuscript should not be regarded as an art form, otherwise the manuscript would become consciously made. In literature, if the diary turns into a form of writing, it’s no longer a diary in nature, such as Lu Xun's Mad Men's Diary, which is a novel in disguise. Another writer Yu Dafu also applied the form of diary in his penmanship. In these cases, the writing is no longer diary, but fictions in the form of diary. Likewise, if a manuscript is consciously created, the meaning and value of the manuscript disappears. We can only regard this fabricated manuscript as an art language and a style. We should pay special attention to this point. While we are studying manuscripts from the past, some young artists have begun to "create" manuscripts. In fact, the older generation of artists might have done the same thing to rewrite history, and we need to be aware of this problem. This also raises a question for us as how to define the "manuscript". Without a clear definition, the manuscript research is impossible to go forward.

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Artists

Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun was born in 1963 in Handan, Hebei, China. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. On July 1st of the same year, Fang Lijun moved to Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, and later the Yunamingyuan Artists' Village was gradually formed. In 1993, Fang Lijun established his studio in Songzhuang. The Songzhuang Artists' Village has steadily developed for the last two decades. In 2014, Fang Lijun established the Archive of Chinese Contemporary Art.

Fang Lijun has held exhibitions in major art institutions and galleries, including Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Japan Foundation, Ariana Museum in Geneva, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin, Macaw Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Shanghai Art Museum, Hunan Museum, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Hubei Art Museum, United Art Museum and the etc. His participation includes the Venice Biennale, Sǎo Paulo Biennial, Kwangju Art Biennial, and Shanghai Biennial. His works are collected by The Museum of Modern Art (USA), Seattle Art Museum(USA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), Centre de G. Pompidou (France), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Germany), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam(Holland), The National Gallery of Australia (Australia), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo(Japan), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art(Japan), National Art Museum of China(China), Shanghai Art Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum (China), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), Hunan Museum（China）, CAFA Art Museum(China). He is one of the Chinese contemporary artists with the most extensive collection by major art institutions worldwide.

He has published more than 50 personal albums and related publications, including Fang Lijun: Chronicles, Fang Lijun: Criticism, Fang Lijun: Works of Art, FANG LIJUN, Fang Lijun: The Precipice Over the Clouds, Fang Lijun: Espaces Interdits Forbidden Areas, Fang Lijun: Woodcuts, Live Like A Wild Dog, Etc. Fang Lijun has been invited as a visiting professor and graduate supervisor at more than 20 universities and colleges, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Xi 'an Academy of Fine Arts, etc. In 1993, his painting "Series 2, No. 2" appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine.

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Fu Zhongwang

Fu Zhongwang
Male, born in Wuhan, Hubei in 1956.
He is now the art director of Hubei Art Museum and vice president of Chinese sculpture society.
He has long been engaged in the creation of sculpture and public art, and has participated in many important contemporary art exhibitions both at home and abroad. His works are collected by several art galleries and art institutions, and are included in various versions of contemporary art history publications.
Solo Exhibition
2017
Fuhe, Fu Zhongwang works exhibition, Zhaiyage Museum, Wuhan, China
Fu Zhongwang 2016 works exhibition, Bighouse Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, China
Jingguan, Fu Zhongwang solo sculpture exhibition, Kunyufu, Wuhan, China
2015
Kaiwu , Fu Zhongwang Solo Exhibition, Springs Center of Art, Beijing, China
Gouwu Siji, Fu Zhongwang Manuscript Research Exhibition, He Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2011
Zhouxian, Fu Zhongwang Art Exhibition, Xi'an Contemporary Art Center in overseas Chinese town, Xi'an, China
1994 The Approaching New Relations-Fu Zhongwang Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China

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Ma Liuming

马六明
1969出生于湖北黄石
1987-1991学习于湖北美术学院油画系
1993年起工作和定居于北京
个展：
2015 马六明手稿展，CIGE 2015，北京，中国
2014 马六明，学古斋画廊上海空间，中国马六明，学古斋画廊首尔空间，中国
2013 十分之一秒：芬-马六明，白盒子艺术馆，北京，中国
2011 解离，艺术长沙，湖南省博物馆，中国
2007 马六明，Dolores Sierra Gallery，马德里，西班牙
2006 马六明，MARELLA ARTE CONTEMPORANEA，米兰，意大利2001 马六明个展，TENSTA KONSTHALL，瑞典
1999 马六明个展，Jack Tilton 画廊，纽约
1996 马六明个展，中国当代画廊，伦敦
群展：
2016 另/一前卫中国、日本、韩国，
2016 釜山双年展，韩国
2015 实验地带：关于艺术的讨论方案，南京国际美术展，南京国际展览中心哥、澳大利亚、香港等
2014 东云西语，中国当代艺术研究展，合美术馆，武汉，中国
2013 景观再造：中国当代艺术，德布勒森现代艺术中心，匈牙利
2012 再历史-中国当代艺术邀请展，巡展于深圳美术馆、石家庄美术馆、北京贵点艺术空间、湖北美术馆，中国
2010 书写，南京双年展，南京，中国
2009 两湖潮流-湖北、湖南当代艺术展
1985-2009邀请展，广东美术馆，中国中国金，马约尔美术馆，巴黎，法国
2007 社会艺术，俄罗斯特列恰可夫国家美术馆，莫斯科
2005 墙，北京千年艺术博物馆；此展巡回到纽约州立大学布法罗校区安德逊艺廊和艾尔布来特-诺克斯艺廊
2004 在过去和未来之间：来至中国的新照片和录像，国际图片中心，纽约；芝加哥当代美术馆；西雅图美术馆；英国Victoria and Albert美术馆
2003 布拉格双年展：Peripheries Become the Center，布拉格，捷克2002 重新解读：中国实验艺术十年（1990-2000），第一届广州当代艺术三年展，广东
2001 EGOFUGAL，第七届伊斯坦布尔国际双年展，土尔其2000光州双年展
2000，韩国；此展的亚洲部分巡回展于日本美术馆1999所有的开放，第48届威尼斯双年展，意大利
1998 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1，纽约；此展巡回于旧金山现代美术馆、墨西哥1997Degenderism，世田谷美术馆，东京

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Artists

SONG DONG

Song Dong
1966 Born in Beijing, China
1989 BA Oil Painting at the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Beijing
Selected Awards
2014
2014 Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA): Outstanding Achievemen
t2013
Power 100 Chinese Contemporary Artists: Artist of the Year 2012
2012
The First Kiev International Biennale Award
2011
San Francisco Certificate of Honour
Artron Art China (AAC) Awards: Artist of the Year 2010 (Video and Installation)
2006
The Grand Award of Gwangju Biennale 2006
2000
UNESCO/ASCHBERG Bursary Laureate
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Song Dong: Collaborations, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Song Dong: I Don't Know the Mandate of Heaven, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
A Flourishing Void, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
A World in A Well, K11, Hong Kong, China
Song Dong: A World in A Well, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Eating the City, Songdong Art action, Fuxing Royal, Shanghai, China
2015
Song Dong: Beijing Voice, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Song Dong, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Song Dong: Sketch, Pace Hong Kong & Duddell’s, Hong Kong, China
Song Dong: Life is Art, Art is Life, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Eating the City, Brasilia Open Art, Brazil
Polit-Sheer-Form! MOCA, Taipei, China
2014
Song Dong: Regenerate, Baró Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Doomsday Vault, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Polit-Sheer-Form! Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Polit-Sheer-Form! Time Square, New York, USA
2013
The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, U.S.A
36 Calendars, Artistree, M+, Hong Kong, China
Song Dong , Pace, New York, U.S.A
Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, AustraliaWast Not, CARRIAGEWORK, Sydney, Australia
2012
Waste Not, Barbican Art Gallery and The Curve Gallery, London, U.K.
2011
The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.; Beijing, ChinaWisdom of the Poor, UCCA, Beijing, China
Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
We are Polit-Sheer-Form-Office, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2010
Song Dong: A Blot on the Landscape, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
China in Four Seasons: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
Waste Not, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009
Song Dong: Project 90 Waste Not, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A
Tofu, Kungfu, Polit-Sheer-Form, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2008
Library, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Eating the City in Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Water Memory, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Song Dong, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2007
Polit-Sheer-Form-Office in Shanghai, Bizart, Shanghai, China
Song Dong in Beijing Commune, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China 2006
Only One Wall, Art Space, Sydney, Australia; Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Eating the City, Selfridges Public Art Program, London, UK
The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A
Restroom: M, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2005
Waste Not, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory, Beijing, China
The 59th Minute, Time Square, New York, U.S.A.
2004
Water Works, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester, UK
2003
SARS Times: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: Video Installations Event, ISE Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
2002
Eyeball: Video Installations Event, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd BISC, Beijing, China
Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen: Videos Installations Event, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
2000
Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai): Installation and Performance, Gasworks International Art Studio, London, UK
Song Dong in London: Installation and Performance, Tablet Gallery, London, UK
1999
Jump: Performance Video, Tian'anmen Square, Beijing, China; Venice, Italy
1998
Temporary Office Construction: Video Installation and Performance, Tao Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Look: Video Installation Art Show, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Slap: Video Installation Art Show, Ruins for Arts Berlin, Germany 1997.6.30-1997.7.1 Writing Time with Water 60 Minutes: Performance, ShenZhen, China; Germany
Filling up the Sea with 158 Stones (1840-1997): Environmental Performance, Shenzhen, China
1996
Breathing: Performance, Tian'anmen Square and Houhai Lake, Beijing, China
Uncovering: Video installation, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
Stamping the Water: Performance, Lahsa River, Tibet, China
1995
Heavenly Secret: Sound Installation, Houhai Teahouse, Beijing, China Throwing a Stone: Environmental Performance (since 1995), China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, UK, U.S.A., India, Macao, Germany, Austria, Italy, France
Writing Time with Water: Private and Personal Performance, Hutong in Beijing, Beijing, China
Secret-divulging: Installation, Hutong, Beijing, China
Bei Fang: Installation, Apartment, Beijing, China
1994
Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?: Installation Show and Performance, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Life with Cultural Noodles, Hutong, Beijing, China
Television: Video Installation Art Show, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing, China
1992
Show of Oil Paintings, Forty-one Middle School, Beijing, China Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Form Through Narrative: New Chinese Art, Pace Palo Alto, Palo Alto, USA
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Transient Existence-Roaming Spirituality in Things, Exhibition of China's Contemporary Art, House of Phoenix, London, UK
2016
An Exhibition about Exhibitions: Displaying Contemporary Art in the 1990s, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China2015, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Where Can The Dust Alight, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Agitprop, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Chinese Apartment Art: Primary Documents from Gao Minglu's Archive, 1970s-1990s, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
1st Yinchuan Biennale 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, ChinaTalking on Paper, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, M+, Hong Kong, China
Time Testing: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
Utopia/Heterotopia-Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China
Chinese Utopias' Revisited - the Elephant, Palais de Beaux-arts (BOZAR), Brussels, BelgiumTouching Area, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Triennial Bruges 2015, Bruges, Belgium
China 8, Osthaus Museum/Kunst Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr/Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl, Rhine Ruhr Region, Germany
Flemish Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
GLASSTRESS 2015, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Scenes for a New Heritage :Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
What I saw with Your Eyes, Shanghai Exhibition Center, China
Revenge of the Common Place with Francis Alys, Song Dong, Rinus van de Velde, Openart in Orebro, Orebro, Sweden
2014
COSMOS : Opening Exhibition of Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
West says East says, Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Master Mould & Copy Room, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Translated Conclusion, Chinese New Media Art Techniques and Practice since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Where Is China? Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal, The Millennium Museum, Beijing, China
Unlived by What is seen, Pace Gallery; Tang Contemporary Art; Galleria Continua
East Bridge: In the Absence of Avant-garde Reading, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China
Away from the night, Mind Set Art Center, Beijing, China
Circle, International Contemporary Art Show, CCBB Sao Paulo, Brazil
Point of Encounter: What did the avant-garde miss out, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Liquid Times, Contemporary Art of Korea and China, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Against the idea of growth, towards poetry, or how to build the world that doesn't fall apart two days later' Aarhus Contemporary Art Center, Aarhus, Denmark
2013
Beijing Voice: Relations, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Portrait of The Times, 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The 5th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Aichi Triennale 2013, Nagoya ,Japan
Insightful Chrisma, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
Rewriting Landscape: Contemporary Art from China and India, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
DUCHAMP and/or/in China, UCCA, Beijing, China
Those Leading Contemporary Art Practices A Juried Invitational Exhibition of AAC, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Overlapping Reflection, Zhu Jiajiao Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhu Jiajiao, China
Filter The Public, SWFC 5th Anniversary Art Project, Shanghai, China
Pessimism or Resistance? Taikang Space, Beijing, China
2012
The First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, UkraineDOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, China
Copenhagen Art Festival, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
The 1st Xinjiang Biennale, Wulumuqi Exhibition Centre, Wulumuqi, China
Real Life Stories, Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
MOVE ON ASIA-The End of Video Art, Alt Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd China Western Biennale, Yinchuan Museum of Art, Yinchuan, China
Images et Mots Depuis Magritte, Art of China, Beijing, China
SONG DONG & YIN XIUZHEN - SELF-SHOT (2002) - 2-CHANNEL VIDEO - 62:41 MINUTES, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2011
Song Dong: Para-pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The 2nd Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
2011
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Moving Image in China: 1988 - 2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Couple Show, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China Contemporary Art Top Events, Top Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China
Start From The Horizon, Chinese Contemporary Sculpture since 1978, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Esposizione Internazionale d'Artela biennale di venezia, Venezia, Italy
Personality, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2010
Beijing Voice: Together or Isolated, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Great Performances, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Construction Dimension: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
The 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Memories and Beyond: Kuandu Biennale, Taipei, China
Absolute Distance, White Space, Beijing, China
Shan Shui 2010: H2O, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
2009
Tofu, Shanghai Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, China
Re-Imagining Asia, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
The End of Video, LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
SU: MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
Everything, Then, Passes between Us, Kolnischer Kunstverein Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2009 Shenzhen & Hongkong, Bi-City of Urbanism / Architecture, Shenzhen, China
Government Building Complex R6 project, Oslo, Norway
2008
Re-Imagining Asia HKW, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The Vernacular Terrain, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia
Homesickness, Memory and Virtual Reality, T Space, Beijing, China
Facing Reality: Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Art of China, Beijing, China
Reasia, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
ROJO A PARTE-ARTE CONTEMPORáNEO CHINO DE LA COLECCIóN SIGG, The Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
The Man of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York,USA
FACE EAST-CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART, Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA
2007
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Asian Attitude, European Attitude, Art Hall Faust, Hannover, Germany; National Museum of Poznan, Poland
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen, China
China Facing Reality, Mumok Museum, Monderner Kunst Stiftung Wein, Vienna, Austria
Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Rejected Collection: More the 40 Chinese Artists / Over 60 Rejected Proposals, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
China Now, Cobra Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
Made in China - The Estella Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Changes-Video Art from China，24HR Art, Darwin, Australia
Asia-Europe Mediations, IF Museum Inner Spaces, poznan, PolandRouge Baiser，Frac Pays De La Loire, Carker, France
2006
News, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
38 Solo Shows, Shanghai, China
Exposed: Black Box & Crystal Ball, Cross-Culture Contemporary Media Art Project in Public Sites, London, UK
2006 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
All Our Tomorrows: The Culture of Camouflage, Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
Recent Acquisitions Part II, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Skin of the City: Researches in Possibility of Images of Contemporary City, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Between past and future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, B Berlin, Germany
China Trade, Centre A-Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Only One Wall, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2005
In and Out or In-between: N kinds of Space Displacement, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
On the Water, Munich, Germany
Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, U.S.A
There's only one wall, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
The Plain of Heaven, 820 Washington Street, New York, U.S.A
Two Asia, Two Europe, Dulun Museum of Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
Performance Art in China: Exhibition by Invitation, Macao Arts Museum, Macao, China Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation, Miami, U.S.A
Skin of the City, Macao Arts Center, Macao, China
The Other End, He Xiang Ning Arts Museum, Shenzhen, China Place in China, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USAIndeterminate States-Video in the Ella Fontanals, CIFO-Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Made for this World-Contemporary Art and the Places We Build, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Irreducible, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
85 Salute , Shanghai Duolun Museum Of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
I am Making Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Slow Down, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Shanghai Cool: Creative Reproduction, Shanghai Duolun Museum Of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Karou Arima-How latitudes become forms-Arte en la era global, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
2004
Human Scale, Guangzhou Contemporary Dance, Guangzhou, China Concrete Horizons: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Visual Performance, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A
Le Moine et le Demon: Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Play with Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
Asian Traffic, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia
City Signal, National Studio of Contemporary Art, Tourcoing, France Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, White Chapel Art Gallery, London, UK
HOW LATITUDES BECOME FORMS-ARTE EN LA ERA GLOBAL, Mexico City, MexicoLa Ville Qui Fait Signe, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
SLOW RUSHES-TAKES ON THE DOCUMENTARY SENSIBILITY, CAC, Vilnius, LithuaniaBetween past and future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, U.S.A
Art-Immigration-Utopia, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
China-Video Generation, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Asia Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy
The 26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2003
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A
Open Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Alors la Chine: Chinese Contemporary Art, Cente Pompidou, Paris, France
The Eighth Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Lijiang International Art Workshop, Lijiang Mu Palace, Lijiang, China
Every day: Contemporary Art from China, Japan; Korea; Thailand; Kunstforeningen; Copenhagen, Denmark
Together with Farmer Workers, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China Open Sky, Duolun MoMA, Shanghai, ChinaLeft-Wing, Left Bank Commune, Beijing, China The Blue Sky Doesn't Establish to Defend, Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
Distance, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Return Nature II: An Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, Nanjing Shenghua Arts Center, Nanjing, China
Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
What about China, Centre Pompidou-Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, FranceMedia Centre Project, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Der Rest Der Welt, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Chinart15, Macro, Museo D'arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
The SARS era: song dong and Yin xiuzhen, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
2002
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
On My Way to Timbouctoo…, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Long March: a Walking Visual Exhibition, China
The 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 2002), Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Harvest, Beijing National Agricultural Pavilion, Beijing, China
What? A Tale in Free Images, Memling Museum, Bruges, Belgium
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Taipei Biennale, Taipei Art Museum, Taipei, China
Chopsticks-Song dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
Beijing Afloat，Tokyo Gallery+ Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
Unterwegs nach Timbuktu, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Interactive Port: Eyes-Song dong Multimedia Art Exhibition, BISC, Beijing, China
2001
China & Germany Art Show, Dahau, Germany
Fictitious Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway
The 1st Liangsicheng Architecture Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Travelers Tales: inIVA Art Project, inIVA, London, UK
Up-Rising: Contemporary Visual Art Project, Hong Kong, China
Dancing with Farmer Workers, East Modern Art Centre, Beijing, China
Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Germany
Shot in the Face, Earl lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore
Loft New Media Art Festival, Loft New Medium Art Center, Beijing, China
Next Wave News, Loft New Medium Art Center, Beijing, China
Basel Expo, Basel, Switzerland
Sound 2: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jieziyuan art space, Beijing, China
Crossroads, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Cheng Du, China
Non-Linear Narrative: The New-Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
Money Funny Honey, Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China
Knowledge is Power: Contemporary Art Exhibit, Xidan Book Emporium, Beijing, China
2000
At the New Century 1979-1999 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Arts Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Microwave Festival 2000, Videotape, Hong Kong, China
New Conceptual Photography: China Scene, Century Theater, Beijing, China
Home: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Shanghai, China
Macao New Media Arts Festival, Fountain Square, Macao, China
EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany
China Avant-garde Artists Documents, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The 18th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Virtual and Real, Imperial Archives Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Unusual & usual, Yuan Gong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Fuck Off, East link Gallery, Shanghai, China
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Cancel: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A
The Flying Circus Project, Theatworks, SingaporeVideo Circle Performances 2000, Hong Kong, China; Berlin, Germany
1999
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of 20th Century, the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A
Transmedial-1999, 99 Video Fest, Berlin, Germany
Supermarket: Art for Sale, Shanghai Square, Shanghai, China
Fast Forward New Chinese Video Art, Macao Contemporary Art Center, Macao, China
I Am Here, Bad Ems, GermanyBeijing Document, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China
Cities on the Move 7, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FinlandInspiration, cooperate with sixty 10 years old children, Shanghai, China
All Around, Tongzhou and Changyuan, Beijing, China
KHOJ International Artists Workshop, Delhi, India
Amsterdam Fest, the Netherlands
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Henry Art Gallery, Univ of Washington, Washington, USA
Tanztheater: KHOJ International Artists Workshop, China
1998
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art 98, Art Now Studio, Beijing, China
Site Art Project, Tokyo, Japan
Space and Vision, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China Transmedial-1998, 98 Video Fest, Berlin, Germany
Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, Asia Society Galleries, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A
Im Spiegel der Eigenen Tradition, German Embassy, Beijing, China
It's Me! A Profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Beijing Forbidden City Taimiao, Beijing, China
1997
Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jing Zhe, Director Curator and One of Artists, Beijing; Shanghai; Chengdu;
Guangzhou, China, with Guo Shirui
97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Steirischer Herbst 97: Borderlines(Graz), China, with Zhang Yonghe
Cities on the Move, Finland
Contemporary Drama: Pour Out, Beijing, China
The first Chinese Contemporary Art Academic Exchange Activity, Beijing, China
1996
Out of the White Cube, Hong Kong, China In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
96 International Com-Art Show in Suwon: China•Korea•Japan, Suwon City, South Korea
Keeper of Water, United Project for Outdoor Experiment with American Artists, Tibet, China
1995
95 Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes, Beijing and Berlin Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
New Asian Art Show: China•Korea•Japan, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan 1994
The Third Document Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
94 International Com-Art Show in Beijing: China·Korea•Japan, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
1992
The 1st Biennial Art Exhibition in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China 1989
The 7th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
1988
New Time Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1987
First National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Shanghai, China
Public Collections
M+ Museum for Visual Art and Culture, Hong Kong
Asia Art Archive, Hong KongTate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, AustraliaThe Regional Funds of Contemporary Art of the Pays de la Loire, La Fleuriaye, France
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A

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SUI JIANGUO

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

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Wang Guangyi

WANG GUANGYI
Born in Harbin, China
Graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts (formerly the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts), Hangzhou, China
Solo Exhibition
2019
Wang Guangyi Research on Popular Anthropology, XUN WAY, Shanghai, China
2016
Image Correction-Wang Guangyi, Museum of Contemporary Art, SingaporeNorthern Temperature-Wang Guangyi, Museum of Luxun Academic of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Wang Guangyi Existence And Transcendence, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2015
Wang Guangyi-Relics of Believers, MAC contemporary Art Museum, A Coruna, Spain
The 5th Art Changsha-China: Bridges To/ Bridges From History, Technology, Poetry, And Grace, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China
2014
Implosion and Crises: International Forum on experimental art of Wang Guangyi, Museum of Xinan Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Wang Guangyi, Viaggio in Italia, Museo di Villa Rufolo, Salerno, Italy
Negatives of Idols-Wang Guangyi, Spring Art Center, Beijing, China
2012
Things-In-Itself: Utopia, Pop and Personal Theology, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Wang Guangyi: Cold War Aesthetic(Shanghai Pujiang Oversea Chinese Town Public Art Project), Pujiang Oversea Chinese Town, Shanghai, China
2011
Visual Archives of Chinese Contemporary-Wang Guangyi. The Interactive Mirror Image, Tank
Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art center, Chongqing, China
2008
Visual Polity: Another Wang Guangyi, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
Cold War Aesthetics-Wang Guangyi, Louise Blouin Institute of Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
2007
Wang Guangyi, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France
2006
Wang Guangyi, Arario Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2004
Wang Guangyi, Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
2003
Wang Guangyi, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France
2001
Wang Guangyi: Face of Faith, Soobin Art Int'l Gallery, Singapore
1996
Witnessed-Wang Guangyi, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland
1994
Wang Guangyi, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Group Exhibition
2017
METAMORPHOSIS: Huang Zhuan Memorial Invitational Exhibition , OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2016
Working in collusion-First E’mei Invitation Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, E’mei, China
Art Historical Flashbacks: Another Path in Chinese Contemporary Art, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Models-The Visual Experience and Cultural Identity of Chinese Modernity, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China
An Exhibition about Exhibitions: Displaying Contemporary Art in 1990s, OCAT, Beijing, China
Busan Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
3rd Nanjing International Arts Festival Historicode: Scarcity and Supply, Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China
The 3rd Today's Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
Loitering Spirit: A Tribute to Paul Gauguin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tahiti
Breaking the Image: Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary Artists From China, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China
La Sindone e l’impronta dell’arte, Museo Civico di Sansepolcro, Arezzo, Italy
The Civil Power: Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Northern Artist Group Archival Exhibition, North Art Group, Kong Kong, China
Displaying Fragments: Ten Years of OCAT (2005-2015), OCAT, Beijing, China
2014
Hanart 100: Idiosyncrasies, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
8+1-A Project of Experimental Art, Guangdong Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2013
Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Venice, ItalyPost Pop: East Meets West, 2014, Saatchi Gallery, London
2012
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial: Serendipitous Information-Art is Not a System-Nor is it World, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2011
Museum on Paper: 12 Chinese Artists, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (ICCA), Beijing, China
Pure Views: New Painting from China, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Chengdu Biennale-Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chengdu, China
Collecting History: China New Art, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
Little Movements: Self Practice in Contemporary Art, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2010
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Pure Views, Louise Blouin Institute of Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
Art for the World: The Sculpture Project of the EXPO Boulevard in the World EXPO 2010, Shanghai, China
Chinese Contemporary Art From 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Constructed Dimension: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Minimum, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Made in Pop Land, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009
A collateral Event of 53rd International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia-A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice, Italy
State Legacy: A Visual History Project on the State Concept, Manchester Institute Research and Innovation of Art and Design; OCAT, Shenzhen, China
CHINAMANIA, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yi Pai, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Collision-Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Fine Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
2008
Case Studies of Artists in Art History , SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
Writing On The Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Netherlands
Today’s China, Bellevue Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Encounter, Pace Beijing Gallery, China
Red, Smooth and Luminescent Contemporary Expression, Xindong Cheng Gallery, Beijing, China
Avant-garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan;
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan; etc
People-History-Exhibition of Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Revolution Continues-New Art From China, The Saatchi Gallery, UK
2007
We Are Your Future: Special Project in Moscow Biennale 2007,Moscow, Russia
Chinese Contemporary Sots Art, The State Tretykov Gallery,Moscow, Russia
Post-Martial Law vs Post-89: The Contemporary Art In Taiwan and China, Taiwan Museum of Art, China
RED HOT: Asian Art Today,Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The USA
SH Contemporary 2007-Best of Artists, Shanghai Exhibition Center, ShangHai, China
Forms of Concepts: 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Art Scene, Wuhan, China
The Supplemental History : Contemporary Artworks from Collection of Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China85 New Wave: the Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
1997-2007 Awakening from a Ten-Year Long Sleep, Hejingyuan Art Center, Beijing, China
Absolute Images II, Arario New York Gallery, New York, The USA
Escape By Crafty Scheme: Salvation From Traditional And Revolutional Language, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Sport in Art 2007-2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China; Art Museum of Guangzhou Art Academy, China; RCM the Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing, China; Gallery of Luxun Art Academy, Shenyang, China; Sichuan Fine Arts Museum, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006
Jiang Hu, Tilton Gallery, New York, The USA
Absolute Images I, Arario Seoul Gallery, Korea
Plato and His Seven Spirit, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
From The Frigid Zone to The Old Indus trial Area: Northeast Contemporary Art Exhibition of China
1985-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Blossoming of Realism: The Oil Painting of Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
Create History: Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2005
Body Temperature: Invoking the Legacy of Hans Christian Anderson through Chinese Contemporary Art, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Invitation Exhibition: Opening Ceremony of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, OCAT, Shenzhen, ChinaOpen 2005-8th International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation, Lido, Venice, Italy
Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Beijing Gallery, China
Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National Museum of the Arts, Taipei, China
2004
China, the Body Everywhere(Chine, Le corps partout), Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
Art on the Beach: Sculptures, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris, France; Han Art TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China; ADAGP, Paris, France
2003
Alors, La Chine, Pompidou Art Center, Paris, France
From China with Art-The Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
An Opening Era: Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Founding of National Museum of China, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
CP Open Biennale 2003, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2002
The Power of Image, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Chinese Modernity, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paris-Peking, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
Take Part Ⅱ , Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
Media and Arts, International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Golden Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art, Zagreb Museum of Art, Hrvatska
The First China Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Concept Image: 2002 China Modern Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial : Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990- 2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
Towards New Image:20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Museum of China, Beijing, China. etc.
Polypolis: Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
Next Generation: Art Contemporain d’Asie, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
5 Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Transplantation in Situ, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000
Door of the New Century, Chengdu Art Scene, Chengdu, China
Society: The 2nd Academic Exhibition Upriver Gallery, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Futuroe: Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center of Macao, Macao, China
1998
Inside Out-New Chinese Art 1998-2000, Asia Society Galleries, New York, United States；P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, United States；San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, United States；Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States；Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico；Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, United States；Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong S.A.R.
1997
Magie der Zahl-In der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Chinese Art of The 1990s: Faces and Bodies of The Middle Kingdom, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, the Czech Republic
Red and Grey-8 Avant-garde Chinese Artists, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Quotation Marks, Singapore Art Museum, SingaporeIn and Out, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore; Arts Gallery of Sydney College, Australia; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
1996
Begegnungen mit China, Ludwig Forum Fur International Kunst, GermanyChina! Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany
The Second Asia-pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, AustraliaThe First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Museum of China, Beijing, China;
The Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
1995
Art to Swatch, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, The USA
New Asian Art Show-China, Korea, Japan, Kilin Plaza, Osaka; Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie, Neue Kunst Aus China, Hamburg, Germany
Aperto 95, Avant-gardes Artistiques Xinesses, Santa Monica Center d’Art, Barcelona, Spain
1994
22nd Sao Paulo Art Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
94 Beijing International Com-Art Show: China, Korea, Japan, The Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China;
600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Mao Goes Pop, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
China’s New Art, Marlborough Gallery, London,United KingdomChina’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China; Political Pop,
China’s New Art:Han Art Taipei Gallery, Taipei, China; New Art from China:Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
China Avant-garde, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford UK; Kunsthallen Brandts Kladefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1992
The 1st Biennial of Art in the 1990s, Guangzhou International Exhibition Centre, China
1991Cocart Bevete Arte Contemporarea,Bianca Pilat Gallery, Milan, Italy
1990I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne, Asian Pacific Museum, California, USA
1989China Avant-garde, National Museum of China, Beijing, China

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Artists

Xu Bing

徐冰-祖籍浙江温岭，1955生于中国重庆，长在北京。
1977年考入北京中央美术学院版画系，
1981年毕业留校任教，
1987年获得中央美院硕士学位。
1990年作为荣誉艺术家访美。
2007年回国就任中央美术学院副院长，教授，博导。现工作、生活于北京。作品曾在纽约现代美术馆、美国大都会博物馆、美国华盛顿赛克勒国家美术馆、伦敦大英博物馆、英国维多利亚艾伯特博物馆,西班牙索菲亚女王国家美术馆、澳大利亚新南威尔士美术馆及当代艺术博物馆、加拿大国家美术馆、捷克国家美术馆及德国路维希美术馆等艺术机构展出；参加威尼斯双年展、悉尼双年展、圣保罗双年展等国际展。
作品进入:
1997美国97年版世界艺术史教科书古今艺术 (Art Past - Art Present)(Prentice Hall, Abrams 出版社)美国及欧洲权威世界艺术史教科书加德纳世界艺术史(Gardner's Art Through the Ages)地书作品进入美国梅格斯平面设计史
2001美国史密森学会出版文字游戏：徐冰的艺术(Brita Erickson著)
2006美国普林斯顿大学出版社出版持续性/转型—以文字为图像:徐冰的艺术2009英国伯纳德.夸里奇有限公司(Bernard Quaritch Ltd and contributors)出版创作天书的道路(Tianshu: Passges in the Making of a Book)(约翰凯利等著)
2011美国弗吉尼亚大学出版社出版烟草计划：杜克、上海、弗吉尼亚(John B.Ravenal等著)
2012纽约大学出版社出版徐冰与中国当代艺术(曹星原主编), 北京文化艺术出版社出版徐冰：凤凰的诞生(周瓒编)
2013意大利EBS出版社出版桃花源的理想一定要實現
2014法国Thircuir出版社出版徐冰凤凰美国MassMoca出版社与中国广西师大出版社分别出版地书之书英文版与中文版
2015北京中信出版社出版徐冰第一本文集我的真文字
获奖：
1999由于他的原创性、创造能力、个人方向和对社会，尤其在版画和书法领域中作出重要贡献的能力，获得美国最重要的个人成就奖，麦克阿瑟天才奖 (MacArthur Award)
2003由于对亚洲文化的发展所做的贡献，获得第十四届日本福冈亚洲文化奖2004获得首届威尔士Artes Mundi国际视觉艺术奖，评委会主席奥奎(Okwui Enwezor)在授奖辞中说：
徐冰是一位能够超越文化界线，将东西方文化相互转换，用视觉语言表达他的思想和现实问题的艺术家2006由于对文字、语言和书籍溶智的使用，对版画与当代艺术这两个领域间的对话和沟通所产生的巨大影响，获全美版画家协会，版画艺术终身成就奖2010被美国哥伦比亚大学授予人文学荣誉博士学位2015被授予美国国务院颁发的艺术勋章，被美国康乃尔大学授予安德鲁－迪克森－怀特教授称号

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Artists

Yin Xiozhen

尹秀珍，1963年生于中国北京。
作为一名中国当代艺术的女性领军人物，尹秀珍自1989年毕业于首都师范大学美术系油画专业之后，便开始了她的艺术创作生涯，并且广泛活跃于国际各大展览。尹秀珍目前工作生活在北京，与她的丈夫宋冬共同从事艺术创作。　　
尹秀珍的作品通过对旧物的拼接，传达了对于现代社会全球化与同化问题的探索。她利用回收的材料形成一种雕塑性的记忆文献，在高度城市化、现代化以及全球经济增长的急速变化中，试图将那些通常会被忽略的事物个性化，以暗示生命的个体性。艺术家解释说：“在高度变化的中国，‘记忆’似乎比任何事物都消逝得更快。所以保存记忆已经成为了另一种生活方式。”尹秀珍将记忆作为审视其周围政治、社会以及环境构想的批判工具。　　
艺术家土生土长在北京，受北京环境快速变化的启发，作品的主题包含了记忆、过去和当下，以及人与其生长在其中的不断变幻的社会之间复杂的关系。通过将旧物聚集在一个新的语境之下，尹秀珍成功地将过去的经历与当下的体验和状态编织在一起。就这样，在试图传达全球性变化之下个体生命状态的过程中，她将“记忆”与“经验”融合起来。　　
尹秀珍曾参加国际许多重大展览，包括2008年上海双年展、2004年悉尼双年展、2004年第26界圣保罗双年展，以及1998年由亚洲协会及旧金山现代美术馆主办的“蜕变突破——华人新艺术”展等。目前，纽约现代艺术博物馆“项目92”正在展出她的大型装置作品《集体潜意识》，这一作品曾在2007年北京公社举办的尹秀珍个展上首次展出。艺术家曾获得包括中国当代艺术奖（CCAA）以及2000年联合国教科文青年艺术家奖（UNESCO/ASCHBERG award）在内的多个重要奖项，她的作品也曾在《纽约时报》（2006年）及《美国艺术》（2003年）上受到高度认可。佩斯北京于2010年3月18日举办的尹秀珍个展“第二张皮”，为观众呈现了尹秀珍的全新作品。1963年生于北京。1989年毕业于首都师范大学美术系获学士学位,现在在北京生活和工作。　　
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Zhou Chunya

ZHOU CHUNYA
1955 Born in Chongqing, China
1982 Graduated from the Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Art, Chongqing, China
1988 Graduated from Experiment Art department of Kassel Academy of Fine Art, Kassel, GermanyNow lives and works in Chengdu and Shanghai, China
Solo Exhibition:
2019
The Splendours of the Southeast，Long Museum，Shanghai，China
2018
Spring‧Sprout，POLY GALLERY II, Hong Kong, China
Zhou Chunya: Hong Kong Solo Exhibition, Amanda Wei Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2015
Zhou Chunya New Works 2015, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
2013
2013 New Works by Zhou Chunya, Art Museum of Nanjing University the Arts, Nanjing, China2012New Works by Zhou Chunya
2012,
Zhou Chunya Art Academy of Shanghai, Shanghai, China20101971-2010
Forty Years Retrospective Review of Zhou Chunya, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2008
Zhou Chunya, Green Dog, Jakarta, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
Blooming Stories: Paintings & Sculptures by Zhou Chunya, Beijing Today Art Museum, China
2006
New Works by Zhou Chunya”, Shanghai Gallery of Art at Three on the Bond, Shanghai, China
2002
Zhou Chunya, Museum of Modern Art Contemporary, Trento, ItalyZhou Chunya Art Show: Green Dogs, 314 international Art Centre, Bergen, Norway
GroupExhibition:
2018
Being Hale and Hearty Invitation Exhibition to Retired Artists of Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu, China
Zhou Chunya & Fang Lijun’s Joint Solo Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China
Turning Point-40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China
Art History Shaped by 40 Artists：40x40 from 1978-2018, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2017
The Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Masters’Manuscript（First Chapter）The 10th Anniversary of Triumph Gallery，Beijing，China
2016
What About The Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery ALRIWAQ, Doha, Qatar
2015
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 , Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk Province, Korea
2014
Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China
Social Landscape---The Landscape Narration in Chinese Contemporary Painting as well as its Cultural Concept Changes, Chengdu Art BondedFacility, Chengdu International Cultural Art Exchange Centre, Chengdu, China
2013
Art Changsha 2013, Changsha Municipal Museum, Changsha, China
Passage to History—20 Years of La Biennale Di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale Di Venezia Nappa 89, Italy
2012
Through All Ages: Long Museum Opening Series Exhibitions, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Chinese Expressionism, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011
5th Chengdu Biennale: Pure View, Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu, China
2010
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
Martell Artists of the Year 2010, joint-exhibition in: Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
2009
A Collateral Event For The 53rd Biennale Di Venezia: A Gift To MARCO POLO, VIU(Island of San Servolo), Italy
2007
Beyond Icons: Chinese Contemporary Art in Miami, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
Post-Martial Law vs Post-89: Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, Taiwan Art Museum, Taiwan, China
2006
Expanded Realism-Oil Painting of Mainland China Since 1978，Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
2005
2nd Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
The First International Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art Montpelier, Montpelier, France
Focus on China, WBK Vrije Academie, Den Haan, Hague, Holland
2004
Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation - Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Britain.
2003
ALORS, LA CHINE?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2002
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Dream-Contemporary Chinese Art, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, England
2001
First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
5 Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Towards a New Image：Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Touring Show in National Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum, China
2000
Chinese Oil Painting in 20th Century, National Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1998
East meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997
The Nature of Portraiture, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, ChinaQuotation Mark—Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum, Singapore
1996
China!- Chinese Contemporary Art, Bonn Art Museum, Bonn, Germany
First Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaThe First Academic Invited Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art 1996-1997,
Touring Show in National Art Museum, Beijing and Hong Kong, China
1994
The Annual Exhibition of Works of the Artists Nominated by Art Critics, National Art Museum, China
1993
Chinese Experiences, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China1993-1997 China New Art, Post-1989, Touring Show in Hong Kong, UK. etc
1992
Guangzhou The First 1990s' Biennale Art Fair(Oil Painting Part), The Exhibition Centre of Guangzhou Hotel, Guangzhou, China
1985
Chinese Youth Art Exhibition in Forward, National Art Museum, Beijing, China1981The Second China Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum, Beijing, China

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Artists

Zhang Xiaogang

张晓刚的艺术经历与创作不仅构成了中国当代艺术史上的一个特殊案例，同时也表征着一位杰出艺术家在其所处时代中的价值立场。张晓刚的绘画以个人经历和记忆为基础，以叙述性的画面场景表达个体的经验、故事与情感。他将来自历史与现实、集体记忆与个人回忆的典型意象予以抒情性和自由的提炼、重组、转换，为一代人普遍的历史经验赋予了其全新的视觉形式与生命力。

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