XU BING BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1955 in China
Lives and works in New York, Beijing
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
One: Xu Bing, Brooklyn Museum of ArtNew York City, NYUnited States
Xu Bing: Thought and Method, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia
Xu Bing: Dragonfly Eyes, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2018
Xu Bing - Thought and Method, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
Xu Bing - Language and Nature, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
Xu Bing - Dragonfly Eyes, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2016
Xu Bing: Book From the Sky, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, United States
30 Years Of Cfcca | Xu Bing, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, United Kingdom
2015
Xu Bing, Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, United States
Xu Bing: Writing Between Heaven and Earth, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, United States
Xu Bing - Things Are Not What They First Appear, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, United States
2014
The Language of Xu Bing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, United States
It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Xu Bing: A Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
Xu Bing: Phoenix, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA, United States
Nine Deaths, Two Births, Freer and Sackler Galleries - The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, United States
Two Installations By Xu Bing, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, United States
Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, United Kingdom
2012
Book from the Ground, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, United States
Xu Bing, Carlsten Gallery - University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, United States
Xu Bing : From the "bible" to "books", Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing - Tobacco Project, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, United States
2011
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, United States
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States
2010
Xu Bing Aerial Phoenix Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society and Museum, New York City, NY, United States
Exodus II : Unhinging The Great Wall: Chinese Art Revealed, East Village Ny, 1980S, Whitebox Art Center, New York City, NY, United States
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, United States
In Real Life, Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, IL, United States
Five Monologic Spatial Dialogues, Tang Contemporary Art – Beijing, Beijing, China
2019
Out of Ink - Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2018
Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Cosmopolis, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Sculpture As History, Sculpture Projects Ping Yao, Pingyao, China
Lebendige Tinte, Kunstraum F200, Berlin, Germany
Turning Point - 40 years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum Pudong, Shanghai, China
Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (MOCA Yinchuan), Yinchuan, China
NordArt 2018, NordArt - Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
墨境 Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, CA, United States
The Fuck Off Generation Part II, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY, United States
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
Love Long: Robert Indiana And Asia, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Practice and Exchange: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
2017
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, United States
NordArt 2017, NordArt - Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Luther und die Avantgarde, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
Imaginary Asia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si, South Korea
Grafiche internazionali dagli anni Sessanta agli anni Ottanta, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
2016
What about the Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery Alriwaq, Doha, Qatar
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Linguistic Pavillion, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015
A New Dynasty - Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
First Look: Collecting Contemporary At The Asian, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, United States
China - A Summer Show 2015, Ben Brown Fine Arts - Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A Voz Do Tradutor. Premio Marco/frac Lorraine/sfkm Para Novos Comisarios 2014, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (MARCO), Vigo, Spain
China 8 - Tradition Heute – Tuschemalerei und Kalligrafie, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
China 8 - Neue Figuration – Erzählende Skulptur, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
China 8: Overview – Blicke auf China, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
Listening to the Lines, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan
Inexhaustible and Limitless, Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC), Hong Kong, Hong Kong
China’S Changing Landscape - Contemporary Chinese Ink, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2014
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Secret Signs - Zeitgenössische Chinesische Kunst Im Namen Der Schrift, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Future Returns: Contemporary Art From China, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, United States
Migration, Claire Oliver, New York City, NY, United States
West Says East Says – Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum Wuhan, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Neo-Mōrōism, BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects) – Beijing, Beijing, China
Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, United States
The 12th National Art Exhibition - Experimental Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
ZUR NACHAHMUN GEMPFOHLEN! - Expeditionen in Ästhetik & Nachhaltigkeit, Zollverein, Essen, Germany
My Chinese Friends, ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
Myth / History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Reset Chinese Contemporary Art, Soka Art Beijing, Beijing, China
Spiritual As Mountains, Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anniversary: A Selection From Sga Collection, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Hanart 100: Idiosyncrasies, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2013
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Between Character and Calligraphy, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Xian, Xian, China
Now and Then: Contemporary Ink vs Antiquities, Lucie Chang Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Destruction and Creation, Soka Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Freedom: Just Another Word For..., Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA, United States
Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
@what - New Contemporary Art From China | BeijingArt, mia Foundation, Beijing, China
Contemporary Art and Process of the Society, Circle Art Center, Shenzhen, China
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai, China
Zero +Whitebox Art Center, New York City, NY, United States
New Contemporary Art from China, Insa Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
Collecting Art of Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, United States
Nothing to Declare? - World Maps of Art since '89, AdK - Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany
2012
Re-Ink Invitational Exhibition Of Contemporary Ink And Wash Painting 2010-2012, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Re-Ink Invitational Exhibition Of Contemporary Ink And Wash Painting 2010-2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Original Forms of Chinese Water Ink Painting, Sanchuan Modern Art Museum, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Future Pass World Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Real Life Stories, KODE, Bergen, Norway
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, United States
Beyond Printed Words -Books and Letters in Art-, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM), Fukuoka, Japan
Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Eine andere Moderne. Zeitgenössische chinesische Tuschemalerei, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
examples to follow! expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Iberia Art Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Selected Collection Series - International Artists Collection Exhibition, Art Museum at The Art Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Beyond Representation - An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tiancheng International, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Future Pass, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Vision - Soka Art 20th Anniversary, Soka Art Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
Vision - Soka Art 20th Anniversary, Soka Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Calligraphy, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Print/Out, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, United States
Do a Book, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
2011
Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Global Contemporary, Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints, The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Collecting History: China New Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (MoCA), Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Shanshui, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Expression of Chinses Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Beyond The Boundary, Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan
Language: Abstract and Concrete, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, United States
2010
The Power From Academy - Cafa Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Collecting Contemporary Art: The FUNd at ASU Art Museum, ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, United States
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA), Boston, MA, United States
Zur Nachahmung Empfohlen! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability, Westwendischer Kunstverein e.V.Gartow, Germany
Courier, University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Painting, College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM), Wooster, OH, United States
Cruzando el horizonte: Exposición de arte contemporáneo de China, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago Chile (MNBA), Santiago, Chile
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, NY, United States
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing / Miao Xiaochun - Chinesische Landschaften neu betrachtet, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, United Sates
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United Sates
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, United Sates
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, United Sates
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, United Sates
University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, United Sates
The West Collection, Oaks, United Sates
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (MoCA), Chengdu, China
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM), Fukuoka, Japan
AWARDS
2018
CAFA Agnès Varda Award “Star of the Year”
2017
FIPRESCI Prize, 2017 Locarno Film Festival
2016
Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA)
2015
The Department of State’s office of Art in Embassies (AIE)- Medal of Arts, New York
2015 de FINE art honoree of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
Liberty award, LMCC
Appointed by Cornell University as the Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large.
2014
The spirit of the city award, Cathedral of St John the Divine
2013
honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design
2012
The Washington Post lists Tobacco Project as one of the “Top 10 Works of Art and Architecture in 2011.”
2010
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia University, New York
2007
Southern Graphics Council Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award
2006
International Association of Art Critics Award for “Best Installation or Single Work of Art in a Museum, New England”
2005
The Youth Friends Award, NYC
2004
Artes Mundi Prize
American Academy in Berlin Coca-Cola Fellowship
2003
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
- Markus Lüpertz
- Mustafa Hulusi
- Pascal Dombis
- Ahn Chang Hong
- Jung MyungTaek
- Junggeun OH
- Woo Jongduk
- Hori Kosai
- Nakazawa Hideki
- On Kawara
- Nam June Paik
- Xu Bing
- Tan Ping
- Yin Zhaoyang
- Alex Katz
- Julian Schnabel
- Richard Pettibone
- Chong Gon Byun
- Zhang Fangbai
- Marcel Broodthaers
- Choi Myoung Young
- Kim Tschoon Su
- Jeom Soo Na
- Yu Kuk IL
- Lee Kyo Jun
- Park Eun Sun