Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Photography, Video |
Most exhibitions in:
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| Country |
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| China | 53 |
| USA | 45 |
| Germany | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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| Institution |
№ |
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Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, USA |
11 |
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Hanart TZ Gallery, China |
9 |
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Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, China |
4 |
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Guangzhou Triennial, China |
4 |
Biography: 
1969 Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian (CN)
Lives and works in Beijing (CN)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 146 
until 9.4.2017
Solo shows 18
2012
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| Prompts & Triggers Act II: Blueprints - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
2011
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| Energy : Installation Projects by Qiu Zhijie - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Qiu Zhijie and Total Art Studio : 'How to Become an Empty Man' - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
2009
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| Götzendämmerung - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Qiu Zhijie - Charim Galerie, Vienna |
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| Mochou - Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY |
2008
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| The Bridge, Nanjing, Under the Heaven - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Qiu Zhijie: Mochou - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Qiu Zhijie - STPI - Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore |
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| Qiu Zhijie: Ataraxic of Zhuang Zi - A Suicidology of The Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge - Himalayas Art Museum (the former Zendai Museum of Modern Art) , Shanghai |
2007
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| Archeology of Memory - J & Z Gallery, Shenzhen |
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| Archeology of Memory - Long March Space, Beijing |
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| Cryptogram - Qiu Zhijie in Untersberg - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| The Shape of Time - Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Qiu Zhijie - Grace Li Gallery, Zurich |
2005
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| Qiu Zhijie - Light and Words - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
2004
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| Qiu Zhijie: Social Portraits - The CourtYard Gallery, Beijing |
2001
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| Invisibility - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
Group shows 127
2013
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| Et la Chine s'est éveillée... - Chapelle De La Visitation - Espace D'Art Contemporain, Thonon-Les-Bains |
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| Inaugural Opening - Yallay Space, Hong Kong, SAR |
2012
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| Rising Dragon - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
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| 39 Steps up the Corridor - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Eine andere Moderne. Zeitgenössische chinesische Tuschemalerei - Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Text in Process - RH Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Moving Image in China: 1988-2011 - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
2011
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| One World Exposition - Videotage, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Guanxi: Contemporary Chinese Art - Today Art Museum, Beijing |
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| 4th Guangzhou Triennial - Back to Basics - The Museum Per Se - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| Moving Image in China 1988-2011 - Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
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| Xuan, Etc. - Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai |
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| see the light - Espace Louis Vuitton Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| Spring Group - Long March Space, Beijing |
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| Community of Tastes:Chinese Contemporary Art since 2000 - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo |
2010
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| Photography from the New China - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 8th Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
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| UPDATING CHINA - Art and Architecture Exhibition on Sustainable Urban Development in China - Himalayas Art Museum (the former Zendai Museum of Modern Art) , Shanghai |
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| Comunidad de gustos. Arte contemporáneo chino desde el 2000 - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| River Flows East: - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art - Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
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| Contemplating the Void - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Timelapse - Switzerland China Media Art Exhibition - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne |
2009
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| GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Media Art China 2009: Timelapse, A Swiss-China Media Art Exhibition - National Art Museum of China - NAMOC, Beijing |
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| Breaking forecast: 8 key figures of china's new generation artists - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| City_net Asia 2009 - Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul |
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| 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009 - LIVE and LET LIVE: Creators of Tomorrow - Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka |
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| The view from elsewhere. Small Acts - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| 4. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 - Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken |
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| 53nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Future-together - ARARIO GALLERY (BEIJING), Beijing |
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| Paper! Paper! - Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY |
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| In Other Words - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Masters of Modern Ink - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
2008
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| A QUESTION OF EVIDENCE - T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna |
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| Christian Dior & Chinese Artists - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| Material Link - A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists - MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| 2D and 3D - Negotiating Visual Languages / 2D/3D: 谈判的视觉语言 - PKM GALLERY - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Material Terrain - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Crosscurrents : New Media Art from Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore - osage Singapore , Singapore |
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| Soft power: asian attitudes - Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia - CACSA, Adelaide, SA |
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| Another Lonely Planet Revisited - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Poetic Realism: An Reinterpretation of Jiangnan - Iberia Art Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Community of Tastes - Iberia Art Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Empty - Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Milan |
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| FotoFest 2008 - FotoFest Biennial, Houston, TX |
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| New photo--Ten years - Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Practice: A Perspective from Chinese Video Art - Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Soft Power: Asian Attitude - Himalayas Art Museum (the former Zendai Museum of Modern Art) , Shanghai |
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| EMPTY - Primo Marella Gallery Beijing, Beijing |
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| Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance - Performa, New York City, NY |
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| Chinese Contemporary Art. La lunga marcia dell'avanguardia - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa |
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| NET - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| MADE in CHINA - the Estella collection - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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| Power of Line - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| China Under Construction - Contemporary Art from the People's Republic - Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| A L'HORIZON DE SHANGI_LA - 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz |
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| Asia - Europe Mediations - IF Museum Inner Spaces, Poznan |
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| New Photo - Ten Years - Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing |
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| Barcelona - Paris - Pekin - Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona |
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| Guangzhou Photo Biennial 2007 - Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| Sustainable Imagination - ARARIO GALLERY (BEIJING), Beijing |
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| Forged Realities - Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing |
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| 1° Bienal del Fin del Mundo – Ushuaia 2007 - Bienal al Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia |
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| MADE in CHINA - the Estella collection - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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| We are your Future - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| Chinese Art Stars - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Photography by Night - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
2006
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| Videozone 3 - Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv |
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| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
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| hu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art - China Institute, New York City, NY |
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| 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| MOCA Envisage-Entry gate - MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| On the Edge - Chinese Artists Encounter the West - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Building Code Violations - Long March Space, Beijing |
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| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
2005
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| Made for this World - Contemporary Art and the Places We Build - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| HangART-7 Edition 2: China - Hangart-7, Salzburg |
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| Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S. - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Yokohama 2005 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art - Yokohama 2005, Yokohama |
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| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China - Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
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| Traces & Omens - the 12th Noorderlict Photo Festival - Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen |
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| Body Temperature - Hans Christian Andersen in Chinese - KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (former Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum), Aalborg |
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| Monuments to the USA - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Trading Place - Contemporary Art Museum - MOCA Taipei, Taipei |
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| Inward Gazes - Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art - Macau Museum of Art, Macao |
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| On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| TEXT ME: An Exploration of Body Language - Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation - SCAF, Sydney, NSW |
2004
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| Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| 5th Shanghai Biennale - Techniques of the visible - Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
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| Arthaus Cape Cod - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| On the Edge - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China - Asia Society and Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Chinese Maximalism - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Radical Line: Innovation in Chinese Contemporary Painting - The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA |
2003
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| Radical Line - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| Media Center Project - Long March Space, Beijing |
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| The minority is subordinate to the majority - - BizArt, Shanghai (closed) |
2002
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| The 1st Guangzhou Triennial - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| Asian Contemporary Art Week 2002 - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Acquisitions nouvelles - peintures, dessins, sculptures - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
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| 25° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
2001
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| No Translation - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia 1990 to 2001 - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
2000
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| Art of the Scholar: The Ming Dynasty and Chinese Contemporary Art - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Narcisse Blesse - Passage de Retz, Paris |
1999
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| Inside Out: New Chinese Art - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH |
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| spectacles societies - Galerie 52 | Heidrun Quinque-Wessels, Berlin |
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| Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century - Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR |
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| Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
1998
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| Inside Out: New Chinese Art - Asia Society and Museum, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus der VR China - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
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| Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
Dealer Directory 13 |
Austria
China
| | Beijing Sunflower Gallery, Beijing
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| | Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing
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| | The CourtYard Gallery, Beijing
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| | Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Beijing
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| | Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR
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France
Germany
| | Galerie CUC Charim Unger Contemporary, Berlin
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Opera Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY
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| | Goedhuis Contemporary - New York, New York City, NY
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Collections 4

China
| | Long March Space, Beijing
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| | UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
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Germany
| | Burger Collection, Berlin
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USA
| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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Catalogs
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