 Artist's arttributes:
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Works on Paper, Installation |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 68 |
| China | 16 |
| Germany | 14 |
| Japan | 9 |
| Taiwan | 5 |
Biography: 
1955 Born in Chongqing, Sichuan (CN)
Lives and works 1957 - 1990 in Beijing (CN)
since 1990 in New York, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 155
until 2.9.
until 11.8.
Solo shows 19
2012
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| Book from the Ground - Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai |
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| Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
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| Xu Bing : From the "bible" to "books" - Eslite Gallery, Taipei |
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| Xu Bing - Tobacco Project - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
2011
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| Xu Bing: Tobacco Project - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy Classroom - Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Xu Bing Aerial Phoenix Project - Today Art Museum, Beijing |
2009
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| Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing - Clifford Art Gallery - Colgate University, Hamilton, NY |
2006
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| Xu Bing: Any Opinions? - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
2004
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| Xu Bing - The Glassy Surface of a Lake - Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI |
2003
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| Xu Bing - Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester (England) |
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| Book from the Sky - A Work by Xu Bing - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
2002
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| Xu Bing: Living Word 2 - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
2001
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| Xu Bing - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing - Freer and Sackler Galleries - The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC |
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| Xu-Bing - Reading Landscape - North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
1998
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| Xu Bing - Introduction to New English Calligraphy - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Cultural Animal - Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg, PA |
1996
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| Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky - University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY |
Group shows 134
2013
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| Zero + - White Box, New York City, NY |
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| New Contemporary Art from China - Insa Art Space, Seoul |
2012
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| Original Forms of Chinese Water Ink Painting - Sanchuan Modern Art Museum, Nanjing, Jiangsu |
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| Future Pass World Exhibition - Today Art Museum, Beijing |
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| Real Life Stories - Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen |
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| Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Beyond Printed Words -Books and Letters in Art- - FAAM - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka |
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| Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| Mediations Biennale 2012 - Mediations Biennale, Poznan |
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| 30th São Paulo Biennial - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Eine andere Moderne. Zeitgenössische chinesische Tuschemalerei - Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Future Pass - National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung |
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| paperless - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC |
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| Do a Book - WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing |
2011
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| Future Pass - Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam |
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| The Global Contemporary, Art Worlds After 1989 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Collecting History: China New Art - Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, Chengdu, Sichuan |
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| Future Pass-from Asia to the World - Collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale - Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice |
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| Shanshui - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
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| Expression of Chinses Contemporary Art - Today Art Museum, Beijing |
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| Beyond The Boundary - Gallery 100, Taipei |
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| Language: Abstract and Concrete - North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND |
2010
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| Collecting Contemporary Art: The FUNd at ASU Art Museum - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Courier - University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY |
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| Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Painting - The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| Dead or Alive - Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY |
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| Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art - Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
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| Xu Bing / Miao Xiaochun - Chinesische Landschaften neu betrachtet - Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Cologne |
2009
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| Viewpoints & Viewing Points - 2009 Asian Art Biennial - Asian Art Biennial Taiwan, Taichung |
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| Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art - Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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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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| Dojima River Biennale 2009 - Reflections: The World Through Art - Dojima River Biennale, Osaka |
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| Weltanschauung Visione Del Mondo - Art Forum Würth Capena, Capena |
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| Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Beaufort03 - Art by the Sea - Beaufort Triennale, Oostende |
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| The China Project - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Ar - Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA |
2008
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| Zeitgenössische Chinesische Kalligraphie - Raab Galerie, Berlin |
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| Prospect.1 New Orleans - Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
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| Far West - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent |
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| Reason's Clue - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
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| Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary - Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY |
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| Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Accelerate : Chinese Contemporary Art Co-presented by National Art Museum of China, Beijing - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Far West - Arnolfini, Bristol (England) |
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| Comme des bêtes. Ours, chat, cochon & Cie - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne |
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| Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the eighties and nineties - Groninger Museum, Groningen |
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| China macht Druck. Zeitgenössische Chinesische Druckgrafik - Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen |
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| Person Of The Crowd: The Contemporary Art Of Flânerie - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
2007
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| ’85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art from GuangDong Museum of Art - The Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| China Now - Cobra Museum, Amstelveen |
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| Chinese Contemporary Art. La lunga marcia dell'avanguardia - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa |
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| MADE in CHINA - the Estella collection - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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| Automatic Update - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Metamorphosis - The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art - Tampere Art Museum, Tampere |
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| Landscape & Memory II - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| MADE in CHINA - the Estella collection - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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| 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
2006
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| Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand - North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND |
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| China now - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs - ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg |
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| 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Singapore Biennale 2006 - Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
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| On the Edge - Chinese Artists Encounter the West - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Land and Spirit - North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND |
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| 2006 01SJ - ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA |
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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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| Chinese Art Invasion - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Wall - Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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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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| Arthaus Summer 2005, Cape Cod - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| Japanese, Korean and Chinese Art - BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects) - Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| "The Elegance of Silence" Contemporary Art From East Asia - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Celebrate 22 years - Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, NY |
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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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| Twenty-Four Living Artist in China - WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing |
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| Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| 26° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| CAFE in Mito 2004 - Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito |
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| Summer Breeze - Art Beatus - Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Arthaus Cape Cod - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| China on the cusp at Sotheby´s - 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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| Artes Mundi 1 - National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA |
2003
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| Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| First Beijing International Art Biennale - Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing |
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| Harmony vs. Confrontation - Art Beatus - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy - Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA |
2002
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| 4th Shanghai Biennale - Urban Creation - Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
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| The 1st Guangzhou Triennial - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
2001
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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 |
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| Brooklyn! - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Water and Oil - Contemporary Chinese Woodcuts - Art Beatus - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
2000
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| Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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| Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists - UB Art Galleries - University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY |
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| Autonomous Action - The Physics Room, Christchurch |
1999
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| Zeitwenden - Rückblick und Ausblick - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| Projects 70: Banners I - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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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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| Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) - Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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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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| ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS. - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
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| The 1st Fukuoka Art Triennale - Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka |
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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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| Plural Speech - White Box, New York City, NY |
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| The Library of Babel - NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo |
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| Inside Out: New Chinese Art - Asia Society and Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Autonomous Action - Artspace, Auckland |
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| Taipei Biennial 1998 - Site of desire - Taipei Biennial, Taipei |
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| ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS. - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| Transatlántico - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| Huang Yong Ping and Xu Bing - Art Beatus - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| Animal Anima Animus - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
1997
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| 2nd Gwangju Biennale - Unmapping The Earth - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Die Anderen Modernen : Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
1996
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| Interzones - Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala |
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| Interzones - Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen |
| Dealer Directory 9 |
Canada
| | Art Beatus - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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China
| | Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing
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| | Art Beatus - Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR
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| | Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
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Japan
| | BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects) - Tokyo, Tokyo
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Taiwan
USA
| | China 2000 Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, NY
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| | Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 9
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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China
| | Long March Space, Beijing
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| | Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, Chengdu, Sichuan
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Japan
| | FAAM - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
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USA
| | University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY
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| | North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The West Collection, Oaks, PA
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