SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Flying Ink: Hengshan International Calligraphy Art Exhibition, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Art for the People for The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Toward Common Cause, Smart Art Museum, Chicago, USA
Manchester International Festival, Home, Manchester, UK
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Foundation INK Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2020
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Smart Art Museum, Chicago, USA
In Real Life, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists, Cleveland Musuem of Art, Ohio, USA
Exodus II, White Box, New York, USA
Designer of Dream, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Transformation, Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China
2019
New MoMA Collection Exhibition, MoMA, New York, USA
A Confrontation of Ideals - The Second Anren Biennale, Anrenzhen, Sichuan Province, China
Daxing International Airport Art Project, Daxing International Airport, Beijing, China
Voyage a Travers les Caracteres Chinois, Palais de la Bourse de Lyon, Lyon, France
The Painted Screen Past and Future, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Ways of Seeing, CHAO Art Center, Beijing, China
The Allure of Matter: material Art from China, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Continuous Reflec(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
City South · Origin – Chinese Contemporary Artists Collection, Swan League 177, Chengdu, China
Asian Digital Art Exhibition, No.6 Chuangye Road, Beijing, China
Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, London, China
The Security Has Been Improved, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Beyond Borders, Somerset House the Strand, London, UK
Evolutionary Tradition, Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
Dot, Point, Period, Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Shan Shui—Natuer Oppressed, Leeungno Museum, Daejeon, Korea
Along the River During the Qingming Festival 3.0 Digital Art Exhibition, AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong, China. The exhibition traveled to Shaoxing Technology Center, Shaoxing
Common Space—The Grand Canal. Beijing Time Art Museum, Beijing, China
Standing up - China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Free Trade Zone International Art Exchange Center, Shanghai, China
The 2nd Beijing International Pop-up Book Exhibition, China International Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
Ink Spirit: New Creation from Traditional Ideas and Wisdom, Jining Art Museum, Jining, China
Book from the Sky by Xu Bing, The Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
2018
Chengdu x the Central Pompidou: “Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence,” Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu, China
Troubled Intentions Ahead: Confusing Public and Private, 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Cornell Council for the Arts 2018 Biennial: Duration, Passage, Persistence, Survival, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA
2018 Busan Biennale: Divided We Stand, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Niigata, Japan
Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
INTERSECTION: International Art and Culture, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, China
Bank@2018 Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, New York, USA
Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
LOVE Long: Robert Indiana and Asia, Asia Society Hong Kong, Hong Kong
All Things Grow, Fu Yan Commune, Beijing, China
Zhangzhou Contemporary Painting, Zhangzhou Contemporary Art Museum, Zhangzhou, China
2017
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. Traveled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
57th Venice Biennale Collateral Event-Memory and Contemporaneity, Arsenale, Tese 98-99, Venice, Italy
Landmark: Mapping Contemporary Chinese Art, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
NordArt 2017 – Xu Bing: Phoenix, NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Luther and the Avant-garde; Contemporary Art in Wittenberg, Berlin and Kassel, Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany
Anren Biennale: Today’s Yesterday, Anrenzhen, Sichuan Province, China
The Wild Goose Flies over the Quiet Pond but Does not Leave a Shadow on the Pond: Xu Bing and His Students, Eslite Spectrum, Suzhou, China
A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains: Blue–green Landscape Paintings from across Chinese History, Palace Museum, Beijing, China
Imaginary Asia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi do, Korea
Asian Impression: Chinese, Japanese and South Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
The Model of the World, Zhangzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhangzhou Museum, Zhangzhou, China
Being Information, SSSSTART, Shanghai, China
Maitreya Karuna & Prajna, Shanghai Gallery of Art @ Three on the Bund, Shanghai, China
LOOM Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Collage: The Card Player, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
The 12th Art Beijing Exposition, National Agriculture Museum, Beijing, China
The Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Masters’ Manuscripts (First Chapter), Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China
Joan Lebold Cohen's Moments in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016
Revisiting the Mustard Seed Garden: A Dialogue between “Mustard Seed Garden Manual” and the Contemporary Artists, National Museum of Classic Books, Beijing, China
Shanghai Project, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
From Painting to Animation, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Pulse Reaction II: Discussions on Reality and Realism, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Post-Intellectualism, Spring Space of Art, Beijing, China
Readymade Paintings, Ying Art Center, Shanghai, China
Utopia/Heterotopias — Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China
The Echo of Civilization — Traversing Dunhuang，Imperial Ancestral Temple Gallery, Beijing, China
Linguistic Pavilion, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
What About Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museum, Doha, Qatar
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond Words: Calligraphic Traditions of Asia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Second China Design Exhibition-Public Art Thematic Exhibition, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2015
West Bund Art and Design Fair, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
A New Dynasty — Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Three and One Thirds, Kylin Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Diamond Leaves, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
The 2nd “CAFAM— Future” Creator-Observer Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Translator's Voice, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
All the World’s Futures, 56th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Along the Line, Hermes Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
ArtPark Art Beijing Public Exhibition, Beijing, China
CHINA 8: Contemporary Art from China in the Rhine and Ruhr, Travelling exhibition, Germany
Fervent China: Contemporary Monumental Sculptures, Old Slaughterhouse, Mons, Belgium
Tu dois changer ta vie, Lille 3000, Lille, France
Moving in Time: B3 Plus Beijing, Museum of Central Academy of Art, Beijing, China
The 3rd Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
New Contemporary, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2nd China Design Exhibition& Public Art Thematic Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
The Character of Characters, Open Art Biannual, Örebro, Sweden
First Look: Collecting Contemporary At the Asian, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2014
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraph— Selections from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Secret Signs: Calligraphy in Chinese Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Whorled Exploration, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, Kochi, India
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Neo-Mōrōism, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
The Third Criticism: Criticism ThroughAartistic Language, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014 1st Chinese Printmaking Exhibition, China Engraving Art Museum, She
nzhen, China
Beyond Limits: sculpture exhibition, Sotheby’s Annual Sculpture Selling Exhibition, Chatsworth, UK
Writing Landscape: 660 Years Since Huang Gongwang’s Departure, Changshu Arts Gallery, Wuhan, China
West Says East Talks — Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
Master Mould and Copy Room, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
Myth/History, Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
“Bloom” Eslite Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
Art in the City Exhibition, K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China
Reset Chinese Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Beijing
Spiritual As Mountains, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
Art in The City: Book about the Book from the Ground, BANK/ Mabsociety, Shanghai, China
2013
Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul, South Korea
Between Character and Calligraphy: OCAT Xian Pavilion Opening Exhibition, OCAT Art Center, Xi’an, China
Ink Art: the Past as Present in Contemporary China, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
The Grand Canal — 55thVenie Biennale Collateral Exhibition, Museo Diocesano, Venice, Italy
New Contemporary Art from China, ArtMia, Beijing, China
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Contemporary Art and Process of the Society – the Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art Archive, Shenzhen Circle Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Insightful Charisma, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
Destruction and Creation, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
The World of Soul: As Virtual Art Engineering, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China
Enlargement — 55thVenie Biennale Collateral Exhibition, Palazzo More Cannaregio, Venice, Italy
Extension 2013 Datong 2nd International Sculpture Biennale, Shanxi, China
2012
Real Life Stories, KodeBergen, Bergen, Norway
Between Character& Calligraphy, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Print/Out, MoMA, New York, USA
The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
House of Cards, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK
Ink As Model, Sanchuan Museum, Nanjing, China
Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Book from the Sky, Arts of China Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
The Imminence of Poetics: 30th Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazilian Art Museum- FAAP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Do a Book, White Space, Beijing, China
2011
Start from the Horizon: Chinese Sculpture Since 1978, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China
CAFAM Biennale — Super Organism, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Shan Shui — Poetry without Sound, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Future Pass — From Asia to the World，The 54th Venice Biennale Collateral Event- Future Pass, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, Italy
Wood Cuts/ Concepts: The 2nd Contemporary Chinese Printmaking Exhibition, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
A Schema for Printmaking, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Significance of Plurality: Chinese Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition, Cairo International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Cairo, Egypt
2010
Life/Art Season – Life Towards Art Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Something Out of Nothing – Ink and Design Exhibition, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong, China
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Open Studio, Getty Artists Program, Los Angeles, California, USA
Awakening: A Group Exhibition of 15 Artists, Expo 2010 Shanghai, China Theme Pavilion, Shanghai, China
The Constructed Dimension – 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Printed Image in China: From the 8th to the 21st Centuries, British Museum, London, UK
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA
The Question of Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
The Official Opening of Minsheng Art Museum – Thirty Years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009
Central Academy of Fine Arts 60 Years of Drawing, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
First Linzhou Chinese Ink Biennale, Shanghai Doulun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington D.C., USA
In Print, Dialogue Space, Beijing, China
Collision – Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
WRITE NOW!, Klingspor-Museum, Offenback, Germany
HERE+NOW: Chinese Artists in New York, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, USA
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
In the 1980s: Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennial, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Contemporary Prints: 1999-2009, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
First International Exhibition of Contemporary Science and Art, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
19 Games, T. Art Center, Beijing, China
I Want to Talk to You, T. Art Center, Beijing, China
Beaufort3: Art by the Sea, Leopold Park, Oostende, Belgium
The China Project – Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland, Australia
China’s Revision, East Station Gallery, Beijing, China
Re-compositions, Xing Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Twenty-Year Anniversary of China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
Twinkle Twinkle Red Star, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
Reflection: World through Art, Dojima River Biennial, Osaka, Japan
2008
Text/Message: Book by Artists, Medtronic Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Lovely Blossoms and Full Moon, Yuz Museum, Jakarta, India
Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language, Picker Art, Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA
China's ReVision, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Contemporary Ink Art Evolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Form, Idea, Essence, Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
West to the East: The Aesthetic Context of Intellectuals, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
People, History: Exhibition of Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection Museum and Pacific Film Archive University of California, Berkeley California, USA
Shanghai MoCA Envisage II – Butterfly Dream, Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai, China
Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
Accelerate: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Digital Safari: International 'New Media' Exhibition, Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA
Sedimentation: The New Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Reason's Clue, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Garden for Living: Illusion into Reality, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
East West Dialogues: Mysticism, Satire and the Legendary Pasty, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, USA
3rd China Media Art Festival, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Modern Chinese Art the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection - 'A New Generation,’ Asia House, London
Thirty Years of Abstraction, CaixaForum Museum, Palma, Spain
China Macht Druck – Chinese Contemporary Printmaking, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, New York, USA
2007
Reconfiguration: Chinese Contemporary Art, NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Succession, Deduce, Soak Water, Ink, World of Monochrome, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Ueno Town art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Outside the Book, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona
Transformations: Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Art in Dialogue, Center Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
14th Tallinn Print Triennial: Political/Poetical, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Energies – Synergy, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Made in China, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Traveled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2007 Annual Exhibition, Sumi-e Society of America, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Art League of Long Island
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Arrogance & Romance, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Rejected Collection, KE Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, USA
Automatic Update, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
Metamorphosis: the Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
My-vashe budushchee: 2 Moskovskaya biennale sovremennogo iskusstva [We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art], Moscow, Russia
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2006
Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
Traveled to The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, USA
China Now, Sammlung Essl Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
Traveled to Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007
Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA
Travelers Between Cultures, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey, USA
Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, South Korea
Belief: Singapore Biennale 2006, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Millennium Dialogue 2006 － Code: Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Art Exhibition and Symposium, China Millennium Museum, Beijing, China
Art Game: An Experience of Agency in Contemporary Art, He-Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Found in Translation: An Exhibition of Artist Books and Multi-Media Work, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
Traveled to the New York Center for Book Arts, New York, USA; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Transboundary Experiences: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, Korea, and Japan, Spool Mfg, Johnson City, New York, USA
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Create History: Commemorating Exhibition Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2005
The Other End: Designs in Contemporary Experimental Art, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy: International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005 Hangzhou China, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
The First Exhibition of American Research Association of Eastern and Western Arts, Famous Artists Gallery, Port Washington, New York, USA
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA; University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon, USA
The Art of Giving: A Selection of Donations to the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
H C Andersen på kinesisk [Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales], Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liver Pool, United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2004
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum of Art and the Exhibition Hall of the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Heart Prints: Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy: Guo Dan, Xing Fei, Zhang O, Zhao Suikang, Gu Wenda, Xu Bing, Chiu Chunchao, Meng Hsienchi and Harrison Xinshi, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, New York, USA
Reinventing Tradition in a New World: The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Ostwind/East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
CAFE in Mito 2004: Communicable Action for Everybody, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
Traveled to Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, USA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2003
Nowa Strefa Sztuka Chińska/New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London, UK
Type0: Writing with Style, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK
Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Radical Line: Innovation in Chinese Contemporary Painting, Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Traveled to the College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio, USA
Happiness: A Survival Guide of Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Artforum Berlin: International Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Culture Center, Staten Island, New York, USA
The First Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum China, Beijing, China
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Harmony vs. Confrontation, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Residency Project of International Renowned Visual Artists, exhibition, Pao’s Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: From the Communist Revolution to the Open-Door Policy and Beyond, 1945-1998, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; part of the exhibition Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia
Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
Der Rest Der Welt, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany; in collaboration with Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Austral-Asia: Zero Three, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Asia: Media Art in the Near Future, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2002
ES 2002 Tijuana, Segunda Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA
The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, New York, USA
China － Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie, Schloss, Oberhausen, Germany
Paris-Pékin (exhibition of Ullens collection), Espace Cardin, Paris, France
Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition, the National Agriculture Museum, Beijing, China
(Brisbane) Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
CAFE in Mito (Communicable Action for Everybody), Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island, New York, USA
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea
2002 Flag Art Festival: Poetry of the Winds, World Cup Park, Seoul, South Korea
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, USA
ARCO 2002: Asian Party, Global Game II (art fair) , Madrid, Spain; Xu Bing exhibited by Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, USA
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, USA
2001
Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York, USA
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, The Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, USA
China without Borders: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, New York, USA ; in collaboration with Goedhuis Contemporary, London
Half-om-half:Kunst-vee-geshiedenis [Art-Cattle-History], Van Reekum Museum en Historisch Museum Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Give & Take, Victoria and Albert Museum and Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Media Messages: Look Through Language, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2000
Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
12th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Traveled to Trisolini Gallery and University Art Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art,
Limerick, Ireland
1999
Birth 2000/1990, Musōkan, Kobe, Japan
Zeitwenden—Ausblick, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Traveled to Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Asiart Asian Contemporary Art: Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Power of the Word, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (organized by Independent Curators International)
Traveled to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, USA; Emerson Gallery Hamilton Collge, Clinton, New York, USA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Arizona, USA; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
CON (TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA
Spiral TV, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan(organized by 3rd Art Life Organizing Committee, Arts Forum Japan and Wacoal Art Center)
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: from the Communist Revolution to the Open-Door Policy and Beyond, 1945-1998, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Traveled to The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh; Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Pannell Gallery of Sweet Briar College, New York; Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Virginia; Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal; Rietberg Museum Zurich, Switzerland; Rijksmuseum oor Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Traveled to University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, USA; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
1998
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York, USA
Traveled to White Box Gallery, Philadelphia
Kunst in Vrijheid/Art in Freedom, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literary Culture of China, Lehman College Art Gallery, the Bronx, New York, USA
Traveled to Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
‘‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and PS1, New York, USA
Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington & Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Asian cities from spring 2000
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Beyond the Form: The Deconstruction and Transformation of Chinese Characters, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Animal Anima Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
New Installations by Xu Bing & Huang Yong Ping, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Unreadable Books New Letters, the Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Transformation, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, (theme: ‘Unmapping the Earth’), Kwangju, South Korea
In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, South Korea
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago City, Japan
Traveled to Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum,Borås, Sweden
Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing, China
1996
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
China Avant Garde, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
Godzilla at BMCC: And We Speak, Shirley Fiterman Gallery at BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY), New York, USA
1995
File No 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, SoHo Biennial 95, 473 Broadway, New York, USA
Group Show, Plexus Art & Communication, New York, USA
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Des Del Pais Del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre D’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
The Arts’ Environment: Eighty Photographs of Artists in Beijing, 92-94 by Xu Zhiwei, Ammonal Gallery, Beijing. (Photographs of A Case Study of Transference)
Also presented at the Gallery of the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York, USA
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Between East and West: Transformations of Chinese Art in the Late Twentieth Century, the Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Fragmented Memory-The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
China’s New Art, Post-1989, organized by Hanart TZ gallery, Hong Kong, and The American Federation of the Arts; Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall,
Traveled to venues including Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado, USA; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, USA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA; Salina Arts Center, Kansas, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1992
New Art From China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Traveled to Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Australia; Canberra School of Art Gallery (title also appeared as Post-Mao Product, New Art from China), Canberra, Australia
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Desire for Words: An Exhibition of Installation Works by Xu Bing and Gu Wenda, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA
Library: A Book Artists’ Invitational Exhibition, Granary Books, New York, USA
From the Beginning of the Century to the End of the Century, Lung Men Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1991
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde － Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, USA
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
“ Hong Kong Arts Centre, HonWith Cth C Kong Arts Centre, Hong Konc Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
1990
All China Youth Print Exhibition, Shanghai Artists Gallery, Shanghai, China
1989
Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art, Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan
Mainland Youth Printmakers, San Yuan Se Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
China/Avant-Garde, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China
National Calligraphy Artists exhibition commemorating the 90th year of Comrade Li Lisan’s Birth, Hunan, China
Seventh National Art Exhibition, print section, Beijing, China
1988
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris, France
4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Great Earthquake：Performance Program, the Great Wall, Beijing, China
1987
Exhibition of Sichuan Worker Daily Collection, for the 5th Anniversary of the Newspaper’s Reinstatement, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Ninth National Print Exhibition, Beijing, China
Capital Prints Exhibition Biennial, Beijing, China
1986
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London, UK
Four printmakers: Chen Jin Rong, Chen Qiang, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, the Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
1985
Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris, France
Exhibition of Works by Advancing Chinese Youth, International Youth Organization, China
1984
Invitational Exhibition of Prints from China, Clark Arts Center Gallery, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, USA
Sixth National Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
1983
8th National Print Exhibition, Beijing China
1982
Exhibition of Works by Members of the Chinese Artists Association, presented by the Société des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1981
Central Academy of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Beijing, China
50 ans de gravures sur bois Chinoises, 1930-1980, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
People’s Republic of China Exhibition of Works of Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Selections of Modern Prints of China in the Fifty Years from 1931 to 1981, Shanghai, China
Exhibition of China’s Modern Prints in Fifty Years: In Honour of the Centenary of Lu Xun’s Birthday, Beijing, China
1980
Second National Young Artists’ Works Exhibition, China Art Gallery (now National Art Museum of China), Beijing, China
1979
Sixth National Print Exhibition, Beijing, China
In Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, City of Beijing, Art Works Exhibition, Beijing, China
1976
National Exhibition, Beijing, China
City Exhibition of Beijing, Beijing, China
1972
Exhibition of High School Student Work, organized by Haidian District Cultural Department, Beijing, China