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| Birthdate: | 1955 |
| Birthplace: | China | |
| Gender: | Male |
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Xu Bing finds his family roots in Wenling of Zhejiang province. He was born in Chongqing, China in 1955. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) where completed his bachelor’s degree in 1981 and stayed on as an instructor, earning his MFA in 1987. In 1990, on the invitation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States. Xu currently serves as the Vice President of CAFA. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Joan Miro Foundation, Spain; National Gallery of Prague and the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, amongst other major institutions. Additionally, Xu Bing has shown at the 45th and 51st Venice Biennales; the Biennale of Sydney and the Johannesburg Biennale amongst other international exhibitions. Over the years, Xu Bing’s work has appeared in high-school and college textbooks around the world including Abram’s “Art Past – Art Present,” Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages” and Greg Clunas’s “Chinese Art” a volume in the “Oxford History of Art” series, Jane Farver’s Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s – 1980s (Queens Museum of Art Press) and Art Worlds in Dialogue (Museum Ludwig Press). In 2006, the Princeton University Press published “Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing” a multidisciplinary study of Xu Bing’s landmark work “Book from the Sky.” In 2008, Professor Robert Harrist, Chair of Chinese Art at Columbia University, New York, began teaching a graduate seminar entitled “The Art of Xu Bing.” In 1999, Xu Bing was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his “capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” In 2003 Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and in 2004 he won the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. In 2006, the Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in recognition of the fact that his, “use of text, language and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways.” “Art in America” listed Xu Bing, along with 15 others, in their annual Year in Review. Xu Bing was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters by Columbia University in 2010. |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Xu Bing, UCCA, Beijing, China (Upcoming 2018.7.21-2018.10.18)
2017 Xu Bing, Wuhan United Art Museum
2016 Travelling to the Wonderland, China, Beijing, Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
“Xu Bing, Book from the Ground”, UK, London, Centre for Chinese
Contemporary Art (CFCCA)
“Xu Bing, Book from the Sky”, Texas, Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, U of 、
Texas Austin
2015 Xu Bing, Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Xu Bing: Writing between Heaven and Earth, Frost Art Museum, Florida, U.S.A.
Xu Bing: Things are Not What They First Appear, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, U.S.A.
Phoenix 2015, the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014 Xu Bing’s Language, LACMA, Los Angeles, U.S.A
Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing, Hong Kong Asia Society, Hong Kong
Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York, USA
Xu Bing Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Research Exhibition on Background Story, Inside-Out Art Musuem, Beijing
Forest Project of Xu Bing and Children, National Museum of History, Taipei
2013 Traveling to the Wonderland, John Madejski Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project, Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC
Living Word, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The Tao Hua Yuan Ideal, John Madejski Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2012 Xu Bing Phoenix, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Forest Project & Book from the Ground, San Paulo, Brazil
Book from the Ground, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Book from the Ground, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
The Art of Rewriting China, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point WI
Tobacco Project 3, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
2011 Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, MIRIAM and IRA D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY
Where does the dust itself collect? Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York NY
Tobacco project 3, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA
living word 3, The Morgan liberary & Museum, New York NY
Background Story 7, British Museum, London
An Installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7, British Museum, London, UK
2010 Phoenix Project, Baosteel Stage, Expo 2010 Shanghai China, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing Aerial Phoenix Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, Document exhibition, March 28 – April 16
2009 Xu Bing Forest Project Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Xu Bing: The Path of Repetition and the Imprint, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
2008 Xu Bing, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Xu Bing Selected Work, 1987-2007 – Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Picture Equality: Xu Bing's New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
2007 “Book from the Sky” to “Book from the Ground” – The Book Works of Xu Bing, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
2006 Xu Bing, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Installation of Any Opinions, lobby of Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley,
Massachusetts
2004 Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University o Wisconsin-Madison,Wisconsin
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2003 Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2002 Myers School of Art: Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron,Akron, Ohio
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2001 Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1999 Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998 Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
Xu Bing: Cultural Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing: Square Word Poetry, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
1997 The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University,Charleston, Illinois
An Installation by Xu Bing : Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Xu Bing, Toyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Classroom Calligraphy, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
Installation by Xu Bing, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
1996 Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, the University at Albany, NewYork
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing, Ethan Cohen, at The Exchange, New York
1995 Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1994 Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1993 Xu Bing: Le Livre du Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris
Xu Bing: A Home Away from Home, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1992 Xu Bing, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991 Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing, Book of Heaven, D. P. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
1990 Exhibition of Xu Bing’s Prints, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1988 Xu Bing Prints, China Art Gallery (now National Fine Art Museum of China), Beijing
Xu Bing Print Exhibition, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected group exhibitions
2016 From Painting to Animation, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Linguistic Pavillion, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 The Character of Characters, OpenArt Biannual, Örebro, Sweden
Innovating Ink, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
The Translator's Voice, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Things Are Not What they First Appear, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA
56th International Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, Venice, Italy
Along the Line, Hermes Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
ArtPark Art Beijing Public Exhibition, Beijing, China
Tu dois changer ta vie, Lille 3000, Lille, France
Moving in Time: B3 Plus Beijing, Museum of Central Academy of Art, Beijing, China
Moving in Time: B3 Plus Beijing, Frankfurt, Germany
CHINA 8: Contemporary Art from China in the Rhine and Ruhr, Travelling exhibition, Germany
The 3rd Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
B3 Biennale, Expanded Senses, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 Myth/History, Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Master Mould and Copy Room, CAFA Museum, Beijing
“Bloom” Eslite Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
Art in the City Exhibition, K11 Art Space, Shanghai
Reset Chinese Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Beijing
2013 Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul, South Korea
Between Character and Calligraphy, OCAT Xi’an, China
Ink Art: the Past as Present in Contemporary China, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Grand Canal, Museo Diocesano, Venice
@What, ArtMia Foundation, Beijing, China
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai,
Contemporary Art and Process of the Society, Shenzhen Circle Art Center, China
Insightful Charisma, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai
Destruction and Creation, Soka Art Center, Taipei
The World of Soul: As Virtual Art Engineering, Shenzhen OCT-LOFT, China
Enlargement, Palazzo More Cannaregio, Venice
2012 Print/Out, MoMA, New York
The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Caroline
House of Cards, Waddesdon Manor, UK
Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Book from the Sky, Arts of China Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Taxes
2011 Fresh Ink, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Silkworm, South Korea
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, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Ink and Design Exhibition, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston
Open Studio, Getty Artists Program, Los Angeles
Courier, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany
ZAOXING-Artwork from the Faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
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
The Question of Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
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
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
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
In the 1980s: Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, 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
Recompositions, Xing Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Twenty-Year Anniversary of China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008 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
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
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
In the 1980s: Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, 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
Recompositions, Xing Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Twenty-Year Anniversary of China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
Reason's Clue, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Garden for Living: Illusion into Reality, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
East West Dialogues: Mysticism, Satire and the Legendary Pasty, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
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 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
2007 Reconfiguration: Chinese Contemporary Art, NUS Museum, National University of 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
China Now, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria and Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
Energies – Synergy, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Made in China, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Traveled from 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
Automatic Update, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Metamorphosis: the Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
My-vashe budushchee: 2 Moskovskaya biennale sovremennogo iskusstva [We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art], Moscow
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Athenaeum, Boston
2006 Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kon
My-vashe budushchee: 2 Moskovskaya biennale sovremennogo iskusstva [We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art], Moscow
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Athenaeum, Boston
2006 Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Art Game: An Experience of Agency in Contemporary Art, Hexiangning 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; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts,Minneapolis, Minnesota
Transboundary Experiences: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, Korea, and Japan, SpoolMfg, Johnson City, New York
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center,Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2005 The Other End: Designs in Contemporary Experimental Art, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
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
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art gallery (also University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts) Buffalo, New York
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
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
H C Andersen på kinesisk [Hans Christian Andersen in Chinese], 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), United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
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
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
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Traveled to Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; David
Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, providence, Rhode Island; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art
and Design, Los Angeles; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario
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
TypO: 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
Traveled to the College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
Happiness: A Survival Guide of Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Artforum Berlin: International Fair for Contemporary Art, BerlinThe Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Culture Center, Staten Island, New York
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
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
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
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Der Rest Der Welt, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany; in collaboration with Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin
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, Mexico
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York
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
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
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
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island, New York
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
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
ARCO 2002: Asian Party, Global Game II, Madrid, Spain; Xu Bing exhibited by Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
2001 Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison, Wisconsin
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, The Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
China without Borders: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, New York (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 Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
[Media Messages: Look Through Language], Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2000 Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Biennale of Sydney, 2000, 12th international festival of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Traveled to Trisolini Gallery and University Art Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art,Limerick, Ireland
1999 Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago
Traveled to University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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; 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, Lieden, The Netherlands; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum, Miami
Power of the Word (organized by Independent Curators International), Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Traveled to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Emerson Gallery Hamilton Collge, Clinton, New York; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Arizona; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998 Unreadable Books New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Animal Anima Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; PS1, Long Island City, New York; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and PS1, New York
Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington & Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Asian cities from spring 2000
‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico,
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1997 Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, Kwangju, Korea
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, September 14-November 3
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1995 File No 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, SoHo Biennial 95, 473 Broadway, New York
Group show, Plexus Art & Communication, New York
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York
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. Photograph of A Case Study of Transference
Also presented at the Gallery of the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing
1994 Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Between East and West: Transformations of Chinese Art in the Late Twentieth Century, the Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
1993 China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
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; Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Traveled to venues including Marlborough Fine Art, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Salina Arts Center, Kansas; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Exh. titles include Mao Goes Pop; New Art from China, Post-1989; New Art in China, 1989-1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1992 Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Art From China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Traveled to Queensland Art Gallery; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Canberra School of Art Gallery
Desire for Words: An Exhibition of Installation Works by Xu Bing and Gu Wenda, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1991 I Don’t Want to Play Cards With Cézanne’ and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde--Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
1989 China/Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
[Mainland Youth Printmakers], San Yuan Se Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art, Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1988 4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris
Great Earthquake, performance program, the Great Wall, China
1987 Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Traveled to Schneider Museum of Art, Medford, Oregon
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1986 1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, the Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
Four-person show, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Chen Qiang, Chen Jingrong, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London
1985 Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris
1984 Invitational Exhibition of Prints from China, Clark Arts Center Gallery, Rockford College, Illinois
[Sixth National Art Exhibition], China
1983 [8th National Print Exhibition], 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, France
People’s Republic of China Exhibition of Works of Central Institute of Fine Arts, 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, China
1980 [Second National Young Artists’ Works Exhibition], China Art Gallery (now National Art Museum of China), Beijing, China
1979 [Sixth National Print Exhibition], 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 City exhibition, Beijing
1972 Exhibition of high school student work, organized by Haidian District Cultural Department
| Artists: | Bony Ramirez, Oliver Herring, Patty Chang, Michael Najjar, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Hito Steyerl, Ching Ho Cheng , Tim Crowley , Lin Ke, Sun Yitian , Chen Tianzhuo, Wang Rui, Liang Hao , Lu Yang , Jin Shan, Geng Yini, Wenjue , Zheng Haozhong, Zhang Yibei , Bai Yiyi , Petra Cortright, Ma Daha, Heman Chong, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, Austin Lee, Nik Kosmas, Mit Jai Inn , Marina Abramović, Xie Qi, Liao Guohe , Heidi Voet, Marc Lafia, Xu Bing, Laurent Grasso |
| Opening: | Jan 11, 2023 Wednesday |
| Artists: | Sun Yitian , Michael Najjar, Michael Lin, Busui Ajaw, Lin Ke, Xu Bing, Tang Song , Ching Ho Cheng , Lu Yang , Tawatchai Puntusawasdi |
| Opening: | Jan 1, 2018 Monday |
| Artists: | Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, Kendell Geers, yahon Chang, Lebbeus Woods , Lore Vanelslande, Yanyan Huang, Chen Zhe, Marc Horowitz, Sun Yitian |
| Opening: | Aug 31, 2018 Friday |
| Artists: | Marc Horowitz, Sun Yitian , Xu Bing, Lin Ke, Geng Yini, Zheng Haozhong, Petra Cortright |
| Artists: | Patty Chang, Chen Yujun, Chen Zhe, Geng Yini, Jin Shan, Austin Lee, Lin Ke, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Xu Bing, Zheng Haozhong, Lore Vanelslande |
| Artists: | Fang Wei, Chen Tianzhuo, Wang Jiaxue, Jin Shan, Laurent Grasso, Marina Abramović, Xu Bing, Chun Ouyang |
Background Story * to be made for the show, above is only example of series | Xu Bing | Unknown
Installation
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Mixed Media, light box
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120 × 300 × 40 cm
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2015
Book from the Ground page | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Book from the Ground page 100-101 | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Book from the Ground page 54-55 | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Book from the Ground page 2-3 | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Mr. Black and His Friends Visit the Bund | Xu Bing | Unknown
Video
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Animation, single channel video，1:4.79
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00:04:00
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2012
Manuscript | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Paper
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21.5 × 27.5 cm
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2008
Collage | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Paper
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28.5 × 83 cm
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2008
Archival version of The Book from the Ground: From Point to Point | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Paper
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35 × 45 cm
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2002 - 2013
Mountain Path | Xu Bing
Print
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7.5 × 7.6 cm
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1998
| Birthdate: | 1955 |
| Birthplace: | China | |
| Gender: | Male |
| About: | |
Xu Bing finds his family roots in Wenling of Zhejiang province. He was born in Chongqing, China in 1955. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) where completed his bachelor’s degree in 1981 and stayed on as an instructor, earning his MFA in 1987. In 1990, on the invitation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States. Xu currently serves as the Vice President of CAFA. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Joan Miro Foundation, Spain; National Gallery of Prague and the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, amongst other major institutions. Additionally, Xu Bing has shown at the 45th and 51st Venice Biennales; the Biennale of Sydney and the Johannesburg Biennale amongst other international exhibitions. Over the years, Xu Bing’s work has appeared in high-school and college textbooks around the world including Abram’s “Art Past – Art Present,” Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages” and Greg Clunas’s “Chinese Art” a volume in the “Oxford History of Art” series, Jane Farver’s Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s – 1980s (Queens Museum of Art Press) and Art Worlds in Dialogue (Museum Ludwig Press). In 2006, the Princeton University Press published “Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing” a multidisciplinary study of Xu Bing’s landmark work “Book from the Sky.” In 2008, Professor Robert Harrist, Chair of Chinese Art at Columbia University, New York, began teaching a graduate seminar entitled “The Art of Xu Bing.” In 1999, Xu Bing was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his “capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” In 2003 Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and in 2004 he won the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. In 2006, the Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in recognition of the fact that his, “use of text, language and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways.” “Art in America” listed Xu Bing, along with 15 others, in their annual Year in Review. Xu Bing was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters by Columbia University in 2010. |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Xu Bing, UCCA, Beijing, China (Upcoming 2018.7.21-2018.10.18)
2017 Xu Bing, Wuhan United Art Museum
2016 Travelling to the Wonderland, China, Beijing, Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
“Xu Bing, Book from the Ground”, UK, London, Centre for Chinese
Contemporary Art (CFCCA)
“Xu Bing, Book from the Sky”, Texas, Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, U of 、
Texas Austin
2015 Xu Bing, Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Xu Bing: Writing between Heaven and Earth, Frost Art Museum, Florida, U.S.A.
Xu Bing: Things are Not What They First Appear, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, U.S.A.
Phoenix 2015, the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014 Xu Bing’s Language, LACMA, Los Angeles, U.S.A
Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing, Hong Kong Asia Society, Hong Kong
Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York, USA
Xu Bing Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Research Exhibition on Background Story, Inside-Out Art Musuem, Beijing
Forest Project of Xu Bing and Children, National Museum of History, Taipei
2013 Traveling to the Wonderland, John Madejski Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project, Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC
Living Word, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The Tao Hua Yuan Ideal, John Madejski Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2012 Xu Bing Phoenix, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Forest Project & Book from the Ground, San Paulo, Brazil
Book from the Ground, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Book from the Ground, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
The Art of Rewriting China, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point WI
Tobacco Project 3, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
2011 Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, MIRIAM and IRA D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY
Where does the dust itself collect? Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York NY
Tobacco project 3, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA
living word 3, The Morgan liberary & Museum, New York NY
Background Story 7, British Museum, London
An Installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7, British Museum, London, UK
2010 Phoenix Project, Baosteel Stage, Expo 2010 Shanghai China, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing Aerial Phoenix Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, Document exhibition, March 28 – April 16
2009 Xu Bing Forest Project Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Xu Bing: The Path of Repetition and the Imprint, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
2008 Xu Bing, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Xu Bing Selected Work, 1987-2007 – Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Picture Equality: Xu Bing's New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
2007 “Book from the Sky” to “Book from the Ground” – The Book Works of Xu Bing, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
2006 Xu Bing, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Installation of Any Opinions, lobby of Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley,
Massachusetts
2004 Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University o Wisconsin-Madison,Wisconsin
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2003 Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2002 Myers School of Art: Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron,Akron, Ohio
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2001 Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1999 Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998 Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
Xu Bing: Cultural Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing: Square Word Poetry, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
1997 The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University,Charleston, Illinois
An Installation by Xu Bing : Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Xu Bing, Toyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Classroom Calligraphy, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
Installation by Xu Bing, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
1996 Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, the University at Albany, NewYork
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing, Ethan Cohen, at The Exchange, New York
1995 Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1994 Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1993 Xu Bing: Le Livre du Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris
Xu Bing: A Home Away from Home, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1992 Xu Bing, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991 Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing, Book of Heaven, D. P. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
1990 Exhibition of Xu Bing’s Prints, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1988 Xu Bing Prints, China Art Gallery (now National Fine Art Museum of China), Beijing
Xu Bing Print Exhibition, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected group exhibitions
2016 From Painting to Animation, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Linguistic Pavillion, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 The Character of Characters, OpenArt Biannual, Örebro, Sweden
Innovating Ink, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
The Translator's Voice, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Things Are Not What they First Appear, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA
56th International Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, Venice, Italy
Along the Line, Hermes Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
ArtPark Art Beijing Public Exhibition, Beijing, China
Tu dois changer ta vie, Lille 3000, Lille, France
Moving in Time: B3 Plus Beijing, Museum of Central Academy of Art, Beijing, China
Moving in Time: B3 Plus Beijing, Frankfurt, Germany
CHINA 8: Contemporary Art from China in the Rhine and Ruhr, Travelling exhibition, Germany
The 3rd Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
B3 Biennale, Expanded Senses, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 Myth/History, Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Master Mould and Copy Room, CAFA Museum, Beijing
“Bloom” Eslite Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
Art in the City Exhibition, K11 Art Space, Shanghai
Reset Chinese Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Beijing
2013 Rewriting the Landscape: India and China, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul, South Korea
Between Character and Calligraphy, OCAT Xi’an, China
Ink Art: the Past as Present in Contemporary China, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Grand Canal, Museo Diocesano, Venice
@What, ArtMia Foundation, Beijing, China
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai,
Contemporary Art and Process of the Society, Shenzhen Circle Art Center, China
Insightful Charisma, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai
Destruction and Creation, Soka Art Center, Taipei
The World of Soul: As Virtual Art Engineering, Shenzhen OCT-LOFT, China
Enlargement, Palazzo More Cannaregio, Venice
2012 Print/Out, MoMA, New York
The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Caroline
House of Cards, Waddesdon Manor, UK
Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Book from the Sky, Arts of China Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Taxes
2011 Fresh Ink, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Silkworm, South Korea
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, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Ink and Design Exhibition, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston
Open Studio, Getty Artists Program, Los Angeles
Courier, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany
ZAOXING-Artwork from the Faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
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
The Question of Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
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
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
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
In the 1980s: Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, 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
Recompositions, Xing Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Twenty-Year Anniversary of China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008 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
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
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
In the 1980s: Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, 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
Recompositions, Xing Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Twenty-Year Anniversary of China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
Reason's Clue, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Garden for Living: Illusion into Reality, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
East West Dialogues: Mysticism, Satire and the Legendary Pasty, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
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 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
2007 Reconfiguration: Chinese Contemporary Art, NUS Museum, National University of 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
China Now, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria and Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
Energies – Synergy, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Made in China, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Traveled from 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
Automatic Update, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Metamorphosis: the Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
My-vashe budushchee: 2 Moskovskaya biennale sovremennogo iskusstva [We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art], Moscow
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Athenaeum, Boston
2006 Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kon
My-vashe budushchee: 2 Moskovskaya biennale sovremennogo iskusstva [We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art], Moscow
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Athenaeum, Boston
2006 Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Art Game: An Experience of Agency in Contemporary Art, Hexiangning 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; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts,Minneapolis, Minnesota
Transboundary Experiences: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, Korea, and Japan, SpoolMfg, Johnson City, New York
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center,Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2005 The Other End: Designs in Contemporary Experimental Art, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
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
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art gallery (also University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts) Buffalo, New York
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
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
H C Andersen på kinesisk [Hans Christian Andersen in Chinese], 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), United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
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
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
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Traveled to Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; David
Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, providence, Rhode Island; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art
and Design, Los Angeles; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario
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
TypO: 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
Traveled to the College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
Happiness: A Survival Guide of Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Artforum Berlin: International Fair for Contemporary Art, BerlinThe Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Culture Center, Staten Island, New York
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
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
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
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Der Rest Der Welt, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany; in collaboration with Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin
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, Mexico
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York
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
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
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
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island, New York
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
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
ARCO 2002: Asian Party, Global Game II, Madrid, Spain; Xu Bing exhibited by Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
2001 Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison, Wisconsin
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, The Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
China without Borders: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, New York (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 Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
[Media Messages: Look Through Language], Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2000 Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Biennale of Sydney, 2000, 12th international festival of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Traveled to Trisolini Gallery and University Art Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art,Limerick, Ireland
1999 Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago
Traveled to University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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; 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, Lieden, The Netherlands; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum, Miami
Power of the Word (organized by Independent Curators International), Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Traveled to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Emerson Gallery Hamilton Collge, Clinton, New York; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Arizona; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998 Unreadable Books New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Animal Anima Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; PS1, Long Island City, New York; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and PS1, New York
Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington & Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Asian cities from spring 2000
‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico,
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1997 Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, Kwangju, Korea
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, September 14-November 3
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1995 File No 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, SoHo Biennial 95, 473 Broadway, New York
Group show, Plexus Art & Communication, New York
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York
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. Photograph of A Case Study of Transference
Also presented at the Gallery of the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing
1994 Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Between East and West: Transformations of Chinese Art in the Late Twentieth Century, the Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
1993 China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
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; Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Traveled to venues including Marlborough Fine Art, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Salina Arts Center, Kansas; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Exh. titles include Mao Goes Pop; New Art from China, Post-1989; New Art in China, 1989-1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1992 Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Art From China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Traveled to Queensland Art Gallery; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Canberra School of Art Gallery
Desire for Words: An Exhibition of Installation Works by Xu Bing and Gu Wenda, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1991 I Don’t Want to Play Cards With Cézanne’ and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde--Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
1989 China/Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
[Mainland Youth Printmakers], San Yuan Se Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art, Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1988 4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris
Great Earthquake, performance program, the Great Wall, China
1987 Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Traveled to Schneider Museum of Art, Medford, Oregon
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1986 1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, the Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
Four-person show, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Chen Qiang, Chen Jingrong, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London
1985 Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris
1984 Invitational Exhibition of Prints from China, Clark Arts Center Gallery, Rockford College, Illinois
[Sixth National Art Exhibition], China
1983 [8th National Print Exhibition], 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, France
People’s Republic of China Exhibition of Works of Central Institute of Fine Arts, 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, China
1980 [Second National Young Artists’ Works Exhibition], China Art Gallery (now National Art Museum of China), Beijing, China
1979 [Sixth National Print Exhibition], 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 City exhibition, Beijing
1972 Exhibition of high school student work, organized by Haidian District Cultural Department
| Artists: | Bony Ramirez, Oliver Herring, Patty Chang, Michael Najjar, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Hito Steyerl, Ching Ho Cheng , Tim Crowley , Lin Ke, Sun Yitian , Chen Tianzhuo, Wang Rui, Liang Hao , Lu Yang , Jin Shan, Geng Yini, Wenjue , Zheng Haozhong, Zhang Yibei , Bai Yiyi , Petra Cortright, Ma Daha, Heman Chong, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, Austin Lee, Nik Kosmas, Mit Jai Inn , Marina Abramović, Xie Qi, Liao Guohe , Heidi Voet, Marc Lafia, Xu Bing, Laurent Grasso |
| Opening: | Jan 11, 2023 Wednesday |
| Artists: | Sun Yitian , Michael Najjar, Michael Lin, Busui Ajaw, Lin Ke, Xu Bing, Tang Song , Ching Ho Cheng , Lu Yang , Tawatchai Puntusawasdi |
| Opening: | Jan 1, 2018 Monday |
| Artists: | Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, Kendell Geers, yahon Chang, Lebbeus Woods , Lore Vanelslande, Yanyan Huang, Chen Zhe, Marc Horowitz, Sun Yitian |
| Opening: | Aug 31, 2018 Friday |
| Artists: | Marc Horowitz, Sun Yitian , Xu Bing, Lin Ke, Geng Yini, Zheng Haozhong, Petra Cortright |
| Artists: | Patty Chang, Chen Yujun, Chen Zhe, Geng Yini, Jin Shan, Austin Lee, Lin Ke, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Xu Bing, Zheng Haozhong, Lore Vanelslande |
| Artists: | Fang Wei, Chen Tianzhuo, Wang Jiaxue, Jin Shan, Laurent Grasso, Marina Abramović, Xu Bing, Chun Ouyang |
Background Story * to be made for the show, above is only example of series | Xu Bing | Unknown
Installation
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Mixed Media, light box
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120 × 300 × 40 cm
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2015
Book from the Ground page | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Book from the Ground page 100-101 | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Book from the Ground page 54-55 | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Book from the Ground page 2-3 | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Woodblock print
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37 × 54 cm
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2012
Mr. Black and His Friends Visit the Bund | Xu Bing | Unknown
Video
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Animation, single channel video，1:4.79
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00:04:00
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2012
Manuscript | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Paper
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21.5 × 27.5 cm
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2008
Collage | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Paper
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28.5 × 83 cm
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2008
Archival version of The Book from the Ground: From Point to Point | Xu Bing | Unknown
Other
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Paper
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35 × 45 cm
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2002 - 2013
Mountain Path | Xu Bing
Print
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7.5 × 7.6 cm
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1998
