Xu Bing     徐冰

Born in Chongqing, China in 1955
Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Works and lives in New York, USA
 

2008
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London

Xu Bing - Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

Picturing Equality: Xu Bing’s New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia        

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego

Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

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

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

“Book from the Sky” to “Book from the Ground” – The Book Works of Xu Bing, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
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

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 Isreal 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

Arrogance & Romance, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

Rejected Collection, KE Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai
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, England

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 (2/19/2007-3/10/2007)

200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston  

2006
Xu Bing: Any Opinions?, Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (Solo)

Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
China now - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg 
6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju 
Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore Biennale, Singapore 
On the Edge - Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
Land and Spirit, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND 
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA 
The Sacred + The Profane, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY 
The Wall - Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 
Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S. , ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ 
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Japanese, Korean and Chinese Art, BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects) - Tokyo, Tokyo 
"The Elegance of Silence" Contemporary Art From East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 
Celebrate 22 years, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, NY
On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
TEXT ME: An Exploration of Body Language,Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation - SCAF, Paddington, NSW
2004

Xu Bing - The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI (Solo)
Twenty-Four Living Artist in China, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing 
Regeneration - Contemporary Chinese Art, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
26° Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo 

CAFE in Mito 2004, Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito 
ART & OBJECTS | KÜNSTLER DER GALERIE, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin  
Artes Mundi 1, National Museum & Gallery Cardiff, Cardiff (Wales) 
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US, Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA 
The Tabacco Project, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three On the Bund, Shanghai, China
Lodz Biennale 2004, Lodz
Here is What I Mean, Museum London, London, UK
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three On the Bund, Shanghai, China
Contemporary Chinese Video from the Haudenschild Collection, SDSU University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
2003
The First Guangzhou Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
William Anastasi, Xu Bing, Marino & Costanza at the Annex, White Box, NY, USA
Austria - Asia Zero Three, Shermann Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Asia, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Book From the Sky, The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University, Princeton, , New Jersey, USA
2002
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Xu Bing, Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., USA
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
2001
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, USA
Xu Bing, Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
Xu Bing, Xu Bing- One-man Exhibition, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, USA
A Shriek Inside an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Bogus: Issues of the Counterfeit in Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, University of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, USA
Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Word & Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Ohio State University and Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio.
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Power of the Word, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA
2000
Xu Bing Book-Ends: Imag "in" ing the Book - The Work of Xu Bing, New York State University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
Xu Bing, Book from the Sky and Classroom Calligraphy - National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
Xu Bing, Tobacco Project, Duke University, Durham, NC
Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery New south wales, Sydney, Australia
Xu Bing: The Book & The Computer Project, Tokyo, Japan
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Walker Art Center - Miami Art Museum, USA
Power of the world: FAULCONER GALLERY, Grinnell College , Iowa, USA
House, Home and Family. Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation show, 1990s. Fukoka Asian Art Museum, Fukoka, Japan
ev+a 2000 friends and neighbours, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Inside Out, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU - Hong Kong Art Museum
Himalaya Project, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
Group Show, Fuller Museum of Art, Boston, USA
Art Chicago 2000, Chicago, USA
Group Show, Apex Art Curatorial program, New York, USA
Group Show, White Box Gallery, New York, USA
Word project, Museum of Ohio University, Ohio, USA
1999
Xu Bing, Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA
Banner Project, MOMA, New York, USA
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane, Australia
Art Worlds in Dialogue-Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Animal.Anima.Animus, P.S.1, New York ; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Inside Out-Chinese New Art, SFMOMA and the Asian Art Museum, USA
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Zeitwenden-Looking Back and Looking Forward through the Fine Arts, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
The 3rd Art Life 21, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
CON(TEXT), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, University. of Chicago Museum, Chicago
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Text Project, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K
The Art of Artist's Books, Mexico City
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
Chinese Woodblock Prints, Mishkan Le'Omanut Museum of Art, Israel
Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1998
Xu Bing, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Xu Bing, The Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Xu Bing, The Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, Spain
Xu Bing, Gallery of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Crossings, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, USA
Animal.Anima.Animus., Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland, The Nederlands
The Library of Babel, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Transatlantic, CAAM - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Site of Desire - 98' Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Unreadable Books. New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Japan
Animal. Anima. Animus, Pori Art Museum, Finland
Inside - Out, Gallerie of Asia Society and P.S. 1, New York, USA
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai GuoQiang, Museum of Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA
New Installations by Xu Bing & Hong Yong Ping - Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River International Exhibition and Symposium, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Form - The Transformation and the Symbolic of Chinese Character in the Arts ,New York, Lincoln Center Cork Gallery, New York, USA
Freedom of Art Project, The Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, The Nederlands
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art and The Fin de Siècle, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
5 Continentes y Una Cuidad, Mexico City Museum, Mexico
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Performance Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Classroom Calligraphy, Joan Miro's Foundation at Mallorca (Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca), Spain
Installation by Xu Bing, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Charpa Gallery(Galeria Charpa), Valencia, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, December Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, USA
Power - 2nd. Kwangju Biennale, Korea
Transversions, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
Around Us, Inside Us - Continents, Boras Konsmuseet Museum (Boras Konstmusem), Broas, Sweden
The other Modernities, House of World Cultures(Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt), Berlin, Germany
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art: In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea
New Art in China: Post 1989, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
1996
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, Albany, New York, USA
Xu Bing: A Case Study of Transference, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, USA
Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
Interzones 2, Uppsala Uppsala Museum (Konstmuseum, Uppsala), Uppsala, Sweden
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Origins and Myths of Fire, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 96.3 , The International Artist in Residence program, ArtPace a Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, New Mexico
Installation/Performances, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich
New Art in China, Post 1989, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
New Art in China, Post 1989, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado
1995
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 2, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, USA
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Minnesota, USA
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, University Gallery. University of South Dakota, USA
China Avant-Garde Art, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
New Art in China, 1989-1994 , Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
1994
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Xu Bing: Negotiation Table, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibit, Han Mo Art Center, Beijing, USA
Cocido y Crudo, Reina Sofia Museum of Art (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid, Spain
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York, USA
1993
45th. Venice Biennial ,Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory - The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
1992
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 1, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA
Desire for Words, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
New Art From China, Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; City of Ballarat Art Museum, Ballarat; Canberra School of Art, Canberra; Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
International Art Project: FAX-ART, Venice, Italy ; Manchester, UK ; Tokyo, Japan ; Vienna, Austria
1991
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison-Wisconsin, USA
The Book as an Object d' art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
I Don't Want to Play Cards With Cezanne and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, California, USA
1990
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989
China Avant-Garde, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
1988
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
1986
1st Turkey Biennial, Ankara, Turkey
British Museum, London, UK