Free Prism Video Wave

Chen Zhou is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice involves cinematic language, painting and writing. He believes the act of labeling is a prison and that freedom resides in that uncertain moment before definition. Whether it is by exploring death in contemporary life, or by deconstructing our existence in a humorous way, Chen Zhou's works revolve around imprisonment and liberation. Always attempting to dismantle restrictive structures, Chen Zhou's works reveal the absurdity of labels and shed light over the uncertainty of today's world. He now lives and works in Shanghai.

His first feature, Life Imitation (2017), received the New: Vision Award at the CPH: DOX Film Festival, Asian Perspective Award at DMZ film festival, and has been included in the Official Selection of 61st BFI London Film Festival. He is also selected of ArtReview Future Greats 2018.

His latest project Blue Hole was exhibited at White Cube Hong Kong in 2018. His solo exhibitions include: The mirror will soon disappear in the world, Chapter I: The illusion in the mirror makes me hardly see the mirror，Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China(2020); Stayed, 7, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China(2019); Kaufman, AikeDellarco, Shanghai, China(2014); I’m not not not Chen Zhou, Magician Space, Beijing, China (2013); Talk, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China (2009). Recent group exhibitions he participated include: How Do We Begin?, X-Museum, Beijing, China(2020) ; Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019); Emerald City, chi K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, China (2018); Cold Nights, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2017); 2nd Asian Film and Video Art Forum (AFVAF), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2017); After Us, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2017).

1986, Born in Hubei Province

Now works and lives in Shanghai

Education

2009 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Oil Painting Department Prize.

2017 Nominated, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.

2014 Best Artist, IV Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, The Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

Finalist, Pierre Huber Prize, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Shanghai).

Solo Exhibitions

2019

Li Ran: Who Are You, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai. 

2017

Li Ran: Life of the Pilgrim, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing 

2016

Same Old Crowd, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai.

Before Indulgence, After Freedom, Screening Project, Cinémathèque québécoise, Canada, Montréal.

2015

Artists’ Film Club: Li Ran, Screening Project, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, England.

Re-projecting: One or Many Roles, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Xi’an), Xi’an.

2014

Archive 23 - Li Ran, Video Bureau, Beijing.

ONE MAN ONE NIGHT, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA.

2012

I Want To Talk To You, But Not All Of You, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai.

Pretty Knowledge, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai.

Mont Sainte-Victoire, Magician Space, Beijing.

Group Exhibitions

2020

Those who see and know all, are all and can do all., 798 Art Zone, Beijing.

Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing.

Every Man Is An Artist, Talking About Artists’ Social Engagement, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei. 

2019

Free Prism - Video Wave, Boxes Art Museum, Foshan.

Summer Wind Flirts among Words, ShanghART, Shanghai.

The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay, Times Museum, Guanzhou.

EXIT PLAN, SNAP, Shanghai.

How Now · The Life APP, How Art Museum, Shanghai.

Side Lanes, ShanghART, Shanghai.

2018

Metageography, Orientaklism and Dreams of Robinsons, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia.

METAMORPHOSIS, Art Practices Now Activating Archives and Public Memories, OCT Institute, Beijing.

White Flash, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing.

The exhibition of annual of contemporary art of China 2017, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing.

New Video in China: New Attitude since 2010, Anren Overseas Chinese Town Creative Culture Park, Chengdu.

2017

Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada.

Cold Nights, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing.

Performing Dramas I, Sreening, Center Pompidou, Pairs, France.

Future Generation Art Prize, Collateral Event of the 57th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy.

Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand.

Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para Site, Hong Kong.

Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.

The Making of an Institution, NTU Center For Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore.

2016

OCAT Performs: Act, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen.

Performing in the Shot, New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai.

MIC/MAC, A2Z Gallery, Paris, France.

Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines.

A Second Exhibition, By Other Masters, Around The Same Subject, New Date, Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK), Hoorn, Netherlands.

Tutorial: Moving Images and A User's Guide from China, Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Italy.

Museum no/off, Encounters with Pompidou, Center Pompidou-ESPACE, Pairs, France. 

2015

Exhibit 101: Li Ran and Gary Ross Pastrana, NTU Center For Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore.

28 Chinese, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA.

Southern Wind, Antenna Space, Shanghai.

Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Museum, Nanjing.

28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA.

From a Poem to the Sunset, First part of an exhibition series with new acquisitions of contemporary Chinese and international art, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Essential Matters-Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary Perili Kosk, Istanbul, Turkey.

Mobile M+: Moving Images, Hong Kong.

Perched In the Eye of A Tornado, Ying Space, Beijing.

Biennale Of Moving Images, Museum of Old and New Art Museum (MONA), Hobart, Australia.

2014

1st OCAT & Pierre Huber Prize Annual Exhibition of Emerging Media Artist, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Shanghai), Shanghai.

Just as Money is the Paper, the Gallery is the Room, Osage Gallery, Shanghai.

Looking Forward, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, Canada.

Biennale Of Moving Images, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.

A Time For Dreams, IV Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, The Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

Hors Pistes Tokyo film festival, Screening Project, Institut français du Japon, Tokyo, Japan.

The 8 of Paths, Art Exhibition in the Uferhallen, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany.

Many Place at Once, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.

The Invisible Hand: Curating As Gesture, The 2nd CAFAM Biennale, CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM), Beijing.

Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, Screening Project, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA.

Li Ran + Liu Shiyuan: A Screening with Christopher Phillips, Asia Art Archive, New York, USA. 

2013

Degeneration, OCT Contemporary Art, Shanghai.

28 Chinese, Contemporary Art Musuem of the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, U.S.A.

Li Pinghu, Li Ran, Lu Lei: Semi-automatic Mode, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing.

Difference Engine, Magician Space, Beijing.

Standing in the Shadow, OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo, Japan.

Be Conscious of Yourself, The Experimental Practices from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou.

I’m Not Involved In Aesthetic Progress: A Rethinking of Performance, Star Gallery, Beijing.

FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects, Haus der Kulturen der Welt(HKW), Berlin, Germany.

Alternatives to Ritual, case of OCAT, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal(OCAT ShenZhen), ShenZhen.

ON|OFF, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing.

Reading, Leo Xu Project, Shanghai.

Off Course - A Narration Between Italy and Greater China, Screening Project, Fondazione Querini Stamplia, Venice, Italy.

FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin, Basis voor actuele kunst(BAK), Utrecht, Netherlands.

2012

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Contemporary Visions on China, Taipei, Taiwan.

Alternatives to Ritual, Artists’ Museum, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai.

Perspectives 180 - Unfinished Country, New Video from China, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, U.S.A.

Roundtable, The 9th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.

The First "CAFAM·Future" Exhibition—Sub-Phenomena:Report on the State of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing.

The Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen.

2011

Little Movements, Self-practice in Contemporary Art, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Shenzhen), Shenzhen.

The Personal is Public, Aike-Dellarco gallery, Shanghai.

In a Perfect World, Meulensteen, New York, U.S.A.

Man For Himself, Art Channel, Beijing.

2010

Mummery, Art Channel, Beijing.

A Project – Incommunicable, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing.

Use The Hand Do The Job, Shift Space, Shanghai.

2009

The 6th Small Productions Event, Hangzhou.

2007

Dream Plant Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing.

Projects

2015

Residency: Nan Yang Technological University (NTU), Center For Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore.

Collections

Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Franciso, USA

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, U.S.A.

Domus Collection, Beijing/New York, U.S.A.

Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing

DSL Collection, Paris, France

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, U.S.A.

Columbia University Contemporary Photography Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.

M+ Museum, Hong Kong

Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany

New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai, Beijing

Lu Yang (b. 1984) is a Shanghai-based multimedia artist who creates fantastical, often morbid and shocking visions of death, sexuality (or a-sexuality), mental illness, and neurological constructs of both real lifeforms and deities. Deeply immersed in the subcultures of anime, video games, and sci-fi, Lu Yang’s output spans 3D-animated films, video game-like installations, holograms, neon, VR and even software manipulation, often with overt Japanese manga and anime references. Music — electronic and always frenzied — features prominently. Her works involve frequent collaborations with performers, designers, experimental composers, robot companies, and idol stars.

Lu Yang has been featured in important solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the UCCA (Beijing), Centre Pompidou (Paris), M woods museum (Beijing), Spiral (Tokyo), MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Arts (Rome), Sadie Coles (London), Fridericianum (Kassel), Société (Berlin), DFB Performance Gallery (Chicago), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Momentum (Berlin), MOCA Cleveland USA (Cleveland), and Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa). LuYang has also participated numerous Biennales such as: Shanghai Biennale 2018 & 2012, Athens Biennale 2018, Liverpool Biennial 2016, Montreal International Digital Art Biennial 2016, 56th Venice Biennale China Pavilion 2015, and Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014, etc .

1981 Born in Guangzhou, currently lives and works in Beijing, China
2005 Graphic Design department at School of Visual Art in New York, BFA
2007 New Genres department at the San Francisco Arts Institute, MFA
A co-founder of Video Bureau, an independent video archive resource in Beijing and Guangzhou

Solo Exhibitions
2016
True Sense, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing. 

2013
Lost Seconds, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing. 
Lover and Artist, Pekin Fine Art Gallery, Hong Kong. 

2012
Amorous Acts, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China. 

2011
Eclipse, Borges Libreria Contemporary Art Institute, Guangzhou, China. 
Automatic Happening, A4 Cultural Arts Center, Cheng Du, China. 

2010
Unrecording, Space Station, Beijing China. 

Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2019
The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, USA. 
57th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Special Program: Becoming Myself, Ann Arbor, USA. 

2018
The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Museum, Berlin, Germany.  
The Street. Where the World is Made, Foundazione MAXXI, Roma, Italy.  
Transition Agency, Attract Art Space, Shenzhen.  
Canton Novelty, Official Selection, Far East Film Festival, China Now 1 program, Udine, Italy. 

2017
Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen China.  
“Canton Novelty” Premiered in The Fifth Vancouver International Film Festival, and the work toured  at: West Bund Art and Design (Shanghai); Beijing International Short Film Festival, CHAO Art Center  (Beijing); Ullen Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing); HOW Art Museum (Shanghai); Times Museum  (Guangzhou); Xi’an OCAT Museum (Xi’an); The First Suzhou International Short Art Film Week, Han  Shan Art Museum (Suzhou); LUXELAKES・A4 Art Museum (Chengdu); Shenzhen OCAT Museum  (Shenzhen). 
Last Night’s Fortune Teller, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin Germany. 
Becoming, Border Crossing International Festival of Intermedia 2017, Hong Kong. 
Uncharted Water, Boers-li Gallery, New York, USA. 
Pan Yuliang: A Journey to Silence, Times Museum, Guangzhou China. 
Performing Dramas II, Prosepctif Cinema programe, Centre Pompidou, Paris France; K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai China. 
New notes of Guangdong, bonacon gallery, Guangzhou, China.
BI-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture, Shenzhen, China. 

2016
Tutorials - Moving Image and Instructions for use from China, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, Italy. 
Hero Mother - Contemporary Art by Post Communist Women Rethinking Heroism, Momentum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. 

2015
My Generation, Orange County Museum of Art, USA. 
28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA. 
CHINA 8 - Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl,  Marl, Germany. 
From a Poem to the Sunset, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany. 
Here Out There, Helsinki Festival, Finland. 

2014
1st OCAT & Pierre Huber Prize: Annual Exhibition of Emerging Media Artists, Shanghai. 
Through the Body: Lens-based works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, University of Toronto Art Centre, West Galleries, Toronto. 
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts,  St.Petersburg, FL, USA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City. 
The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing, Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8, Berlin. 

2013
28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami.  
Sans Faute, Block Space gallery, Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane.
Vancouver International Film Festival, 32nd Annual VIFF, Vancouver, Canada. 
On|Off: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China. 
Where Narrative Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England.

2012
Shuffling the Cards: Chinese Contemporary Art Reloaded, Hilger BROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria. Magic International Art Exhibition 2012, Shenzhen, China.
CAFAM Future, Central Academy of Fine Art Art Museum, Beijing, China.
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale - Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen China.
FCAC Video Project－JETLAG, Sino-German Multimedia Contemporary Art, Exhibition Independent Project, Kunsthalle Faust, Germany.

2011
Chinese New Generation of Artist, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal.
2011 Video Art in China - MADATAC, Reina Sofia Muesum, Madrid.
8+8 Contemporary International Video Art, 53 Museum, Guangzhou, China.

2010
Art Gwangju 2010, Emerging Asian Artists, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea. 
Get It Louder 2010, San Li Tun Soho, Beijing, China.
Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.

2009
Room Service, Walker Hotel, Xi’an, China.
Present Tense Biennale, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.
In Anticipation, New Langtons Arts, San Francisco.
Cantocore - San Francisco, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco.

2008
Blind Man and The Sun, He Xiangning Museum OCAT, Shenzhen China.
Cantocore, Ping Pong Art Space, Guangzhou.
We Remember the Sun, Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco.

2007
The Bridge Art Fair, London.
Show Some Color Part 2, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco. 
Show Some Color Part 1, Art Box show, Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco. 
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason. 
Overlap, RX Gallery, San Francisco. 
Version Festival, Chicago. 
Media Blitz, Garage Gallery, San Francisco. 
Panda Express, Straight Outta HK, MTV Italia S.r.l. QOOB channel.
The American Heresy, Roxie Theater, San Francisco.
Diva TV, Access SF channel 29 (2006−2007).

2006
Anti/Social, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco.
Alternative Context, Diego Riveral Gallery, San Francisco.
Canibal Café, Diego Riveral Gallery, San Francisco.

2005
RMX group show, RX gallery, San Francisco.

2004
Contemporary Artist Center (Honorable Mention Award), North Adams, MA, USA.
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Grande Halle of la Villette, Paris. 

2003
Fringe Short Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

2002
9/11, Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA, Maryland, USA.

Monographs
Unrecording (Exhibiton Cat.), Space Station, July 2010, Beijing.
Project Book 05-07: Deer Fang, January 2007, Guangzhou.

Books
“The 8 Paths: Art in Beijing”, P59, Published on the occasion of the exhibition “The 8 Paths: Arts in Beijing”, Uferhallen Berlin, 29 April – 13 July 2014, Published by Nicolai.
“28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection”, P36, Published on the occasion of the exhibition 28 Chinese at the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, 4 December – 1 August, 2014.
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation (Exhibition Cat.), September 18 – October 12, 2010, Beijing, Published by Timezone 8 Limited.
Art Gwangju 2010, Emerging: Asian Artists, Published by Gwangju Biennale Press, 2010. 
Exhibition catalogue Room Service, released by Walker Boutique Hotel, Xi’an, 2009. 
Present Tense Biennial, Chinese Character, May 1, 2009 – August 23, 2009, Published by the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco. 
Hardcore Canton (Exhibition Cat.), Ping Pong Space and Hardcore Canton project group, Guangzhou, 2008.
Sustainable Art Project Book, published by Brother Cornelius Art Center, Saint Mary’s College, 2008.
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2007. 

Major Collections
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
DSL Collection, Paris, France
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA

Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, Cao Fei is one of the most innovative Chinese artists to have emerged on the international scene. Currently living in Beijing, she mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations. Her works reflect on the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in Chinese society today.

Cao Fei’s works were showcased at a number of international biennales and triennales, including Shanghai Biennale, Moscow Biennale, Taipei Biennale, the 15th & 17th Biennale of Sydney, Istanbul Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, and the 50th, 52nd & 56th Venice Biennale. She also exhibited her works and projects at Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern in London; New Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and MoMA in New York; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Palais de Tokyo, and Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Cao Fei’s recent projects include the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative at Guggenheim Museum New York, solo show at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, K21 Dusseldorf and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Upcoming solo show will take place in Serpentine Gallery in March 2020.

She was a nominee for the Future Generation Art Prize 2010 and the finalist of Hugo Boss Prize 2010. She received the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) Best Young Artist Award in 2006 and Best Artist Award in 2016. She was also the recipient of Piedra de Sal Award at Cuenca Biennale in 2016.

Artist, Curator, MadeIn Company Founder

Xu Zhen was born in 1977, and lives and works in Shanghai.

Xu Zhen has been considered as an iconic figure in Chinese contemporary art. In 2004, Xu won the prize for ‘Best Artist’ at the China Contemporary Art Award. His practice covers various media such as installations, video, painting and performa-nce, etc.

Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2006), Tate Liverpool (2007), Hayward Gallery (London, 2012), Lyon Biennial (2013), Armory Show (New York, 2014), Long Museum (Shanghai 2015), Al Riwaq Art Center (Qatar, 2016), Sydney Biennial (2016), Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2017), Sharjah Biennial (2019), The Museum of Modern Art（Los Angeles, 2019）, among others.

Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator. In 1998, Xu Zhen co-founded Shanghai BizArt Art Center. In 2006, he co-curated together with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai and was one of the initiators of Art-Ba-Ba (www.art-ba-ba.com), a leading online forum for discussion and critique of contemporary art in Shanghai. In 2009, Xu Zhen established ‘MadeIn Company’, a contemporary art creation corporate, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN® which is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In 2014, MadeIn Company established MadeIn Gallery and in November 2016 launched the first “Xu Zhen Store” in Shanghai.

Born in 1976, in Changsha, China;
Currently works and lives in Guangzhou.

Education

2006 MA of Mixed Media Study, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

2001 BFA of Oil Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Awards

2018 Jury Award, DocumentaMadrid FUGAS Feature Film Section

2015 1st Prize of the Jury of the Ministry, 61st Oberhausen Internation Short Film Festival

2013 1st Han Nefkens Foundation BACC Award for Contemporary Art in Asia

Grants

2009 Grantee of Asian Cultural Council fellowship

Residencies

2013-2014 Residency program - Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (BACC)

2012-2013 Residency program - Kadist Art Foundation in Paris

2009-2010 Artist in Residence at Location One, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Zhou Tao: The Ridge in a Bronze Mirror, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2017
Encounter: Zhou Tao - Video Collections from Wang Bing, Ceramic House, Shanghai, China

2014
Green Sun, an exhibition by Zhou Tao, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2013
The Training, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

2012
Zhou Tao, A Window to the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Zhou Tao, Collector, TPW gallery, Toronto, Canada

Open Studio: Seek for Geothermal Heat, Times Musuem, Guangzhou, China

2011
The Man who Plants Scenarios, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA, USA

2009
1, 2, 3, 4-, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA, USA

Screenings & Film Festivals

2019
72 th Locarno Film Festival - Moving Ahead section, Locarno, Swiss

Zhou Tao: After Reality, Bar Laika, New York, USA

2018
DAS ENDE UNSERER GESCHICHTE, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China

Beijing International Short Film Festival 2018, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China

Into the Great Wide Open 2018, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vlieland, Netherlands

BLINDSIDE Satellite, BLINDSIDE, Sydney, Australia

International Film Seminar, TABAKELERA, San Sebastian, Spain

Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia

FUGAS Feature Film Section, DocumentaMadrid, Madrid, Spain

Dear Cinema 1, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Zhou Tao: The Worldly Cave (screening), Centre Georges-Pompidou Musee National d’ Art Modern,Paris, France

Zhou Tao: The Worldly Cave (screening), TATE Modern International modern and contemporary art,

London, UK

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2015
International-competition 10, 61st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen,
Germany

My Camera Doesn’t Lie? Documentary Aesthetics in East Asia, initiated by the Department of Art History of Columbia University, co-organized by AAA in America, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
The Street. Where the world is made, Mo.Co. Panacée, Montpellier, France

For beyond that horizon lies another horizon, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

Remapping Reality – Selected Video Collection from Wang Bing, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2018
The Wind of Time – Lian Zhou Foto, Lian Zhou Foto, Lianzhou, China

The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Conter Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The Street. Where the world is made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Lulea Biennial, Lulea Biennial, Kiruna, Sweden

Trace Evidence, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA

FRONT’s Film Program, FRONT International in Cleveland, Cleveland, USA

Art Patrons, Qiao Space and Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2017
Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, Art Spaces Al Mureijah 1, Sharjah, UAE

2016
Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Garden in Movement - 8th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision, Tokyo

Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

The Collection, A selection of Chinese works, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

South by Southeast. A Further Surface, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2015
New Directors/New Films 2015, MoMA & the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, USA

System of a Down, Ellis King Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2014
Social Factory - 10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Landscape: The Virtual The Actual The Possible?, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China;

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing - Art exhibition in the Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8, Berlin, Germany

2013
The 5 th Auckland Triennial: If you were to live here……, Auckland, New Zealand

2012
On / Off, Showcases China's young artists, UCCA, Beijing, China

Special Program at ART Tokyo 2012, Tokyo, Japan

2011
Body Talks, Video Art In Public Space, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Beyond the Crisis, 6th Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil

Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Vitamin Creative Space, USA

Moving Image in China, 1988-2011, Mingsheng Art Musuem, Shanghai, China

Support > System, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Exhibition, TaiKang Art Space, Beijing, China

2010
Non-Aligned, Two Artist, Marina Abramovic Institute West, San Francisco

Yes, But---, Location One, New York, USA

2009
Dress Codes, Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York,USA

Double Happiness, Leonhardi Kulturprojekte, Frankfurt, Germany

The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago Cultural Center, USA

Portrait of Self-Exile, Vitamin art space and the Shop, Beijing, China

Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

Species of Spaces, Art 40 Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Cantocore: Free On Board, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2008
Trans local motion, 7 th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

China Power Station Part III, MUDAM: Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Depart-Guangdong Hong Kong Macau, He Xiang Ning Art Museum & OCAT, Shenzhen, China

Guangzhou Station - Special Exhibition Contemporary Art Of Guangdong, Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangzhou, China

Cantocore: Import/Export, Ping Pong Space, Guangzhou, China

2007
China Power Station part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

Changes - video art from China, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia

Square Box, Art Beijing Platform, Beijing, China

2006
La rivoluzione siamo noi, Isola d'Arte, Milano, Italy

Accumulation-Canton Express the Next Stop, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

Octomania (On drawing the number eight), Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China

Asia-Pacific Documentary Film Festival, Asia-Australia Arts Center, Sydney, Australia

Diversion: Exhibition by New Generation, Times Museum (a member of GDMoA), Guangzhou, China

2005
Archaeology of the future, The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China

Contemporary art in Guangdong, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Feng Jian, Special Plan for Second Guangzhou Triennial, Borges Libreria Art Space Trust, Guangzhou, China

2004
Fei, Fei, Fei, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

Open Attitude - The First Generation of Artists In a New Era, Guangdong Museum of art, Guangzhou, China

2003
White Tower Mountain, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Baita Ling, Hangzhou, China

Nasty , Shanghai Biz-Art Art Center, Shanghai, China

Exciting day, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Selected Filmography

Shān Zhī Běi | Osmosis (2019)

North of the Mountain (2019)

South of the Mountain (2019)

Fán Dòng (The Worldly Cave) (2017)

Blue and Red (2014)

After Reality (2013)

Collector (2012)

South Stone (2010-2011)

Born 1972  Anhui Xuancheng

1993-1997 China Art Academy, Hang Zhou, China

2002-2004 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Solo Exhibition

2019 Kan Xuan: Racing Gravels,  Time museum, Berlin, Germany

2016 Light, Galleria Continua, Paris, France

2016 Kanxuan, IKON gallery, Birmingham, England

2012 Millet Mounds, UCCA Art Center, Beijing, China

2008 Kanxuan Ai!, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2006 Kanxuan,  Buerofriedrich Art Center, Berlin, Germany

2006  Protected by Colors, BizArt, Shanghai,China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018            
Walk Strangely Stay Strangely,  Time museum, Guangzhou, China

Starting from the Desert, Ecologies on the Edge-Second Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China

2017            
Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, America

2016            
Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, America

2015          
MOBILE M+: MOVING IMAGES, Midtown POP, Hongkong, China

2014          
The making of a museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China

2013          
The Encyclopedic Plalace, 55nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2012           
The unseen, The fourth Guangzhou Triennial, GuangDong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2011             
Be Natural,Be Yourself,  FRAC - Fonds regional d'art contemporain du Centre, Nantes, France

Face to Time,  Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain

2010             
8th Gwangju Biennale-10,000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea 

The State of Things _The Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2009
III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Everyday Miracles (Extended), REDCAT, Los Angeles, America

2008
Our Future, Ullens Foundation, Beijing, China

Thrill of Dept, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

2007
10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, China Pavilion,Venice, Italy

2006
9th Havana Biennial 2006, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

2005
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, GuangDong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

De Prix de Rome 2005, De Apple Amsterdam, Netherlands

I Still Believe In Miracles, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Yang Fudong was born in Beijing in 1971. He graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department in Hangzhou. He is among the most successful and influential Chinese artists today. He was one of finalists shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2004 and received this honor as the third Chinese artist after Cai Guoqiang and Huang Yongping. Now he works and lives in Shanghai.

Yang Fudong has participated in prestigious international art events including Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A. (2017); Bentu - Chinese Artists In A Time of Turbulence and Transformation, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2016); La Biennale de Lyon 2013, Lyon, France (2013); Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2013); 17th Biennale of Sydney 2010, THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2010); 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind, Venice, Italy (2007); The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia (2006); FACT Liverpool (Liverpool Biennial 2004), Liverpool, U.K. (2004); 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice, Italy (2003); Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); 4th Shanghai Biennale, Urban Creation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2002); Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan (2001); 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2001); Useful Life, Temporary Space, Shanghai (2000); Art for Sale, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai (1999); Post-Sense Sensibility, Alien Bodies and Delusion, Beijing (1999) etc.

He had had solo-shows at most acclaimed institutions and galleries, such as Dawn Breaking, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai (2018); Moving Mountains, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai (2016); Twin Tracks: Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2015); The Light That I Feel, SALT outdoor video installation, Sandhornoya, Norway (2014); Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013, The Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2013); Quote Out of Context, Solo Exhibition of Yang Fudong, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai (2012); One Half of August, Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, U.K. (2011); Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest and Other Stories, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2010); Dawn Mist, Separation Faith, Yang Fudong's Solo Exhibition, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2009); Yang Fudong: the General's Smile, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2008); Yang Fudong: Don't worry, it will be better..., Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria (2005) etc.

Jiang Zhi,1971 Born in Yuanjiang, China

1995 Graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts

Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

Jiang Zhi works with a range of mediums; such as photography, video, and installation. From the early stages of his artistic career, Jiang has been writing novels while taking photographs, which stems from his deep interest in poetry. Jiang Zhi has consciously positioned himself at the intersection of poetry and sociology. He fervently weaves familiar and mundane social experiences into his works, while at the same time maintaining the tenseness between daily life and our reading of the text. Hence, he has consistently avoided unspecific personal emotions and political statements, and shies away from feeble expressions and critiques. In this aspect, Jiang’s works are open-ended, supple, and possess a taste of poetic vigour.

Jiang Zhi was awarded the academic achievement of Reshaping History (Chinart from 2000-2009) in 2010, Asian  New Force IFVA  Critics Award in 2001 , and also received the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) in 2000.

Jiang Zhi has numerous publications including Mu Mu (1999), Shine Upon Me (2008), Neurosis and Prattle (2008), On the White (2008), Tremble (2010), If This is a Man (2012), Love Letters (2015), Love-Addict (2016, with Chen Xiaoyun), One is All, All is One, All, Predestiny (2017)

CHEN Xiaoyun (1971) was born in Hubei province. Since his participation in the group exhibition 'Art for Sale' held in Shanghai in 1999, he started his contemporary art creation and practice in video art, and has become one of the most important experimental artists in the most recent decade.

CHEN Xiaoyun's works are always both artistic and poetic in style, with introspective thinking present in the narrative structure as well as the use of individual fragments of consciousness to channel the real world in pictorial form. His works usually start with a caption, a dialogue, or a motion that is then overlapped, refined, and abstracted, to make our known world more ridiculous, hesitant, and emptier.

Prize

2012 New Photography of the Year by Lianzhou Foto 2012

Solo Exhibitions

2018

CHEN Xiaoyun: Arrival, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

2017

Chen Xiaoyun: Gilded Age, Enclave Independent Bookstore Art Space, Guangdong

2016

CHEN Xiaoyun: Emerald Tablet, Nuo Hotel, Beijing

CHEN Xiaoyun: 106 Flashes of Lightning That I Collect, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai

2014

Twenty-one Poems of Lenin, Chen Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai

2013

Hysteria, Metaphorical and Metonymical Life-World, CHEN Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition,A4Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu

Darker than Darkness, Death beyond Death, Fire Burning Fire, Walking Down along the Stairway,CHEN Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

2012

"Zhuiku Tablet" Annotation, CHEN Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

2010

Why Life, Chen Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

2009

Emerald Tablet, CHEN Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2008

Faint, Chen Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, MC, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Love You Big Boss, Chen Xiaoyun Solo Exhibition, The Project Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

Group Exhibitions

2018
Photography Between Right and Wrong, Wanying Art Space, Shi Jiazhuang As A Reason for December 12th, Hangzhou

2017
Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
5th Annual Ranking China Photography Exhibition, Lishui Photography Museum, Zhejiang
Physical Theatre, ShanghART, Shanghai BoundVolumesof Self Selection, Vol.2: Side Profiled Nihility, Chen Center for Contemporary Art 798, Beijing

Post Wave, Temperament and Avant-garde, Good Chance Space for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen Post-sense Sensibility-Trepidation and Will, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai

2016
Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai

Post-sense Sensibility, Trepidation and Will, Beijing
Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing LOVE-ADDICT, Taikang Space, Beijing

Group Exhibition: How Should I Explain to You, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

The Crocodile in the Pond, 11 artists from ShanghART Gallery - Curated by Alexandra Grimmer,Museum Art St. Urban and Abbey St. Urban, Luzern, Switzerland 

Exotic Stranger, GALERIE PARIS-BEIJING, Paris, France
Linguistic Pavillion, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

2015
7 SEVEN : Group Exhibition, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
Stereognosis Zone, RMCA, Guangzhou

Comfort, ShanghART Beijing Group Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

Paper, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore

China 8, Contemporary Art from China at the Rhine and Ruhr, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germ-any
Re-exposure, Poly Gallery, Hong Kong

Essential Matters-Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary Perili Kosk, Istanbul, Turkey The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

2014
Rouge, Shanghai Night Club, Shanghai
Montevideo Biennale, Montevideo, Uruguay

In & Out Réel ShanghART, Réel Department Store, Shanghai

Landscape: the Virtual, the Actual, the Possible?, Times Museum, Guangdong Now You See: New Chinese Video Art from the Collection of Dr. Michael I. Jacobs,-Whitebox Art Center, New York, U.S.A.

Post-Sense Sensibility, Duddell’s, Hong Kong

The 8 of Paths, Art Exhibition in the Uferhallen, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
Einblicke - In Die Sammlung Wemhöner, OSRAM Höfe, Berlin, Germany
Starlight, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai

2013
Clutch, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Foundational Work II, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Post-Politics, Seven Chinese Artists of the New Generation, artshare.com
Contemporary Art in China, 1990-2012, Zhong Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Moving on Asia, Towards a New Art Network 2004-2013, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

2012 Queen LiLi 's Garden, BIRD HEAD, CHEN Xiaoyun, GENG Jianyi, LIANG Yue, SUN Xun, YANG Fudong

Video& Photography, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai

Narrative and Narrative Forms, LIANZHOUFOTO2012, Lianzhou, Guangdong

Conceptual Renewal, Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Muse-um, Beijing Perspectives 180 - Unfinished Country, New Video from China, The Contemporary Art Museum in-
Houston, U.S.A.

Architectural Photography - Made in China, Guest Exhibition of the International Photography Scen-e in Koeln Museum of Applied Arts, MAKK, Cologne, Germany

Pulse Reaction, An Exchange Project on Art Practice, Times Museum, Guangdong
Uninkable, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai

2011
Moving Image in China : 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Poster Exhibition, TOP Events, Shanghai

Move on Asia, the End of Video Art, Casa Asia-Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2010
DIAL 62761232, A Document On A Contemporary Art Event, ShanghART Taopu, Shanghai Jungle: A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China, Beijing

2009
Bourgeoisified Proletariat, Contemporary Art Exhibition in Songjiang, Shanghai Songjiang Creative- Studio, Shanghai

Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

Retrospect and Exploration, Collection Exhibition from Fine Arts Literature Art Center,Hubei Provinc-e Art Museum, Wuhan
Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Blackboard, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Another Scene, Artists' Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2008
Chinese Freedom, T SPACE, Beijing

Out of Love, Contemporary Art Group Show, SOKA Art Center, Beijing
Insomnia, Photographs Exhibition, BizART, Shanghai

Artseason, The Third China New Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2007
Amateur World, Platform China, Beijing

Deviate, The 1st Anhui Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gold Zone, Hefei, Anhui Drapeaux Gril, CAPC- Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

2006
Gifts 2: A Case of Contemporary Art, Fanren Villa, Hangzhou

It's All Right, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hu Qing Tang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine,- Hangzhou
Nunca salgo sin mi cámara / Never Go Out Without My DVcam, Video en china,Museo Colecciones- ICO, Madrid, Spain

Alllooksame/Tutttuguale?, Art from China, Japan and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,- Turin, Italy China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute;Museu-m Boijmans Van Beuningen; Netherlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands
Poetical Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
Thirty-Eight Solo Exhibitions, 2577 Longhua Road Creative Garden, Shanghai

Microcosm, Chinese Contempory Art, Macao Museum of Art (Macao Culture Centre), Macao CHEN Xiaoyun, Andeas Koch, Heidi Specker, buerofriedrich, Berlin, Germany

The "Manhattan" Project, New York, U.S.A. The Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea

The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

2005 Gifts 1, a Case of Contemporary Art, Modern Art Museum Of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzh-ou The Second Guangzhou Triennial Self Organisation, BizART: How to Turn Guangzhou into Shanghai,

Xinyi International Club, Guangzhou

The Second Guangzhou Triennial, BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for-
modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

In the Deep of Reality, A Case of Chinese Contemporary Art, Basement of Tianyu Apartment,-
Hangzhou
Something Is Happening!, Maple-poplar Woods - In Orioles Singing in the Willows Park, Hangzhou Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Let Some Ideas Be Seen, Hangzhou

Shanghai Constructions, Group exhibition by 10 artists, Shanghai  Gallery of Art, Shanghai Move on Asia: Anination & Single Channel Video Art Festival, REMO, Japan

Bangkok International Short Film Festival (French/Asian), Bangkok, Thailand

T1 - Torino Triennial, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy

The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Archaeology of the Future, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Yokohama, Japan

Out of Sight, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004
Maze - 2004 Chinese New Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou 5th Shanghai Biennale, Techniques of the Visible,Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

Dial 62761232 (Express Delivery Exhibition), Contemporary Art Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai
Shanghai Surprise, Lothringer13 - Stadtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany Scarify, China Modern Indepengdent Image Exhibition, Beijing; Chongqing; Xi'an

Plug and Play, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuhan
Chinese Independent Films Screenings 2003-2004, Nanjing Video Exhibition, on the Hill, Baitaling Art Space, Hangzhou

Blink in Video Festival, Beijing; Shanghai; Changsha; Hangzhou Format, Contemporary Art Exhibition, 31#Bar, Hangzhou

2003
Distance, The Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Post-Sense Sensibility: Inside Story, Magazine Children's Theater, Beijing

Chinese Independents, Mainland Film & Video Festival, Hong Kong Relate to Word, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou

The Different Same, International Art Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
The Minority is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai

China Contempo II - Illusions and Perceptions of the City, Art Seasons, Singapore

+System, Short Videos from the World 2002-2003, BizArt, Shanghai

White Tower Mountain (Bai Ta Ling), Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bai Ta Ling Art Space, Hangzhou

2002
The Long March: A Working Visual Display, Ganzi, Sichuan

Greetings to Macau: Challenging Video Art from Around the- World,Macau Asian Pacific Video Exhibition, Sydney, Australia Harvest, China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing

2001
Non-Linear Narrative, The New-Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou Mantic Ecstasy, Digital Image and Video Art, Hangzhou; Shanghai; Beijing

The Visible City, Video Art Exhibition, Macau

47th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany

2000
"IN" Art Exhibition,- Purple Hills, Nanjing

Inertia & Mask - Works on Paper, Shanghai
Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute, Shanghai
Home?, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yuexing Furniture Plaza, Shanghai

1999
The Same But Also Changed, Photography Exhibition, Shanghai
Art for Sale, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai

Projects

2015
Exhibition in French Metro, Lyon Metro Station, French

2014
Shanghai Deal, Self-organized Art Fair, Radical Space, Shanghai

The Journey of Art, Follow-up exhibition of John Moores Painting Prize, Artemis, Shanghai

Collections

Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Wemhoener, Germany

M+Collection,Hong Kong

White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, New South Wales, Australia

b. 1968, works and lives in Shanghai

Born in 1968 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, YANG Zhenzhong has been living and working in Shanghai for more than 20 years with a career closely related to the development of new media art around the area. Since the end of 1990s, he has been curating and organizing numerous highly influential contemporary art exhibitions with artists including XU Zhen and YANG Fudong etc. They have not only enlivened the atmosphere of the new media art industry in Shanghai, but also promoted the artist himself to stage on an international platform. The key themes of YANG’s works are to strengthen the contradictions and disorders existed in the society with a cynical attitude on one hand, to utilise the perception of the space in political and psychological levels on the other hand. Now mainly focuses on the creation of new media like video, photograph, installation work and interaction etc., and curating as well.

Education 

1990

Graduated from Zhejiang Institute of Silk Textile, Fashion Design Department, Hangzhou

Prize 

2015

Italy Ermanno Casoli Foundation Prize

2014

AVIFF Art Film Festival Honor Award Jury

2003

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Short Video Festival, Grand Prize

Solo Exhibitions

2018

Background, No.12 DRC, Beijing

Surveillance and Panorama, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

2017

Fence, Arrow Factory, Beijing

2014

Eternal Return | Вечное возвращение |, Moscow Manege Museum and Exhibition Association, Moscow, Russia

2013

Trespassing, YANG Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai

2012

Passage, YANG Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition, SHANGHAI TOP, Shanghai

2011

Don't Move, Yang Zhengzhong Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

2008

Overpass, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Yang Zhenzhong, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark

2006

Foreplay, Yang Zhenzhong Solo - Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Yang Zhenzhong, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.

2002

Light As Fuck!, BizArt, Shanghai

Projects

2016

Party for everybody, Special programme during Art021, Fountain Square of Shanghai Exhibition Centre

2015

Disguise, Elica Flagship Store, Shanghai

2006

CC-Gallery, Shanghai

2005

Do It, the book project organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist

2004

Xi'an Zoo Bus Stop, Xi’an

Project for Do-it

2003

HAUDENSCHILD Garage Artist-in-Residence, San Diego, U.S.A.

Spring Story, Part of Siemens Art Program- "What are they doing here?", Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communication Ltd, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions

2019

1st Airport Biennale, Airport Town, Guangzhou

2018

12 Artists, DRC Triennial, DRC No.12, Beijing

The Street, Where the World is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Thailand Biennale Krabi 2018: Edge of the Wonderland, Krabi, Thailand

2017

The 7th edition Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture, Shenzhen

Troposphere, Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.

2016

l (Will) Die, Therefore I Am, The Hague, Holland

The Shadow Never Lies, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

2015

China 8, Contemporary Art from China at the Rhine and Ruhr, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

2014

COSMOS: Limited and Limitless, Existence and Co-existence, Opening Exhibition of Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

The Third Edition of Asia Triennial Manchester, Manchester, U.K.

Thingworld, International Triennial of New Media Art 2014, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

AVIFF Art Film Festival Cannes, Cannes, France

2013

La Biennale de Lyon 2013, Lyon, France

Contemplating Death, Media Art Lab, Moscow, Russia

Metropolis, Reflections on the Modern City, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.

2012

Acts of Voicing, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

The Unseen: Fourth Guangzhou Triennial,, The Grand View Project, Guangzhou Grandview Mall, Guangdong

2011

Out of the Box, The Threshold of Video Art in China (1984-1998), Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou

2010

Useful Life 2010, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2009

The China Project—Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

Impossible, 8 Chinese Artists Engage Absurdity, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery & MISSION 17, San Francisco, U.S.A

2008

Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

Like Animals (Comme des betes), Musee cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Switzerland

2007

The First Today's Documents 2007, Energy: Spirit ּ Body ּ Material, Today Art Museum, Beijing

52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind, Venice, Italy

2006

Nunca salgo sin mi cámara / Never Go Out Without My DVcam, Video en china, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Netherlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands

The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

China Power Station: Part I, Battersea Power Station, London, U.K.

2005

The Second Guangzhou Triennial, BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennal 2005, Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Follow Me!, Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2004

Between Past and Future, New Photography and Video from China, ICP and the Asia Society, NY, USA (traveling, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA; V&A, London, U.K.; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany)

China Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.

2003

50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice, Italy

Echigo- Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Short Video Festival, Niigata, Japan

Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2002

The First Guangzhou Trienniale - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

4th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea

4th Shanghai Biennale, Urban Creation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2001

Living in Time, 29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany

B Space of Kunsten Festival des Arts 2001, Brussels, Belgium

2000

Useful Life, Temporary Space, Dong Daming Rd, Shanghai

1999

Art for Sale, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai

1998

Jiangnan, Modern and Contemporary Art form South of the Yangzi River, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1997

Demonstration of Video Art '97 China, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing

1996

Image and Phenomena, 96' Video Art Exhibition, Gallery of China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou

1995

45 Degrees as a Reason, Conceptual Collaboration Work Organized by Geng Jianyi with Artists from Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing, Artist`s Private Home, Shanghai; Beijing; Hangzhou

1994

Agreed to the Date 26 Nov.1994 as a Reason, Conceptual Collaboration Work with Artists from Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing, Artist Apartment, Shanghai; Hangzhou; Beijing

1992

Guangzhou · The First 1990s' Bienniale Art Exhibition, Guangzhou International Conference And Exhibition Center, Guangzhou

Collections 

Power Station of Art, Shanghai

White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, New South Wales, Australia

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A

Ullens Collection, Beijing

M+Collection, Hong Kong

White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, New South Wales, Australia

Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia

Zabludowicz Collection, London, U.K.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, U.K.

The UBS Art Collection, Zürich, Switzerland

Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

MOMA New York, New York, U.S.A

DSL Collection, Beijing

Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland

Centre Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France

Hammer Museum, Gift of the Haudenschild Collection, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland 

Wang Gongxin (*1960 Beijing, China) lives and works in Beijing and New York. Wang was admitted to the Capital Normal University Academy of Fine Arts in 1978, and taught there upon graduation in 1982. In 1987, he went to State University of New York (SUNY) as a visiting scholar to study a master’s degree. In 2013, Wang nominated for the Olivier Award’s XL Video Award for Best Set Design. In 2014, he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree at SUNY.  

Wang Gongxin has exhibited widely around the world, including major exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennial, and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, and has exhibited in institutions such as the Tokyo Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; MOMA PS1, New York, USA; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Victoria and Albert Art Museum, London, UK; Fukuoka art Museum,  Fukuoka, Japan; ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; SF Moma, San Francisco, USA; Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Contemporary Arts, London; The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA; White Cube Gallery, Hong Kong, China; OCAT Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; and National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.

Born in Sichuan province, China, now is living and working in Beijing.

Since the 1990s, he has been researching the influence of multiple sciences and cross-sectors' knowledge on contemporary art. He borrows and engages the methodologies of different disciplines in order to develop a new language for art. This opens new possibilities to recognize subjectivity among many relationships.
With this cross-fertilized knowledge, he launches philosophical inquiries to practice a cross-sector method to view the reality. Simultaneously, he transforms these visions into arts forms, engaging in multiple mediums, including film, video, theatrical performance, digital technology, installation, painting and archives etc.

Wang Jianwei has been invited to participate many film and theater festivals, arts exhibitions and important academic events both within China and internationally. In 2008, he has been awarded by Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) the "Grant Recipient".  

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

“Cambrian” West Bund Art & Design, Art 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China

2015

“Dirty Substance”Long March Space, Beijing, China

2014

“Time Temple” Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A

2013

“…the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes”Long March Space, Beijing, China

2011

Yellow Signal, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2010

Welcome to the Desert of the Real,Beijing, China. Zurich Geneva and Basel, Swiss

2009

Time· Theathre · Exhibition, Beijing Today Art Center, China

2008

Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art ,China 

2007

Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2006

ARARIO, Beijing, China

Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai China

2005

Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2004

“Giant steps”, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia

2003

Walker Art Center, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Extreme Mix, Guangzhou Airport Biennale

2018

Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, In Collaboration With the Centre  Pompidou

2016

What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar

2013

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah

2012

Art of Change: New Directions from China, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London

2011

4TH Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2010

Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre Australia

2009

State Legacy: Research in the Visualisation of Political History,Manchester Metropolitan Universtity

2008

Facing Reality, National Art Museum of China, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien，Vienna，Austria

China Power Station (Part 3),Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2007

Circuity China Hebbel am Ufer,Berlin, Germany

Forms of Exchange,Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

2006 

China Contemporary，Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam，Netherlands

2005

Adelaide Film Festival，Adelaide,Australia

2004

China Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

The 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

2003 

The 50th Venice Biennale,Venice, Italy.

Festival D’ Automne Paris,Pompidou Center ,Paris, France

2002 

The 25th Sao Paulo Biennal, National Representation,Sao Paulo, Brazil

2001

Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. New York Queen Art Museum.,USA

2000

World Wide Video Festival,Amsterdam ,Holland.2000 Kunsten FESTIVAL desArts,Brussels ,Belgium

1999

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival ’99,Yamagata, Japan.

1998 

Cities on the Move Denmark.. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA. Hayward Gallery,London, English.

1997

The 10th Documenta, Kassel,Kassel, Germany

1957，born in Wuhan, Hubei1979-1989  Master degree, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts1993   Join Big Tailed Elephant GroupPresent lives in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and New York 

2002, Fellowship of Asia Culture Council (Rockefeller Foundation), New York,

2004, Artist in residence of DAAD, Berlin,

2012 to now, Co-director of  HB-Station in Guangzhou     

Selected Solo Exhibitions(Art Projects)

2019

“Solo Exhibition ” -1st.  Daao Village, Shigou Town, Sihui County,Guangdong; 

2016

Social Botany in San Francisco, San Francisco;

2014

Keywords School, San Francisco Chinatown;

2013

Questions, Land, Soil and "Socio-Botany"  Vitamin, Guangzhou;

2011

Studying for words about "Neoliberalism", TCAC, Taipei;Possible Vocabulary Games：Xu Tan Language Workshop,     OCAT, Shenzhen 

2010

Keywords School in Toronto, JMB, Toronto 

2009

Keywords School at YBCA, Yerba Buena, San Francisco Keywords School at AAA, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong 2008

Keywords School, Vitamin Creative Space, GuangzhouKeywords School, Bonniers Konsthall，Stockholm, SwedenKeywords：Life, Existence, Survival, Frieze Art Fair, London  

2007

Searching for Keywords, Location 1 Art Center, New York 

2005

Loose, Vitamin Creative Space, GuangzhouAir is Good, DAAD Gallery, Berlin 

2002

Location 1 Art Center, New York 

1996

Vermont Art center, U.S.A  Selected Group Exhibitions 

2018

The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center,Berlin, Germany.

How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions,Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.

Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan.

The Second Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China.

2017

Cosmospolis Biennale, Center Pompidou, Paris

Shenzhen City Biennale, Shenzhen

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, New York

2016  

Big tail Elephant, Guangzhou, Beijing

2015

12 Sharjah Biennale,   Sharjah

Parasophia, 1st Kyoto Triennale,  Kyoto 

 Hubrist   Halle 14, Leipzig

Ural Biennale      Ekaterinburg  

2014

Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale

Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale,  Shanghai

2013

Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, Shenzhen  

LAND/SLIDE -possible futures, Toronto

2012  

Adaptation, Steirischer Herbest, Gras Austria  

2011

Other Possible World, NGBK, Berlin

Me(d)itation--Asian Biennale 3, Taiwan National Museum, Taichung

Grand Domestic Revolution,  Casco, Utrecht Netherlands

2010

Double Infinity, Shanghai

2009

Making World,  Venice Biennale 53rd International Art Exhibition，VeniceWhose exhibition is it?--Asia art forum,  Taipei 

2008  

Transmediale 08 Conspire, Berlin, Germany 

Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield, Sheffield

Contemporary Art Forum, UK

Kunstfest Weimar, Weimar, Germany             

2007

Hyper City, Berlin Transit city,  Luxemburg

Video Art in internet time, Chelsea Museum, New York

2006

Asia contemporary art week: Asian Video Art seletion, Moma New York and Asia

Society, New York

Guangdong Express (II),  Beijing, Milano 

2003

"Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship"   50th Venice Biennial 

Alors Le Chine, Center Pompidou, Paris

2002

Pause, 4th Kwangju Art Biennial l, Kwangju, Korea

 2001

2nd Berlin Biennial, Berlin

Polypolis—Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Hamburg,  Germany

Fuck off, Shanghai, China

1999

The 3rd Triennial of Asian and Pacifica Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia

1998

The First Taipei Biennial, Taipei 

1992

Big Tailed Elephant 1992, Guangzhou, China

Zhang Peili was born in Hangzhou, China in November 1957. He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in 1984, where he now teaches. He also serves as the executive director of OCAT Shanghai and currently lives and works in Hangzhou.

In 1985 and 1986, he organized and participated in the"85 New Space" exhibition and artist collective "Pond Society." His major works include Rest, X? series, 30x30, Water: Standard Version from Cihai Dictionary, Document on Hygiene No.3, Last Words, A Gust of Wind and Collision of Harmonies etc., and 30x30, which is one of the earliest video works in China. He engages various media invideo, text, sound installation, mechanical installation and photography to express his concern and invention for real life through art, and to emphasize the judgment of artistic language and self-criticism.

Zhang Peili has been engaged in art teaching for more than 30 years. He established the New Media Department at China Academy of Art in 2003 and established the earliest New Media Art education in China. He participated in Venice Biennale three times, as well as in La Biennale de Lyon, The Sydney Biennial, The Gwangju Biennial, Busan Biennale, etc.; the artist has held solo exhibitions at numerous Institutions such as Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art New York, and S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium.

His works have been collected by prominent institutions such as MoMA New York, Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum New York, Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi, Centre Georges Pompidou, Art Institute of Chicago, Asia Society New York, Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery Australia, M+ Hong Kong, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Minsheng Art Museum, Daimler Art Collection, DSL Collection, K11 Foundation and Sifang Art Museum. Zhang Peili received the AAC annual artist award, 2015 and CCAA lifetime achievement award in 2010.

Independent curator and art critic.  

He now lives and works in Beijing.  

In recent years, he has focused on practicing the local value and stance of Chinese contemporary art, and also tried to construct a more active and independent discourse.