Introduction
artist
Tong Wenmin
Artist
1989 Born in Chongqing, China.
2012 Graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing
Currently Works and lives in Chongqing, China
Solo Exhibitions / PERFORMANCES
2019
Emerald, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China
Escape from Discipline, Thousand Plateau Art Space, Chengdu, China
Stone. Organ Haus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2018
Castle, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China
2017
Above The Tree, Organ Haus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2016
Stars on the Earth, Rebel Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
Fly the Wind, Xining Contemporary Art Space, Xining, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCES
2020
2020 A4 Artist in Residence International Exchange Program Exhibition: People Nearby, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
A Tale of Two Cities: Chengdu & Chongqing, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
Twelve Years: The Archives of Scene, UP-ON International Live Art Festival 2008-2020, Luxehills Art Museum, Chengdu, China
*A* Wet Run Rehearsal, The 13th Shanghai Biennale "Bodies of Water", Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Koganecho Bazaar 2020 Vol.2, Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama, Japan
LI Family House Fortune Exhibition, Haofangtianji, Shenzhen, China
From the Mundane World: Launch Exhibition of He Art Museum, He Art Museum, Shunde, China
After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Interruped Meals, HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), Shanghai, China
Loading......, 2020 Art Power 100, Kuntai·Jiarui Culture Center, Beijing, China
Étude, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China
Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art, NCAF Beijing Space, Beijing, China
Gallery Weekend Beijing 2020 Up&Coming Sector, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing, China
2019
From Streets to Methodology: Performance Art in Southwest Area of China, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Concept, Form and Daily Life —The 3rd Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art (BCA), Design Society | The Sea World Culture and Arts Centre, Shenzhen, China
Sunset on a Dead End:The Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence, Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai, China
The 7th Up-On International Live Art Festival, Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance And Economics, Chengdu, China
180 Years of Photograph in China, MoCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Curation Workshop, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
A White Space Odyssey, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China
Longan, House of Egorn, Berlin, Germany
Disappearing Archives, Mocube, Beijing, China
2018
Condition: Huayu Youth Award Finalist Exhibition, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China
Unidentified Landscape: Hotel Asia Project 2018，BARRAK, Okinawa, Japan
Shift: Blue Roof Museum Exchange Exhibition, Wallace Gallery Morrinsvlle, Morrinsvlle, New Zealand
The 6th Up-On International Live Art Festival, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Beyond Time and Space: Video Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting 2018, Fukushima, Tokyo Japan
Yang Jian und Tong Wenmin, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf, Germany
Heterotopia on the Route, Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
2017
Forms as Thoughts: The 8th New Star Art Award Shortlisted Artists’ Group Exhibition 2017, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
The 5th Up-On International Live Art Festival, JZFZ Art Space, Chengdu, China
Position and Disposition, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Shifting Permanence: Sichuan Performance Art, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Australia
Fourth Round: 100 Kilometers, Liao Liao Arts Dissemination Institution, Chengdu, China
The Potential Expression: Young Artists Residency Program of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, CAEA Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
The 2nd Circle Youth Arts Award Entries Works Exhibition, Circle Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Rip It Up: The 2nd Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
The 5th Contemporary Sculpture Award Entries and Awarding-Winning Works Exhibition, Luozhongli art Museum, Chongqing, China
Second Round:100 Kilometers, Liao Liao Arts Dissemination Institution, Chengdu, China
2016
The 11th ZAZ International Performance Art Festival, Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv, Israel
Workshop: HW Factory Project, Hewei Iron Crafts Factory, Chongqing, China
Thirty Years of Body Art Performance Happening Project Art Documents of China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
On the Other Side, Organhouse, Chongqing, China
The 4th Up-On International Live Art Festival, Shuijingtang, Chengdu, China
Stretching Conceptual Space: State and Method, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
How Long Is the Way to The Factory, Organhouse, Chongqing, China
Vienna-Chongqing International Culture Festival, LP Art Space, Chongqing, China
Parabiosis: International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016, Chongqing Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Light Art Performance, Arta Contemporary Art Institute, Lorestan, Iran
Crossing Border - Border Crossing: International Festival of Crossing Media, MOST Alternative Space, JCCAC Art Village, Hong Kong, China
2015
Links: Locality and Nomadism, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China
The 3rd Up-On International Live Art Festival, Sichuan University Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Transart Communication International Performance Art Encounter, Kassak Centre for Intermedia Creativity, A4, Galéria umenia Ernesta Zmetáka, Budapest, Hungary; Csemadok, Nové Zámky, Slovakia
XVII-International Art Festival, Interakcje, Piotrkow Trybunalski , Poland
2015 Golden Field –The Project of Cross–Boarder Fieldwork Methods Practice, LP Art Space, ChongQing, China
2014
Macau International Performance Art Festival 2014, Ox Warehouse, Macau, China
Guangzhou Live 5 International Performance Art Festival, Youyou Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, china
Organhaus Young Artists Workshop, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
Meta-Chongqing Live Chongqing 2014, 501 Xu Space, Chongqing, China
Pass The Flame-Performance Art Festival 2014, Chongqing, China
XU-Space Young Artists Experimental Art Promotion Plan 2014, 501 Xu Space, Chongqing, China
Asiatopia: The International Performance Art Festival 2014, Bangkok Art Culture Center, Bangkok; Chiangmai University Gallery, Chiangmai, Thailand
Speed Shifting: Shenzhen Performance Project, Misthaus Experiment, Shenzhen, China
“GUYU” China City International Performance Art Festival The 8th Round, BanPo International Art District, Xi’an, China
2013
Macau International Performance Art Festival 2013, Ox Warehouse, Macau, China
501 Xu Space International Artist-Residency Project: Soft Blow, XU-Space, Chongqing, China
Wuzhen Theatre Festival 2013, Wuzhen, china
“GUYU” China City International Performance Art Festival The 7th Round, BanPo International Art District, Xi’an, China
Spring Leaves Failing, XU-Space, Chongqing, China
Generation and Resonance, 501 Xu Space, Chongqing, China
2012
Longing for Homeland - Series of Activities of Migration and Habitation Programme, 501 Xu Space, Chongqing, China
Awards, Residency & Scholarships
2021
The Swiss Arts Council Artists Residency, Switzerland
2019
Offshore Residency, No Trace Art Season, Dinawan Island, Malaysia
2018
Grand Jury Prize, Huayu Youth Award, Sanya, China
First Prize, The 8th New Star Art Award, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germanny
2017
Nomination Prize, The 5th Contemporary Sculpture Award, Luozhongli Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Young Artists Residency program of Sichuan fine art institute, CAEA Art Museum Of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
2016
Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China
Rebel Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2015
Awarded, SAYA Embrace Project, Chengdu, China
Xining Contemporary Art Space, Xining, China
Public collection
M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Macalline Art Center, Beijing, China
Long March Project，Beijing, China
