XU Bing

1955  Born in Chongqing, China

1981  Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts and elected to teach in the university after graduation

1987  Graduated with a master’s degree of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Vice-president、university professor and tutor of Ph.D. student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Currently lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011 “Tobacco Project”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

2011 “Background Story 7”, The British Museum, London

2010 “Aerial Phoenix Project”, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2004 “Xu Bing in Berlin”, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin

2004 “Three Installations”, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison

2003 “Xu Bing- 14^th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka

2003 “Book from the Sky installation”, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

2001 “Contemporary Art by Xu Bing”, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,

Washington D.C

2001 “Reading Landscape”, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 “Text/Messages: Books by Artists”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2008 “Prospect.1 New Orleans”, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans

2007 “Automatic Update”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2006 “Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart

2004 “The 26th São Paulo Biennial”, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo

2004 “Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004”, National Museum &

Gallery, Cardiff

2003 “Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2001 “Give & Take”, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2000 “Biennale of Sydney, 2000”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney