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SONG DONG

Song Dong has been a significant figure in the development of Chinese conceptual art since the early 1990s. His practice incorporates performance, photography, projection, video and installation. Emerging from a strong Beijing-based avant-garde performance art community, Song Dong explores notions of perception and the ephemeral nature of existence. His political and financial circumstances have encouraged a solitary, meditative way of working in which ideas are expressed through inexpensive materials and small-scale works. In his photographic series and short video pieces, Song Dong uses sequenced images to explore a rapidly modernising China and to capture notions of transience and illusion in contemporary society.

Song Dong

1966
Born in Beijing, China
2007
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
“EATING THE CITY PROJECT”, Selfridges public art program, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2005
“WASTE NOT”, Beijing Tokoy Art Project, Beijing 798 Factory, China
“THE 59th MINUTE”, Time Square, New York, USA
2004
“WATER WORKS”, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester, UK
2003
“SARS TIMES: SONG DONG AND YIN XIUZHEN”, video installations event, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
2002
“EYEBALL”, video installation and event, Beijing International Switching System Corporation Ltd. BISC, Beijing, China
“CHOPSTICKS: SONG DONG AND YIN XIUZHEN”, videos, installations and event, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2001
“CELEBRATION OF LIFE”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2000
“SONG DONG IN LONDON”, Gasworks’ Open Studio and Tablet at the Tabernacle, London, UK (installation and performance)
1999
“JUMP”, Tian An Men, Beijing, China; Italy
1998
“TEMPORARY OFFICE CONSTRUCTION”, Gallery Tao, Beijing, China
1997
“SLAP”, Ruin for Arts, Berlin, Germany
1996
“TAKING IT OUT OF THE BROCADE BAG”, Forty-One Middle High School, Beijing, China
“PRINTING ON THE WATER”, Lhasa River, Tibet (performance)
“UNCOVERING”, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
“STILL BREATHING”, Tian An Men and Hou Hai, Beijing, China (performances)
1995
“HEAVENLY SECRET”, Hou Hai Teahouse, Beijing, China (sound installation)
“BEI FANG”, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
“SECRET DIVULGING”, Ban Shang Hu Tong No.23, Beijing, China
“CHINESE MEDICENE”, Bao Fang Hu Tong No.12, Beijing, China
SINCE 1995 – ONGOING
“STONE THROWING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE”
“WRITING DIARY WITH WATER”, private and personal
1994
“LIFE WITH CULTURAL NOODLES”, Ban Shang Hu Tong No.23; Forty-One Middle High School, Beijing, China (video and installation)
“ANOTHER LESSON: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH ME?”, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China (installation and performance)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
“ELEGANCE OF SILENCE”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“DO NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ACTIVITIES”, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
“WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE…”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
“THE BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART IN MONTPELLIER”, Montpellier, France
“ON THE WATER”, Munich, Germany
“ONLY ONE WALL”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2004
“HUMAN SCALE”, contemporary dance, Guangzhou, China
“CONCRETE HORIZONS: CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION”, Adam Art Gallery , Wellington, New Zealand
“VISUAL PERFORMANCE”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
“OFFICINA ASIA”, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy
“THE MONK AND THE DEMON – CONTEMPORY ART FROM CHINA”, Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
“IS IT ART?”, Art Museum, Xi An, China
“PLAY WITH ENERGY”, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
“ASIAN TRAFFIC”, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia
“26th SAO PAOLO BIENNALE”, Brazil
“CITY SINGLE”, National Studio of Contemporary Art, France
“FACES IN THE CROWD – PICTURING MODERN LIFE FROM MANET TO TODAY”, Whitechaple Gallery, London, UK
2003
“LANDSCAPES”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, China
“NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CHINESE PAINTING”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“CHINA’S PHOTOGRAPHIC PAINTING”, China Art Seasons, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
2003
“HOW LATITUDES BECOME FORMS: ART IN A GLOBAL AGE”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
“OPEN ERA”, National Art Museum of China, China
“ALORS,LA CHINE: CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART”, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
“8th ISTANBUL BIENNALE”, Istanbul, Turkey
“LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND”, Beijing 798 New Art zone, China
“SECOND AHND REALITY”, Today art Gallery, Beijing, China
LIJING INTERNATIONAL ART WORKSHOP”, Lijiang Mu Palace, China
“EVERY DAY – CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, THAILAND”, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
“TOGETHER WITH FARMERWORKERS”, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“OPEN SKY”, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai, China
“LEFT-WING”, Beijing, China
2002
“2002 ARCO”, Madrid, Spain
“2002 GWANGJU BIENNALE”, Gwangju, Korea
“ON MY WAY TO TIMBUKTU…”, ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“LONGMARCH”, China
“The 4th ASIA-PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART”, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
“WHAT? A TALE IN FREE IMAGES”, Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium
“2002 GUANGZHOU TRIENNIAL”, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
“2002 TAIPEI BIENNALE”, Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan
“SHOT IN THE FACE”, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore 4th Annual Video Marathon, Art In General, New York, USA
“ON THE WAY AFTER TIMBUKTU”, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“GWANGJU BIENNALE 2002: PROJECTS 1 & 2 – PAUSE, CONCEPTION”, Korea
2001
“LIVING IN TIME”, Museum fur Gegenwart, Hamburg Station, Germany
“REINVENTING THE IMAGES AND SIGNS”, Huanyu Jingdian Cultural Centre, Beijing, China
“TRAVELLERS’ TALES”, InIVA Online
“KALEIDOSCOPE”, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“VIRTUAL FUTURE: AN EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART: THE 21st CENTURY CHINESE ARTS ANTHOLOGY”, Guandong Museum of Art, China
2000
“18th WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“CANCELLED: EXHIBITING EXPERMENTL ART IN CHINA”, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA
“EXPO 2000 HANNOVER”, Germany
“2000 CHINA: INTERNET VIDEO AND PHOTO ART”, Jilin Provincial Art Academy, China
“FUCK OFF”, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
“NEW CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY: CHINA SCENE”, Century Theatre, Beijing, China
“MICROWAVE FESTIVAL 2000”, Hong Kong, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
“UNUSUAL AND USUAL: A CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION”, Yuangong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1999
“TRANSIENCE: CHINESE EXPERIMENTAL ART AT THE END OF THE 20th Century”, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA; Amsterdam Fest, Netherlands
“KHOJ ’99: INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS’ WORKSHOP”, The British Council Gallery, New Delhi, India
“CITIES ON THE MOVE 7”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“AT THE NEW CENTURY 1979-1999 CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART’S WORKS”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
“BEIJING DOCUMENT”, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China
“FAST FORWARD: NEW CHINESE VIDEO ART”, Centro de Arte Contemporanea de Macau, Hong Kong
“ART FOR SALE”, Shanghai Square, China
“TRANSMEDIALE ’99”, Berlin, Germany
“7th INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART BIENNALE, Wroclaw, Poland
“NEXT GENERATION’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEAL WITH EMEREGENCIES”, Dong Fang Children’s Centre, Shanghai, China
1998
“INSIDE OUT: NEW CHINESE ART”, Asia Society Galleries, New York, USA; Australia
“IT’S ME! A PROFILE OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE ’90s”, Forbidden City, Taimiao, Beijing, China
“SPACE AND VISION: THE IMPRESSION OF TRANSMUTING DAILY LIVES IN BEIJING 1998”, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, China
“SITE ART PROJECT”, Walking Museum in Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan
“TRANSMEDIALE ’98”, Berlin, Germany
“TRACE OF EXISTENCE: A PRIVATE SHOWING OF CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART ’98”, Art Now Studio, Beijing, China


Wang Ningde

WANG NINGDE

Born in 1972 in Liaoning province, China, Wang Ningde graduated from the photography department of the Lu Xun Academy of Art in 1995. Soon after, he moved south to Guangzhou where he now lives and works pursuing a career as a photojournalist and editor with the specialist photography journal Focus Magazine. His first solo exhibition Walking Towards an Even Darker Place was held at the famed Liberia Borges bookshop in Guangzhou in 1999. In 2003 he staged his first overseas exhibition An Interesting and Singular Walk at the Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, Paris. Wang has since exhibited in the Czech Republic, Denmark, the United States, Italy, Japan, Israel and Singapore.

Wang Ningde is one of the most interesting photographers to have emerged from China in the last ten years. This forthcoming exhibition will demonstrate his very special place in contemporary photography. Although a working journalist, he still maintains the belief that photography is a tool for self expression and continues to make non-documentary, conceptual photography. The artist invites the viewer into the world inhabited by his characters by imbuing his photography with subtle narrative drama and staging his photographs from multiple angles. Drawing from his own experiences as a journalist having witnessed a multitude of extraordinary events, Wang Ningde invents a very personal visual language that is both intriguing and seductive.

In June 2006 The Red Mansion Foundation invited Wang Ningde to London for his first solo exhibition in the UK, Some Days.

1972
Born in Liaoning province, China
1995
Graduated from the department of photography, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art. Currently living and working in Shenzhen and Guangzhou
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
“SOME DAYS”, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA
“SOME DAYS”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2005
“BETWEEN HISTORY AND ILLUSION”, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Liaoning Province, China
“MAHJONG”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
“INNER SCOPE: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY AS CONSCIOUS PRACTICE”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
“THE LIANZHOU INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION”, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
“MAKING A NEW RELATIONSHIP – THE ETHICS OF ART”, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China
“DREAM PRODUCERS (III/IV)”, The Conceptual Museum of Chinese Contemporary Art, Xin Dong Cheng Space of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES: A DECADE OF NEW CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY”, Tel-Hai Industrial Park, Israel
“OUT OF THE DOOR”, Marella Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; The Open Museums of Photography, Tel-Hai Industrial Park, Israel
2004
“TECHNIQUES OF THE VISABLE 2004”, Shanghai Biennale, China
“LE MOINE ET LE DEMON – ART CONTEMPORAIN CHINOIS”, Musée Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
“GUANGYIN – TEMPI DI DONNA”, Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, Sala 1, Italy
“REALITY SPELLS – EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY FROM ’90”, Exhibition Galleries, Hong Kong Central Library
“BETWEEN REALITY AND MEMORY: A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION FEATURING THE WORK OF CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHERS”, Tishman Gallery, New York, USA
“ALL UNDER HEAVEN-CHINA NOW!”, MuHKA Museum, Belgium
“NO BODY’S FOOL, NO BODY’S HURT”, Aura gallery, Shanghai, China
“TRAVELING IN SPRING”, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, The 1st China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
“ILLUSION”, Aura gallery, Shanghai, China
“LA PHOTOGRAPHIE CONTEMPORAINE CHINOISE”, Musée des Beaux-Arts, France
2003
“AN INTERESTING AND SINGULAR WALK”, France Island of France Center of Photograph in Paris, France
“FANTASTIC PARADISE – CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY”, Prague, Czech Republic
“ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY”, X-ray Art Center, Beijing, China
“STRANGE HEAVEN – THE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY”, Rudolfinum the National Art Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
“1:1”, the 3rd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao Shanxi, China
“NO PROBLEM”, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
1999
“WALKING TOWARDS A DARKER PLACE”, Yuedong Gallery, Guangdong Province, China


WENG FEN

Weng Fen’s latest photographic series, I would name it a youthful vision of Asia, an idea emerged from post-modern urban Utopianism. The recent urban modernizations of cities all over China seem to be driving the civic societies in China in the direction of a homogeneous urban culture, at the same time eliminating their origins and histories. The differences between north and south are gradually erased by the crazy tides of duplicated cultural spaces which infested with homogeneous skyscrapers. Together with the lamentation of the loss of identity, Weng Fen’s photography allegorically represents the internal motivation behind the civic social ideology of Modernisation.

In July 2006 The Red Mansion Foundation invited Weng Fen to London to show photographs from the series Staring at the Sea and also to create a site specific installation The Viewing Stand. This was Weng Fen’s first solo show in the UK.

1961
Born in Hainan, China
1985
Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
PRESENT
Working as a Teacher in Art Collage of Hainan University. Now lives in HaiKou city

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006
“A WORLD WITHIN A WORLD”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2005
“CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
“ZOOMING INTO FOCUS”, Singapore art Museum, Singapore
“FOLLOW ME – CHINESE ART AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“UNSPEAKABLE HAPPINESS”, Museo Tamaya, Mexico
“ALWAYS TO THE FRONT – CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Nordjllands Denmark
“LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES”, Open art museum, Haifa, Israel
“RE(-)VIEWING THE CITY: 2005 GUANGZHOU PHOTO BIENNIAL”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2004
“NEW CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO”, ICP, New York, USA
“CHINESE VIEWING WORLD – STARING AT THE SEA BY WENG FEN”, Tong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
“POSERS”, Courtyard gallery, Beijing, China
“ME, ME, ME!”, Courtyard gallery, Beijing, China
“DIE CHINESEN – FOTOGRAFIE UND VIDEO AUS CHINA”, Kunstmuseum, Germany
“CHINESE BABY”, Marseille, France
“GODS BECOMING MEN”, Frissiras Museum Athens, Greece
“ZOOMING INTO FOCUS”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPH”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2003
“NEW ZONE – CHINESE ART”, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
“ZOOMING INBT FOCUS”, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego Museum of art, San Diego, USA
“OPEN SKY”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
“WENG FEN SOLO SHOW”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
“FROM DESIRES TO WHERE?”, Tang gallery, Bankok, Thailand
“ALORS, LA CHINE? Center Pompidou, Paris, France
“CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Sweden
“FACING NATURE”, Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland
“HOW BIG IS THE WORLD?”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“OUT OF THE RED”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
“TOO MUCH FLAVOR, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
“JUNCTION/ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION OFF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY”, Lianyyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2002
“The 1st GUANGZHOU TRIENNIAL”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“SHANGHAI BIENNALE”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“PARIS-PEKING”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
“EVERYDAY ATTITUDE”, PingYao International photo Festival, PingYao, China
“NEW PHOTOGRAPHY FROM CHINA”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“CHINESE MODERNITY”, Museum de Arte Brasileira-MAB, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“TOO MUCH FLAVOR”, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
“HOW BIG IS THE WORLD?” OK Contemporary Art Center, Linz, Austria
2001
“1ST CHENGDU BIENNALE”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
“VIRTUAL FUTURE”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guongzhou, China
“L,ALBUM DE LA FAMILLE CHINA SEPTEMBER DE LA PHOTO, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
2000
“CHINA AVANT-GARDE”, Artists Documents Exhibition, FuKuoKa Museum of Art, Japan
“NORMAL AND ABNORMAL”, Yuangong Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
1999
“POST-SENSE SENSIBILITY: ALIEN BODIES AND DELUSION”, Beijing, China


Xing Danwe

XING DANWEN

Born in Xi’an, 1967. After studying Fine Art at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts from 1982 – 1986, Xing went on to study a BFA at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 1988 – 1992. After this she studied a MFA in Photo and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Xing Danwen is one of the most active Chinese artist in today’s contemporary art scene, as well as one of few earliest artists using photography as an art form in the early 90s in China. Her artistic practice is both rich and varied, and her subjects are extensive, such as body, memories, sex, cultural status, globalization, consumption and desire – are all her concerns and personal interests. The issues of reality and fiction, fact and illusion often play an important role in her works. In the series Urban Fiction Xing addresses the globalization of urban landscapes. She uses both photographs shot on film and digitally manipulated to create a playful and fictitious world. In the new urban living spaces that she creates, inhabited by figures who inject a drop of life to the scenes.

1967
Born in Xi’an, China
1998-2000
MFA Photo and Related Media, at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1988-92
BFA Fine Art (Painting), at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1982-86
Fine Art (Painting), at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
“disCONNEXION”, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA
“URBAN FICTION”, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France
“DIS + DUP”, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002
“disLOCATION”, The 2nd PingYao International Photo Festival, Shanxi, China
“CHINA AVANT-GARDE”, LEE, Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1994
“WITH CHINESE EYES”, Gallery Grauwert, Hamburg, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
“ON THE EDGE”, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
“BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE – NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
2005
“CITY OF DREAMS”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
“ON THE EDGE”, The Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, USA
“BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE – NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2004
“GROTESQUE REALITY”, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
“DIE CHINESEN – CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO IN CHINA”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
“STRANGE PLANET: THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL AMBIGUITY”, Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, USA
“THE 55th PREMIO MICHETTI”, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al mare, Italy
“REALITY SPELLS – EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 90”, Art Map, Hong Kong, China
“MIX-ED”, Sherman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
“REASON & EMOTION” – the Biennale of Sydney at Museum of Contemporary Art, in Sydney, Australia “BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE – NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA”, International Center for Photography & Asian Society, New York; Smart Museum of Art & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
“CHINESE EYES”, Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA
“GLOBALIA”, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
“GUANYIN – TEMPI DI DONNE”, Galleria Sala 1, Roma, Italy
“SHE”, Art Season gallery, Beijing, China
“ME, ME, ME”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“JE T’ENVISAGE: LA DISPARITION DU PORTRAIT (Making Faces: The Death of the Portrait)”, The Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003
“TOGETHER WITH MIGRANTS”, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“CHINESE MAXIMALISM”, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
“CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART”, Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden
“CARA A CARA”, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
“GLOBAL DETAIL”, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Ja Groningen, Netherlands
“LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES FESTIVAL”, Arles, France
“THE AMERICAN EFFECTS”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
“ALORS, LA CHINE?”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“SPATIAL NARRATIVE – CONTEMPORARY ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHY”, Japan Society, New York, USA
“ROMA PHOTO FESTIVAL”, Rome, Italy
“SPLIT: WOMAN IN DISLOCATION”, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, New York, USA
“CHINE(S) – VideoArt & Experimental Cinema from China & Taiwan” at LightCone, in Paris, France
“CHINESE MAXIMALISM”, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2002
“1st GUANGZHOU TRIENNIAL:REINTERPRETATION – A DECADE OF EXPERIMENTAL CHINESE ART (1990-2000)”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“NEW YORK”, Damasquine Contemporary Art gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“LANDSCAPE OF SUR-CONSUMING”, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
“QUEENS INTERNATIONAL”, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2001
“MEGA WAVE – TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS”, YOKOHAMA TRIENNIAL, Yokohama, Japan
“MOIS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE”, MAMAC – Nice Museum of Modern Art, Nice, France
“1st TIRANA BIENNALE”, Tirana, Albania
“CHINA FEST” Berlin, Germany
“SVA 10 YEARS MOVING IMAGES”, Anthology Cinema, New York, USA
“DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS”, Matthew Marks gallery, New York, USA
2000
“4 PERSONS SHOW”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
“CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY”, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA
1999
“BEIJING – THE REVOLUTIONARY CAPITAL”, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
“TRANSIENCE – CHINESE EXPERIMENTAL ART AT THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, USA
1998
“CENTURY/WOMEN”, China National Gallery, Beijing, China
1996
“CHINA TODAY”, China Art Festival, Munich, Germany
1995
“WITNESS”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
COLLECTION
Whitney Museum of American Art, USA The Progressive Corporation, USA
JGS Foundation, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
ICP, International Center for Photography, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
George Pompidou Center, France
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
GRANTS/AWARDS
2003
Best Publishing Project Award from Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France
1998-2001
Grant & Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA
1998-2000
Chairman’s Grant from School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
PUBLICATION
2004
“A PERSONAL DIARY OF CHINESE AVANT-GARDE ART IN 1990s”, a book by SCALO


Xu Zhongmin

XU ZHONGMIN

Born in Sichuan Province in 1961, Xu graduated from the Printing Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy in 1987. As well as his more recent paintings shown here, Xu Zhongmin has also made a series of works inspired by the decorative arts of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He has used the conventions of Chinese incised lacquer screens to make intricately patterned compositions with scurrying, often slightly grotesque figures amid urban scenes. The claustrophobic urban world that they represent has something in common with the drawings and prints of M.C. Escher.

1961
Born in Mianyang – Sichuan Province, China
1987
Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Academy – Printmaking Sichuan Province, China
EXHIBITIONS
2005
“WOODCARVING AND INSTALLATION”, Albemarle Gallery London, The Red Mansion Foundation, UK
“CONVERGENCE AT E116/N40 BEIJING INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION”, 798 Da Yaolu Art Space and East End Art Zone, Beijing, China
“INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION”, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
“SHANGHAI COOL”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2004
“IS IT ART?”, Xi’an Art Museum, China
2003-04
“CHINA TODAY”, The British Library Gallery, London, UK
“JAPAN INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL”, Tokyo, Japan
2002
“CITY OF DREAMS”, Individual Exhibition, Gallery Art U, Osaka, Japan
“DIALOGUE”, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
“DREAM 02”, The Bargehouse and The Gallery OXO, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
“MEDIA CITY”, Art Gallery Artist Commune, Hong Kong
2001
“INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION: TIDAL WAVE”, The October Gallery, London, UK
“DREAM 01”, Atlantis Gallery, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
“YOUTH IN TRANSITION”, German and British artists, He Xiangning Art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
“WORK COLLECTED BY THE RED MANSION FOUNDATION”, London, UK
2000
“THE FIGURE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART”, The Air Gallery, Hanart, London, UK
“FACE AND GESTURES”, touring exhibition of two artists in China, Upriver Gallery, Kunming, Yunnan; Sichuan Fine Art Academy, Chongqing; Chengdu Upriver Gallery, Sichuan; Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan “WORK COLLECTED BY THE MUBAN FOUNDATION”, London, UK
1999
“TRANSVANGARDE EXHIBITION”, The October Gallery, London, UK
“TWO ARTIST EXHIBITION”, Well Hung Gallery, London, UK
“WORK COLLECTED BY BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, Berkshire, UK
1998
“THE 4th SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE”, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. Awarded the Sponsor’s Prize
“WORK COLLECTED BY THE HOKKAIDO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART”, Sapporo, Japan
“THE INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL 1998”, Osaka, Japan
“THE HUNTING ART PRIZES EXHIBITION 1998”, The Royal College of Art Gallery, London, UK; Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, UK
1997
“229th SUMMER EXHIBITION”, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Awarded The Guinness Prize for the Best First-Time Contributor
“THE INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL 1997”, Osaka, Japan
“DIALOGUE”, The October Gallery, London, UK
“ANOTHER PROVINCE EXHIBITION: Video and Film InstallatioN”, Waterman’s Arts Center, London, UK
“WORKS COLLECTED BY THE CLIFFORD CHANCE ART COLLECTION”, London, UK
“WORK COLLECTED BY THE GUINNESS ART COLLECTION”, Guinness PLC, London, UK
1996
“THE 3rd SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE”, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. Awarded The First Prize
“WORKS COLLECTED BY THE HOKKAIDO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART”, Sapporo, Japan
“TRANSVANGARDE EXHIBITION”, Video Installation and Woodcut, The October Gallery, London, UK
“CELL”, Installation: Video and Performance, Sichuan, China
“EXHIBITION OF RECENT AQUISITIONS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, London, UK
“NATIONAL PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION”, The Mall Gallery, London, UK
1995
“AWARD: THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION AWARD”, New York, USA
“INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION”, The October Gallery, London, UK
“WORKS COLLECTED BY THE OCTOBER GALLERY”, London, UK
“WORKS COLLECTED BY THE CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CULTURE”, Osaka, Japan
1994
“THE INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL 1994”, Osaka, Japan
“WORKS COLLECTED BY THE CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CULTURE”, Osaka, Japan
“WORKS OF XU ZHONGMIN”, Cite Internationale, Paris, France
“THE HUNTING ART PRIZES EXHIBITION 1994”, The Royal College of Art Gallery, London, UK
1993
“WORKS COLLECTED BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM”, UK
“THE INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL 1993”, Osaka, Japan. Award: Sakai City Prize
“NATIONAL PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION”, The Mall Gallery, London, UK
“THE SECOND SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE”, Sapporo, Japan
“MANCHESTER ACADEMY ANNUAL EXHIBITION”, Manchester, UK. Award: Manchester Academy Annual Exhibition, NORWEB Major Award, UK
1992
“TWO ARTIST EXHIBITION”, Central Fine Art Academy Gallery, Beijing; International Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1991
“NEW EXPRESSION PAINTING EXHIBITION”, exhibition of two artists
1990
Exhibition with five other artists, Dusseldorf, Germany
1988
“EXHIBITION OF FOUR ARTISTS”, China National Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China


Yang Qian

YANG QIAN

Born in Chendu, Sichuan Province in 1959, Yang Qian studied at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute from 1982 – 1984. He then went on to read a Master’s Degree of Fine Arts at the University of Florida. Yang Qian’s work is a mélange of photography and painting. He adopts an attitude towards photography different from most Chinese artists. He purposefully creates a contradiction between painting and photography as reflections of contemporary life. The women in his works often appear in Karaoke halls, or bathrooms of a hotel room. Through conscious and subconscious ignoring and neglecting, identity, scene, and action become ambiguous and unclear.

1959
Born in Chengdu, China
1978-82
Bachelor’s Degree of Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
1982-1984
Instructor at Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqin, China
1985-1988
Master’s Degree of Fine Arts, University of Florida, USA
1999-2001
Guest Professor at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
“NEW PAINTINGS BY YANG QIAN”, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
2003
“PING YAO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY ART FESTIVAL”, Ping Yao, China
2000
“NEW WORKS BY YANG QIAN”, Knox Gallery, Naples, Florida, USA
1999
“NEW PAINTINGS”, Adamar Fine Art, Miami, USA
1997
“REFLECTIONS”, Gallery 456, New York, USA
1995
“NEW WORKS BY YANG QIAN”, David Wolf Gallery, New York, USA
1994
“QIAN YANG PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS”, Suffolk Community College, Selden, USA
1993
“REALITY AND ILLUSION”, Jamaica Arts Center, New York, USA
1992
“RECENT PAINTINGS BY QIAN YANG”, Hanson Gallery, New York, USA
1991
“A DIALOGUE WITH TIME”, 808 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
“CLASSICAL VARIATIONS”, Patricia Judith Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1990
“NEO-CLASSICAL INTERPRETATION”, Patricia Judith Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1989
“RECENT PAINTINGS BY QIAN YANG”, Patricia Judith Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1988
“TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE”, University of Florida, Gainesville, FLORIDA, USA
“NEW PAINTINGS OF QIAN YANG”, Cornwall Gallery, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
“GOOD GIRLS, BAD GIRLS”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2005
“BEIJING STORIES”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
“EXPANDED PAINTING”, Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech
“CHENGDU BIENNALE”, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu; Shenzhen Sculpture Academy, China
“ON GOING”, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy
“CHINA CONTEMPORARY PAINTING”, Bologna, Italy
“CLOUD RAIN BEIJING”, Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
2004
“POSERS BEIJING”, Courtyard Gallery
“SPEED BEIJING”, Olympic Art Car Exhibition
“FORBIDDEN SENSES”, Francois Mitterrand Culture Center, Perigueux, France
“NEW PERSPECTIVE IN CHINESE PAINTINTG”, Marella Arte Contemmporanea, Milan, Italy
“FIAC INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION”, Paris, France
“SUBLIME AUDACITY – THE STROLLER EXPERIENCES”, Lisbon, Portugal
“ME, ME, ME”, Beijing Seasons Gallery, Hua Jia, Beijing; Art Seasons Gallery Hua Jia Di Singapore; Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“CHINA PHOTOGRAPHIC PAINTING”, Beijing Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
“CHINA AVANT-GARDE”, Vanessa Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2003
“URBAN ILLUSION AND PERCEPTION”, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore
“SUMMER INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“FIAC INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION”, Paris, France
“FEMMES DE CHINE”, Galerie Veronique Maxe-Albert Benamou, Paris, France
2002
“DAY DREAM”, Nan Jing Art Museum, Nan Jing, China
“DAILY ATTITUDE”, Ping Yao International Photography Exhibition, Ping Yao, China
“INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION FOR 77 AND 88”, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
2001
“UNUSUAL AND USUAL”, Hong Kong Art Commune, Hong Kong
“CHINESE PLAN: ROTATE 360”, Shanghai Paragold Int’l Art Center, Shanghai, China
2000
“UNUSUAL AND USUAL”, Yuan Gong Museum, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
“DOOR THROUGH THE CENTURY”, National Art Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
1999
“SURREALISM”, Monique Goldstrum Gallery, New York, USA
1998
“FIGURATIVE ART IN ’90”, Center of Contemporary Art, Houston, USA
“ART AT THE END OF THE CENTURY”, Vanderbuilt Museum, New York, USA
1997
“NEW FORM”, Center For Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
“FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS IN NEW YORK”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, USA
“CHINA TURNS ONTARIO”, IDA Gallery/York University, Ontario, Canada
1995
“GROUP SHOW”, University Gallery, Gainesville, USA
1994
“FIGURATION”, Nassau Community College, New York, USA
“THE STUDY OF THE FEMALE FORM”, Adamar Fine Arts, Miami, USA
“NEW EXPRESSION IN ASIAN AMERICAN ART”, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA
1992
“CHINA JUNE 4th, 1989”, Austin, Texas (Traveling to Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland), USA
“SPECTRUM OF MODERN CHINESE PAINTING”, St. John’s University, New York, USA
“FRIENDS OF LIN LIN”, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA
1991
“CHINESE ART MEETS WEST”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
“SECOND SPRING”, Founders Gallery, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA
“THE LAST PICTURE SHOW”, Sally Hawkings Gallery, New York, USA
1990
“CHINA JUNE 4th”, PS1 Museum, New York, USA
“GALLERY ARTIST SHOW”, Access Gallery, New York, USA
“THE PUBLIC MIRROR”, The Clock Tower Gallery, New York, USA
1989
“CHINA JUNE 4th”, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, USA
1987
“ARTISTS FROM CHINA – NEW EXPRESSION”, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, USA
“CHINESE OVERSEAS ARTIST UNITED SHOW”, Chinese Institute, Boston, USA
“CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTINGS FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA”, Harkness House, New York, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTION
National Museum of Art, Beijing, China
Museum of Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL, USA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, USA
IBM International Corp. New York, USA
New Era of Networks Corp. Englewood, CO, USA
Bell Atlantic Corp. Hicksville, NY, USA
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
Annie Wong Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy


ZHANG WANG

ZHANG WANG

Born in Beijing in 1962, Zhan Wang studied at the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing from 1983 – 1988. He went on to study a MFA at CAFA, graduating in 1996. He now lives and works in Beijing.

Zhan Wang has been very successful in China and abroad. Interested in the emerging tensions found in the urban space as seen in the quickly developing cityscape, Zhan creates works that dialogue between new technologies and cultural traditions.

1962
Born in Beijing, China
1978-81
Beijing Industrial Arts College, China
1983-1988
Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
PRESENT
Currently living and working in Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2004
“MOUNT EVEREST PROJECT – TO THE SUMMIT”, Everest 8853.5m
2002
“FROM SWEDEN TO TAIPEI”, Taipei – Taizhong
2001
“INLAY GREAT WALL”, Remnant Great wall of Badaling, Beijing, China
“SHAM NATURE – ZHAN WANG’S ARTIFICIAL JIASHANSHI”, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
“INSIDE OUT – FLOATING ROCK ON SWEDEN”, Gothenburg, Sweden
2000
“BEYOND 12 NAUTUCAL MILES – FLOATING ROCK DRIFTS ON THE OPEN SEA”, Lingshan Island, Jiaonan City, Shandong Province, China
1994
“KONG LING KONG – SEDUCTION SERIES: WORKS OF ZHAN WANG”, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
“XIANFENG! CHINESE AVANT-GARDE SCULPTURE”, Museum Beelden aan Zee/Waanders Uitgevers, Netherlands
“ON THE EDGE VISITING ARTISTS PROGAMME”, Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, California, USA
“THE ELEGANCE OF SILENCE”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, japan
“UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE – ART, LIFE AND THE TOURIST’S EYE”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2004
“CHINESE IMAGINATION”, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
“BEYOND BOUNDARIES”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, China
“BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA”, International Center of photograph (ICP), New York, USA
“PLAYING WITH THE ENERGY”, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
2003
“DREAMS AND CONFLICTS – THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE VIEWER”, 50th Venice Biennale, Synthi-Scapes: Chinese Pavilion, Guangdong Museum of Art, Venice, Italy
“CHINA ART”, Museo Arte Contemporanea di Rome, Italy; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“A SINO-GERMAN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART”, 798 Space Art and Culture, Beijing, China
“OPEN TIMES”, Chinese Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2002
“THE 1st GUANGZHOU TRIENNIAL REINTERPRETATION: A DECADE OF EXPERIMENTAL CHINESE ART (1990-2000)”, Guangdong Art Museum, China
“CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Brasileira Art Museum, Brazil
“CHINART”, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
“PARIS – PEKING”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
“CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Croatia Art Museum
2001
“POSTER EXHIBITION OF CHINESE AVANT-GARDE”, The Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
“HOTPOT KINESISK SAMTIDSKUNST”, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Norway
“DREAM 01”, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2000
“WITH COMPLIMENTS”, Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
“2000 SHANGHAI BIENNALE”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“THE WEST LAKE INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION”, Taiziwan Park, Hangzhou, China
“THE WORLD OF REAL AND ILLUSORY”, Yunfeng Gallery, Beijing, China
“DOCUMENTATION OF CHINESE AVANT-GARDE ART IN THE 90s”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
“HUMANITIES LANDSCAPE”, Langdao, Guilin, China
“OPEN 2000 – INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATIONS”, Venezia, Italy
“INVITED EXHIBITION ON CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SCULPTURE”, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao, China
“ORIENTAL PLAZA SELECTED CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE FROM CHINA”, East Square, Beijing, China
1999
“THE DOOR OF THE CENTURY”, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
“THE FUTURE PLAN OF ECOLOGY CITY”, Shenzhen, China
“VOLUME AND FORM: SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE”, Singapore
“TRANSIENCE: CHINESE EXPERIMENTAL ART AT THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY”, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
“CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART”, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
“CITIES ON THE MOVE”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998
“ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE”, Hexiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
“BUILDING BLOCKS”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“A REVELATION OF 20 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART”, Workers’ Cultural Palace, Beijing, China
“CITIES ON THE MOVE”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
“COMMEMORATING LIFE”, Jinshan, Taiwan
“HALF A CENTURY OF FOOTPRINTS”, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing
“AUTONOMOUS ACTION”, Art Space Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
“SIGNS OF LIFE, GROUP EXHIBITION OF MODERN CHINESE ART”, Modern Art Studio, Beijing
1997
“CONTINUE”, CIFA Gallery, Beijing, China
“THE FIRST SCULPTURE ACTIVITES IN GUILIN”, Dayanggu Art Palace, Guilin, Guangxi, China
“DREAM OF CHINA ’97 CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART”, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
“CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION”, Watari-UM, Tokyo, Japan
“FOREVER RETURN 97 – NANSHAN SCULPTURE EXHIBITION”, Nan Shan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
“CITIES ON THE MOVE”, Secession, Vienna, Austria
1996
“CERTIFICATE OF AWARD ’96: TEDA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYNPOSIUM”, Tianjin
“THE 1st EXHIBITION IN MOUNTAIN-FOREST SCULPTURE PARK”, Huairou, Beijing, China
“INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE WILD-OPEN SHOW”, Fukouka Seaside Park, Japan
“THE 1st ACADEMIC EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST”, Hong Kong Art Center
“SCULPTURE AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, THE RESEARCH REPORT ON CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART”, Chongqing, Sichuan, China
“INVITED WORKS OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE”, Nanshan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
“REALITY: PRESENT AND FUTURE”, International Art Place, Beijing, China
1995
“45 DEGREE AS A REASON, POSTCARD EXCHANGE”, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
“DEVELOPMENT PLAN, TRIPLICATE STUDIO 1st EXHIBITION”, Central Academy Of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
“WOMAN’S HERE, TRIPLICATE STUDIO 2nd EXHIBITION”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“OPEN YOUR MOUTH, CLOSE YOUR EYES”, Beijing – Berlin Art Exchange, Art Museum of Capital Teaching University, Beijing, China
“EXHIBITION OF WORKS NOMINATED BY CRITICS (1995 Sculpture & Installation)”, Jingsu Art Monthly
1994
“AGREE TO 11/26 AS A REASON, POSTCARD EXCHANGE”, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
“KONG LING KONG – SEDUCTION SERIES, WORKS OF ZHAN WANG”, Central Academy Of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1993
“TAIWAN-BEIJING TWO SIDES OF THE STRAITS, SCULPTURE”, Kaohsiung Art Gallery, Taiwan and Beijing
1992
“CONTEMPORARY YOUTH SCULPTURE INVITATION EXHIBITION”, ZIFA Gallery, Hangzhou, China
“20th CENTURY CHINA”, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1991
“NEW GENERATION ART EXHIBITION”, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1990
“THE 1st STUDIO ART EXHIBITION”, Central Academy Of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China


Bandi

ZHAO BANDI

Born in Beijing in 1966. Zhao graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Oil Painting Department, Beijing in 1988. His practices encompass photography, video and performance. In works inspired by public service information and government propaganda, the artist and his toy panda engage in a sharp, deadpan dialogue. He uses humour and the persona of Pandaman to tackle difficult issues of concern to contemporary society.

The Red Mansion Foundation invited Zhao Bandi and his panda to London for a one month residency in 2003 to produce a series of works inspired by their experiences in Britain. Bandi created a video and a series of photographs with captions.

The Manchester Art Gallery, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth as well as the London Underground were showing his work simultaneously during the summer of 2004 in a series of off-site shows (billboards and banners) and gallery-based exhibitions.

1966
Born in Beijing, China
1988
Graduates from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Beijing, China
PRESENT
Currently living and working in Beijing, China
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005
“ZOOMING INTO FOCUS – CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO”, Haudens ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
“MAHJONG – CHINESISCHE GEGENWARTSKUNST”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Germany
2004
“DREAMING OF THE DRAGON”, Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
“GROUP SHOW”, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
“ZHAO BANDI”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
“UH-OH! PANDAMAN”, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
“BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA”, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
“ZOOMING INTO FOCUS”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“OVER ONE BILLION SERVED”, Museum of Contemporary Art , Denver, USA
2002
“SUBJECTIVITY – PHOTOGRAPHY OF THEMSELVES”, ASUART – Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
“THE PANDA AND I”, Franco Riccardo arti visive, Naples, Italy
2000
“PORTRAITS, FIGURES, COUPLES AND GROUPS”, BizArt, Shanghai, China
1999
“CONCEPTS, COLOURS AND PASSIONS”, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
“48th VENICE BIENNALE”, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1998
“BIENNALE OF SYDNEY”, Sydney, Australia