Artist

AI WEIWEI

1957 Born in Beijing, China

1981-1993 Lived in USA, mainly New York


Lives and works in Beijing, China


Education


1982 Parsons School of Design, New York City, New York, USA

1978 – 81 Animation, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China


Solo Exhibitions

2017


Natural State: Ai Weiwei at Meijer Gardens, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Michigan, USA



2016


Foundation, Lisson Gallery, London, UK


Laundromat, Deitch Projects, NewYork, USA


Roots and Branches, Lisson Gallery, New York, USA; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA


Libero, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy


Around Ai Weiwei: Photographs 1983 – 2016, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy


S.A.C.R.E.D, Cuenca Cathedral, Cuenca, Spain


Cubes and Trees, The Heong Gallery, Downings College, Cambridge, UK


Overrated, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA


Er Zi, Air de Jeux, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France


Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animal/Zodiac Heads, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic


Translocation – Transformation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria


 


2015


Ai Weiwei, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland


Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK


Ai Weiwei: Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China


Ai Weiwei: AB Blood Type, Magician Space, Beijing, China


Ai Weiwei, Tang Gallery, Continua – Beijing, Beijing, China


Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA


Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA


 


2014


Evidence, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany


Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA


Lisson Gallery, London, UK


Sunflower Seeds, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany


@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Alcatraz Island, California, USA


New York Photographs 1983 – 1993, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada


On the Table, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

Blenhiem Palace, Oxfordshire, UK


 


2013


Ordos, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France


Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Perez Art Museum, Miami, US; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada


Becoming, Galeria Pilar, São Paolo, Brazil


Disposition, 55th Venice Biennale, Collateral Event, Zuecca Project Space, Venice, Italy


Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA Baby Formula, Michael Janssen Gallery, Singapore


Resistance and Tradition, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain Interlacing, São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil


 


2012


Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA


Vienna Art Week 2012: Predicting Memories, Ehemaliges K. K. Telegrafenamt, Vienna, Austria


Interlacing, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway


REBAR – LUCERNE, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold’, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, USA


A Living Sculpture, The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK


De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands


Magasin III, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA


Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh and Martin Wong in New York, Para Site, Hong Kong


Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA


Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary


Ai Weiwei, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy


Perspectives: Ai Weiwei, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA


 


2011


Teehaus, 2009, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany


Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Grand Army Plaza, New York, USA; Somerset House, London, UK


Ai Weiwei Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan


Interlacing, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria


Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993, Asia Society Museum, New York City, New York, USA


Fairytale – 1001 Chairs, Olyvia Fine Art, London, UK

Werke aus der Sammlung, Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany


Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria


Lisson Gallery, London, UK


Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC–AD 2010), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK


Sunflower Seeds, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland


Interlacing, Foto Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland


Ai Weiwei in New York: Fotografien 1983–1993, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany


Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark


 


2010


The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK


Faurschou Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark


Cube Light, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


A Few Works from Ai Weiwei, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany


Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


Hurt Feelings, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

Dropping the Urn, Ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, USA


Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA


Barely Something, Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany


Dropping the Urn, Ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA


 


2009


With Milk ___find something everybody can use, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain


World Map, Gallery Faurschou, Beijing, China


So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany


Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan


Ways Beyond Art, Ivory Press Space, Madrid, Spain


Four Movements, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK


Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China


 


2008


Ai Weiwei, Albion Gallery, London, UK


Ai Weiwei, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea


Ai Weiwei: Under Construction, Sherman


Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia


Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA


Go China! Assen-Groningen: Ai Weiwei, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands


 


2007


Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

Traveling Landscapes, AedesLand, Berlin, Germany



2006


Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China


 


2004


Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland


Ai Weiwei, Provinciaal Cultuurcentrum


Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium


Ai Weiwei, Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, New York, USA


 


2003


Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


 


1988


Old Shoes – Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, New York City, New York, USA


 


1982


Asian Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA


Group Exhibitions

2016


Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Germany


Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA


Landscapes After Rusking: Redefining The Sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT, USA


Towards A Larger World, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden


Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Sweden ‘Art from Elsewhere’, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK; Towner, Eastbourne, UK


Black Chamber, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia


Megacities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA


Nervous Systems. Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany


CERMIX. Art et Céramique de Rodin á Schütte, Cité de la céramique, Sevres, France; La Maison Rougue, Paris, France


East Asian Video Frames: Shades of Urbanization, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland


 


2015


Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia


A New Dynasty: Created in China, ARoS Arhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark


Ceramix – Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands


A Brief History of the Future, The Louvre, Paris, France


Sculpture in the City 2015, London, UK


The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to now, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK


When We Share More Than Ever, MKG Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany


Art from Elsewhere, MIMA, Middlesborough, UK


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


The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Neu-Ulm, Germany


Go East – The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia


Hamster Hipster Handy. Under the Spellbound of the Mobile Phone, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany


Cannibalism? On Appropriation In Art, Zachęta


National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland


RARE EARTH, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria


SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, USA


 


2014


1 + 1 = 1: When Collections Collide, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada


BEYOND STUFF, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


Grip friheten! Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway


KUB Sammlungs-schaufenster: Neuerwerbungen von Ai Weiwei bis Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria


Genius Loci – Spirit of Place, 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy Trace: Perfomance and its Documents, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia


Beyond and Between, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea


Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Ceramix: Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands


 


2013


DO IT, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo


New works of painting, photography, sculpture and video, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida, USA


A few things that I know from them, TORRI, Paris, France


Framed, Duddell’s, Hong Kong


Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA



Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA


Gwangju Folly II, Gwangju, South Korea


When Now is Minimal: The Unknown Side of the Sammlung Goetz, Museion, Bolzano, Italy


German Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale 2013, Venice, Italy


China China, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine


White House Biennial: Exercises On Democracy, Open Case 303, Athens, Greece


New framework: Chinese Avantgarde Photography 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong


Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters. Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York, NUS Museum, Singapore; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey


More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA


Poetics of Construction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA


 


2012


Arsenale 2012, Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine


More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA


Privat, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany


No Borders, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK


Lifelike, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA


Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA


The Art of Deceleration: Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany


Remember Me, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea


Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei, Ding Yi: Persona 3, Chambers Fine Art, New York City, New York, USA


1st Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India


Real Life Stories, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway


Zoo, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada


 


2011


You All Feel For My Act, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands


4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia


The Magic of Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Gl Holtegaard, Holte, Netherlands


I Promise to Love You, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands


Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA


Die Letzte Freiheit: Von den Pionieren der Land-Art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Cyberspace, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany


Shanshui, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland


MMK 1991–2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


Vermessung der Welt: Heterotopien und Wissensräume in der Kunst’, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria


The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany


Prospect 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA


Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA


Taking a Stance: 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, Netherlands


Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands


 


2010


29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil


12th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy


Passages: Travels in Hyperspace, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon, Spain


The Big Bang, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Une Idée, une Forme, un Être – Poesie/Politique du corporel, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland


The Flower of May, Gwangju Museum of Art and Kunsthalle Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea


Taking a Stance, 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design, OCAT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai, China


Regionale10, Liezen, Austria


Presidio Habitats, Presidio, San Francisco, USA


The Problem of Asia, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia


Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall, Davel 14, Cully, Switzerland


Lost and Found, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany


Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China


The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China


Acconci Studio + Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project, Para Site, Hong Kong


Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010), Target Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA


Radical Conceptual, MMK 1, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, USA


21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia


 


2009


Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA


Fascination with the Foreign: China – Japan – Europe, The Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany


Garbage, AFTERGALLERY projectroom, Moscow, Russia


Attitude, Shit-art Center, Zhengzhou, China


The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China


Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Void of Memory, Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul, South Korea


Fairytale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel


The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany


I want to talk to you, T.art Center, Beijing, China


The Big World: Recent Art from China, Chicago


Cultural Center, Chicago, USA Map Games: Dynamic of Change, Centro Arti Opificio Siri, Terni, Italy


United Technologies, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland


Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada


Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA


The China Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia


 


2008


Earthquake, Art Channel, Beijing, China


China: Construction / Deconstruction – Chinese Contemporary Art, Museu de Arte de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil


Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy


Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK


Super Fengshui, UCCA Site Commissions, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China


Reconstruction #3: The Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK


China Power Station: Part III, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg


Branded and on Display, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, USA; Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, USA


Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA


Hypallage: The Post-Modern Mode of Contemporary Chinese Art, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China


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


Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan


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


China: The City exp(l)osed, Institut francais d’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France


Map Games: Dynamics of Change, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China


China Gold – Chinese Contemporary Art, Musée Maillol, Paris, France


Interval of Silence, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China

Body Media, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China


Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China


Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China


New Vista: The Phenomenon of Post-Tradition in Contemporary Art, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China

Red aside. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain


The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain


 


2007


6th Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China


Origin Point, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China


EI – Entity Identity – Beijing Series. Western Concepts – Chinese Drafts, Stedelijk Museum s’ Hertogenbosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands


Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida USA


Get It Louder, Soho Shangdu, Beijing, China


Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA


China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Something New Pussycat, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany


Energies – Synergy, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium


Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA


Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria


Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany


Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland


Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany


Art from China – Collection Uli Sigg, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil


China Welcomes You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria


The Year of the Golden Pig: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland


Money, Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, China


Forged Realities, Universal Studios, Beijing, China


The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK


We Are Your Future, 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Centre Winzavod, Moscow, Russia


Branded and on Display, Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA; Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, USA


A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy


What About Sculpture?, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA


 


2006


Art in Motion – Chinese Contemporary Art Meets The BMW Art Cars, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China


THIS IS NOT FOR YOU: Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria


Detours: Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China, Eric Arthur Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada


CHINA NOW – Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Germany


Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany


MoCA Envisage – Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China


5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia


15th Biennale of Sydney: Zones of Contact, Sydney, Australia


Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS I Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA


China Power Station: Part I, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK


Herzog & de Meuron – No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany


Fill in the Blanks, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China


Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea


Misleading Trails, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, USA


Cityscapes ‘Beijing Welcomes You’. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie Fotografien von Ai Weiwei, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany


A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China


Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA


China Contemporary: Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands


Black and Blue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA


Antique Modernity: Breaking Traditions, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA 2006 Beaufort Outside, PMMK Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium


Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US’, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA


 


2005


2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China


Misleading Trails, Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt


University, Nashville, USA; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, USA; Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA


Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US’, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, US; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA


Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA


Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands


Convergence at E116′ / N40′, Platform China


Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China


A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese


Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland


Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland


1st Montpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France


China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy


Herzog & de Meuron: No.250 – An Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands


 


2004


Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


Persona3, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China


Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France


Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA; Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Piss Off!, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan, USA


9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy


Misleading Trails, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China


On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, New York, USA


Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, USA


Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US

Modern Style in East Asia, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China


Herzog & de Meuron – No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland


 


2003


New Zone – Chinese Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland


A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic


Junction – Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China


 


2002


Cement: Marginal Space in Contemporary Chinese Art, Chambers Fine Art, New York City, New York, USA


China: Tradition and Modernity, Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany

Art from a Changing World, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, Norway


1st Guangzhou Triennial 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China


 


2001


Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


Tu Mu. Young Chinese Architecture, Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany


Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


 


2000


Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China


Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups, BizArt, Shanghai, China


Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile), Weimar, Germany


 


1999


Innovations Part I, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China


d’APERTutto, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy


Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster – Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium


Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China


 


1998


Double Kitsch: Painters from China, Max Protetch, New York, USA


 


1997


A Point of Contact. Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea


 


1996


Begegnung mit China, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany


 


1995


Configura 2: Dialog der Kulturen, Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany


Change: Chinese Contemporary Art, Goteborg Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden


 


1993


Chinese Contemporary Art – The Stars: 15 Years, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


 


1989


The Stars: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong; Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Dunkerque, Dunkirk, France; Festival d’Automne de Paris, France


 


1987


The Star at Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA


 


1986


China’s New Expression, Municipal Gallery, New York, USA


Avant-Garde Chinese Art: Beijing/New York, Albany University Art Museum, New York, USA


 


1980


The Stars, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China


 


1979


The Stars, outside the China Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Huafang Studio, Beihei Park, Beijing, China


Awards

Public Collection

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands

Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Museen Dahlem, Berlin, Germany

Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany

Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California USA

Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Tate Collection, London, UK

Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia

Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany


Publications

2012


Ai Weiwei Fairytale: A Reader, book, Galerie Urs Meile