Xing Danwen

Born in Xi'an, China Lives and works in Beijing 1998-2001 MFA at School of Visual Arts, New York, USA 1988-1992 BFA at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China   Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 A Personal Diary: The Chinese Avant-Garde 1993-2003, MOMA Warsaw, Poland Captive of Love, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China   2014 UTOPIA, Officine dell'Immagine, Milan, Italy   2012 The Myth of Progress, Poligono Gallery, Marbella, Spain   2010 A Personal Diary, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA Chinese Modernism and U.S. Vernacular Xing Danwen & Jim Vecchi, arCHArchitecture Center Houston Foundation, USA Seeing Utopia, Past and Future Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, USA   2009 In A Perfect World..., Ooi Botos Gallery, Hong Kong A Personal DiaryChina Avantgarde in 1990s, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Gent, Belgium Between the Walls, epSITE, Shanghai, China A Round Trip, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France   2008 The City Fairy, Korea Art Center, Busan, Korea Wall House, project space at Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia   2006 disCONNEXION/duplication, Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia Urban Fiction, TPW, Toronto, Canada   2004 disCONNEXION, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA dis+dup, Gow Langsford gallery, Sydney, Australia Urban Fiction, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France   Group Exhibitions 2017 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (19762017), Three Shadows Beijing, China ZUR NACHAHMUN GEMPFOHLEN! Expeditionen in Ästhetik & Nachhaltigkeit ( EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! Expeditions in Aesthetics & Sustainability), Parque Cultural de Valparaiso, in Valparaiso, Chile Breaking the Barrier, Xi'an Art Museum, China   2016 In Focus: Electric! (works from the museum collection), GETTY CENTER, LA, USA M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong   2015 Lest The Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland Triennale Brugge 2015, Brugge, Belgium HERE OUT THERE, Cable Factory space @ Helsinki Art Festival, Helsinki The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to now, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Mancheste,UK Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography (SCôP),Shanghai, China Dislocation: Urban Experience in Contemporary East Asian Photography, Smith College Museum of Art, USA Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2015, The Old Court by Macau Art Museum, Macau   2014 Right Is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection, Bildmuseet, Umea University, Umea Sweden Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, the J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A, USA Where is China?, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal New Photos since 2009, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China HYPERRESEMBLANCES, MODA Curates 2014, the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA One & Three, Project Space at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China   2013 Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 1st Beijing Photo Biennale, Millennium Museum of Art, Beijing, China Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick Maine, USA PANORAMA DEL PAISAJE, FOTOGRÁFICA BOGOTÁ 2013, FOTOMUSEO – National Museum of Photography of Colombia,Bogota Making It Up: Photographic Fictions, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Women: Contempoary Chinese Art, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, USA   2012 imPOSSIBLE - Video works of Chinese contemporary artists, Cultural Center Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany MINIMAL, Hå gamle prestegard, Hå kommune, Norway ZUR NACHAHMUN GEMPFOHLEN!Expeditionen in Ästhetik & Nachhaltigkeit (EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! Expeditions in Aesthetics & Sustainability), Mumbai, India; Addis Abeba, Ethiopia; Iberia Art Center, Beijing, China   2011 MASTERS OF CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY, Poligono Gallery, Malaga, Spain Half the Sky: Women in the New Art of China, The New Leonard PearlsteinGallery, DrexelUniversity, Philadelphia, US Highrise – Idea and Reality, The Museum für Gestaltung (Museum of Design Zurich), Zürich, Switzerland ZUR NACHAHMUN GEMPFOHLEN!Expeditionen in Ästhetik & Nachhaltigkeit, The federal Environment Agency in Dessau; 3 loactions in Bavaria, Germany   2010 ZUR NACHAHMUN GEMPFOHLEN!Expeditionen in Ästhetik & Nachhaltigkeit, Uferhallen Berlin, Germany Remaking Vision - Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography, world tour The Butterfly Effect: An Artistic Communication Project of Crossstrait Fourregions, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Love Lines, RedLine, Denver, Colorado, USA   2009 Wonder World Expecting a restless future, Moscow Biennale, EKATERINA Cultural Foundation,Moscow, Russia Still Life, Palais Des BeauxArts, Brussels, Belgium ATTITUDES, La Centrale électrique, Brussels, Belgium Up Close Far Away, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany imPOSSIBLE, San Francisco Arts Commission and MISSION17, San Francisco, USA Stairway to Heaven, H&R Block Artpace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA Action Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada   2008 Strategies for Concealing, CSpace, Beijing, China New World Order, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands Another Voice, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China FOTOFEST 2008, Houston, Texas, USA ING REAL Photography Award, LP II Art Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK   2007 City of Expiration and Regeneration, 2007 Shenzhen Biennal, China China production, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria Floating, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking, Noorderlicht, Groningen, the Netherlands Altered States, Tisch Gallery, AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER / TUFTS University, USA METAMORPHOSIS, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland MADE in CHINA, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel   2006 Xing Danwen / China Show, , URBIS, Manchester, UK TOTALSTADT/BEIJING CASE, ZKM, Karisruhe, Germany C On Cities, 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy New Urban Realities, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam & NAi, The Netherlands Fantasy Landscapes, Asia House, London, UK MADE in CHINA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA   2005 Urban / Culture, CP Biennale, Museum Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Traces and Omens, the 12th Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands The WALL, AlbrightKnox Art Gallery/UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, USA Unspeakable Happiness, MUSEO TAMAYO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, Mexico city, Mexico On the Edge, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA Between Past and Future, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK ReVIEWING the CITY, 1st Guangzhou Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China   2004 Grotesque Reality, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea GRAVITY, the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Die Chinesen, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany REASON & EMOTION, the Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Between Past and Future, International Center for Photography & Asian Society, New York, USA Smart Museum of Art & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Je t’envisage: La disparition du portrait, the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland   2003 Chinese Maximalism, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France the American Effects, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Spatial Narrative, Japan Society, New York, USA   2002 Reinterpretation, A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA   2001 Mega Wave Towards a New Synthesis, 1st YOKOHAMA TRIENNIAL, Yokohama, Japan 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania   1999 BEIJING The Revolutionary Capital, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK Transience Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century, the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA   Public Collections Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Progressive Corporation, USA JGS Foundation, New York Estella Collection, New York Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA ICP, International Center for Photography, New York Smart Museum of Art, Chicago San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, USA Groupe Lhoist, Belgium Dr. Sigg Collection, Switzerland UBS, Union Bank of Switzerland George Pompidou Center, Paris FNAC / Fonds National d'art Contemporain, France The Red Mansion Foundation, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Groninger Museum, The Netherlands Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou   Grant / Award / Fellowship 2009, Asia 21 Fellow, Asia Society, USA 2008, Finalists, ING REAL photography award, the Netherlands 2003, Best Publishing Project Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, France 1998 2001, Grant & Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, USA