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  • 2020
    • Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists
    • 2020 Asia Society Triennial
    • The Allure of Matter: Material Art From China
    • In Real Life
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  • 2019
    • Background Story - Landscape after Huang Gongwang
    • World Picture: Xu Bing Dragonfly Eyes
    • One: Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing: Thought and Method
    • The Allure of Matter: Material Art From China
    • Xu Bing: Art for the People
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  • 2018
    • Xu Bing: Thought and Method
    • Sculpture 21st: Xu Bing. Dragonfly Eyes
    • Xu Bing: Language and Nature
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  • 2017
    • Xu Bing
    • Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
    • Language & the Art of Xu Bing
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  • 2016
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Ground
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Sky
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  • 2015
    • Bird Language
    • Phoenix (2015) -- All the World's Futures
    • Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting
    • Writing Between Heaven and Earth
    • Things Are Not What They First Appear
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  • 2014
    • The Language of Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing: A Retrospective
    • Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing and Children's Forest Project: A Special Exhibition in Taiwan
    • Xu Bing: Pheonix
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  • 2013
    • Traveling to the Wonderland
    • Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript
    • Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project
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  • 2012
    • Xu Bing:Phoenix
    • Book From the Ground: From Point to Point
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground
    • Forest Project & Book from the Ground
    • Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy
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  • 2011
    • An Installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7
    • Living Word 3
    • Tobacco Project 3
    • Where Does the Dust Itself Collect
    • Square Word Calligraphy Classroom
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  • 2010
    • Xu Bing Aerial Phoenix Project
    • Phoenix Project
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  • 2009
    • Xu Bing: Forest Project Exhibition
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  • 2008
    • Xu Bing
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  • 2007
    • "Book from the Sky" to "Book from the Ground"–The Book Works of Xu Bing
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  • 2006
    • Xu Bing Special Exhibition
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  • 2005
    • Ghosts Pounding the Wall-Xu Bing's Work
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  • 2004
    • Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth
    • Xu Bing in Berlin
    • Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai
    • Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake
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  • 2003
    • Landscript: Sydney
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  • 2002
    • Xu Bing: Living World 2
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  • 2001
    • Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing
    • Reading Landscape
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  • 2000
    • The Tobacco Project: A Series of Installations Created by Xu Bing
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  • 1998
    • Xu Bing: Panda Zoo
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  • 1997
    • Xu Bing: Lost Letters
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  • 1991
    • Three Installations by Xu Bing
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The Language of Xu Bing

[Top] Holding the Brush (1996) [Bottom] Softening the Brush (1996)

Backbone (2011)

[Left] The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010) [Back] The Character of Characters (2012) [Center] Silkworm Book (1998) [Right] Holding the Brush (1996)

The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010)

[Back] The Character of Characters (2012), [Upper Right] Holding the Brush (1996), [Lower Right] Softening the Brush (1996)

[Left] The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010) [Back] The Character of Characters (2012) (Right) Silkworm Book (1998)

Square Word Calligraphy: Rise Free from Care (2009)

[Left] The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010) [Back] The Character of Characters (2012) [Center] Silkworm Book (1998) [Right] Holding the Brush (1996)

[Left] The Character of Characters (2012) [Center] Silkworm Book (1998) [Right] Holding the Brush (1996)

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Exhibition Date: 12/20/2014 - 07/26/2015

Exhitbition Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Exhibited Works: Multiple works including Calligraphy, Video & Installations 


Xu Bing: A Retrospective

Magic Carpet (2006)

Tobacco Project: Honor and Splendor (2004)

Ghosts Pounding the Wall (1990-1991)

Background Story (2004-2014)

Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll (2010)

Four Poems of W.B. Yeats (2008)

A,B,C... (1991)

Landscript (2013)

A Case Study of Transference (1993-1994)

Book from the Sky (1987-1991)

Early Drawings and Prints (1985)

Brilliant Mountain Flowers Magazine (1975-1977)

Book From the Ground (2003- ongoing)

Silkworm Series (1994-2001)

Square Word Calligraphy and the Classroom (1994-2012)

Cultural Animal

Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?

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Exhibition Date: 01/25/2014-04/20/2014

Exhibition Location: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Exhibited Work: Brilliant Mountain Flowers Magazine; Shattered Jade; Early Drawings and Prints; Big Tire; Five Seris of Repetitions; Book From the Sky; Ghosts Pounding the Wall, A,B,C...; My book; A Case Study of Transference, Cultural Animal, Telephone, Silkworm Series, Square Word Calligraphy and the Classroom; Landscript; Tobacco Project; Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?; Background Story; Magic Carpet; Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll; Book from the Ground; The Character of Characters


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Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing

English Square Word Calligraphy: Zhuang Zi

Bird Language

Background Story: Landscape in the Style of Xu Daoning

Tobacco Project: Bakebone

Tobacco Project: Tobacco Book

The Character of Characters

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Exhibition Date: 05/08/2014-08/31/2014

Exhibition Location: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China

Exhibited Works: English Square Word Calligraphy, Living World, Background Story, Tobacco Project

Xu Bing and Children's Forest Project: A Special Exhibition in Taiwan

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014

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Date: 03/08/2014-05/04/2014 

Location: National History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Work Exhibited: Forest Project (Taiwan)


Xu Bing’s Forest Project originated from Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, a project organized by University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), and Rare. For the Human/Nature Project, artists were invited to go deep into several world cultural heritage sites and use their art to elevate local awareness to protect their own environment. In 2005 Xu Bing reached Kenya and began his Forest Project; he used paintings to raise fund to conserve the forest resources in Kenya. Later on, Xu Bing expanded the Forest Project in Brazil, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and the “Computer Contest” platform in China. Till now, more than 200,000 children participated in Xu Bing’s Forest Project.

This exhibition serves as a new creative model for Xu Bing to inspire the global awareness for environmental protection. Through this Forest Project: Taiwan, which began from the Sandimen Village that suffered great damages from the Typhoon Morakot, Xu wishes to promote a general concern for art education, environmental protection, and cultural heritage. Children who participated in the on-site teaching of Xu Bing and supplied their paintings are referred to as Forest Warriors. For the Forest Project: Taiwan in 2013, we provided the teaching materials online as open data, hoping to inspire more children to paint trees and create a forest together. Currently, the Project has collected more than 1,400 paintings from children in Taiwan. While these paintings are displayed (in original or digital forms) in National Museum of History, we hope more people can purchase these works online and raise enough fund to care for the lands of Taiwan.


https://www.nmh.gov.tw/en/exhibition_2_3_22_745.htm?6

Xu Bing: Pheonix

Phoenix (2008-2010)

Phoenix (2008-2010)

Phoenix (2008-2010)

Phoenix (2008-2010)

Phoenix (2008-2010)

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Exhibition Date: January 2014 - April 2015

Exhibition Location: The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, New York, USA

Exhibited Work: Phoenix