SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
The Well of Truth, El Pozo de la Verdad, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Where Does the Dust Collect Itself? National Gallery and Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Tobacco Project by Xu Bing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing & Gu Xiong, Museum London, Ontario, Canada
2003
Xu Bing, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, England
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Book from the Sky, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2002
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Xu Bing, Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
2001
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
2000
A Book from the Sky & Classroom Calligraphy, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
Book/Ends: Imag(in)ing the Book- The work of Xu Bing, Albany Public Library, Albany, New York
The Tobacco Project: A Series of Installations Created by Xu Bing, The Duke Homestead & Tobacco Museum, and The Perkins Library Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
1999
Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
Cultured Animal, The Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
1997
Another Language of Art: An Installation by Xu Bing, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Classroom Calligraphy, Joan Miro Foundation at Mallorca, Spain
Installation by Xu Bing, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
1996
Xu Bing: A Case Study of Transference, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, New York
1995
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 2, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, Albany, New York
1994
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1993
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibit, Han Mo Art Center, Beijing, China
Xu Bing: Le Livre de Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris, France
1992
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 1, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
One Man Show, Chinese Modern Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Book of Heaven, DF Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
1990
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing’s One-Man Show, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1988
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xu Bing’s Woodcut Show, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Hanzi Reinvented: the Rhythm of Chinese Script, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton.
Travelers Between Cultures, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
Belief: The Inaugural Singapore Biennale, National Museum of Singapore and the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple.
Fever Variations: The Sixth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York.
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany.
The Opening of the Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China.
2005
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Body Temperature, China Millennium Monument Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China & Copenhagen, Denmark
The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), United Kingdom
Text Me, Sherman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
One the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encourter the West, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, United States
2004
East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Crossroads, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Reinventing Traditions in the New World, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, United States
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China, Pittsburg University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, Unites States
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
2003
New Zone – Chinese Art, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London
TypO, FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Culture Center, Staten Island, New York
The First Beijing International Art Biennale, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Harmony vs. Confrontation, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Der Rest Der Welt, Prüess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
William Anastasi, Xu Bing, Marino & Costanza at the Annex, White Box, New York, New York
Austral – Asia Zero Three, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Asia, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2002
China, Tradition & Moderne, Ludwig Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York, New York
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guang Dong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, New York; Pier-2 Art District, Kaohsing, Taiwan
China Agricultural Museum Exhibition, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Café in Mito, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island, New York
The 2002 International Flag Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea
ES 2002 Tijuana: Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, New York
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
2001
Contemporary Art Commissions, The Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York
Power of the Word, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York; The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
Brooklyn! Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
A Shriek Inside an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bogus/ the Counterfeit and Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, University of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Word & Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Ohio State University and Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Ink: Calligraphic Performance by Mixed Generations of Ink Artists, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, New York
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Media Messages: Look Through Language, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2000
Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas,Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Walker Art Center - Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
House, Home and Family. Furniture depot in Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation show, 1990s. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, EV+A Annual Exhibition of Visual + Art, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong
Power of the Word, Falconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Animal.Anima.Animus, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, The University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Book & the Computer, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Word Project, Museum of Ohio University, Ohio
1999
Banner Project, MOMA- Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Art Worlds in Dialogue-Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Zeitwenden-Looking Back and Looking Forward through the Fine Arts, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Asiart Asian Contemporary Art: Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Inside Out: New Chinese Art,
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The 3rd Art Life 21, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Art of Artist’s Books, Mexico City, Mexico
Group Show, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
Group Show, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Chinese Woodblock Prints, Mishkan Le’Omanut Museum of Art, Israel
Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
1998
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Library of Babel, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Transatlántico, CAAM - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Empty Tradition/City of Peonies (set design), Asia Society, New York
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Unreadable Books. New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Japan
Animal. Anima. Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
Inside – Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and P.S.1, New York, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
New Installations by Xu Bing & Huang Yong Ping, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Form-The Transformation and the Symbolic of Chinese Character in the Art, Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, New York
Freedom of Art Project, The Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art and The Fin de Siecle, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York., New York
Five Continents and One City, Mexico City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Performance Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1997
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York, New York
Power, 2nd. Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
Transversions, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Around Us, Inside Us - Continents, Boras Konstmusem, Broas, Sweden
The Other Modernities, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art: In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, South Korea
1996
Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interzones 2, Upagessala Upagessala Museum (Konstmuseum, Upagessala), Upagessala, Sweden
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Origins and Myths of Fire, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 96.3 , ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Godzilla at BMCC: And We Speak, Shirley Fiterman Gallery at BMCC, New York
Installation/Performances, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
China Avant Garde, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
1995
New Art in China, 1989-1994. Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, SOHO Biennial 95, New York
Group Show, Plexus, New York
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Reina Sofia National Museum of Art (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid, Spain
Between East and West: Transformations of Chinese Art in the Late Twentieth Century, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
1993
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory-The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio
New Art from China, Post-1989, Hanart TZ, Hong Kong; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1992
Desire for Words, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
New Art From China, Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia; City of Ballarat Art Museum, Ballarat, Australia; Canberra School of Art, Canberra; Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
International Art Project: FAX-ART, Venice, Italy; Manchester, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria
1991
The Book as an Object d’ art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
I Don't Want to Play Cards With Cezanne and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
From 'Star Star' to Avant Garde - Nine Artists from China, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
1989
China Avant-Garde, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
1988
Paris – Pekin, Palais Des Etudes, Paris, France
Fourth International Drawing Exhibition, Nuremburg, Germany
1986
International Biennial Printmaking Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
International Fine Art Show, Algeria
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
1983
International Graphic Art Biennial Show, East Germany
1982
Spring Salon Exhibition, Paris, France
2004
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
The Well of Truth, El Pozo de la Verdad, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Where Does the Dust Collect Itself? National Gallery and Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Tobacco Project by Xu Bing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing & Gu Xiong, Museum London, Ontario, Canada
2003
Xu Bing, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, England
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Book from the Sky, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2002
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Xu Bing, Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
2001
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
2000
A Book from the Sky & Classroom Calligraphy, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
Book/Ends: Imag(in)ing the Book- The work of Xu Bing, Albany Public Library, Albany, New York
The Tobacco Project: A Series of Installations Created by Xu Bing, The Duke Homestead & Tobacco Museum, and The Perkins Library Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
1999
Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
Cultured Animal, The Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
1997
Another Language of Art: An Installation by Xu Bing, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Classroom Calligraphy, Joan Miro Foundation at Mallorca, Spain
Installation by Xu Bing, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
1996
Xu Bing: A Case Study of Transference, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, New York
1995
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 2, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, Albany, New York
1994
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1993
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibit, Han Mo Art Center, Beijing, China
Xu Bing: Le Livre de Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris, France
1992
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 1, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
One Man Show, Chinese Modern Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Book of Heaven, DF Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
1990
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing’s One-Man Show, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1988
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xu Bing’s Woodcut Show, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Hanzi Reinvented: the Rhythm of Chinese Script, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton.
Travelers Between Cultures, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
Belief: The Inaugural Singapore Biennale, National Museum of Singapore and the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple.
Fever Variations: The Sixth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York.
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany.
The Opening of the Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China.
2005
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Body Temperature, China Millennium Monument Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China & Copenhagen, Denmark
The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), United Kingdom
Text Me, Sherman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
One the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encourter the West, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, United States
2004
East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Crossroads, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Reinventing Traditions in the New World, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, United States
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China, Pittsburg University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, Unites States
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
2003
New Zone – Chinese Art, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London
TypO, FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Culture Center, Staten Island, New York
The First Beijing International Art Biennale, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Harmony vs. Confrontation, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Der Rest Der Welt, Prüess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
William Anastasi, Xu Bing, Marino & Costanza at the Annex, White Box, New York, New York
Austral – Asia Zero Three, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Asia, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2002
China, Tradition & Moderne, Ludwig Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York, New York
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guang Dong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, New York; Pier-2 Art District, Kaohsing, Taiwan
China Agricultural Museum Exhibition, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Café in Mito, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island, New York
The 2002 International Flag Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea
ES 2002 Tijuana: Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, New York
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
2001
Contemporary Art Commissions, The Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York
Power of the Word, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York; The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
Brooklyn! Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
A Shriek Inside an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bogus/ the Counterfeit and Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, University of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Word & Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Ohio State University and Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Ink: Calligraphic Performance by Mixed Generations of Ink Artists, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, New York
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Media Messages: Look Through Language, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2000
Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas,Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Walker Art Center - Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
House, Home and Family. Furniture depot in Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation show, 1990s. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, EV+A Annual Exhibition of Visual + Art, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong
Power of the Word, Falconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Animal.Anima.Animus, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, The University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Book & the Computer, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Word Project, Museum of Ohio University, Ohio
1999
Banner Project, MOMA- Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Art Worlds in Dialogue-Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Zeitwenden-Looking Back and Looking Forward through the Fine Arts, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Asiart Asian Contemporary Art: Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Inside Out: New Chinese Art,
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The 3rd Art Life 21, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Art of Artist’s Books, Mexico City, Mexico
Group Show, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
Group Show, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Chinese Woodblock Prints, Mishkan Le’Omanut Museum of Art, Israel
Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
1998
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Library of Babel, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Transatlántico, CAAM - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Empty Tradition/City of Peonies (set design), Asia Society, New York
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Unreadable Books. New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Japan
Animal. Anima. Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
Inside – Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and P.S.1, New York, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
New Installations by Xu Bing & Huang Yong Ping, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Form-The Transformation and the Symbolic of Chinese Character in the Art, Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, New York
Freedom of Art Project, The Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art and The Fin de Siecle, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York., New York
Five Continents and One City, Mexico City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Performance Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1997
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York, New York
Power, 2nd. Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
Transversions, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Around Us, Inside Us - Continents, Boras Konstmusem, Broas, Sweden
The Other Modernities, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art: In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, South Korea
1996
Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interzones 2, Upagessala Upagessala Museum (Konstmuseum, Upagessala), Upagessala, Sweden
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Origins and Myths of Fire, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 96.3 , ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Godzilla at BMCC: And We Speak, Shirley Fiterman Gallery at BMCC, New York
Installation/Performances, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
China Avant Garde, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
1995
New Art in China, 1989-1994. Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, SOHO Biennial 95, New York
Group Show, Plexus, New York
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Reina Sofia National Museum of Art (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid, Spain
Between East and West: Transformations of Chinese Art in the Late Twentieth Century, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
1993
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory-The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio
New Art from China, Post-1989, Hanart TZ, Hong Kong; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1992
Desire for Words, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
New Art From China, Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia; City of Ballarat Art Museum, Ballarat, Australia; Canberra School of Art, Canberra; Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
International Art Project: FAX-ART, Venice, Italy; Manchester, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria
1991
The Book as an Object d’ art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
I Don't Want to Play Cards With Cezanne and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
From 'Star Star' to Avant Garde - Nine Artists from China, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
1989
China Avant-Garde, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
1988
Paris – Pekin, Palais Des Etudes, Paris, France
Fourth International Drawing Exhibition, Nuremburg, Germany
1986
International Biennial Printmaking Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
International Fine Art Show, Algeria
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
1983
International Graphic Art Biennial Show, East Germany
1982
Spring Salon Exhibition, Paris, France