SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
The Art of Rewriting China, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point WI
Tobacco Project 3, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
2011
Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, MIRIAM and IRA D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY
Where does the dust itself collect? Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York NY
Tobacco project 3, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA
living word 3, The Morgan liberary & Museum, New York NY
Background Story 7, British Museum, London
2010
Phoenix Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Phoenix Project, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
2009
Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NewYork
The First Academic Contemporary China Printmaking Exhibition, Xu Bing Special Exhibition: The Path of Repetition and Print, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xu Bing Forest Project Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2008
Picturing Equality: Xu Bing’s New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Xu Bing - Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London
Xu Bing, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
2007
“Book from the Sky” to “Book from the Ground” – The Book Works of Xu Bing, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
2006
Xu Bing, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
2004
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Xu Bing, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2003
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2002
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawaii
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.
Myers School of Art: Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
2001
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1999
Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
Xu Bing: Cultural Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing: Square Word Poetry, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
1997
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
Installation by Xu Bing, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin
Classroom Calligraphy, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu, Bing. Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
An Installation by Xu Bing: Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
1996
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, the University at Albany, NewYork
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing, Ethan Cohen, at The Exchange, New York
1995
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1994
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1993
Xu Bing: Le Livre du Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris
Xu Bing: A Home Away from Home, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1992
Xu Bing, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing, Book of Heaven, D. P. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
1990
Exhibition of Xu Bing’s Prints, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1988
Xu Bing Prints, China Art Gallery (now National Fine Art Museum of China), Beijing
Xu Bing Print Exhibition, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
The Question of Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Courier, University at Albany, Albany, New York
Open Studio, Getty Artists Program, Los Angeles
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2009
Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
“WRITE NOW!”, Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Contemporary Prints: 1999 – 2009, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
The China Project - Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland, Australia
Beaufort03 - Art by the Sea, Leopold Park, Oostende, Belgium
2008
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Human/Nature: Arists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Traveled to University of California Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection: A New Generation, Asia House, London
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2007
Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Automatic Update, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan
Energies—Synergy, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Transliteration/’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2006
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Found in Translation: An Exhibition of Artist Books and Multi-Media Work, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
Traveled to the New York Center for Book Arts, New York; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Belief: Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, Korea
September 28-November 11; December 13-February 24, 2007
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York
Traveled to The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle
Piktogramme--die Einsamkeit der Zeichen/Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2005
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Critic’s Choice, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art gallery (also University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts) Buffalo, New York
2004
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Traveled to Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, providence, Rhode Island; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Cyber Asia: Media Art in the Near Future, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
The First Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China
TypO:Writing with Style, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London; in association with the Muban Foundation
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2002
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
CAFE in Mito (Communicable Action for Everybody), Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia
Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Agriculture Museum, Beijing
The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2001
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2000
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Biennale of Sydney, 2000, 12th international festival of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma,Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
1999
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago
Traveled to University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: from the Communist Revolution to the Open-Door Policy and Beyond, 1945-1998, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Traveled to The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh; Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Pannell Gallery of Sweet Briar College, New York; Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Virginia; Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal; Rietberg Museum Zurich, Switzerland; Rijksmuseum oor Volkenkunde, Lieden, The Netherlands; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum, Miami
Power of the Word (organized by Independent Curators International), Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Traveled to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Emerson Gallery Hamilton Collge, Clinton, New York; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Arizona; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998
Unreadable Books New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Animal Anima Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; PS1, Long Island City, New York; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and PS1, New York
Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington & Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Asian cities from spring 2000
‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico,
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1997
Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, Kwangju, Korea
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, September 14-November 3
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1995
Des Del Pais Del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre D’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993
China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
China’s New Art, Post-1989, organized by Hanart TZ gallery, Hong Kong, and The American Federation of the Arts; Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall; Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Traveled to venues including Marlborough Fine Art, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Salina Arts Center, Kansas; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Exh. titles include Mao Goes Pop; New Art from China, Post-1989; New Art in China, 1989-1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1992
Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Art From China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Traveled to Queensland Art Gallery; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Canberra School of Art Gallery
1991
I Don’t Want to Play Cards With Cézanne’ and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde--Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
1989
China/Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art, Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1988
4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris
1987
Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Traveled to Schneider Museum of Art, Medford, Oregon
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1986
1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, the Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
Four-person show, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Chen Qiang, Chen Jingrong, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London
1985
Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris
2012
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
The Art of Rewriting China, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point WI
Tobacco Project 3, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
2011
Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, MIRIAM and IRA D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY
Where does the dust itself collect? Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York NY
Tobacco project 3, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA
living word 3, The Morgan liberary & Museum, New York NY
Background Story 7, British Museum, London
2010
Phoenix Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Phoenix Project, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
2009
Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NewYork
The First Academic Contemporary China Printmaking Exhibition, Xu Bing Special Exhibition: The Path of Repetition and Print, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xu Bing Forest Project Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2008
Picturing Equality: Xu Bing’s New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Xu Bing - Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London
Xu Bing, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
2007
“Book from the Sky” to “Book from the Ground” – The Book Works of Xu Bing, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
2006
Xu Bing, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
2004
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Xu Bing, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2003
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2002
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawaii
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C.
Myers School of Art: Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
2001
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1999
Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
Xu Bing: Cultural Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing: Square Word Poetry, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
1997
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
Installation by Xu Bing, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin
Classroom Calligraphy, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu, Bing. Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
An Installation by Xu Bing: Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
1996
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, the University at Albany, NewYork
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing, Ethan Cohen, at The Exchange, New York
1995
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1994
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1993
Xu Bing: Le Livre du Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris
Xu Bing: A Home Away from Home, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1992
Xu Bing, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Xu Bing, Book of Heaven, D. P. Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
1990
Exhibition of Xu Bing’s Prints, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1988
Xu Bing Prints, China Art Gallery (now National Fine Art Museum of China), Beijing
Xu Bing Print Exhibition, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
The Question of Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Courier, University at Albany, Albany, New York
Open Studio, Getty Artists Program, Los Angeles
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2009
Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
“WRITE NOW!”, Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Contemporary Prints: 1999 – 2009, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
The China Project - Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland, Australia
Beaufort03 - Art by the Sea, Leopold Park, Oostende, Belgium
2008
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Human/Nature: Arists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Traveled to University of California Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection: A New Generation, Asia House, London
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2007
Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Automatic Update, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan
Energies—Synergy, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Transliteration/’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2006
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Found in Translation: An Exhibition of Artist Books and Multi-Media Work, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
Traveled to the New York Center for Book Arts, New York; the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Belief: Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, Korea
September 28-November 11; December 13-February 24, 2007
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York
Traveled to The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle
Piktogramme--die Einsamkeit der Zeichen/Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2005
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Critic’s Choice, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art gallery (also University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts) Buffalo, New York
2004
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Traveled to Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, providence, Rhode Island; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Cyber Asia: Media Art in the Near Future, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
The First Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China
TypO:Writing with Style, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London; in association with the Muban Foundation
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2002
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
CAFE in Mito (Communicable Action for Everybody), Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia
Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Agriculture Museum, Beijing
The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2001
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2000
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Biennale of Sydney, 2000, 12th international festival of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma,Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
1999
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago
Traveled to University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: from the Communist Revolution to the Open-Door Policy and Beyond, 1945-1998, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Traveled to The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh; Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Pannell Gallery of Sweet Briar College, New York; Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Virginia; Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal; Rietberg Museum Zurich, Switzerland; Rijksmuseum oor Volkenkunde, Lieden, The Netherlands; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum, Miami
Power of the Word (organized by Independent Curators International), Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Traveled to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Emerson Gallery Hamilton Collge, Clinton, New York; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Arizona; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998
Unreadable Books New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Animal Anima Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands; PS1, Long Island City, New York; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, The Asia Society Museum and PS1, New York
Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington & Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Asian cities from spring 2000
‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico,
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1997
Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, Kwangju, Korea
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, September 14-November 3
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1995
Des Del Pais Del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre D’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993
China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
China’s New Art, Post-1989, organized by Hanart TZ gallery, Hong Kong, and The American Federation of the Arts; Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall; Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Traveled to venues including Marlborough Fine Art, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Salina Arts Center, Kansas; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Exh. titles include Mao Goes Pop; New Art from China, Post-1989; New Art in China, 1989-1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1992
Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Art From China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Traveled to Queensland Art Gallery; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Canberra School of Art Gallery
1991
I Don’t Want to Play Cards With Cézanne’ and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde--Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
1989
China/Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art, Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1988
4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris
1987
Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Traveled to Schneider Museum of Art, Medford, Oregon
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1986
1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, the Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
Four-person show, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Chen Qiang, Chen Jingrong, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London
1985
Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris