SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Xu Bing: Passages in the Making of a Book, Bernard Quaritch, London
2008
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London
Xu Bing - Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Picturing Equality: Xu Bing’s New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
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
Installation of Any Opinions, lobby of Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
2004
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Xu Bing, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art , University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2003
Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2002
Myers School of Art: Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, 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
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
2000
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
Installation of Lost Letters at 52. Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt, Germany
A Book from the Sky & Classroom Calligraphy, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
1999
Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998
Xu Bing: Square Word Poetry, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing: Cultured Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
1997
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
An Installation by Xu Bing : Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Xu Bing, Toyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Classroom Calligraphy, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
Installation by Xu Bing, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
1996
Xu Bing, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, at The Exchange, New York
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, the University at Albany, New York
1995
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
American Silkworm Series 2, Xu Bing studio, 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
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
1993
Xu Bing: A Home Away from Home, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing: Le Livre de Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris, France
1992
Xu Bing, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Xu Bing, Chinese Modern Art Center, Osaka
Xu Bing: Book of Heaven, DF Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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
Xu Bing exhibited Background Story 8:Courier, University at Albany, Albany, New York
2009
Post-Mao Dreaming: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Mahjong: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Contemporary Ink Evolution, Harvard University, MA
Transforming Traditions: University of Denver, CO
Trees & Other Ramifications: University of Kansas, Lawrence
The China Project - Three Decades: Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland, Australia
Beaufort03 - Art by the Sea, Leopold Park, Oostende, Belgium
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, California
I Want to Talk to You, T. Art Center, Beijing
Twinkle Twinkle Red Star, Contemporary By Angela Li, Hong Kong
19 Games, T. Art Center, Beijing
China Contemporary Art Forum, Rosedale Hotel, Beijing
Yi Pai - Century Thinking, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
The Wharton Global Alumni Forum, JW Marriott, Beijing
Contemporary Prints: 1999 – 2009, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
The First Contemporary China Printmaking Academic Exhibition, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Dojima River Biennale, Dojima River Forum, Osaka
ArtZone, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
"WRITE NOW!", Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany
Out of Bounds:Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Video Art Touring Festival: 20 Reasons We Still Need Superman，Guangzhou stop: Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Hong Kong
Xu Bing exhibited Forest Project - Kenya
2008
Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Prospect.1 New Orleans
Form, Ideas, Essence, Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Reason's Clue, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
West to the East: the Aesthetic Context of Intellectuals, SZ Art Center, Beijing
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
People, History, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Shanghai MoCA Envisage II - Butterfly Dream,Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai
Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society Museum, NY
Accelerate: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
Sedimentation: The New Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, Beijing
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Reason’s Clue, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Modern Chinese Art The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection - 'A New Generation,’ Asia House, London
Person of the Crowd, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Lovely Blossoms and Full Moon, Yuz Museum, Jakarta
Ink Kingdom - Contemporary Ink Artist Nomination Round 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
China's Revision, Ludwig Museum, Deutschherrenhaus, Coblence, Germany
Text/Messages: Books by Artists, Medtronic Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, M
Digital Safari: International 'New Media' Exhibition, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Together We Pull Through: Chinese Contemporary Art Community Disaster Relief Charity Auction (Shangri-La) Kerry Center Hotel, Beijing
Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden
Human/Nature: Arists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
East West Dialogues: Mysticism, Satire and the Legendary Past, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
From East to West: Traditional Asian and Contemporary European Painting, The Folio Society Gallery at the British Library, London
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
China macht Druck: Zeitgenössische Chinesische Druckgrafik, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art, CaixaForum Museum, Palma, Spain
Traveled to CaixaForum Museum, Barcelona; CaixaForum Museum, Madrid,
Four Seasons: The Third China Media Art Festival, China Academy of Art 80th Anniversary, Hangzhou, China
2007
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives,
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Outside the Book, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa
Transformations: Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Art in Dialogue, Center Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
14th Tallinn Print Triennial: Political/Poetical, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
China Now, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria and Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
Energies – Synergy, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Made in China, The Isreal Museum, Jerusalem (Traveled from The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark)
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum
Arrogance & Romance, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Automatic Update, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Metamorphosis: the Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, England
Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston
Reconfiguration: Chinese Contemporary Art, National University of Singapore Museum,Singapore
Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney
We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
From Ancient Monumental Landscapes to Contemporary Color Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007 Annual Exhibition, Sumi-e Society of America, Art League of Long Island, New York
2006
Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York (Traveled to The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu)
China Now, Sammlung Essl Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script,Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California
Travelers Between Cultures,Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, Korea
Belief: Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Millennium Dialogue 2006: Code: Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Art Exhibition and Symposium, China Millennium Museum, Beijing
Art Game: An Experience of Agency in Contemporary Art, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
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)
Transboundary Experiences: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, Korea, and Japan, Spool Mfg, Johnson City, New York
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Size Decides Attitude: First 5x7" (Pingyao) Picture-taking Biennale Project Pingyao, Beijing, TSl
Piktogramme--die Einsamkeit der Zeichen/Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Create History: Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s;Heng Xiang-Ning Museum, Shenzhen
New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2005
The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy: International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005 Hangzhou China, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York (Traveled to Albright-Knox Art gallery (also University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts) Buffalo, New York)
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy: International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005 Hangzhou China, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum of Art and the Exhibition Hall of the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Reinventing Tradition in a New World : The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Ostwind/East Wind,Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
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)
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum of Art and the Exhibition Hall of the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Reinventing Tradition in a New World : The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Ostwind/East Wind,Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario
2003
Nowa Strefa Sztuka Chińska/New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London; in association with the Muban Foundation
TypO: Writing with Style, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool (Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden)
Radical Line: Innovation in Chinese Contemporary Painting, Bowling Green State University Fine Arts
Happiness: A Survival Guide of Art and Life, 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, National Art Museum China, Beijing, China
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Austral-Asia: Zero Three, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Asia: Media Art in the Near Future, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Artforum Berlin: International Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Residency Project of International Renowned Visual Artists, exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre,
Project record publication in Chinese and English: Yeshi yipian qingcaodi [Also a meadow]: Zhuming guoji shiyi gongzuozhe zhugang jihua/Residency Project for International Renowned Visual Artists
Workshops and talks by Xu Bing and Gao Minglu on Xu Bing, Hong Kong Arts Centre
CD: Residency Project of International Renowned Visual Artists, Phase II: Art Forum I, Xu Bing and Gao Minglu, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Harmony vs Confrontation, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space, Beijing
Der Rest Der Welt, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany;
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada;
2002
ES 2002 Tijuana, Segunda Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Paris-Pékin (exhibition of Ullens collection), Espace Cardin, Paris
Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Agriculture Museum, Beijing
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia,
CAFE in Mito (Communicable Action for Everybody), Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island, New York
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
China--Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, New York
2002 Flag Art Festival: Poetry of the Winds, World Cup Park, Seoul, South Korea
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York
ARCO 2002: Asian Party, Global Game II, Madrid, Spain; Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
2001
Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia,Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico)
Media Messages: Look Through Language], Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Half-om-half: Kunst-vee-geshiedenis [Art-Cattle-History], Van Reekum Museum en Historisch Museum Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
China without Borders: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, New York
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, The Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
2000
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Biennale of Sydney, 2000,12th international festival of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, The University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Traveled to Trisolini Gallery and University Art Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio)
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Spiral TV (organized by 3rd Art Life Organizing Committee, Arts Forum Japan and Wacoal Art Center), Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1999
Zeitwenden—Ausblick, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (Traveled to Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield)
Asiart Asian Contemporary Art: Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia,
[Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts], Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea,
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, 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)
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
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)
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)
1998
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York (Traveled to White Box Gallery, Philadelphia)
Cinco continentes y una ciudad,Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico,
Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literary Culture of China, Lehman College Art Gallery, the Bronx, New York (Traveled to Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)
‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
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 Franciscol)
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand,
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
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)
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
New Installations by Xu Bing & Huang Yong Ping, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Unreadable Books New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
Beyond the Form: The Deconstruction and Transformation of Chinese Characters, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York
1997
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, (theme: ‘Unmapping the Earth’), Kwangju, Korea
In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, South Korea
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum,Borås, Sweden
Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing
New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago City, Japan
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1996
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark (Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden)
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Godzilla at BMCC: And We Speak, Shirley Fiterman Gallery at BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY), New York
China Avant Garde, Gallery Q, Tokyo
1995
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Des Del Pais Del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre D’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
The Arts’ Environment: Eighty Photographs of Artists in Beijing, 92-*94 by Xu Zhiwei, Ammonal Gallery, Beijing. Photograph of A Case Study of Transference
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
1993
Fragmented Memory-The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
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 (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)
China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense)
1992
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 (title also appeared as Post-Mao Product, New Art from China))
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Desire for Words: An Exhibition of Installation Works by Xu Bing and Gu Wenda, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Library: A Book Artists’ Invitational Exhibition, Granary Books, New York
From the Beginning of the Century to the End of the Century; Lung Men gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1991
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde--Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
‘I Don’t Want to Play Cards With Cézanne’and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Chinese Art Meets West, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1990
[All China Youth Print Exhibition], Shanghai Artists Gallery, Shanghai
Seventh Mei exhibition, China
Seventh Mei exhibition, China
1989
[Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art], Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
China/Avant-Garde, China Art Gallery, Beijing
National Calligraphy Artists exhibition commemorating the 90th year of Comrade Li Lisan’s birth, Hunan, China
[Seventh National Art Exhibition], print section, China
[Mainland Youth Printmakers], San Yuan Se Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
[Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’], Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1988
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris
4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Great Earthquake, performance program, the Great Wall, China
Documentary videos at Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art, Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia and Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell Library, Cornell University
1987
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon
[Biennial capital prints exhibition], China
[Ninth National Print Exhibition], China
[Exhibition of Sichuan Worker Daily Collection, for the 5th Anniversary of the Newspaper’s Reinstatement], Chengdu, Sichuan
1986
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London
Four printmakers: Chen Jin Rong, Chen Qiang, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, The Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
1985
Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris
[Exhibition of works by advancing Chinese youth], international youth organization, China
Xu Bing a juror, awarded second rank
1984
[Sixth National Art Exhibition] Invitational Exhibition of Prints from China, Rockford College, Illinois
1983
[8th National Print Exhibition], China
1982
Exhibition of works by members of the Chinese Artists Association, Grand Palais, Paris
1981
Exhibition of China’s Modern Prints in Fifty Years: In Honour of the Centenary of Lu Xun’s Birthday, China
The Selections of Modern Prints of China in the Fifty Years from 1931 to 1981, Shanghai
People’s Republic of China Exhibition of Works of Central Institute of Fine Arts, China
Traveled to Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden, February 6
50 ans de gravures sur bois Chinoises, 1930-*1980, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, France
Central Academy of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Beijing
1980
[Second National Young Artists’ Works Exhibition], China Art Gallery (now National Art Museum of China), Beijing
1979
[In Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, City of Beijing, Art Works Exhibition], Beijing
[Sixth National Print Exhibition], China
1976
City exhibition, Beijing
National exhibition, Beijing
1972
Exhibition of high school student work, organized by Haidian District cultural department
2009
Xu Bing: Passages in the Making of a Book, Bernard Quaritch, London
2008
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London
Xu Bing - Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Picturing Equality: Xu Bing’s New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
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
Installation of Any Opinions, lobby of Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
2004
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Xu Bing, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art , University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2003
Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
2002
Myers School of Art: Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, 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
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
2000
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
Installation of Lost Letters at 52. Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt, Germany
A Book from the Sky & Classroom Calligraphy, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
1999
Calligraphy for the People: A Site Specific Installation, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
1998
Xu Bing: Square Word Poetry, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing: Cultured Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
1997
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
An Installation by Xu Bing : Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Xu Bing, Toyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Classroom Calligraphy, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany
Installation by Xu Bing, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
1996
Xu Bing, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, at The Exchange, New York
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, the University at Albany, New York
1995
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota
American Silkworm Series 2, Xu Bing studio, 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
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
1993
Xu Bing: A Home Away from Home, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Xu Bing: Le Livre de Ciel, La Galerie Bellefroid, Paris, France
1992
Xu Bing, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Xu Bing, Chinese Modern Art Center, Osaka
Xu Bing: Book of Heaven, DF Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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
Xu Bing exhibited Background Story 8:Courier, University at Albany, Albany, New York
2009
Post-Mao Dreaming: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Mahjong: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Contemporary Ink Evolution, Harvard University, MA
Transforming Traditions: University of Denver, CO
Trees & Other Ramifications: University of Kansas, Lawrence
The China Project - Three Decades: Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland, Australia
Beaufort03 - Art by the Sea, Leopold Park, Oostende, Belgium
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, California
I Want to Talk to You, T. Art Center, Beijing
Twinkle Twinkle Red Star, Contemporary By Angela Li, Hong Kong
19 Games, T. Art Center, Beijing
China Contemporary Art Forum, Rosedale Hotel, Beijing
Yi Pai - Century Thinking, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
The Wharton Global Alumni Forum, JW Marriott, Beijing
Contemporary Prints: 1999 – 2009, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
The First Contemporary China Printmaking Academic Exhibition, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Dojima River Biennale, Dojima River Forum, Osaka
ArtZone, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona
4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
"WRITE NOW!", Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany
Out of Bounds:Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Video Art Touring Festival: 20 Reasons We Still Need Superman，Guangzhou stop: Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Hong Kong
Xu Bing exhibited Forest Project - Kenya
2008
Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Prospect.1 New Orleans
Form, Ideas, Essence, Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Reason's Clue, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
West to the East: the Aesthetic Context of Intellectuals, SZ Art Center, Beijing
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
People, History, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Shanghai MoCA Envisage II - Butterfly Dream,Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai
Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society Museum, NY
Accelerate: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
Sedimentation: The New Spirit of the East, Asia Art Center, Beijing
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Reason’s Clue, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Modern Chinese Art The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection - 'A New Generation,’ Asia House, London
Person of the Crowd, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Lovely Blossoms and Full Moon, Yuz Museum, Jakarta
Ink Kingdom - Contemporary Ink Artist Nomination Round 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
China's Revision, Ludwig Museum, Deutschherrenhaus, Coblence, Germany
Text/Messages: Books by Artists, Medtronic Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, M
Digital Safari: International 'New Media' Exhibition, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Together We Pull Through: Chinese Contemporary Art Community Disaster Relief Charity Auction (Shangri-La) Kerry Center Hotel, Beijing
Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden
Human/Nature: Arists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
East West Dialogues: Mysticism, Satire and the Legendary Past, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
From East to West: Traditional Asian and Contemporary European Painting, The Folio Society Gallery at the British Library, London
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
China macht Druck: Zeitgenössische Chinesische Druckgrafik, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art, CaixaForum Museum, Palma, Spain
Traveled to CaixaForum Museum, Barcelona; CaixaForum Museum, Madrid,
Four Seasons: The Third China Media Art Festival, China Academy of Art 80th Anniversary, Hangzhou, China
2007
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista of Perspectives,
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Outside the Book, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa
Transformations: Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Art in Dialogue, Center Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
14th Tallinn Print Triennial: Political/Poetical, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
China Now, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria and Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
Energies – Synergy, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Made in China, The Isreal Museum, Jerusalem (Traveled from The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark)
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum
Arrogance & Romance, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Automatic Update, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Metamorphosis: the Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Landscape and Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London, England
Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston
Reconfiguration: Chinese Contemporary Art, National University of Singapore Museum,Singapore
Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Pig, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney
We are Your Future: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Chinglish, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
From Ancient Monumental Landscapes to Contemporary Color Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007 Annual Exhibition, Sumi-e Society of America, Art League of Long Island, New York
2006
Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York (Traveled to The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu)
China Now, Sammlung Essl Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script,Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California
Travelers Between Cultures,Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, Korea
Belief: Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Millennium Dialogue 2006: Code: Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Art Exhibition and Symposium, China Millennium Museum, Beijing
Art Game: An Experience of Agency in Contemporary Art, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
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)
Transboundary Experiences: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, Korea, and Japan, Spool Mfg, Johnson City, New York
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Size Decides Attitude: First 5x7" (Pingyao) Picture-taking Biennale Project Pingyao, Beijing, TSl
Piktogramme--die Einsamkeit der Zeichen/Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Create History: Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s;Heng Xiang-Ning Museum, Shenzhen
New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2005
The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy: International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005 Hangzhou China, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York (Traveled to Albright-Knox Art gallery (also University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts) Buffalo, New York)
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy: International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005 Hangzhou China, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Landmark: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), United Kingdom
Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum of Art and the Exhibition Hall of the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Reinventing Tradition in a New World : The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Ostwind/East Wind,Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, exhibition, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
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)
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum of Art and the Exhibition Hall of the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Reinventing Tradition in a New World : The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, Pittsburgh University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Ostwind/East Wind,Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cinesi: artisti fra tradizione e presente, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
Artes Mundi: Wales International Visual Art Prize 2004, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here Is What I Mean, Museum London, London, Ontario
2003
Nowa Strefa Sztuka Chińska/New Zone Chinese Art, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London; in association with the Muban Foundation
TypO: Writing with Style, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool (Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden)
Radical Line: Innovation in Chinese Contemporary Painting, Bowling Green State University Fine Arts
Happiness: A Survival Guide of Art and Life, 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, National Art Museum China, Beijing, China
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Austral-Asia: Zero Three, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Cyber Asia: Media Art in the Near Future, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Artforum Berlin: International Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Residency Project of International Renowned Visual Artists, exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre,
Project record publication in Chinese and English: Yeshi yipian qingcaodi [Also a meadow]: Zhuming guoji shiyi gongzuozhe zhugang jihua/Residency Project for International Renowned Visual Artists
Workshops and talks by Xu Bing and Gao Minglu on Xu Bing, Hong Kong Arts Centre
CD: Residency Project of International Renowned Visual Artists, Phase II: Art Forum I, Xu Bing and Gao Minglu, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Harmony vs Confrontation, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space, Beijing
Der Rest Der Welt, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany;
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada;
2002
ES 2002 Tijuana, Segunda Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Paris-Pékin (exhibition of Ullens collection), Espace Cardin, Paris
Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition, The National Agriculture Museum, Beijing
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia,
CAFE in Mito (Communicable Action for Everybody), Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island, New York
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York
The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
China--Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, New York
2002 Flag Art Festival: Poetry of the Winds, World Cup Park, Seoul, South Korea
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York
ARCO 2002: Asian Party, Global Game II, Madrid, Spain; Eslite Gallery, Taiwan
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
2001
Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia,Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico)
Media Messages: Look Through Language], Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Half-om-half: Kunst-vee-geshiedenis [Art-Cattle-History], Van Reekum Museum en Historisch Museum Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
China without Borders: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, New York
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, The Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
2000
The Book & the Computer: New Parameters across Time and Space, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
Von Matisse bis Morimura, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
If I Had a Dream: Four Chinese Artists in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen Museo (Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
Palimpsest, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Biennale of Sydney, 2000,12th international festival of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, The University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Traveled to Trisolini Gallery and University Art Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio)
EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbours, Exhibition of Visual Art 2000, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Spiral TV (organized by 3rd Art Life Organizing Committee, Arts Forum Japan and Wacoal Art Center), Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1999
Zeitwenden—Ausblick, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (Traveled to Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Projects 70 (banners, cycle 1), The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Kunstwelten im Dialog: Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Babel: Contemporary Art and the Journeys of Communication, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Traveled to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield)
Asiart Asian Contemporary Art: Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia,
[Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts], Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea,
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, 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)
CON(TEXT): Words, Text, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx, New York
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (The 5th Asian Art Show), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
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)
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)
1998
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York (Traveled to White Box Gallery, Philadelphia)
Cinco continentes y una ciudad,Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico,
Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literary Culture of China, Lehman College Art Gallery, the Bronx, New York (Traveled to Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)
‘The Library of Babel’: Characters/Books/Media, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
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 Franciscol)
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand,
Crossings/Traversées, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
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)
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo Qiang, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Transatlántico: Disceminación, Cruce y Desterritorialización, CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
New Installations by Xu Bing & Huang Yong Ping, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Unreadable Books New Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Mitaka, Japan
Beyond the Form: The Deconstruction and Transformation of Chinese Characters, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York
1997
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
2nd Kwangju Biennale, 1997, (theme: ‘Unmapping the Earth’), Kwangju, Korea
In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, South Korea
Die anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Runt om oss, inom oss/Around Us, Inside Us, Borås Konstmuseum,Borås, Sweden
Peking University Centennial calligraphy exhibition, Beijing
New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago City, Japan
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1996
Origin and Myths of Fire: New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 963, ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Interzones: A Work in Progress, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark (Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden)
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Godzilla at BMCC: And We Speak, Shirley Fiterman Gallery at BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY), New York
China Avant Garde, Gallery Q, Tokyo
1995
Arts & Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Des Del Pais Del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre D’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
The Arts’ Environment: Eighty Photographs of Artists in Beijing, 92-*94 by Xu Zhiwei, Ammonal Gallery, Beijing. Photograph of A Case Study of Transference
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Flesh & Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Flowering in the West, Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
1993
Fragmented Memory-The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
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 (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)
China Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense)
1992
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 (title also appeared as Post-Mao Product, New Art from China))
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Desire for Words: An Exhibition of Installation Works by Xu Bing and Gu Wenda, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Foreign Students’ Art Exhibition, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
Library: A Book Artists’ Invitational Exhibition, Granary Books, New York
From the Beginning of the Century to the End of the Century; Lung Men gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1991
AAAC Annual: From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde--Nine Artists from China, Part 1, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
The Book as an Objet d’art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
‘I Don’t Want to Play Cards With Cézanne’and Other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Chinese Art Meets West, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1990
[All China Youth Print Exhibition], Shanghai Artists Gallery, Shanghai
Seventh Mei exhibition, China
Seventh Mei exhibition, China
1989
[Toward the 1990s: Documents on Contemporary Chinese Art], Gallery K and Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
China/Avant-Garde, China Art Gallery, Beijing
National Calligraphy Artists exhibition commemorating the 90th year of Comrade Li Lisan’s birth, Hunan, China
[Seventh National Art Exhibition], print section, China
[Mainland Youth Printmakers], San Yuan Se Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
[Special Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Art ‘Now’], Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1988
Paris-Pekin, Palais des Etudes, Paris
4 Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Great Earthquake, performance program, the Great Wall, China
Documentary videos at Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art, Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia and Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell Library, Cornell University
1987
Gravures de dix artistes chinois, sponsored by Le Club du Livre chinois, Palais des nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Gallery, Portland, Oregon
[Biennial capital prints exhibition], China
[Ninth National Print Exhibition], China
[Exhibition of Sichuan Worker Daily Collection, for the 5th Anniversary of the Newspaper’s Reinstatement], Chengdu, Sichuan
1986
Modern Chinese Prints from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking, The British Museum, London
Four printmakers: Chen Jin Rong, Chen Qiang, Xu Bing, Zhang Jun, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1st International Asian-European Art Biennial, The Ankara Türkocağı Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
1985
Cent gravures de l’institut central des Beaux-Arts de Pekin, galleries of the Palais des Etudes, Paris
[Exhibition of works by advancing Chinese youth], international youth organization, China
Xu Bing a juror, awarded second rank
1984
[Sixth National Art Exhibition] Invitational Exhibition of Prints from China, Rockford College, Illinois
1983
[8th National Print Exhibition], China
1982
Exhibition of works by members of the Chinese Artists Association, Grand Palais, Paris
1981
Exhibition of China’s Modern Prints in Fifty Years: In Honour of the Centenary of Lu Xun’s Birthday, China
The Selections of Modern Prints of China in the Fifty Years from 1931 to 1981, Shanghai
People’s Republic of China Exhibition of Works of Central Institute of Fine Arts, China
Traveled to Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden, February 6
50 ans de gravures sur bois Chinoises, 1930-*1980, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, France
Central Academy of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Beijing
1980
[Second National Young Artists’ Works Exhibition], China Art Gallery (now National Art Museum of China), Beijing
1979
[In Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, City of Beijing, Art Works Exhibition], Beijing
[Sixth National Print Exhibition], China
1976
City exhibition, Beijing
National exhibition, Beijing
1972
Exhibition of high school student work, organized by Haidian District cultural department