2024
Xu Bing: Art Satellite, Cappella di Santa Veneranda, Venice, Italy
A Moment in Time: Xu Bing in Rome, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2022
Xu Bing: Gravitational Arena, Museum of Arts Pudong, Shanghai, China
2021
Xu Bing: Found in Translation, Musuem of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing: Art Beyond the Kármán Line, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xu Bing: Book from the Ground - Pop-up Book, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing, China
Xu Bing: We Do Not Dream Alone, Times Square, New York, China
2019
Background Story - Landscape after Huang Gongwang, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
One: Xu Bing, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Xu Bing: Thought and Method, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia
World Picture: Xu Bing Dragonfly Eyes, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Xu Bing, Art For the People, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania, Valencia, Spain
2018
Xu Bing: Thought and Method (retrospective), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Xu Bing: Language and Nature, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
Sculpture 21st: Xu Bing. Dragonfly Eyes, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2017
Xu Bing (retrospective), The United Art Museum, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Language & the Art of Xu Bing (retrospective), Museu de Arte de Macau, Macau, China
performing ART, Oil Street Artspace, Hong Kong, China
2016
Xu Bing: Dragonfly Eyes (Trailer), The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Traveling to the Wonderland, Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, Beijing, China
Xu Bing: Book from the Ground, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, London, UK
Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
2015
Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Writing Between Heaven and Earth, Florida International University, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Things Are Not What They First Appear, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Bird Language. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Book from the Ground Concept Store, K11 Art Space, Hong Kong, China
2014
The Language of Xu Bing, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China
Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York, USA
Xu Bing Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Exhibition on Background Story, Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
Forest Project of Xu Bing and Children, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
Background Story: Nan Shan Cui Ping, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Book about The Book from the Ground, Bank/Mabsociety, Shanghai, China
2013
Traveling to the Wonderland, John Madejski Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project, Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, USA
Living Word, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2012
Xu Bing: Phoenix, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Book from the Ground: From Point to Point, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing: Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
The Art of Rewriting China, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Steven Point, Steven Point, Wisconsin, USA
Tobacco Project 4, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Forest Project & Book from the Ground, 30th San Paulo Biennial, San Paulo, Brazil
2011
Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
Where does the dust itself collect? Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
Tobacco project 3, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Living Word 3, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA
An Installation by Xu Bing: Background Story 7, British Museum, London, UK
2010
Phoenix Project, Baogang Stage, Expo 2010 Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Xu Bing: Aerial Phoenix Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009
Xu Bing: Forest Project Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Xu Bing: The Path of Repetition and the Imprint, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Reading Space: The Art of Xu Bing, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA
2008
Xu Bing, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, USA
Xu Bing, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Xu Bing Selected Work, 1987-2007 – Grossman Artist Solo Exhibition, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
Picture Equality: Xu Bing's New Ways of Seeing, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
2007
“Book from the Sky” to “Book from the Ground” – The Book Works of Xu Bing, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
2006
Xu Bing Special Exhibition, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Installation of Any Opinions, lobby of Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
2005
Ghosts Pounding the Wall - Xu Bing’s Work, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2004
Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Xu Bing Tobacco Project: Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
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, Spain
Xu Bing: Three Installations, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2003
Xu Bing, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
Xu Bing, The 14th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes 2003 Grand Price Commemorative Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Xu Bing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Book from the Sky installation, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2002
Myers School of Art : Faculty Exhibition: Xu Bing: Installation, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington D.C., USA
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2001
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.,USA
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Xu Bing: One-Man Show, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Xu Bing, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
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,USA
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, USA
Xu Bing: Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Xu Bing: Panda Zoo, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Xu Bing: Cultured Animal, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California, USA
1997
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University,
Charleston, Illinois, USA
An Installation by Xu Bing: Another Language of Art, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
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, UK
Xu Bing, Galería Charpa, Valencia, Spain
1996
Xu Bing: A Case of Transference, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Xu Bing: Learn Square Words, Marstall Performance Centre, Munich, Germany
Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, The State University of New York at
Albany, New York
1995
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Xu Bing: Post Testament Installation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Xu Bing: Language Lost, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Xu Bing: Recent Project, MFA Graduation Exhibit, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA
A Case Study of Transference 2, Yongfeng Hogpen, Beijing, China
1994
Xu Bing: Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA
Xu Bing: Cultural Negotiations, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibition (later called A Case Study of Transference), Hanmo Art Center, Beijing, China
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: The First Exhibition of His Solo Exhibition Series, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1991
Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art (now Chazen Museum of Art), Madison,
Wisconsin, USA
Xu Bing, Chinese Modern Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Xu Bing: Book from the Sky, DF Fong & Spratt Galleries, San Jose, California, USA
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 Prints Exhibition, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan