Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Xu Bing 徐冰

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Xu Bing

 
 

徐冰

 
     
 

Xu Bing  徐冰 - portrait - chinesenewart

 
     
 
 
 


Vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

 

 

1955

Xu Bing  徐冰 was born in Chongqing, Sichuan province, in Southwest China.

 

He grew up in Beijing..

 

 

1977

He enrolled at the C.A.F.A. to study printmaking.

 

 

1987

He obtained a master's degree in Fine Arts.

   

1987/1990

His work Book from the Sky composed of four thousands of Chinese characters

  invented, gave him international recognotion.
   

1990

He moved to the United States and created his studio.

   

1999

He received a grant from the Mac Arthur Foundation for the originality

 

and creativity of his work.

   

2004

His installation Where does the dust collect Itself ? using dust he collected

 

in Manhattan after November 11, received the award for the Artes Mundi Foundation.

   

2008

In March, he was appointed Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing,

 

and he returned to live in China.

   

2012

He published From Point-to- Point, a novel written with pictograms collected over

 

the years.

   

2013

With Phoeni x, the artist created a sculpture ( two birds ) fabricated from twelve tons

 

of material  found on construction sites in Beijing

 

It took over two years to create this installation.

   
  He lives and works in Beijing  China.

 

 

 

Danièle Sicard

   
   
   
 

Solo exhibitions  selection

   

2001

Eslite Gallery Taipei  Taiwan

2001

Fukuoka Museum  Japan

2002

Classroom Calligraphy Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery Washington  United States

2002

Xu Bing: Living Word 2 Herbert F. Johnson Musrum New York United States

2003

Eslite Gallery Taipei  Taiwan

2004

Porside Gallery Yokohama Japan

2004

Musée  de l'Art d'Extrême Orient Berlin  Germany

2004

Three Installations Elvehjem Musée Madison  United States

2006

Xu Bing Tobacco Project Shanghai Galerie Shanghai China

2006

Xu Bing Suzhou Musée Suzhou  China

2007

Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground Spencer Musée Kansas  United States

2008

College Museum Middlebury  United States

2008

Albion Galery London  United Kingdomi

2009

Reading Space Clifford Gallery Hamilton  United States

2009

The First Academic Contemporary China Printmaking Today Art Museum Beijing  China

2009

Xu Bing Forest Project He Xiangning Museum Shenzhen  China

2010

Phoenix Project Expo 2010 Shanghai  China

2011

Background Story 7 British Museum London  United Kingdom

2011

Where does the dust itself collect? Lower Manhattan Cultural Council New York United States

2011

Classroom, MIRIAM and IRA DSquare Word Calligraphy Galerie Wallach New York  United States

2012

Tobacco Project 3 The Aldrich Ridgefield Museum  United States

2012

Square Word Calligraphy Katonah Museum New York  United States

2014

25.01 20.04 Retrospective Xu Bing Fine Art Museum  Taipei  Taiwan

2017

09.11 04.03 2018 Language and the Art of Xu Bing Art Museum Macao  Macao

2017

01.12 08.05 2018 Xu Bing United Art Museum Wuhan  China

2018

21.07 18.10 Thought And Method UCCA Beijing  China

   
 

Collective exhibitions  selection

   

2004

 Artes Mundi: Wales International - Visual Art Prize 2004 National Museum Cardiff United Kingdom

2004

Regeneration Samek Art Galerie Lewisburg  United States

2005

The Elegance of Silence Musée Mori Tokyo  Japan

2005

The Wall Millennium Art Museum Beijing  China

2005

Collection Remixed Musée du Bronx New York  United States

2006

Pictograms: The Loneliness of Signs Museum Stuttgart  Germany

2006

Gwangju Biennial  Korea

2006

The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition Hexiangning Museum  Shenzhen China

2006

Singapore Biennial Singapore

2007

Transliteration / 85 New Wave The Ullens Center Beijing  China

2007

 The Third Chengdu Biennale Museum Chengdu China

2007

Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing Musée Metropolitan New York  United States

2008

Modern Chinese Art Asia House Londres Royaume Uni

2008

Synthetic Times:Media Art China 2008 Musée National Beijing Chine

2008

Half-Life of a Dream Modern Art Museum San Francisco  United States

2009

The China Project - Three Decades GoMA Queensland Australia

2009

4th Fukuoka Asian Triennale Museum Fukuoka Japan

2009

Contemporary Prints: 1999 – 2009 Today Art Gallery Beijing  China

2010

Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition Fine Arts Museum Boston  United States

2010

Dead or Alive Musée des Arts et du Design New York  United States

2010

The Question of Landscape Musée de l'Université Princeton United States

2013

Rewriting the Landscape: India and China National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

 

Seoul Korea

2015

First Look: Collecting Contemporary At the Asian Art Museum San Francisco  United States

2015

The 56th International Venice Biennial Venise  Italy

2016

Shanghai Project Shanghai Himalayas Museum  Shanghai  China

2018

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World Musée Guggenheim  New York  United States

2019

Biennial Busan  Korea

2019

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China LACMA   Los Angeles  United States  

2020

Designer of Dream Long Museum Shanghai  China

2020

07.02 02.08 The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China  Smart Museum et  Wrightwood 659  

 

Chicago  United States

   
   
   
 

Xu Bing                                                                                             http://www.xubing.com/  

 


 
 

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Books, catalogues, articles on Xu Bing and his work could be alone  
the object of a
 publication. - selection

       
       

©  Xu Bing

 

Nine Lives

the updated

 

The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China

edition

 

Karen Smith

 
  préface  Marianne Brouwer  
 

Xu Bing

 
 

In a word p.320 à 369

 
  in english  
  27 cm x 21,5 cm  
 

isbn  978 0 9785764 4

 
     
       
       
©  Xu Bing  

Xu Bing & Cai Guo-Qiang

Timezone8

 

by Zhang Zhaohui

2005

  in english, in chinese  
 

24,5 cm x 17,5 cm

 
 

66 + 46 p

 
 

isbn : 988-98086-6-8

 
       
       
   

对话中国

 

©  Xu Bing

 

CHINA TALKS

Timezone 8

 

interview with Jérôme Sans

2009

  Playing with Words p 118  
 

in english

 
 

26,5 cm x 21 cm

 
 

208 p

 
 

isbn  9881803306

 
     
     
       
       

©  Xu Bing

 

Xu Bing

Grasset  

 

Une histoire sans mots

2013  

 

20,6 cm x 14 cm

 
 

112 p

 
 

isbn  :  978 2 246 80887 9

 
     
     
       
       

©  Xu Bing

 

Xu Bing

Asia Society Center

 

It Begins with Metamorphosis

2014
 

Catalogue  of the exhibition Xu Bing 

 
 

Asia Society Hong Kong Center   Hong Kong

 
 

in english, in chinese

 
 

30 cm x 21 cm

 
 

26 p x 2

 
     
     
     
       
       

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