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Miao Xiaochun:

1964  Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

1989  Graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with MA Degree

1999  Graduated from the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany with MA Degree

Actually professor at CAFA, works and lives in Beijing


Selected group exhibitions:


2016

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

The Shadow Never LiesShanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Utopias·Heterotopias-Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China


2015

A New Dynasty-Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

Fascination Photography, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria

Designing VIEW beyond the earth, The First Xian Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China

What I saw with your eyes, ART021, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China

B3 Biennial of The Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany

Experimental Zone, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China

Myth, Whitebox Art Center, 798, Beijing, China

Imagined Future, Opening Exhibition of Future Gallery, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Inter - locking stratagem, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China

Fervent China-Contemporary Monumental Sculptures, The Former Slaughterhouse, Mons, Belgium

Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. USA

2nd Experimental Image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

Epoch Writing-Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China

Moving in Time: B3+Beijing Moving Image ExhibitionCAFA Art Museum, Beijing

China 8-Contemporary Art from China along the Rhine and Ruhr, 9 Museums including NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Fairy Tales, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan

Essential Matters-Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey

Sudden Change of IdeaAn Exhibition on comparative study between Chinese and German Conceptual Art, United Museum, Wuhan, China

2015 Invited Academic Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China


2014

Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI, USA

Performance and Imaginations: Photography from China 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway

West says, east says: Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China

Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Seeing the Unseen: Photography and Video Art in China Now, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA

Metamorphosis of the Virtual 5+5: Digital Art Today, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China

China Arte Brasil, OCA, Parque lbirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brasil

1st Experimental Image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

Liquid Times, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Tour Exhibition of Pavilion of China at the 55th Venice Biennale, How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times RevisitedSelected Video Works From 1st Kiev Biennale, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China

Exhibition on Contemporary Digital Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Digital TriangleMedia Art Today in Korea-China-Japan, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea

8+1A Project of Experimental Art, Guangdong Contemporary Art Centre (GCAC), Guangzhou, China

Translated Concussion—Chinese New Media Art Techniques and Practice since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, China

10 Years of Contemporary Photography in China 2005-2014, The 10th Lianzhou International Photo Exhibition, Lianzhou, China


2013

The 55th Venice Biennale, The Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Rewriting the Landscape, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

1st Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China

Spectacle reconstructionChinese Contemporary Art, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary

Portrait of the Times—30 Years of Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

The Garden of Forking PathsExploring Independent Animation, OCT Shanghai, China

Move on AsiaVideo Art 2002 -2012, ZKM, Karlshure, Germany

@WhatNew Contemporary Art from China, Arko Art Center of Arts Council Korea, Seoul

Nothing to declare?World Maps of Art since 89, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Germany


2012

The 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art—Mountains and Waters: Chinese

Animation Since the 1930s, Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

The World of Soul, 1st Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, B10 Art Center, Shenzhen, China

Conceptual Renewal—Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China

Chinese Contemporary Public Art, Kassel, Germany

The Unseen, The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

New Image after 2000, Enjoy Museum of Art, 798, Beijing, China

Architecture China—The 100 Contemporary ProjectsReiss-Engelhorn Museum(REM), Mannheim, Germany

Go figure! Contemporary Chinese PortraitureNational Portrait Gallery and The Sherman

Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra and Sydney, Australia

Passing Through Memory, Jinjihu Art Museum, Suzhou, China

ARSENALE 2012, The 1st Kiev International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

Photo España—Image Anxiety, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain

Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China


2011

The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989(Art Worlds after 1989), ZKM, Germany

The 54th Venice Biennale—Future Pass, Venice, Italy

New Horizon—Contemporary Chinese Art, The National Museum of AustraliaCanberra, Australia

Meta-Question Back to The Museum Per Se, Inauguration Exhibition of The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art—Moving image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Spectrum, Chinese Independent Animation, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China

Verso Est. Chinese Architectural Landscapes, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Representation of Realistic Art—The 5th Chengdu Biennale 2011, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Move on Asia—The End of Video Art, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain

New Age, New Media, exhibition tour in Ten Cities of China and Australia

“Dual senses" and "Dynamic views”— Contemporary Art Exhibition across the Taiwan Straits

of 2011, NAMOC, Beijing; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (TMOA)

A Decade of the Rabbit, White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia

Magic Spaces, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China


2010

A Fresh Look at Chinese Landscapes, Galerie Moderne Chinesische Malerei des Museums für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Mediators, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Negotiations—The Second Today's Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Made in Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

Reshaping History—Chinart from 2000-2009, National Conference Center, Beijing, China

DIGIFESTA—Speed of Earth ‘2010 km/second, see’, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea


2009

Beijing Time, Casa Asia, Matadero Madrid; Santiago Art Museum, Spain

Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un/real, MoCa Shanghai, China

Open Vision—Chinese Contemporary Art, Czech National Gallery, Prague

Next Nature, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Vistas | Vision of U-City, Incheon International Digital Art Festival, Incheon, Korea

Nature | Nation, Museum on the Seam | Social-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

The Dream Machine, The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Spectacle—to Each His Own, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei


2008

Images in the night, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France

Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan MoMA, Korea

Up: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Mediations, Poznan Biennale, Poland

China: Construction—Deconstruction, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brasil

Go China—New World Order, Present day Installation Art and Photography, Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands

Re-Imagining Asia, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

China Design Now, 2008-2010Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Cincinnati Art

Museum, Ohio, USA; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA

China Gold, Museum Maillol, Paris, France

Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008—International Media Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

55 Days in Valencia, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Spain


2007

China—Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands

EnergySpirit·Body·Material—1st Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA

Floating—New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

Thermocline of Art—New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany

New Directions from ChinaChina New Media Art, Plug.in, Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary Photography from China. Zhuyi! China!, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel


2006

Media City Seoul 2006, The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea

SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, the Philippines

China now—Art at a time of transformation, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria

Totalstadt: Beijing case, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

New Urban Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands


2005

Scapes: The Century and Paradise, 2nd Chengdu Biennale, China

Mahjong—Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, 2005-2009Art Museum

Bern, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Austria;UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film

Archive(BAM & PFA), Berkeley, California, USA; The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA

Re-Viewing the City, Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China


2004

Between Past and Future—New Photography and Video from China , tour exhibition 2004-2006,

International Center of Photography and Asia Society, New YorkUSA; Smart Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA;

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Spellbound Aura—The new vision of Chinese Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan


2003

Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland

Encounter, Museum of CAFA, Beijing; Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China

Left hand, right handA Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Art Space, Beijing, China


2002

Urban Creation, The 4th Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Media City Seoul 2002, The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea

China—Tradition and Modern, Ludwig Museum, Oberhausen, Germany

Golden Harvest—Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia


1991

The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings, The National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China


Selected solo exhibitions


2016

Echo, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France


2015

Miao Xiaochun 2015, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Nanjing, China

Miao Xiaochun: Grammar, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China

Miao Xiaochun: Save As, Whitebox Art Center, 798 Beijing, China


2014

Dreamland, K.Gallery, Chengdu, China


2012

Miao Xiaochun: The Real in the Virtual, The Dennos Museum Center, MI, USA


2011

Limitless—Feng Mengbo | Miao Xiaochun, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China

Out of Body, White Box Museum of Art, 798 Beijing, China

Beijing Handscrolls, Guardini Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Miao Xiaochun, Galeria Arsenał w Białymstoku, Poland


2010

Macromania, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany

Miao Xiaochun—Two Big Video Works, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China


2009

Miao Xiaochun, Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Index, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Beijing

Miao Xiaochun-Microcosm, Arario Gallery, Beijing-New York-Seoul, 2009-2010


2008

The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO. USA

Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm, Osage Galleries Singapore-Hong Kong

Miao Xiaochun | Microcosm, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany


2007

The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia

H2O—A Study of Art History, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong

H2O—A Study of Art History, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Beijing; Berlin


2006

Urban Landscape, John Hope Franklin Centre of Duke University, USA

A Birdview, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Image + Imagination, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong

Viewpoint, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China

The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA


2004

Phantasmagoria—Photographs by Miao Xiaochun, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA

Miao Xiaochun: A Visitor from the Past, epSITE Beijing-Shanghai, China


2002

Linger, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland


2001

From East to West and Back to East, Museum of CAFA, Beijing, China


1999

Kulturbegegnungen, Galerie Stellwerk, Kassel


1994

Miao Xiaochun, Beijing Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum


1992

Miao Xiaochun, National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China


1991

Miao Xiaochun: Recents Works, Beijing Art Museum


1988

Miao Xiaochun’s Paintings, Gallery of CAFA, Beijing, China