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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 Lies,Shanghai 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 Xi’an Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, 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, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, 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 Exhibition,CAFA 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 Idea–An 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 Revisited—Selected Video Works From 1st Kiev Biennale, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Exhibition on Contemporary Digital Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Digital Triangle—Media Art Today in Korea-China-Japan, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea 8+1—A 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 reconstruction—Chinese 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 Paths—Exploring Independent Animation, OCT Shanghai, China Move on Asia—Video Art 2002 -2012, ZKM, Karlshure, Germany @What—New 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 Projects,Reiss-Engelhorn Museum(REM), Mannheim, Germany Go figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture,National 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 Australia,Canberra, 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, 2008-2010,Victoria 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 Energy:Spirit·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 China:China 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, 2005-2009,Art 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 York,USA; 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 hand:A 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 |