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1977
Born in Shanghai
1996
Graduated from Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
MadeIn: Spread, Kunsthalle, Bern, Germany
2010
Don't Hang Your Faith On the Wall: MadeIn, Long March Space, Beijing, May 30-
August 8, 2010
Spread: By MadeIn (Xu Zhen), ShangArt, Beijing, March 7-April 11, 2010
Xu Zhen – Video Works, Galerie Waldburger, Belgium
2009
XU ZHEN: Lonely Miracle—Middle East Contemporary Art Exhibition
curated by MadeIn Co, Ltd, James Cohan Gallery, New York
XU ZHEN: Seeing One's Own Eyes – Middle East Contemporary Art Exhibition
Curated by MadeIn Co, Ltd, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
2008
Impossible is Nothing, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Just Did It, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
In Just the Blink of an Eye, James Cohan Gallery with PERFORMA, New York
Art '38 Basel, Art Unlimited-Xu Zhen 18 Days (at B3), Art Fair Switzerland
2006
8848 - 1.86, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
8848 - 1.86 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
An Animal, 2577 Longhua Road, Xuhui district, Shanghai
2002
Careful, Don't Get Dirty, Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
A Young Man, Bizart, Shanghai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Great Performances, Pace Beijing, August 28, 2010
The 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, November 13, 2010
Nether Land: Act VIII of Morality, organized by Witte de With, Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai, China
Retro-Tech, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, July 22 – February 6, 2011
Jungle:A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China,
Beijing, March 7-April 11
Seeing One's Own Eyes, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, May 26-July 22
2009
Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation Artists, Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, P.R.China
China! China! China!, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Sainsbury, UK
2008
INVOLVED, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
Life-Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Our Future-The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation CollectionK, Ullens Foundation, Beijing
Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
Building Code Violations, Long March Space, Beijing
The Real Thing-Contemporary Art from China, IVAM, Valencia, Spain Selected, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2007
INVOLVED, ShanghART, Shanghai
ShanghART at Art'38 Basel, Art Fair Switzerland
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, UK
2006
All look same?— Art from China, Japan and Korea, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
China Power Station: Part I, co-organised by the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Battersea Power Station, London, UK
The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, U.S.A.
2005
51st Biennale di Venezia, China Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Yokohama, Japan
Monuments of the USA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
2004
China Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2002
Art in General - 4th Annual Video Marathon, 12 hour screening, New York, USA
2001
49th Biennale di Venezia-Plateau of Humankind, Italy
2000
Exit, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1999
Food for Thought: An Insight in Chinese Contemporary Art, Canvas world art/Canvas Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
1998
Jin Yuan Lu Nr.310, Jin Yuan Lu 310, Shanghai