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Xing Danwen Page 1 \| Biography
Born: China Lives: and works in Beijing

Education 1989-1992, BFA at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 1998-2001, MFA at School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Solo Exhibitions Selected One & Two person Exhibitions 2010 - A Personal Diary, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA - Chinese Modernism and U.S. Vernacular-Xing Danwen & Jim Vecchi, arCH-Architecture Center Houston Foundation, USA - Seeing Utopia, Past and Future-Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, USA - A Personal Diary, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China 2009 - In A Perfect World..., Ooibotos gallery, Hong Kong - A Personal Diary-China Avant-garde in 1990s, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Gent, Belgium - Between the Walls, epSITE, Shanghai. China - A Round Trip, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France 2008 - The City Fairy, Korea Art Center, Busan, Korea - Wall House, project space at Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia 2006 - "disCONNEXION/duplication", Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia - "Urban Fiction", TPW, Toronto, Canada 2004 - disCONNEXION, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA - dis+dup, Gow Langsford gallery, Sydney, Australia - Urban Fiction, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France Public Collections - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - The Progressive Corporation, USA - JGS Foundation, New York - Estella Collection, New York - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA - ICP, International Center for Photography, New York - the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA - Groupe Lhoist, Belgium - Dr. Sigg Collection, Switzerland - UBS, Union Bank of Switzerland - George Pompidou Center, Paris - FNAC / Fonds National d'art Contemporain, France - The Red Mansion Foundation, London - Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Groninger Museum, The Netherlands - Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 - Reshaping History, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China 2009 - Wonder World-Expecting a restless future, Moscow Biennale, EKATERINA Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia - Still Life, Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium - ATTITUDES, La Centrale �lectrique, Brussels, Belgium - Up Close Far Away, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany - imPOSSIBLE, San Francisco Arts Commission and MISSION17, San Francisco, USA - Stairway to Heaven, H&R; Block Artpace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA - Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2008 - Strategies for Concealing, C-Space, Beijing, China - New World Order, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands - Another Voice, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China - FOTOFEST 2008, Houston, Texas, USA - ING REAL Photography Award, LP II Art Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 2007 - City of Expiration and Regeneration, 2007 Shenzhen Biennal, China - Chinaproduction, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria - Floating, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Soeul, Korea - Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking, Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands - Altered States, Tisch Gallery, AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER / TUFTS University, USA - METAMORPHOSIS, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland - MADE in CHINA, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2006 - China Show, URBIS, Manchester, UK - TOTALSTADT/BEIJING CASE, ZKM, Karisruhe, Germany - C On Cities, 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy - New Urban Realities, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam & NAi, The Netherlands - Fantasy Landscapes, Asia House, London, UK - MADE in CHINA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA 2005 - Urban / Culture, CP Biennale, Museum Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia - Traces and Omens, the 12th Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands - The WALL, Albright-Knox Art Gallery/UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, USA - Unspeakable Happiness, MUSEO TAMAYO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, Mexico city, Mexico - On the Edge, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA - Between Past and Future, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK - Re-VIEWING the CITY, 1st Guangzhou Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China 2004 - Grotesque Reality, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea - GRAVITY, the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore - Die Chinesen, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany - REASON & EMOTION, the Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia - Between Past and Future, International Center for Photography & Asian Society, New York, USA Smart Museum of Art & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA - Je t�envisage: La disparition du portrait, the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland 2003 - Chinese Maximalism, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA - Les Rencontres d�Arles Festival, Arles, France - the American Effects, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA - Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France - Spatial Narrative, Japan Society, New York, USA 2002 - Re-interpretation, A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China - Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA 2001 - Mega Wave-Towards a New Synthesis, 1st YOKOHAMA TRIENNIAL, Yokohama, Japan - 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania 1999 - BEIJING-The Revolutionary Capital, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK - Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century, the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA

Grants/Awards - 2009, Asia 21 Fellow, Asia Society, USA - 2008, Finalists, ING REAL photography award, the Netherlands - 2003, Best Publishing Project Award, Les Rencontres d�Arles Festival, France - 1998-2001, Grant & Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, USA

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