BIOGRAPHY and
EXHIBITIONS
ARTIST
Biography
1965:Born in Anhui Province, China
1988:Graduated from the Central Academy of Art and
Design, Beijing
1989:Lived and worked in Italy (1989-1992)
1998:Graduated with an MFA from Central Saint
Martin’s College of Art and Design, London
Solo exhibitions
2017 “Riding alone”. GX Gallery, London
“Outflow”. La Galleria Pall Mall, London.
2014 Galerie Daniel Besseoche
2012 6 November - 20 December 2012, Hua Gallery,
London
2011 Square, March 19 - May 21, Fabien Fryns Fine Art,
Los Angeles, USA
2010 'My painting has no colour', Poligono Gallery,
Marbella, Spain
2009 New Paintings, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
China: Fluid Witness, Opal Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sheng Qi, Galerie Bork, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Most Wanted, Cramer contemporary, Geneva,
Switzerland
History in Black and Red, Andrew James Art, Shanghai,
China
History in Black and Red, DF2 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Paintings, Gallery Köhler Müller, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
2007 History in Black and Red, Redgate Gallery, Beijing,
China
2006 Missing…, 798 Avant Gallery
Salute to Artists, 798 / RedGate Gallery, Beijing, China
Confidential, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
2004 Madness and Appropriation, RedGate Gallery,
Beijing, China
2003 Transcription, RedGate Gallery, Beijing, China
2000 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Mass Gallery,
Melbourne
1998 Nine Pigeons + Nurse + Sheng Qi, Beijing, China
Are You Willing to Shake My Hand?, Tokyo
1997 Fortune Cookies, Institute of Contemporary Art
(ICA), London
Group exhibitions
2024 Don’t forget to call your mother. The Met
Museum. NYC. USA
2023 Refocusing Photography: China at the Millenium.
Cleveland Museum of Art. USA
2023 “Framing the Revolution": Contemporary Chinese
Photographs from the Jack and Susy Wadsworth
Collection Part I. JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART.
Eugene, Oregon, USA.
2023 Trace - Formations of Likeness
Photography and Video from The Walther Collection
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
2022 contemporary Chinese photography.Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
China-the past is present. NGV. Melbourne. Australia
2021 Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue,SFMOMA,
San Francisco
2020 Reframing the Passport Photo, Wallach Art Gallery,
New York
2019 Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection,
International Center of Photography Museum, New York
2017 Red Gate on the Move, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2016 My living room, Red Gate Gallery 25th anniversary,
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2008 Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art
from the collection of Kent and Vicki Logan, Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco
2007 Zhu Yi! Fotografia actual en China, ARTIUM
Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo,
Vitoria-Gasteiz
2006 RedGate Gallery’s 15th Anniversary.
Mobile Socialism, Contemporary Art, 798 / Beijing
2005 Observing the Senses, Red Gate Gallery.
Body Scape, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Between Past and Future, International Center
of Photography, NY
Over A Billion Served, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denver
China’s Photography Painting, Art Season Gallery,
Beijing
2002 Beijing Afloat, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects
2001 Clues to the Future – RedGate Gallery’s 10th
Anniversary
2000 Post – Material, RedGate Gallery
1999 Departure from China, Beijing Design Museum
4th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series & NIPAF
Contemporary Art, Seminar, Nagoya, Tokyo, Nagano
8th Mexican International Performance Exhibition,
Mexico City
1998 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, NY
1993 China Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art,
Oxford
1989 China Avant-Garde, National Art Gallery of China
(NAGC), Beijing
1988 Great Earthquake, Great Wall, Beijing University
1986-87 Concept 21 – Tai Ji, Great Wall,
Beijing University
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Various photos - 2010
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"My Left Hand: Me", 2000, Colour photograph,
80 x 54 cm - acquired in 2008
International Center for Photography, New York, NY
"Memories (Mao)", 2000, Colour photograph,
47 x 32 inches - acquired in 2004
"Memories (Mother)", 2000, Colour photograph,
33 x 31 inches - acquired in 2004
"Memories (Me)", 2000, Colour photograph,
33 x 33 inches - acquired in 2004Smart
Museum of Art, Chicago
•
IL"Untitled", 1996-1997, Gelatin silver print,
104 x 179 cm - acquired in 2000
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek,
Denmark
"Revolution", 2007, Acrylic on canvas,
150 x 400 cm - acquired in 2009
"My Left Hand - Family", 2007, Colour photograph
(six prints), 90 x 60 cm - acquired in 2009