1961
Born in Xinjiang, China
1985
Graduated from the Shandong Art Institute, Shandong, China
1986
Founded the Artist Circle BLUE
1993
Founded Ammonal Gallery, Beijing
First Joint Exhibition of Chinese Professional Art, Beijing
1996
Moved to Berlin, Germany and Taught at Berlin University of Art, HDK
1997
Invited by the City of Berlin to serve as the Curator for Sino-German Cultural Exchange
1999
Moved to the United States
2006
Began teaching and serving as graduate advisor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing
2007
Founded the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art
2008
Nominated and selected as research associate in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
 
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Pace Prints Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Asia Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, London
2007
Raab Gallery, Berlin 
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong
798 Gallery, New York
2006
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, London 
Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China 
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 
2005
Toll Collect, Berlin
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2004
Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong
Hai Shang Shan International Art Center, Shanghai, China
2003
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2002
Hai Shang Shan International Art Center, Shanghai
Tao Water Gallery, Cape Cod, MA, USA
2001
MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA
Revolving Museum, Boston, USA
Asian Cultural Center, New York
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
2000
Tremont Gallery, Boston
1999
Raab Gallery, Berlin
Leucorea, Martin Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg, Germany
1997
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
1996
Benario Gallery, Berlin, Germany Center of Contemporary Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands New China Center, Hague, Netherlands
1994
Ammonal Gallery, Beijing
 
Group Exhibitions
2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009
Singapore National Museum of Art, Singapore
Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Raab Gallery, Berlin
Asia Center, Harvard University
2008
Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Imperial City Art Museum, Beijing
Art Complex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, CT, USA
2007
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2006
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CAS Gallery, Kean University, New Jersey, USA
2005
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2004
Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver
Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
2003
Radical Line, Bowling Green State University Museum, Ohio, USA
Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
Millennium Building, Beijing
2002
Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver
Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
2001
Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Beijing Literary Center, Beijing
2000
South Boston Art Center, Boston
1999
International Art Exhibition, Cologne, Germany
Asian Modern Paintings Auction, Christie’s, London
1998
New Art from China, Enpassant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1994
New Trends—Art Hong Kong and Avant-Garde Chinese Art Exhibition, Hong Kong
1987
International Art Exhibition, Lucia Art Gallery, New York
1985
Third Annual China Art Exhibition, Beijing
1984
China Anonymous Artist Association Exhibition, Chongqing, China
 
Curated Exhibitions
2002
Start Over Exhibition, Wulumuqi, China
1999
Chinese Face Exhibition, The Capital Center, Hamburg
1998
Thirteen Chinese, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
1997
Chinese Art in Berlin, in cooperation with German Humanities Association, Berlin
Poets in the Sunlight, Kulturbrauerei Berlin, Sponsored by the City of Berlin
1995
Second Annual Joint Exhibition of Chinese Professional Art, Ammonal Gallery, Beijing
1994
Chinese Professional Painters’ Works, Winter Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
Avant-Garde Chinese Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
1986
The First 12-Artist Joint Exhibition, Wulumuqi, China
 
Selected Awards, Lectures, and Performance
2008
Nominated and selected as Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
2007
Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Poly auctions (from the mid-90s to present)
2005
Syndicat National des Antiquaires at Le Louvre, Paris, and many other international art fairs 1992 to present.
2003
Zero Space Ink Performance, Asia Society and Museum, New York
2001
Fellowship and Residency, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire
2000
Award from the Vermont Art Center
1998
Art Award from the City of Berlin