Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1989-1992)
Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York (1998 to 2001)

Awards
Finalist, ING Real Photography Award (2008)
Best Publishing Project Award from Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France (2003)
Asian Cultural Council grant and fellowship, New York (1998-2001)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
“A Round Trip”
Gallery Sollertis
Toulouse, France
2008
“The City Fairy – Xing Danwen”
Korea Art Center
Busan, Korea
“Wall House”
Gallery Barry Keldoulis – project space
Sydney, Australia
2006 
“disCONNEXION/duplication”
Chinese Museum
Melbourne, Australia
“Urban Fiction”
Gallery TPW
Toronto, Canada
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
“LIKEWISE”
Haunch of Venision
 New York, USA

“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”
Photography Museum Rotterdam
The Netherlands
“China Design Now”
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, UK
2007 
“City of Expiration and Regeneration”
2007 Shenzhen Biennale
Shenzhen, China
“Chinaproduction”
Architekturzentrum Wien
Vienna, Austria
“Floating” 
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Seoul, Korea
“Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking”
Noorderlicht. Groningen
The Netherlands
“Altered States”
Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University
Boston, 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”
12th Noorderlicht Photo Festival
Groningen, Netherlands
“The WALL”
Albright-Knox Art Gallery/UB Anderson Gallery
Buffalo, New York, 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
Guangzhou, China
2004 
“Grotesque Reality”
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Seoul, Korea
“GRAVITY”
Singapore Art Museum
Singapore 
“Die Chinesen”
Kunst Museum Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg, Germany
“REASON & EMOTION”
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”
Musée de l'Élysée
Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 
“Chinese Maximalism”
UB Art Gallery
Buffalo, USA
“Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival”
Arles, France
“The American Effects”
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”
Institute of Contemporary Arts
London, UK
“Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century”
Smart Museum of Art
Chicago, USA   

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 
International Center for Photography, New York  
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA 
Groupe Lhoist, Belgium - Dr. Sigg Collection, Switzerland 
Union Bank of Switzerland
George Pompidou Center, Paris  
FNAC / Fonds National d'art Contemporain, France  
The Red Mansion Foundation, London  
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 
National Art Museum of China, Beijing