1970         Born in Heilongjiang, China

Education
1990         B.A. from the Fine Arts Department of Northeast Normal University

1996         M.F.A. from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China


Solo Exhibition
2011         “Existential Emptiness – Cui Xiuwen Solo Exhibition”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
                  “Cui Xiuwen: Existential Emptiness”, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, US

2010         “Existential Emptiness and Characteristic of Essence”, Hammer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
                  “Cui Xiuwen”, Dix9 Gallery, Paris, France
                  “Spiritual Realm – Solo Show of Cui Xiuwen”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
                  “Existential Emptiness – Solo Exhibition by Cui Xiuwen”, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007         “Quarter – Cui Xiuwen”, Florence Museum, Florence, Italy
                  “Angel”, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy

2006         “Cui Xiuwen solo exhibition", DF2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
                  “Cui Xiuwen solo exhibition”, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China

2005         “Cui Xiuwen Solo Show “Angel”, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China

2004         “Cui Xiuwen – Kan Xuan”, Dual-Video Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France


Group Exhibition
2010         “What is Art”, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
                  “Reshaping History – Chinese Art from 2000 to 2009”, 2010 EXPO, Dutch Cultural Centrum,
                  Shanghai, China
                  “Golden Lining”, Platform China, Beijing, China
                  “See from the movie: the mask of contemporary modern art and its construction”, OCT Contemporary
                  Art Center, Shenzhen, China

2009         “China: The Contemporary Rebirth”, Palazzo Reale Museum, Milan, Italy
                  “Real – Life Fairy Tales”, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China
                  “Enantiomorphous: Art of Female”, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
                  “Paradise Lost”, Funart Space, Beijing, China
                  “The Home Court”, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
                  “Translucence – Female Contemporary Art from China”, Brussels, Belgium
                  “Collision – Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art”, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery,
                  Beijing, China
                  “The Fourth Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
                  “Xun Dao – Searching for Spirituality in Contemporary Chinese Art”, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York,
                  NY, US
                  “Speak · Describe – 2009 Cross-Strait Contemporary Art”, The National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taipei,
                  Taiwan; The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
                  “19 Games– Contemporary Art”, T.Art Center, Beijing, China
                  “I have a dream: An International Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”, Carriage House Center for the
                  Arts, Norwalk, CT, US

2008         “Modern Times 2008”, Hangil Gallery, Korea
                  “Landscape Topology”, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing, China
                  “The Evolution of Concept”, 798 Space, Beijing, China
                  “Transgressive Body / Reincarnated Flesh”, Tape Club Art Centre, Berlin, Germany
                  “Ongoing Women”, Mozen Art Museum, Beijing, China
                  “Our Future: Guy & Myriam Ullens Collection”, UCCA, Beijing, China
                  “China Gold Exhibit” Museum Maillol, Paris, France
                  “55 Days in Valencia – Chinese Art Meeting”, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
                  “Free Zone”, BSI Art Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
                  “4. Triennale Der Photographie”, ArtChina Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
                  “Deep Breath – 19 Samples of Chinese Contemporary Female Artists”, Creek Art, Shanghai, China
                  “Bizarr Flavor”, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
                  “Let’s consume!”, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
                  “The Metamorphosing Female – Female Artists Exhibition”, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China
                  “Time – Lag: The New Force of Chinese Contemporary Art”, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2007         “China Lady”, Galleria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain
                  “China is close”, Arts Building Naples, Naples, Italy
                  “The Power of the Universe – Exhibition of Frontier Contemporary Chinese Art”, Asia Art Center, Beijing,
                  China
                  “Premonition…", J&Z Gallery, Shenzhen, China
                  “China - Facing Reality”, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
                  “China New Media Arts Exhibition”, Bundesministerin für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, Vienna, Austria
                  “Today’s Documents”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
                  “Floating - New Generation of Art in China”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
                  “Shanghai Art Fair”, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
                  “The Third Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
                  “China Under Constructinon: Contemporary Art from the People’s Republic”, Deborah Colton Gallery,
                  Houston, TX, US
                  “The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now”, John Harsard Gallery, Southampton, England
                  “Transform of Dragon - Independent photography and video exhibition of 798 Art Festival”, Beijing, China
                  “Thermocline of Art”, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
                  “Engagements and Estrangements: Video Art from China”, Chinese Contemporary Xchange Art Projects,
                  Toronto, Canada
                  “Gana Photo Festival”, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
                  “Artist in the Wonderland”, The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Gdansk, Poland
                  “China Square”, New York, NY, US
                  “The Screen-Eye or the New Image - 100 Videos to Rethink the World”, Casino Museum, Luxembourg
                  “Historias Interrumpidas”, Video Art Exhibition, Valencia, Spain
                  “Zoom on China”, Vanvitelliano, Brescia, Italy
                  “Milan MiArt Exhibition”, Milan, Italy
                  “Art Now Shanghai”, Beijing Art Now Gallery (Shanghai Station), Shanghai, China

2006         “The Seoul International Photography Festival”, Seoul, Korea
                  “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, The Nasher Museum of Art at
                  Duke University, Durham, NC, US
                  “Woman in a Society of Double-sexuality”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
                  “IDAA International Digital Art Award 2006”, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
                  “Plato and His Seven Spirits", OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
                  “Russia International Photography Art Festival”, Moscow, Russia
                  “JIANGHU-Tour Exhibition of Chinese Art in Europe and America”, New York,  NY, US
                  “The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now”, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, NY, US
                  “Between the Ｏbserver and the Ｏbserved”, Lian Zhou International Photography Annual Exhibit,
                  Lian Zhou, Guangdong, China
                  “Post Nora”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
                  “Passion and Force”, Beijing Ren Club, Beijing, China
                  “5×7”, The First Ping Yao Photo Biennial, Ping Yao, Shanxi, China

2005         “Art: What was make-believe has become true", OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzheng, China
                  “ElectroScape International New Media Art Exhibition”, Zhengda Art Museum, Shanghai, China
                  “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Victoria and Albert Museum,
                  London, UK
                  “Dual Vision”, Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
                  “Archaeology of the Future - The Second Triennial of Chinese Art”, Nanjing, China
                  “Contour - Second Biennial for Video Art Contour”,  Mechelen, Belgium
                  “Always to the Front - China Contemporary Art”, Guandu Art museum, Taipei, Taiwan
                  “Techno-orientalism", Tokyo Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
                  “Body Temperature: Invoking the Legacy of Hans Christian Anderson through Chinese Contemporary Art”,
                  The China Millennium Monument, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
                  “Cloud Rain”, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
                  “Loft Of Language”, Three Quarters Art Gallery, Beijing, China
                  “Vehicle & Mirror”, Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
                  “Produce Clouds with One Turn of the Hand and Rain with Another: Contemporary Art Exhibition”,
                  TS1 Contemporary Art Center, 798 Art District, Beijing, China

2004         “Untitied: Julia Loktev, Julika Rudelius and Cui Xiuwen”, Tate Modern, London, England
                  “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”,  International Center of Photography
                  and Asia Society, New York, NY, US
                  “Out the Window - Spaces of Distraction”, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
                  “Spellbound Aura - The New Vision of Chinese Photography”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei,
                  Taiwan
                  “China, the Body Everywhere?”, Contemporary Art Museum of Marseille, Marseille, France
                  “The 11th Nippon International Performance Art Festival”, Tokyo, Japan
                  “China: Video Generation”, Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France

2003         “Guangyin”, offiCina, Viterbo/Rome, Italy
                  “New Zone Chinese Art”, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
                  “City_net  Asia 2003”, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
                  “Alors, la China ? ” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
                  “EVERYDAY - Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea, Thailand”, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen,
                  Denmark
                  “Prague Biennale 1”, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
                  “Out of the Red”, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
                  “The First Israel International Photography Biennale”, Tel Aviv, Israel

2002         “The First Guangzhou Triennial”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou. China
                  “Under_Construction”, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan
                  “C'est pas du Cinema”, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Paris, France
                  “The 2nd Women's Art Festival -  East Asian Women and Her Stories”, Women's History Exhibition Hall,
                  The Seoul Women's Community Center, Seoul, Korea
                  “Run Jump Crawl Walk”, The High Seas Art Center, Beijing, China
                  “Sorry for Inconvenience”, Project304, Bangkok, Thailand

2001         “Dialogue - Others”, Bari City Museum, Bari, Italy
                  “Made in China”, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY, US
                  “Dialogue with Dali”, Shanghai Art Fair, Gallery of France, Shanghai. China
                  “Beijing with Contradiction”, The Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu City, Finland; The Finnish Museum of
                  Photography, Helsinki, Finland      
                  “Up- Rice”, Museum of Arts, Hong Kong; The Arts House, Singapore; The National Art Gallery,
                  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hua Shan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan; Art Site of Chiayi Rail Warehouse, Chiayi,
                  Taiwan; BASH, Beijing, China                                                                                     
                  “Constructed Reality”, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
                  “Cross-Pressure”, Art Station, Beijing, China
                  “China-Germany New Media Art Week”, Zang Ku New Media Art Centre, Beijing, China

2000         “Post-Material”, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
                  “News Today's”, Art Commune, Hong Kong

1999         “Difference of Surprise”, Ryder Art Center, Beijing, China

1998         “Gender Platform”, TEDA Art Museum, Tianjin, China
                  “Sense & Sensibility”, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong

1997         “Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
                  “Urban personality • 1997”, Chengdu Art Room, Chengdu, China

Awards
2008         Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts, 2008 Xiao Shufang Foundation of Fine Arts
                   - Outstanding Female Artist Award Winner


Collections
The National Art Museum of China
Pompidou Centre
Valencian Institute of Modern Art
The Israel Museum
AW Asia Art Collection
BSI Art Collection
The Sigg Collection