1960
Born in Zhoushan, China

Education
1986
Graduated from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
1995
Graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions
2009 Thing’s Right(s) 09 The More, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China.
2008 Wu Shanzhuan, But Still Red, Red Humour International…, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
2002 Today No Water – Ink Painting by Wu Shanzhuan, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2001 Today No Water, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Thing’s Right(s) – New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1999 Thing’s Right(s) – Cuxhaven 1999, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Vege-Pleasure, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1998 Vege-Pleasure, Ingolfsstraeti 8 Gallery, The Reykjavik Art Festival 1998, Iceland (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1996 Please Don’t Move, Bahnwärterhaus, Gallery der Stadt, Esslingen, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1991 Today No Water, 22 Bar, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hospital, Visa, Water Cooking, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg

Group Exhibitions
2009 Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Ar - Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
2008 Farewell to Post-Colonialism: The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Accumulation - Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing
The Revolution Continues: New Art from China - The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Bæ bæ Ísland - Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri
2007 Far West, Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China
Unpack, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Infiltration: Idylls and Visions Second: Space for Contemporary Ink Work, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art
Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2006 A Yellow Box in Qingpu: Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese Space, Xiao Ximen (Minor West Gate), Qingpu Town, Shanghai, China
Far West, Kunsthaus, Hamburg; toured to Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China 2007
Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Jiang Hu, Tilton Gallery, New York; Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York; Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
Surplus value, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Microcosmo: Chinese Contemporary Art, The Macao Museum of Art, Macao
Entry gate: Chinese aesthetics of heterogeneity, 2006 MoCA envisage, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Create History: Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s’, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Art in Motion, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The 5th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen: Ink, Life, Taste, Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
2005 The Second Triennial of Chinese Art: Archaeology of the Future 2005, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Inward Gazes – Documentaries of Chinese Performance of Art, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Albright-Knox Art Gallery New York
Something’s Happening, BizArt, Shanghai, China
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2004 On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, China
2003 A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech
Republic; toured to Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland
Illusion, Hong Kong Artist Commune, Hong Kong; Guangdong Museum of Art Guangzhou, China
2002 Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France(with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
The 1st Guangzhou Triennial – Reinterpretation, A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Made By Chinese #6, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France(with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA
China: Contemporary Art(with Inga Svala Thorsdottir), Museu de Arte Brasileira
2001 III Bienal Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
The 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000 Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, the Walker Art Center; Miami Art Museum, USA
Continental Shift, Musee d’Art Moderne Liege, Belgium (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Nordicliveart.org, Paletten, Gothenburg, Sweden (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1999 Power of the Word, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taizhong, Taiwan; toured to Grinnell College, Iowa; Hamilton College, New York; University of Arizona, Arizona and Skidmore College, New York, USA until January 2002
Stipendiaten, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
1998 Inside Out – New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York, P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; toured to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; National Gallery of Art, Canberra; and Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong until 2000
Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada in 2001
Berlin/Berlin, Platform, Berlin, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
NEID 7 Release, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Schnittstelle/Produktion, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
...es grünt so grün..., Bonner Kunstverein, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1997 The 7th Bienal International E.D.C.R., Centro Empressial do Oeste, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Another Kind of Communism(part 2), The Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1996 From the Central Kingdom: Chinese Avant-Garde Artists, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Nylistasafnid, Reykjavik, Iceland
Unfrieden. Sabotage von Wirklichkeiten, Hamburger Woche der Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
The Scream, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Kopenhagen, Denmark (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1995 Zwischen den Deichen, Outdoor Project, Busum, Germany(with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Der Abschied von der Ideologie,Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Nordic Wells, Nordic House Reykjavik, Iceland (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Des del País del Centre – Avantguardes artístiques Xineses, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1994 Festival der Kunste, Bad Gleichenberg, Austria(with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
[no title], Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland(with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Aus der Eisenzeit, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Maos Ungezähmte Kinder, Römer Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
1993 China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong; US tour until 1997
Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Made in Hamburg, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Chinese Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; toured to Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensee, Denmark and Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands
La Biennale APERTO, Venice, Italy
Fontanelle, Kunstspeicher, Potsdam, Germany (with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
Fragmented Memory – The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 Chinese Avant-Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
HfbK B.P., B.P. Headquarters, Hamburg, Germany(with Inga Svala Thórsdóttir)
1989 China Avant-garde, National Gallery, Beijing, China
1988 3 x China, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg, Germany