1956 Born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
1982 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Yunnan Academy of
Fine Arts, Kunming
2001 Started teaching at The Art Academy of Yunnan University
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Recapitulation-Mao Xuhui Solo Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Beijing,China
Guishan Series-Mao Xuhui Solo Exhibition, Cige Exposition2012,Beijing,China
2011 DISSOCIATION·2011 ART CHANGSHA: Mao Xuhui—The Eternity in Re,flection,
Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha
2010 Farewell to Trend: The Art of MaoXuhui, Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing
2009 Mao Xuhui—Transcending New Concreteness, Gallery Artside, Beijing
2008 Mao Xuhui—Transcending New Concreteness, Gallery Artside,
Seoul, South Korea
ROAD—Mao Xuhui's Drawing Course 1973-2007, Red Bridge Gallery,
Shanghai
2007 Mao Xuhui: 30 Years as an Artist, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2005 The Vocabulary of Power!—20 Years of Mao Xuhui's Work,Xin Dong
Cheng Spacefor Contemporary Art, Beijing
Scissors—Mao Xuhui, Nordica Gallery, Kunming,Yun Nan,China
2004 Mao Xuhui: Scissors, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1999 Scissors—Mao Xuhui, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1997 Dream of the Red Earth by Mao Xuhui, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Quiet Energy: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dialogue Space, Beijing
Face，Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2011 Flowing Clouds: New Contemporary Chinese Art, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu
Commemoration：10th Anniversary of Soka Art Beijing,
Soka Art Center, Beijing
2011 Chengdu Biennale—Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition,
East Chengdu Music Park,Chengdu
To Be An Audience In Guishan-Yunnan Contemporary Art Special
Exhibition，Special Invitation Exhibition of 2011 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu
New Dream 2011New Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Long lung International
Conference and
Exhibition Center，Guangzhou Collecting History，China New Art，
Chengdu MOCA，Chengdu
Future Pass，Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice, Rotterdam & Taichung
The Seed from the Cradle of Yunnan, Soka Art Center，Taipei & Tainan
2010 Pure Views: Remote form Streams and Mountains, New Painting China,
Louise Blouin Foundation, London
Reshaping History—Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National
Convention Center, Beijing
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum,
Shanghai
Special Exhibition of China International Gallery Exposition 2010—
My Landscape, My Utopia, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing
2009 Annexe/ Infix, SZ Art Centre, Beijing
Mao Xuhui, Tang Zhigang Nominate Yunnan Young Artist Art Show,
598 Art Space, Kunming
First Contact—Contemporary Art Exhibition from Taipei, Kunming, Hong Kong,
99 Art Space, Kunming
2008 Back to GuishanThe 63rd Year Anniversary of UN Day,
United Nations Development Programme, Beijing
Beijing-Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City
of Athens, Athens, Greece
Intimate Trend—Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan,
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism,
SZ Art Centre, Beijing
New Interface 4—Here Comes Spring, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai
Intersection—Pieces of 2008 Contemporary Art of China, Oriental Vista Gallery;
Kee Prive Club; USA International Express Corp., Ltd., Hong Kong
2007 Viewing from Afar, Oriental Vista Art Collections Gallery, Beijing
The Trend of Art Thought in `85 & Post-`89 Art,
Expol-Sources Gallery, Beijing
A Wakening from a Ten-Year Long Sleep, H.J.Y Contemporary
Art Center, Beijing
85 New Wave—The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens
Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary
Art, Beijing
New Interface 3: Searching the Future, Red Bridge Gallery,
Shanghai
Black White Grey—A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum,
Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Soart, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
Russia
Guiyang Art Biennale Exhibit 3th.2007Word of Mouth from Four Corners,
Guiyang Art Museum, China
Back to Guishan, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
2006 Invitational Exhibition of Yunnan Contemporary Art 2006,
Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing
Creating History: Chinese Contemporary Art from the 80s of the 20th
Century, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen
Academic State: Chinese Contemporary Artists Invitational Exhibition,
Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
2005 A Retrospective of Chinese Oil Paintings from the New Period,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artworks on Canvas 2005,
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
In Honour of ’85, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
The 1st Kunming International Sculpture Festival, Daguan Park, Kunming
2005 Awakening: The Collision and Mergence of Chinese and French Arts,
Contrasts Gallery, shanghai; Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center,
Shanghai; National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2004 Yunnan Art Exhibition, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum,
California State University, San Bernardino，USA
Unrelated to Reality!—Contemporary Art of China, Liu Haisu Art Museum,
Shanghai
Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2003 The 3rd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing;
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an
The 2nd Guiyang Oil Paintings Biennial, Guizhou Normal Art Academy,
Guiyang
From China with Art, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2002 The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Paris-Pékin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum Kuppermunle Semmlung Grothe,
in cooperation with Macro- Museo d`Arte Contemporane Roma, Ludwig Museum Budapest-Museum of Contemporary Art Municipal Gallery Bydgoszcz, Casa Asia Barcelona
Triennial of Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou
China-Korea Contemporary Paintings Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
2001-2002 Made in China, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
2001 Dream: 2001 Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, The Atlantis Gallery, The Red Mansion, London, England
From Depth to Surface: Works by Mao Xuhui and Ye Yongqing, Upriver Loft, Kunming
Singapore International Art Fair, Singapore
2000 Tale of Two Cities: Asia Contemporary Art, London, England
1999 China-Japan Art Exchange Exhibition 1999, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Art China 1999, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998-1999 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York, P.S 1 ; Contemporary Art Center,
New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S; Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; National Gallery of Art, Australia; Hong Kong Museum of Art
1998 The First Collection Exhibition of Upriver Gallery, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu
Kunming - New York - Montreal, Contemporary Art Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Canada
China’s New Art, Exhibition at the Observation de Montreal, Artist-Run Exhibition Center Montreal, Canada
Poem of the Daily Life, Wistaria Gallery, Kunming, China
1997 “Quotation Marks” Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
“Red and Grey” Eight Avant-garde Chinese Artists, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
1996 China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; also toured in Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria; Zacheta Modern Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany
“Reality: Today and Tomorrow” Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition 1996, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing
Shared Dreams, Jamaica Center, New York, USA
1995 From the Central Kingdom: Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1993 China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre; also toured in Vancouver and US
Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
New Art from China, Post-89, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
“Chinese Experience” Chinese Art from the 90s, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China
1992 The First Guangzhou Art Biennale, Guangzhou, China
1991 Art Documental Exhibition in Beijing Xisanhuan, Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting,Beijing
“I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne” Exhibition of Chinese Avant-garde Paintings from the
1980s, Asia and Pacific Art Museum, California, USA
1989 Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
1988 ’88 Modern Art Exhibition of Southwestern China, Chengdu, China
1987 The 1st Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1986 The 4th New Figurative Images Exhibition, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
The 3rd New Figurative Images Exhibition, Library of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China
The 2nd New Figurative Images Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1985 Chinese Visions, Art Gallery of Florida University, USA
The New Figurative Images Exhibition, Shanghai Jing’an Cultural Center
