Born 1969 in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province
BFA, Printmaking Department, China National Academy of Fine Arts (1992)
Lives and works in Beijing and Hangzhou, China
Associate Professor, Mixed Medial Art Department, CAA, Hangzhou
Co-Director, Visual Culture Center, CAA, Hangzhou

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009  
A Suicidology of The Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 3 - Breaking through the Ice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008  
A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 2, Nanjing, Under the Heaven, The Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Ataraxic of Zhuang Zi – A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 1, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2007  
The Shape of Time, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Archeology of Memory, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Cryptogram, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2006  
Let there be Light, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2005  
Light and Words, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Melancholy Man, Gallery Loft, Paris, France
Black and White Zoo, Gallery of Dartington Art Academy, UK
2004  
Social Portrait, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2003  
Asian Parallel Times, Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong; Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain; Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
UFO: Qiu Zhijie Photography/Calligraphy, Gallery Loft, Paris, France
2001  
Sound of Sound, Gen Gallery, Koshigaya, Japan
Invisibility: Qiu Zhijie, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
1999  
Innate Forces, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Touch, Orient Foundation, Macau
Calendar 1998, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1997  
Logic: Five Video Installation, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009   
Qiu Zhijie and Tadashi Kawamata, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, Future Together, Arario, Beijing
Fukutake House, Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Nigata Prefecture, Japan
Chinese Pavilion, The 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Christian Dior and Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008   
Crosscurrents: New Media Art, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong; Osage Gallery, Singapore
A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Time-lag: the New Force of Chinese Contemporary Art, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Farewell to Post-Colonialism: the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
We Are Your Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Where Are We?, Beijing Center for Arts, Beijing, China
Dream of Reality – Chinese Art Today, Chambers Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
55 día en Valencia. Encuentro de arte chino (55 Days in Valencia. An Encounter with Chinese Art), IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China
01SJ Festival (presented by ZERO1), San Jose, USA
Community of Tastes, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Building Code Violations II, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007   
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Why Go to Tibet – Survey of Tibetan Subject Matter in Painting, Long March Space, Beijing, China
1st Polar Biennale, Ushuaia, Argentina
Collective Identity , Chinese Art Centre, Manchester,UK
Moscow Biennale: I am Your Future, Moscow, Russia
Post Socialism, National Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006   
China Time 2006, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Yellow Box, Qingpu Village, Shanghai, China
Building Code Violations I, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2005   
2nd Yokohama Triennale: Art Circus-Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama, Japan
Archeology of the Future – 2nd Triennale of Chinese Art, Nanjing, China
Living in Interesting Times - A Decade of New Chinese Photography, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
2004   
5th Shanghai Biennale Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of       Photography, New York, USA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
The Monk and the Demon: Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
2002   
25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
The Long March – A Walking Visual Display, various sites throughout China
2001   
Post-Sense Sensibility – Spree, Beijing Film Academy Theater, Beijing, China
Nemesis, Master Seed Garden, Beijing, China
Sound-2, Master Seed Garden, Beijing, China
Translated Acts, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum, New York, USA
The First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
2000   
Family? Contemporary Art Projects, International Furniture Center, Shanghai, China
Power of the Word, Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, Iowa, USA
1999   
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art ,the University of Chicago, Chicago, China
Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Post-Sense Sensibility, Alien Bodies & Delusion, Beijing, China
1998 
‘Transmediate ’98, 11th Video Festival,’ Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Per Video:Videos from Artists International, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Photography as Concept: 4th International Photo Triennial, Stadtmuseum, Esslingen. Germany
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society Gallery, New York, USA; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center,  New York, USA; San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, USA; Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico, Mexico
1997   
New Photography Artists of China, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
1995   
From the Central Kingdom: Chinese Avante-Garde Artists, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Out of the National Ideology: Avante-Garde Art of China, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
1994   
Phenomenon/Image: Video Art in China, Gallery of National Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1993   
China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong