1969
Born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
1991
Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Art
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Epidemiology, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany
Asian Rays, PKM Gallery Beijing, Beijing
2006
On the green, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
2003
Back Door, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000
Vitamine Z: Chen Wenbo Solo Exhibition, Galerie LOFT, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Daily Rituals, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
The Second Reality, Meridian International Center, Washington, USA
2008
SH Contemporary, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
ev+a Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick, Ireland
The Sichuan Movement, Museum Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It), Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
Our Future, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Chinese Vanguard, Madrid, Spain
Thermocline of Art - New Asia's Waves, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Negative Re-Actions, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Floating - New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Sport in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Energy: Spirit Body Material, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing
New Painting from China, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
2006
Art Basel 37, Gallery Hyundai, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
2005
The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Mahjong: The Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Follow Me, Chinese Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Biennale of Beijing, Beijing, China
In the Deep of Reality, Hangzhou, China
Grounding Reality - New Chinese Contemporary, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Frieze Art Fair, Courtyard Gallery, London, UK
2004
All Under Heaven - China now!, Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Fiac 2004, Paris, France
Frieze Art Fair, Courtyard Gallery, London, UK
East of the South in the West/West of the South in the East, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Temporality, LA Gallery, Beijing, China
Object System: Doing Nothing, ARCO2004, Madrid, Spain
2003
Out of Focus, 25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing, China
Chinart, Museo del Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
Chinart, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2002
Too Much Flavor, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
Chinese Modernity, Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado(FAAP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
Chinart, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Mirage, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2001
Next Generation, City Art Center, Paris, France
On Boys and Girls, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
1st Chengdu Biennale, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000
Contemporary Chinese Portraits, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand, Perogueux, France
Future, Contemporary Art Center of Macao, Macao
1999
Academic Exhibition, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
Representing the people, Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; MAC, Birmingham, UK
Beauty Like Materialism:'99 China New Conceptual Art Exhibition, Art department of East China Teacher University, Shanghai
Poly Phenolrene, Bow Gallery, Beijing
Starting a new channel in 1999, Dongyu Art Museum, Shenyang, China
1998
Confused, Contemporary Art Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alien Phenolrene, Alternative space, Beijing
1997
Chinese Video Art 1997, CIFA Gallery Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1996
South Western Conceptual Art Show, Communications University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
1994
Fragmentation, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
1993
China Oil Painting Biennale, China Art Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China
1992
The First Guangzhou Oil Painting Biennale, Guangzhou Exhibition Centre Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
China Contemporary Art Documentation, Sichuan Province, China
Art Asian, Hong Kong Exhibition Center, Hong Kong