1957
born in Beijing, China
lives and works in Beijing, China
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Barely Something", Museum DKM; Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany
"Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn", Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, USA; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, USA
2009
"With Milk___find something everybody can use", Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain
"so sorry", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China
"Ai Weiwei: According to What?", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan¨
"Ways Beyond Art", Ivorypress Art+Books, Madrid, Spain
"Ai Weiwei – Four Movements", Phillips de Pury, London, UK
"Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993", Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2008
"Ai Weiwei", Albion Gallery, London, UK
"Ai Weiwei", Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
"Under Construction", Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia
"Illumination", Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
"Ai Weiwei", Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2007
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Traveling Landscapes", AedesLand, Berlin, Germany
2006
"Fragments", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2004
Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
1988
"Old Shoes - Safe Sex", Art Waves Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Asian Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
"Zeitgenössische chinesische Fotografie", Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China
29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Radical Conceptual. Positionen aus der Sammlung des MMK", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009
"BEG BORROW AND STEAL", Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
"Garbage", AFTERGALLERY, projectroom, Moscow, Russia
"Attitude”, Shit-Art Center, Zhengzhou, China
"Pete and Repeat. Works form the Zabludowicz Collection", Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
"The Making of Art", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"The Big World: Recent Art from China", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
"United Technologies", Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
2008
"Half-Life of a Dream", Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
"Out There. Architecture Beyond Building", Biennale Architecture, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
5th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
"Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection", The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
"Map Games: Dynamics of Change", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary", Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
"China. The City exp(l)osed", Cité d'Architecture & du Patrimone, Paris, France
"Reconstruction # 3. The Artists Playground", Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK
"Delirious Beijing", PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
"Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition Iberia Center for Contemporary Art", Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"RED Aside: Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection”, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
"The Real Thing. Contemporary Art from China", Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2007
"EI – Entity Identity – Beijing Series. Western Concepts – Chinese Drafts", Stedelijk Museum s' Hertogenbosch, MB 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
"Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection", CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
"Inspired by China – Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions", Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA
"Branded and on Display", Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, USA
"CHINA NOW", Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
"Get It Louder", SOHO Shangdu, Beijing, China
"Something New Pussycat", Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
“Energies – Synergy”, Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium
"Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis", Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
"Contemporary Art Exhibitions of Kogo Art Space", Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, China
"Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art", Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
"Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves", ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Art from China – Collection Uli Sigg", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
"China Welcomes you... Desires, Struggles, New Identities", Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
"The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection", Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland
"Money", Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, China
"Forged Realities", UniversalStudios, Beijing, China
"The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Project "We are the future", 2nd Moskow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Centre Winzavod, Moskow, Russia
"Branded and on Display", Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA
"A Continuous Dialogue", Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2006
"Art in Motion – Chinese Contemporary Art meets BMW Art Cars", Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
"This Is Not For You – Sculptural Discourses", Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
"Detours. Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China", Eric Arthur Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
"CHINA NOW. Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs / Art in times of change", Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
"Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"MoCA Envisage / Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity", Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
"Zones of Contact", 15th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
"Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Altered, Stitched and Gathered", P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
"China Power Station I", Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
"Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
"Misleading Trails", Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, USA
"Cityscapes 'Beijing Welcomes You'. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie Fotografien von Ai Weiwei", Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"A Continuous Dialogue", Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
"Inspired by China – Contemporary Furnituremakers Expolre Chinese Traditions", Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
"China Contemporary. Architecture, Art and Visual Culture", Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Black and Blue", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
"Antique Modernity – Breaking Traditions", Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
"2006 Beaufort Outside", Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium
"China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Between Past and Future – New
Photography and Video from China", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA
2005
The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"Misleading Trails", Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA
"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
"Convergence at E116'/N40'", Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
"A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography", Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
1st Monpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France
"Cina. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists", Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
"Herzog & de Meuron. An Exhibition", Tate Modern, London, UK
"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
"No 250. An Exhibition. Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron", Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004
"Silknet – Emerging Chinese Artists", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Persona3", China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
"Le Printemps de Chine", CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France
"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence, USA
"Piss Off", Museum of New Art, Pontiac, USA
The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Misleading Trails", China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
"Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US", John Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
"On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video", Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
"Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions", Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, USA
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China", Museum of Contemporary Art Printemps Chicago and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; ICP International Center of Photography, New York, USA
"Modern Style in East Asia", Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
"Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung", Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
2003
"New Zone - Chinese Art", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
"A Strange Heaven. Contemporary Chinese Photography", Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
"Junction. Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art", Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Cement – Marginal Space in Contemporary Art", Chamber Fine Arts, New York, USA
2002
"China - Tradition und Moderne", Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
"Art from a Changing World", Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, Norway
1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
"TAKE PART II", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
"TU MU. Young Chinese Architecture", Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"TAKE PART I", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000
"Fuck off", EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups", BizArt, Shanghai, China
"Our Chinese Friends", ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany
1999
"Innovations Part I", China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
"d'APERTutto", La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
"Modern China Art Foundation Collection", Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
"Concepts, Colors and Passions", China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
1998
"Double Kitsch: Painters from China", Max Protetch, New York, USA
1997
"A Point of Contact. Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art", Daegu Art & Culture Hall, Daegu, Korea
1996
"Begegnung mit China", Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1995
"Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen", Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany
“Change-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Goteborg Museum, Goteborg, Sweden
1993
"Chinese Contemporary Art – The Stars 15 Years“, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989
"The Stars: Ten Years", Hanart Gallery, Hongkong
"The Stars: Ten Years", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1987
"The Star at Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art", Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
1986
"China's New Expression", Municipal Gallery, New York, USA
"Avant-Garde Chinese Art", Albany University Art Museum, New York, USA
1980
The second "Star Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1979
The first "Star Exhibition", outside the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
