1957
Born in Beijing, China

Education
Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy, 1978. Lived in NYC, NY, 1981-1993
Parsons School of Design, 1983
Returned to China, 1993
Founded China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China, 1994
Lives in Beijing, China

Solo Shows
1982    
Asian Foundation, San Francisco, California.
1988    
Old Shoes, Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, NYC, NY.
2003    
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2004    
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Caermersklooster-Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium.
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC, NY.
2006    
Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China.
2007    
Fragments, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2008    
Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea.
‘Through’ and Video Work ‘Fairytale’, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia.
Ai Weiwei: Under Construction, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia.
2009    
Ai Weiwei: According to What? Mori Art Muyseum, Tokyo, Japan.
So Sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
World Map, Galleri Faurschou, Beijing, China.
2010    
Barely Something, Museum DKM/Galerie DKM, Duisburg, Germany.
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works 5000 BCE–2010 CE, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania.
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works 5000 BCE–2010 CE. Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon.
The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, England.
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2011    
Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza, NYC, NY.
Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Somerset House, London, England.
Lisson Gallery, London, England.
Ai Weiwei – Sunflower Seeds, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland.
Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Ai Weiwei: Art/Architecture, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.
Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2012
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Hermann Park, Houston, Texas.
Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

Group Shows
1979    
The Stars First Exhibition, Beijing, China.
1980    
The Stars Second Exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing, China.
1986    
China’s New Expression, Municipal Gallery, NYC, NY.
Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York.
1987    
The Star of Harvard, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1989    
The Star: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, Taipai, Taiwan, and Paris, France.
1994    
Contemporary Chinese Art, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden.
1996    
Peter Ludwig Collection, Koln, Germany.
1999    
Innovations Part I, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China.
d’Apertutto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2000    
Fuck Off, Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai, China.
2001    
Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2002    
China – Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany.
2003    
New Zone: Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2004    
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, NYC, NY.
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Persona 3, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China.
Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2005    
Herzog & de Meuron, Tate Modern, London, England.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography and Asia Society, NYC, NY.
Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
2006    
15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
China Now: Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria.
That is not for you – Diskurse der Skulptur, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
Art in Motion, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China.
2007    
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
China Welcomes You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
We are the Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
Documenta 12, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
2008    
Reconstruction #3: The Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England.
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California.
2009    
A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, Project Space 176, London, England.
Beg Borrow and Steal. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida.
2010    
Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China.
2011    
Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The Last Freedom – From the Pioneers of Land-Art of the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany.
Shanshui: Poetry Without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
MMK 1991-2011, 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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