1960 Born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Providence, China
1987 Graduated from Nanjing Academy of Arts
1993 Studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Present
Lives and Works in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Transmitting the Ancient, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2003 Hong Lei's Narrative, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2002 Chinese Texture of the Soul, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, and The Room with A View Gallery, Shanghai, China
1993 Metaphysical Poetry, Cifa Gallery, Beijing, China Photography Naarden, Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Guangzhou Biennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Viewpoints: Chinese Photography Today, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Regeneration, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, International Center of Photography, New York, Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, USA
Intersection: Contemporary Oil Painting & Photography, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Spellbound Aura, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
2003 Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Made By Chinese, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
A Strange Heaven, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Arles International Photography Festival, Arles, France
2002 Future of the New Asia, Kuanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Pingyao Photography Festival, Shaanxi, China
Beautiful and Tragic, The Room With a View, Shanghai
Too Much Flavor, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
2001 Disorientation: Photography and Video in China Today, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Wall To Wall: China-Naarden Photography Festival, Naarden, the Netherlands
From Inside the Body, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
Cross Pressures: Contemporary Photography and Video from Beijing, Oulu Art Museum, the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Inauguration Exhibition of the New Gallery, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
Photo Festival Naarden, Naarden, Holland
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2000 The Sun Rises in the East, Recontres Internationale de la Photography, Arles, France
From Inside the Body: Chinese New Photography and Video, New York, USA
1999 Love: Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video, 1999 International Art Festival, Tachikawa, Japan
Modern Chinese Art Foundation Inaugural Exhibition, Ghent, Belgium
Innovations Part 1, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
1998 Images Telling Stories, Shanghai, China
1997 New Image: Conceptual Photography, Beijing, China
1992 Guangzhou Biennale: Art in the 1990s, Guangzhou, China
Reviews, Publications and Selected Material
2006 The New Yorker, May 29, 2006
2004 Art in America, January, 2004
