1957
Born in Beijing 
1978
Studied at Beijing Film Academy, Beijing
1981
Attended The Art Students League, New York
Attended Parsons School of Design, New York 
Present Art Director, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing

Solo Exhibitions
2006
Fragments, Urs Meile Gallery, Beijing, China 
2004
Ai Weiwei, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 
Ai Weiwei, Gent, Belgium 
Ai Weiwei, Robert Miller 
1987
One-Man Shoe, Safe Sex, New York, USA 
 
Group Exhibitions
2006 
Portable Temple, Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea, Beaufort 
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia
Territorial, Ai Weiwei / Serge Spitzer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2005
Guangzhou Triennale, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
A Strange Heaven, Contemporary Chinese Photography Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, City Art Museum, Finland
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From The Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
China: as seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Italy
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Museum of Conremporary Art Chicago; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250, Tate Modern, London, England; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
2004
Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Persona3, a project by Ai Weiwei, Ding Yi and Wang Xingwei
Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France
Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US: Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence; Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
2003
New Zone - Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech Republic
2002
China - Tradition and Moderne, Ludwig Gallery Castle, Oberhausen, Germany
First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 
Cement: Marginal Space in Contemporary Chinese Art, Chambers Fine Art, New York 
2001
Tu Mu: Young Architects of China, Germany 
2000
Fuck Off, Shanghai
1999
China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice 
1997
Art of China, Japan, and Korea , Korea 
1994
Chinese Art Exhibition, Tokyo
Contemporary Chinese Art, Goteborg Art Museum, Sweden 
1980
The Stars second exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing, China 
1979
The Stars first exhibiton, Beijing, China 
 
Reviews, Publications and Selected Material
2007
Art Asia Pacific, June 2007
2006
Artnews, October 2006
1994
The Black Book, editor, Beijing 
1995
The White Book, editor, Beijing 
1997
The Gray Book, editor, Beijing