1963
Born in Beijing, China
1985-1989
Majored in Oil Painting at the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, Awarded B.A. degree
Present
Lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibitions
2006
The Way of Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2004
Fashion Terrorism, Town Hall, Friedrichshafen, Germany
2003
SARS TIMES: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, ISE Foundation, New York
2002
Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2001
Clotheres Airplane—made in Siemens, Siemens art project “What are they doing here?” An artwork by Yin xiuzhen in collaboration with the employees of STDC
Installation and new media, Asian Fine Arts Berlin Gallery, Germany
2000
Building Materials, 200 Gertrude front gallery, Melbourne
1998
Brain, Manchester Craft Center, UK
1997
Sun Clothes, Hua Yan Li, Beijing
Dinning Table, Ruine for Arts, Berlin, Germany
1996
Ruined City, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1995
Installations, Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
News, Beijing Commune, Beijing 798
2005
CONVERGENCE at E116°/N40°, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing
In and Out or In-between: N Kinds of Space Displacement, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing
Follow Me! Chinese contemporary art show, Mori art museum, Tokyo
Art-Robe: Women Artists At The Nexus of Art and Fashion UNESCO Headquarters, France
2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
The Wall, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing
Asian Traffic, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The Other End, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen
2004
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
Officina Asia, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy
Future Cities, Contemporary Art Museum, Hamilton, Canada
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, Asia Society and Museum, New York, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art
26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 Sydney Biennale, Art Museum of New South Wales, Sydney
2003
CONCRETE HORIZONS: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Home and Away: The New Globalism, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre d'art Contemporain, IBOS, France
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Open Sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai
Left-wing, Beijing
Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 New Art Zone
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Everyday - From China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Time After Time: Asian a Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Bumper Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Agriculture Museum, Beijing
2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Here and Now, BueroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
Making China Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Site + Sight: Translating Cultures, Asian Civilizations Museum, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
Four Corners, Hong Kong
2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2002 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2001
De'rvie, Chapman University, Los Angeles, USA
Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin
Womanifesto Workshop, Thailand
The 4th Contemporary Sculpture Art Show, ShenZhen, China
Reinventing the Images and Signs, Universal Classical Cultural Arts Co. Ltd., Beijing
Le Paysage comme Babel, Galerie Les Filles du calvaire, Paris-Bruxelles
Crossroads, Cheng Du Contemporary Art Museum, China
Chronicles of Women: Illness as Metaphor, Shatin Town Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong
1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing
2000-2003
Text & Subtext, (Touring Exhibition) Earl lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore
2000
Unusuall & Usual; A Contemporary Art Exhibition, YuanGong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai
Fuori Uso 2000 "the Bridges" Pescara, Italy
Our Chinese Friends, ACC gallery and Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
At The New Century, 1979-1999 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Art Exhibition" ChengDu Contemporary Museum, China
Virtual and Real, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing
1999
Flooded Valley, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Food for thought: Chinese Characters, Amsterdam
Beijing Document, Goethe Institute, Beijing
I am Here, Bad Ems, Germany
Fast >>forward: New Chinese Video Art, Macao contemporary art center, Macao
Supermarket: Art for Sale, Shanghai
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia.
Transience: Chinese Art At the end of the 20th Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
In/from China: Art + Archictecture, Berlin, Germany
1998
It's me!: A profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Forbidden City, Beijing
Visiting Arts: South East Asian Artists' Residency Programme, Visiting Arts, London
Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Asia Society, New York
Half of the Sky: Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Frauen Museum, Bonn
20th Century-Feminina, China National Gallery and Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing
Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jingzhe, Beijing, Shangai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, China
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art '98, Art Now Studio, Beijing
1997-99
Cities on the move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Secession, Austria, Cape Museum d' Art Contemporary of Bordeaux, France and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1997
Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporary Female Artists in China, Artcmisia Gallery, Chicago
ART/OMI Visual Arts Program, ART/OMI Foundation, New York
Against the Tide, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York
Another Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Chasse Kazerne-Breda, The Netherlands
Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Tokyo and Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan
1996
Suwon: Beijing Art Show, Beijing
The 2nd United Art Project with American Artists, Tibet, China
The 7th Com-Art Show of Artists from Korea, China and Japan, Suwon City, Korea
1995
File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, New York
United Art Project with American Artists, Sichuan, China
Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes: Beijing and Berlin Art Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
Displacement, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1994
12 o 12: Installation Art show of Women Artists, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing
'94 Outdoor Art, Beijing
Post October 1st, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing
1993
Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore
The 1st Biennial of Chinese Oil Painting, China National Gallery, Beijing
1988
New Time Painting Exhibition, China National Gallery, Beijing

Collections
Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
COM--ART Museum, Korea
Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Awards
2006
New York Times, July 21, 2006
2003
Art in America, May 2003
Yishu, March 2003
2000
China contemporary art award (CCAA)
UNESCO/ASCHBERG bursary laureate
1999
Scholarship Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Bad Ems , Germany
1998
Visiting Arts South East Asian artists' residency program (visiting arts, London ), UK .
1997
ART/OMI foundation New York , U.S.A.