Cao Fei

Born 1978, Guangzhou, China

Lives and works in Beijing, China


Education 

 

2001 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

1997 The Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

 

Awards 

  
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021, Franfurt 

Best Artist, 2016, CCAA’s Prize, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, China

Piedra de Sal, 2016 Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador

Finalist, 2010 Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine

Finalist, 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA

Best Young Artist, 2006, CCAA’s Prize, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, China

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024

At the Edge of Superhumanity, SCAD, Savannah

Cao Fei: Meta-mentary, Lenbachhaus, Munich

Cao Fei: Tidal Flux, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai

2023

Duotopia, Sprüth Mager, Berlin                                                                                                                            

The future is not a dream, Pinacoteca Contemporânea, Sao Paulo

                                                                                                                                            

2022

Safety Curtain, Vienna State Opera, Vienna

Ice Room Lagrange, ZiWU, Shanghai

Asia One, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

 

2021

Cao Fei: Staging the Era, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Cao Fei: My Future is Not a Dream, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich

Cao Fei, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

Cao Fei: Supernova, The National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome


2020  

BlueprintsSerpentine Galleries, London

Fú CháNational Gallery Singapore, Singapore 


2019 

HX, Centre Pompidou, Paris


2018

Cao Fei, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf

A hollow in a world too full, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong


2016

Cao Fei, MoMA PS1, New York
Cao Fei, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Cao Fei: La Town - 30 years of CFCCA, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester

2015

Cao Fei: Shadow Plays, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles

Cao Fei: Splendid River, Secession, Vienna

Cao Fei: La Town, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand New, Art Basel Hong Kong, International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong


2014

La Town, Cao Fei's Solo Exhibition, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York

Cao Fei's Theatrical Mirror, OzAsia Festival, Contemporary Art Center of South Australia, Adelaide

2013
Haze and Fog, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Haze and Fog, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester 
Haze and Fog, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London, UK


2012
Cao Fei: Simulus, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada


2011     

Play Time, Lombard-Freid, New York, USA

RMB City Opera, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA

 

2010
RMB City, A Space Gallery + Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

RMB City Opera Live Performance Tour, Culturescapes 2010, Basel, Bern, Switzerland

Cao Fei: RMB City, CrossFade Lounge, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

Cao Fei: Utopia, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand 

2009 
NO LAB on Tour, Savannah College of Art and Design Lacoste Campus; Galerie Pfriem du SCAD, Lacoste, France Cao Fei: Live in RMB City, Shiseido Gallery Solo Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Utopia, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Cao Fei: Utopia, Artspace, Aukland, New Zealand

RMB City Opera (world premiere performance) Artissima Art Fair 2009, Torino, Italy

Out of Space 1: Cao Fei - Whose Utopia, Julia Stoschek Collection, Gloriahalle, Duesseldorf
 

2008
RMB City, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA

Cao Fei, Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau, Paris, France

Cao Fei: RMB City, Serpentine Gallery,  (2008-09), London, UK

Cao Fei, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany 

2007 
Cao Fei: Whose Utopia? , Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Whose Utopia, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan

 

2006 
PRD Anti-Heroes, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands

Hip Hop, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA

SIEMENS Art Project 2006: What Are You Doing Here?, Fu Shan OSRAM factory, Guangzhou, China

COSPlayers, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong 

2005
COSPlayers, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA

COSPlayers, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 

2004 
The San Yuan Li Project, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

 

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2024

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed, Science Gallery, Melbourne

Asia One Screening, Le Nouveau Printemps, Toulouse

Survival in the 21st Century, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Technotopias: A Cao Fei Multiverse, Screening ArtScience Museum

Mundo Expandido, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima

Vertigo – Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes, Fondazione MAST, Bologna


2023

Whose Utopia, Le Carré, France

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE

I’ll be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, USA

Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Hammer MuseumLos Angeles

Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Duotopia, Sputh Mager, Berlin

Worldbuilding,Centre Pompidou - Metz

DREAM MACHINES, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra

SURREAL FUTURES,Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany

Screening (Nova), MAXXI, Rome

New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, ArtScience Museum, Singapore

Paraventi, Prada Foundation, Milan

Chanel Next Prize, Royal College of Art, London

Paraventi,Rongzhai, Shanghai

Screening (Nova), The Cinematheque, Vancouver


2022

Hope from Chaos: Pandemic Reflections, ArtScience Museum, Singapore

Roleplay, Fondazione Prada, Milan

Protest Sounds, Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris

Asia One (film screening), MAXXI L'Aquila, Italy 

Vertigo, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

Retail Apocalypse, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal

Constraint and Freedom, Te Atamira, Queenstown, New Zealand

Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art, Lillehammer Museum, Norway

WORLDBUILDING: GAMING AND ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE , JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Düsseldorf

A Fleur de Peau, CAC Passerelle, Brest, France

MAM Screen, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

PLAY. Art & Videogames, Reggia di Venaria, Reale, Italy

Still Alive, Aichi Triennale 2022, Aichi, Japan

In Search of Identities and Their Opposites, Embassy of Germany, Beijing

Can Everybody See my Screen? Singapore Art Museum

Emotional Asia Miyatsu Daisuke Collection, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

Louis Vuitton: 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries, 660 Madison Avenue, New York

A Window Suddenly Opens: 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Photography, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution

Les Portes du Possible (A Gateway to possible worlds), Centre Pompidou-Metz

Crossroads & Detours of Visual Culture, Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes Shanghai

The Future is Here, Are You Coming? The Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago

Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen


2021

not in, of, along, or relating to a line, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi

Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

Contemporary Art Digital Shorts, Munch Museum, Oslo

KĀIWÙ: Art and Design from China, Hospice Comtesse Museum, Lille

The Hearts Of The People Are Measured By The Size Of The Land, Rising Melbourne, Melbourne 

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021, Deutsche Börse Headquarter, Frankfurt

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021, The Photographers' Gallery, London

Dreamers, Belgrade Biennale 2021, Belgrade

CINEMA GALLEGGIANTE, Guidecca, Venice

Watch and Chill: Streaming Art to Your Homes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul /Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila /MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai/ M+ Museum, Hong Kong

Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age, Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg

Essere umane, Musei di San Domenico,  Forlì

The 70th Berliner Festspiele, International Congress Centre Berlin, Berlin 

                                               

2020
Collection 1970s-Present, MoMA, New York 
Isle of Instability, West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai
Cao Fei for Loop, LOOP Barcelona, online
Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
The Edge of Day and Night, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York 

Culture: Damaged or Destroyed, Çanakkale Biennial, Çanakkale, Turkey 
Nova, Seoul International Women's Film Festival, Seoul
Time Present, Berlin Art Week x Deutsche Bank, Berlin
Nova, FIRST Film Festival, Xining, China
It’s Urgent! Luma Arles, Zurich
It's Urgent: Part III, Luma Westbau, Zurich
Middle East: Art in the Age of Anxiety, The Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

Game Changers: Video Games and Contemporary Art, MassArt Art Museum, Boston

Cobalt Hour, Frieze Film, Los Angeles

Is This Tomorrow?, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2019

Cao Fei - La Town, Moving Image Gallery, Bury Art Museum, Bury, UK

The Street. Where the World is Made, La Panacée, MoCo, Montpellier, France

The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, US

Eldorama, lille3000, Tripostal, Lille, France

Tomorrow is the Question, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

We’re Not Too Big to Care, Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Remapping Reality. Selected Video Collection from Wang Bing, OCAT, Shanghai, China

Vertiginous Data, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Producing Futures: An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland


2018

9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Queensland
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco
Heteroglossia - Sinocentrism and Globalization, How Art Museum, Shanghai

ANTI, 6th Athens Biennale, Athens
57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade Biennial, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia

Virtual Insanity, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany

I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, US

Extreme. Nomads - RAY 2018, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

One Hand Clapping, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

A World in a Grain of Sand - Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometries, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China

The Szechwan Tale. China, Theater and History, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

BMW Art Car #18, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China

On Struggling to Remain Present When You Want to Disappear, Kadist, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Art in the Age of the Internet 1989 to Today, ICA Boston, MA, US

Playtime, Peabody Essex Museum, MA, US

globalocal,Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

Human+. The Futur of Our Species, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy


2017

Art & Life: Social Aesthetics Obscured, Tranen ContemporaryArt Center, Hellerup, Denmark

Utopia & Dystopia (Part II), MAAT Museum of Art and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

.com/ .cn, K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Hong Kong, China

Repousser le tigre dansla montagne, Centre d'art Le LAIT, Albi, France

Haze and Fog, Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Rip it Up, 2nd Editionof Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

Videobox Festival, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

Mekong - New Mythologies, Hong Kong Arts Centre Pao Galleries, Hong Kong, China

HUMAN+ The Future of Our Species, ArtScience Museum, Singapore

What's in Store?, University of Salford Art Collection, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, UK

Planet 9, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany

Space Force Construction, V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice, Italy

La Town, Haras d'Annecy, Annecy, France

10 Years Julia Stoschek Collection: Generation Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

Dioramas, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

M+ Canton Express, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, China

Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists, Metropolitan Museumof Art, New York, US

Social Emotion, CC Foundation M50, Shanghai, China

Escaping the Digital Unease, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland

All that is Solid, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

Extra-Citizen: A Prologue, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium

La Town, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

Art and China after1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

Hyper Real - Sculpture 1973–2017, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

State (in) Concepts, Kadist, Paris, France


2016

Constellations: Highlights from the Nation's Collection of Modern Art, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Impermanence - Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador

Techstyle Series 1.0: Ariadne's Thread, MILL6 Foundation, Hong Kong, China

Frozen World and the Familiar Stranger, Kadist, San Francisco, USA; KHOJ International Artist’s Association, New Delhi, India

For and Image, Faster Than Light - Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Ningxia, China

Turning Point - Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

She - International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai West Bund, Shanghai, China

CASS Foundation China Show - Beautiful Disorder, CASS Sculpture Park, Sussex, UK

Industrisemester, Maskinhuset, Dillners väg 10, 772 40 Grängesberg, Sweden

Teesside World Exposition of Art and Technology, Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

Architecture and Virtuality, Metropolis cinema, Hütschenhausen, Germany

Northern Spark Festival, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, USA

Berlin Biennale 9 - LIT, the Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany

La Town, Chinese Visual Festival & King's College London, London, UK

Pulse of the Pearl River Delta, Chinese Visual Festival & Experimenta BFI Southbank, London, UK

It's a Game, Chinese Visual Festival & Experimenta BFI Southbank, London, UK

La ville au corps, le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

The Time is Out of Joint, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Asia Culture Institute ACC Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea

Hack Space, K11 & Serpentine Gallery, K11 Foundation, Hong Kong, China; K11 Foundation, Shanghai, China

Digging a Hole in China, OCAT, Shenzhen, China

On the Shoulders of Giants, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany

M+ Sigg Collection Exhibition, Artistree, Hong Kong, China

Chinese Whispers, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Foundation Louis Vuitton Collection Exhibition, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Bentu, Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Cao Fei - La Town, State of Concept, Athens, Greece

M+ screenings: Visible Places, Broadway Cinematheque Cinema, Hong Kong, China

 

2015

Re-Image: the experimental field of light, 2015 San Guan Dian NO.1 Art Exhibition, Hubei, China

Non-Image: movement of narrative, 21 Century Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

La fabrique de l'homme moderne, Salomon Foundation, Annecy, France

Human+. The Futur of Our Species, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain

Displaying Fragments: 10 years of OCAT (2005-2015), OCAT Beijing, Beijing, China

Gucci: No Longer / Not Yet, Shanghai Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, China

Dream Worlds and Nightmare Visions - BFI London Film Festival, Southbank Centre, London, UK

Back to the Pearl River Delta: Vedio Show of 4, U&M Space, Guangzhou, China

15 Rooms, Coming Soon, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China

Moving Image - Photo Shanghai 2015, Shanghai Exhibition Center; OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Here Out There - Helsinki Festival, Merikaapelihalli, Helsinki, Finland

Chinese Utopias Revisited - The Elephants, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

Degrees of Freedom, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

All the World’s Future - 56th Venice Biennale, Arsenal Pavilion, Venice, Italy

ISEA2015: The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver, Canada

Wastelands - Contemporary Chinese art, OVADA & Office of Contemporary Chinese Art (OCCA), Oxford, UK

M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese Art from 1970 to now, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK

The New Human - You and I in Global Wonderland, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

Documentary Fortnight 2015 - MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media (MoMA), New York, USA

Fairy Tales -2015 MOCA International Art Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Wild Grass: New Chinese Images - Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada

Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, Red Bull Studios, New York, USA

 

2014
Cao Fei: House of Treasure, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Sussex, UK

Poetry and Dream, Tate Modern, London, UK

Is Utopia for Sale? Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy

15 Years CCAA China Contemporary Art Award exhibition, Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Infinite Challenge, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, South Korea  

Ten million rooms of yearning: Sex in Hong Kong, Parasite Art Space, Hong Kong, China

The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen, China   

Haze and Fog Screening, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China

Time Present, Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore

Haze and Fog Screening, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Haze and Fog Screening, Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

 

2013
Haze and Fog Screening, 
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London, UK

China China (Eyeliner), Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine

Cao Fei: House of Treasure, Inflation! West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China

Home Works 6, Artheum, Beirut, Lebanon

Chinese Realities / Documentary Visions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Cao Fei: In the Night Garden, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil


2012

Cao Fei - The Orchid Pavilion, Wide Open School, London Hayward Gallery, UK

Cao Fei - Hip Hop New York, Lombard-freid Projects, ArtHK12, Hong Kong, China

THAT FRESH SENSATION, Image Forum festival 2012, Japan 

60-minute Cinema, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

MEGACOOL 4.0 - Youth and Art, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Asian Women Artists, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

RMB City Opera, TRACK @S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium 

Cao Fei's Shadow Life,  41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands 

Game On / Re-Newing Media Art: A Touring Initiative, Glucksman, Cork, Ireland

SHOW TIME: Choreography in Contemporary Art, Gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark

Experimenta-Utopia Now, Albury Library Museum, Albury, Wales, Australia

One World Exposition, Videotage, Hong Kong, China  

 

2011

Cao Fei's Shadow Life, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas, USA

Once Upon A Time: Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Videos, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Moving Image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

Spectrum: Chinese Independent Animation, Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China 

China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, China 

Community without Propinquity, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

Terra Incognita,2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Seoul, Korea 

3rd Yebisu International Festival, Tokyo, Japan

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

BodyTalks-Video Art & Cinedans in Public Space, Maastricht, Netherlands

Dream-WhiteLight, Samsung Media Art Exhibition, Daegu, South Korea

Double Democracy, art:gwangju:11, Gwangju, South Korea

Apocalypse Tomorrow: Surf in RMB City, Art Basel 42, Basel, Switzerland

ILLUMInations - 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2011, Venice, Italy

Daydream Believer!!, Yebisu International Festival for Art&Alternative Visions, Tokyo, Japan

Video from the New China, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

NO LAB on Tour #4 at SCAD Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Watch Me Move: The Animation Show, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

Alter Scrinium, Vladivostok International Film Festival, Vladivostok, Russia

i. City, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Eye Of The Dream -Video Art From China, Customs House of Sydney Harbour, Australia

The Way it Wasn't, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal

INDUSTRIAL 2012-2013, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany

Happy Tech. Macchine dal volto umano, Arte e Scienza in Piazza, Bologna, Milano, Italy

The Coming Community, Haifa Museum of Art. Haifa, Israel

Real Virtuality, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York, USA 

2010 
Future Generation Art Prize 2010, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

i.Mirror becomes part of the Media and Performance Art Collection, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

32nd Edition of Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, France

CHINA POWER STATION, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Astrub Fearnley Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

Cao Fei: Room 608, Frieze Art Fair 2010, London, UK

RMB City, 29th Bienal se Sao Paulo 2010, San Paulo, Brazil

Art 41 Basel, Switzerland

Roundtrip: Beijing-New York Now -Selections from the Domus Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China

The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia

Liminality: A Mixed Reality Exhibition of Second Life Art, Antena, Chicago, USA

Timelapse, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland

Open Studio 4.0: I Shot the Sheriff (Héroes y Villanos), Carlos Garaicoa Open Studio 4.0, Madrid, Spain

EVERYDAY(S), Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

CUE: Artists Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, touring exhibition: Inova, Milwaukee; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA

2009

NO LAB on Tour, ACA Gallery of the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Atlanta, USA

Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA

Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game Environment, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, UK

Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China’s New Generation Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China

Timelapse, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China

The Girl Effect, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA

The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, The New Museum, New York, USA

Utopics, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Cao Fei Utopia, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

The Storyteller, Independent Curators International (iCI), Salina Art Museum, Kansas

There Goes the Neighborhood, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

Video Art: Replay, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Double Take, the Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

Alternate Realities, Spencer Museum of Art Lawrence, Kansas, USA

HBOX, Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Newport Beach, USA

Perfromatik 09, Kaaitheatre festival, Brussels, Belgium

NO LAB in RMB City Prospect 1. New Orleans Biennial, USA 

2008    
The Possibility of an Island, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami, FL

Sprout from White Nights, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Our Future Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Far West Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Prospect.1 New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA, USA

Frieze Art Fair 2008, London, UK

Yokohama Triennale 2008, Yokohama, Japan

Cine Cine Cine!!! Chinese Contemporary Art Beyond the Global Market, Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Life on Mars, 55th International Carnegie International, Pittsburg, PA, USA

Panoramica-ciclo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico

Montage: Unmonumental Online, The New Museum, New York, USA

ART IS FOR THE SPIRIT: Works from The UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 
Cine Cine Cine!!! Chinese Contemporary Art Beyond the Global Market, Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Farewell to Post-Colonialism - The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

2007
The Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, Shenzhen, China & Hong Kong SAR, China

Art Basel Miami Beach, USA

10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

Playback, ARC / Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Everyday Miracles, 52nd Venice Biennale, Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Infiltration and Sound(e)scape, Senda-Espai 2nou2, Barcelona, Spain

Laughing In A Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, London, England

Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France

Moving Targets: Business As Usual/ New Video from China/ Cao Fei and Yang Fudong, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA

RED HOT- Asian Art from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston, TX, USA

The Real Thing, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

World Factory: Resistance and Dreams, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

2006 
China Power Station: Part 1, Battersea Power Station, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

Panoramica- Ciclo de video: Mascaradas: disfraces, espejos, mascaras, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico

Totalstadt. Bejing Case, ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

New Photographers 2007, Cannes Lions Festival, Cannes, France

Singapore Biennale, Singapore

Empire and back, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Muenster, Germany

China Contemporary exhibition, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Germany

People, Land, State, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel

Japanimation, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing, China

Guangzhou: Cantonese Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

AllLookSame?, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea

2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Territory, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Political Equator, Haudenschild Garage, University of California, San Diego & Tijuana

Good Vibrations-le Arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

Joy, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

15th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia

Beijing Case: Culture of the High Speed Urbanism, The Center for Art and Median(ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany

Never Go Out Without My DV cam - Video Art from China, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

Fantasy Landscapes, Asia House, London, UK

Festival of Love: Video Art Series, Asia Society, New York, USA

Astrup Fearnley Collection: Photo and Video, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway

2005 
Irreality, Para Site, Hong Kong,China

Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, NAMOC National Art Museum Of China, Beijing, China

Mahjong, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Exchange Value of Pleasure, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea

Art Basel Miami Beach Art Video Lounge: A Kind of a Portraiture Program, Miami, FL

Sweet Taboos, 3rd Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania

We Are the World, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Riena Sofia, Madrid, Spain

I still believe in miracles, Part II, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Trouble with Fantasy, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Out of Sight, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Get It Louder, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China

Unspeakable Happiness, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico

Women by Women IN PHOTOGRAPHY part two, Cook Fine Art, New York, USA

CIRCULAR-domas, 2005 Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy

Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now, The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan

Follow Me!: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Emergency Biennale in Chechnya: A suitcase from Paris to Grosny, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Borders in Asia, World Social Forum, Porte Alegro, Brazil

Dialectics of Hope, 1 Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia
2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2004 
Do It, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA

Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taiwan

Nuit Blanche, Art Public Contemporain, Paris, France

Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA

Die Chinesen: Contemporary Photography and Video in China, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

5th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

China Moon, Watermill Center, Watermill, New York, USA

A l'Est du Sud de l'Ouest, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Villa Arson Nice, France

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, ICP and Asia Society, New York, USA

Tatig Sein, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. (NGBK), Berlin, Germany

China Now, Gramercy Theatre, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Chine: Generation Video, Maison Européenne de la Photogrqaphie, Paris, France

Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan

Heads & Portraits, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany

Feverish Unconscious, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

Generation Video, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, South Korea

2003 
Left Wing, Left Bank Community, Beijing, China

Screening Programme: San Yuan Li Project, MK2 (Bibliothèque), Paris, France

Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Ibos, France

10th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland

Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA

Public Space and Personal Eyes, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency), 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

+system, Short Videos from the World 2002-2003, BizArt, Shanghai, China

The Minority Is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai, China 

2002 
Mutations - INVIDEO 2002, Spazio Oberdan, Milan. Italy

Kino Film Festival, Manchester, UK

Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art – The 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Media City Seoul The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea

Pause: The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, South Korea

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA 

2001
Weightlessness, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany

The New Media Art Festival: Non-linear Narrative, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Living in Time: 29 Contemporary Artists from China, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin, Germany

City Slang: The First Annual Contemporary Art From Zhu Jiang Delta, Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Art Village, Hong Kong

 The 2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Take Part, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland

Virtual Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2000 
Fuck Off: Uncooperative Approach, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival: Leaving the Island, Pusan, South Korea

PhotoEspana 2000, Madrid, Spain 

1999 
8th Biennial of Moving Images, Saint-Gervais Geneva, Switzerland

4th Cross-Strait, Hong Kong and Macau Student Film & Video Festival, Hong Kong, Japan

Video screening, Galerie Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany

 

Fellowship Program 

 

2005 
Beijing Case: Culture of the High Speed Urbanism, German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes), Germany