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
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
Blueprints, Serpentine Galleries, London
Fú Chá, National 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
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
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 Museum, Los 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