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Biography |
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1955 |
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Born in Shanghai, China |
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1976 |
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Graduated from Shanghai School of Arts, China |
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1981 |
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M.F.A. from the China Academy of Art under the classical landscape-painting master, Lu Yanshao |
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1981 - 1987 |
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Taught at the China Academy of Art, China |
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1981 - 1987 |
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Taught Chinese Classical Painting |
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1989 - 1990 |
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Associate professor of studio art at the University of Minnesota. He has been invited to lecture at various art academies, universities in Norway, Sweden, and the United States. He was a guest professor at Cooper Union in New York, USA. |
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Second prize of the National Calligraphy Exhibition, China |
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Second prize from the China Art Exhibition of Sports, Canada Council for Foreign Visiting |
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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in the USA |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Design redefined, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai |
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2007 |
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‘Forest of Stone Steles And United Nations : We are Fortunate Animals’ John Museum Of Art, NYC, USA (solo) |
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2007 |
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'85 New Wave: the birth of Chinese contemporary art’, Ullens foundation, UCCLA, Pekin, China |
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2006 |
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‘Brush and Ink: The Chinese art of Writing’, Metropolitan Museum of Art of New-York, USA |
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2006 |
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Jiang Su Museum, Nanjing, China (solo) |
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2006 |
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He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (solo) |
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2006 |
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Art Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA (solo) |
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2006 |
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Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China (solo) |
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2006 |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo) |
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2006 |
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA (solo) |
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2006 |
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Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy (solo) |
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2006 |
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California State University at Fullerton, USA (solo) |
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2006 |
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China Institute, New York City (solo) |
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2005 |
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INK, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York |
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2004 |
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Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Penn, USA |
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2004 |
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4th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Shenzhen Museum of Art, China |
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2004 |
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Exhibition at Bard College, USA |
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2004 |
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‘Working in Brooklyn’, Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA |
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2004 |
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Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition at National Gallery of Malaysia, Malaysia |
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2004 |
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‘Contemporary Chinese Painting’, Art Museum, Wooster College, Ohio, USA |
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2004 |
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‘Contemporary Chinese Painting’, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA |
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2004 |
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‘20th Anniversary Exhibition of Hanart Gallery’, Celebration of at Hong Kong Arts Center, China |
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2004 |
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Exhibition at Bucknell College, USA |
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2004 |
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Gettysburg College, USA |
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2004 |
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‘Ink Painting Collection of Shanghai Art Museum’, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
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2004 |
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Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Penn, USA |
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2003 |
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Gu Wenda: from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Portland, Maine, USA |
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2002 |
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First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
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2002 |
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‘Site - Sight,’ Singapore Arts Festival, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore |
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2002 |
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‘New Way of Tea,’ Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY |
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2002 |
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National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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2001 |
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‘Intersections and Translations,’ National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
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2001 |
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‘Translated Acts - South East Asia Performance Art,’ Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY |
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2001 |
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‘Second Biennale of Asian Contemporary Art,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy |
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2001 |
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Ink Alchemy Number One, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France |
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2001 |
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‘Re: Duchamp,’ 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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2000 |
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‘Inside Out: Chinese Art,’ National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
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2000 |
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‘Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s,’ Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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2000 |
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Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China |
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1999 |
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‘Babel of the Millennium,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1999 |
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‘Power of Word,’ Taiwan Museum of Art, Taizhong, Taiwan |
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1998 |
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‘Inside Out,’ Asia Society, New York, NY |
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1998 |
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‘Inside Out,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1998 |
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Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico |
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1998 |
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Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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1998 |
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UBC Gallery Vancouver, Canada |
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1997 |
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‘Second Johannesburg Biennale,’ Johannesburg, South Africa |
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1996 |
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‘First Shanghai Biennale,’ Shanghai, People’s Republic of China |
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1996 |
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Interpol |
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1996 |
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Row Gallery |
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1996 |
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The Mythos of Lost Dynasties, Binet Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
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1995 |
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Hong Kong Museum, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China |
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1995 |
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The Alternative Museum, New York, NY |
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1995 |
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‘Silent Energy,’ Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
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1995 |
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‘Mao Goes Pop, China Post 1989,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
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1994 |
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Kroller Museum |
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1993 |
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Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
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1992 |
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Enrico Garabaldi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
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1990 |
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University Art Museum, California State University, Sacramento, CA |
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1989 |
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‘China Avante Garde - No U turn,’ China National Art Gallery, Beijing, People’s Republic of China |
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1987 |
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York University |
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Literature |
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2007 |
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China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de |
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2004 |
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“International perspectives on art and culture”, documentary sources in contemporary art #6th, mit press and the new museum of contemporary art, 2004, New York, USA |
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2004 |
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Janet Marquardt and Stephen Eskilson: "Issues in visual culture" Laurence King ltd, 2004, London, England |
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2003 |
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Gao Chien-Hui, “After origin”, Taiwan 2003 |
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2002 |
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Laura Hoptman and Tomas Pospiszyl “Primary documents: a sourcebook for eastern and central european art since the 1950s”, the museum of modern art and mit press, 2002, USA |
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Gao Mushen, “A thought history of chinese painting”, p.339, San Ming publisher, Taiwan |
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