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Xing Danwen (Chinese, 1967)
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Xing Danwen
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Xing Danwen
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Biography |
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1967 |
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Born in Xian, Shaanxi Province, China |
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1982 - 1986 |
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Studied Fine Art (Painting) at the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Shaanxi Province, China |
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1988 - 1992 |
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BFA at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
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1998 - 2000 |
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Chairman's Grant from School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
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1998 - 2001 |
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MFA Photo and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
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1998 - 2001 |
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Grant & Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA |
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2003 |
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Best Publishing Project Award from Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles, France |
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2008 |
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Finalists for ING REAL photography award, Netherlands |
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Currently lives and works in Beijing, China |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Xing Danwen, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China (solo) |
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2008 |
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PhotoMiami, Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Miami, USA (solo) |
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2008 |
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Xing Danwen, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
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2008 |
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New World Order, Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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2008 |
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Another Voice, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
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2008 |
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FOTOFEST 2008, Houston, Texas, USA |
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2008 |
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ING REAL Photography Award, LP II Art Exhibition |
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2008 |
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Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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2008 |
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China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK |
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2007 |
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City of Expiration and Regeneration, 2007 Shenzhen Biennal, China |
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2007 |
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Chinaproduction, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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2007 |
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Floating, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Soeul, Korea |
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2007 |
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Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking, Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands |
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2007 |
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Altered States, Tisch Gallery, AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER / TUFTS University, USA |
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2007 |
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METAMORPHOSIS, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland |
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2007 |
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MADE in CHINA, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark |
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2007 |
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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel |
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2006 |
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MADE in CHINA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA |
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2006 |
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On the Edge, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Boston, USA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
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2006 |
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New Urban Realities, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam & NAi, The Netherlands |
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2006 |
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Code: Blue--Confluence of Currents, New Media Center/Beijing Cubic Art Center, Beijing, China |
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2006 |
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Fantasy Landscapes, Asia House, London, UK |
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2006 |
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Urban Fiction, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada (solo) |
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2006 |
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disCONNEXION/duplication, Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia (solo) |
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2006 |
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Chinese Contemporary: Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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2006 |
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New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom |
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2006 |
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C On Cities, the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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2006 |
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Private Lives, URBIS, Manchester, UK |
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2006 |
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TOTALSTADT/BEIJING CASE, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
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2006 |
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New Urban Realities, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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2006 |
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Code: Blue--Confluence of Currents, New Media Center/Beijing Cubic Art Center, Beijing, China |
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2006 |
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The ISEA 2006/ZeroOne Festival, San Jose, California, USA |
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2006 |
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Imaging a Global Culture, CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, Subway ST. PATRICK STATION, Toronto, Canada |
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2006 |
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CHINA TRADE, International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada |
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2004 - 2006 |
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Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; International Center for Photography, New York, USA |
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2005 |
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CONVERGENCE at E116/N40, Beijing Off Biennale, Beijing, China |
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2005 |
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City of Dreams, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK |
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2005 |
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Unspeakable Happiness, MUSEO TAMAYO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, Mexico city, Mexico |
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2005 |
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Re-VIEWING the CITY, First Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Province, China |
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2004 |
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disCONNEXION, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA solo |
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2004 |
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dis+dup '94, Gow Langsford gallery, Sydney, Australia solo |
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2004 |
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Urban Fiction '94, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France solo |
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2004 |
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guanYIN - tempi di DONNE, Galleria Salal in Roma, Italy |
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2004 |
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She, The Art Season gallery in Beijing, China |
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2004 |
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Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA (solo) |
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2004 |
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Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo) |
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2004 |
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo) |
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2004 |
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Me, Me, Me, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China |
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2004 |
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Making Faces: The Death of the Portrait ( Je t’envisage: La disparition du portrait) at the Musée de l'Eysée in Lausanne, Switzerland |
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2004 |
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In Translation: The Effects of Cultural Ambiguity, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery in Atlanta, USA |
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2004 |
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Grotesque Reality, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea photographs from "DUPLICATION" series |
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2004 |
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Mix-Ed, Sherman gallery in Sydney, Australia |
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2004 |
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REASON AND EMOTION, Biennale of Sydney in Sydney, Australia |
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2004 |
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Chinese New Photography, International Center for Photography in New York, US |
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2004 |
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Chinese Contemporary Photography, The Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery in New York, US |
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2004 |
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Globalia, Frauen Museum in Bonn, Germany |
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2004 |
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disCONNEXION, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA (solo) |
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2003 |
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Split: Woman in Dislocation' at the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum in New York, US |
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2003 |
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CHINE(S) - VideoArt & Experimental Cinema from China & Taiwan' at LightCone in Paris, France |
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2003 |
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Chinese Maximalism' at Millennium Art Museum in Beijing, China |
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2003 |
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Together with Migrants, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China |
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2003 |
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Chinese Maximalism, UB Art Gallery in Buffalo, U.S.A |
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2003 |
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Contemporary Chinese Art, Kristianstads Konsthall in Kristianstad, Sweden |
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2003 |
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Cara a Cara, Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal |
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2003 |
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Global Detail, Noorderlicht Photo Festival in Ja Groningen, Netherlands |
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2003 |
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Les Rencontres d’ '92 Arles, Festival Arles'94, Arles, France |
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2003 |
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'The American Effects 94, Whitney Museum of Art in New York, USA |
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2003 |
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Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou in Paris, France |
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2003 |
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Spatial Narrative-Contemporary Asian Photography, Japan Society in New York, US |
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2003 |
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Roma Photo Festival in Rome, Italy |
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2002 |
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Dislocation, 2nd PingYao International Photo Festival, Shanxi Province, China (solo) |
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2002 |
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China Avantgarde, Lee Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo) |
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2002 |
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Re-interpretation, A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
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2002 |
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Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA |
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2001 |
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Xing Danwen's Work, Galerie du Château, Nice, France (solo) |
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2001 |
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93 Mega Wave-Towards a New Synthesis '94, 1st YOKOHAMA TRIENNIAL, Yokohama, Japan |
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1999 |
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BEIJING-The Revolutionary Capital, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK |
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1997 |
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In Sight, SOHO Photo Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
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1994 |
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With Chinese Eyes, Gallery Grauwert, Hamburg, Germany (solo) |
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Public Collection |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Progressive Corporation, USA; JGS Foundation, New York; Estella Collection, New York; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA; ICP, International Center for Photography, New York; the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; Groupe Lhoist, Belgium; Dr. Sigg Collection, Switzerland; UBS, Union Bank of Switzerland; George Pompidou Center, Paris; FNAC / Fonds National d'art Contemporain, France; The Red Mansion Foundation, London; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou |
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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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2005 |
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Chinese Art “Develop the reality of China: On Xing Danwen’s Artistic Practice”, Gu Zheng, Beijing. |
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2005 |
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Le Monde “Objectifs Chinois”, by Michele Champenois, Paris. |
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2004 |
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Art in America “Young Beijing”, by Jonathan Napack, New York. |
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2004 |
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Le Monde “Galeries – Regard de Chine”, by Genevieve Breerette, Paris. |
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2004 |
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New York Times “Like a Bird in Flight: Capturing Today’s Chinese Culture in Transition”, by Holland Cotter, New York. |
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2004 |
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Nouveaux Regards Photographie “Xing Danwen: Urban Fiction / France Duplication /disCONNEXION”, by Christian Orsatelli, Paris. |
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2004 |
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exhibition catalogue ‘Interview’ Between Past and Future – New Photography and Video from China, by Lisa Corrin Smart Museum of Art / University of Chicago / ICP / Steidl Publishers. |
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2004 |
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exhibition catalogue “disCONNEXION”, Biennale of Sydney EMOTION & REASON, by Shinyi Yang, Sydney. |
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2004 |
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Chinese Art “Insulation – the Wonder of Electronical Garbage and the Composition of Xing Danwen”, by Shinyi Yang, Beijing. |
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2003 |
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Art in America "Report from China", by Richard Vine, New York. |
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