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Yin Xiuzhen    (Chinese, 1963)

  Yin Xiuzhen - Collective Unconscious (Installations)
Yin Xiuzhen
Collective Unconscious 2007
 
  Yin Xiuzhen - Collective Unconscious (detail) (Installations)
Yin Xiuzhen
Collective Unconscious (detail) 2007
 
  Yin Xiuzhen - Collective Unconscious (detail) (Installations)
Yin Xiuzhen
Collective Unconscious (detail) 2007
 
  Yin Xiuzhen - Enjoy (Photographs)
Yin Xiuzhen
Enjoy 2002
 
  Yin Xiuzhen - Enjoy (Photographs)
Yin Xiuzhen
Enjoy 2002
 
  Yin Xiuzhen - Enjoy (Photographs)
Yin Xiuzhen
Enjoy 2002
 
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Biography
1963 Born in Beijing, China
1985 - 1989 majored in Oil Painting at the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, awarded a B.A. degree when graduated in July, 1989
1989 Graduated from the Capital Normal University, Department of Fine Arts, Beijing
1997 ART/OMI foundation New York, USA
1998 Visiting Arts South East Asian artists' residency program (visiting arts, London), UK
1999 Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
2000 UNESCO/ASCHBERG bursary laureate
2000 China contemporary art award (CCAA)
lives and works in Beijing, China

Exhibitions
2009 YIN XIUZHEN, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (solo)
2009 Art Map, CAOS (Siri Industrial Arts Centre), Terni, Italy
2008 Yin Xiuzhen : INTROSPECTIVE CAVITY , ULLENS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Beijing, China (solo)
2008 Go China, ASSEN-GRONINGEN Drents Museum-Groninger Museum
2008 Our Future: the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China Shanghai Bienniale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2008 Die Wahren Orte, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Beijing, Germany
2008 Orients sans frontières, de Beyrouth à Pékin sur les traces de la croisière jaune, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2008 ALL-INCLUSIVE - A TOURIST WORLD, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M.
2008 COMMUNE, Galerie WELTECHO, Chemnitz, Germany (solo)
2007 52. La Biennale di Venezia, Pavilion of the PR China, (together with Shen Yuan, Kan Xuan, Cao Fei), Curator: Hou Hanru (solo)
2007 FACING REALITY, MuMok, Wien
2007 CHINA NOW, Works from the Essl Collection, cobra museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands
2007 GLOBAL FEMINISMS, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
2007 Everyday miracles, La Biennale di Venezia, Pavillon China
2007 International Airport Terminal 1, Quality Street, fine art fair frankfurt
2006 News, Beijing Commune, Beijing 798, China
2006 Yin Xiuzhen and Song Dong: Restroom M / Restroom W, Gallery at Redcat, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2006 International Airport Terminal 1, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 CHINA NOW - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Kunst der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2006 Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2006 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
2005 In and Out or In-between: N kinds of space Displacement, SOKA Contemporary space, Beijing, China
2005 On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
2005 Art-Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO Headquarters, France
2005 2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France
2005 Follow me! Chineses Contemporary Art at the Threshold of the Millenium, Chinese contemporary art show, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 The Wall, Chinese contemporary art exhibition, Beijing, China
2005 Convergence at E116°/N40°, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute European Contemporary China
2004 Fashion Terrorism - Installations with video and photos, Town Hall, Friedrichshafen, Germany (solo)
2004 Future Cities, Contemporary Art Museum, Hamilton, Canada
2004 2004 Sydney Biennale, Art Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, Asia Society and Museum, New York, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art (touring exhibition)
2004 26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003 Time After Time: Asian a Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2003 Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 New Art zone, Beijing, China
2003 Present | Future, Artissima Turin, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES (solo)
2003 BERLIN I BEIJING (former PRÜSS & OCHS), Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003 'SARS TIMES: song dong and yin xiuzhen', video installations event, ISE Foundation, New York, USA (solo)
2002 Beijing Opera, ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY at The Depot, in coop. with ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING (former PRÜSS & OCHS), Sydney, Australia (solo)
2002 'chopsticks: song dong and yin xiuzhen', videos, installations and event, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
2002 2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2002 Four Corners, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
2002 Here and Now, Buero Friedrich, Berlin, Germany
2002 2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2002 Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, USA
2001 'Clothes Airplane - Made in Siemens', Siemens art project 'What are they doing here?', An artwork made by Yin xiuzhen in collaboration with the employees of STDC, Beijing, China (solo)
2001 Asian Fine Arts Berlin, Prüss & Ochs Gallery Berlin, Germany
2001 SUITCASES & CIE, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING (former PRÜSS & OCHS), Berlin, Germany (solo)
2000 Building materials, 200 Gertrude front Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
1999 Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie Weimar
1999 Food for Thought: Chinese Characters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999 Transcience: Chinese Art at the end of the 20th Century, The Smart Museum Chicago, IL
1998 20th Century Femina, , China National Gallery Beijing, China
1998 Die Hälfte des Himmels, Frauen Museum Bonn
1998 Brain – Exhibition of Installations, Manchester Craft Centre, UK (solo)
1997 Hua-Beijing. Kunstkommunikation China-Korea, Beijing, China
1997 Against the Tides, Bronx Museum of the Arts New York, NY
1997 Kleider trocknen. Freilandaktion, Shuanglianting Huayanli Beijing, China
1997 Eßtisch. Installation, Ruine der Künste Berlin, Gremany
1997 Installations, Sun Clothes, Shuanglianting Hua Yan Li, Beijing, China (solo)
1997 Installations, Dining table, Ruine der Künste, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1996 Chinese Avant Garde Art, Q-Galerie Tokyo, Japan
1996 Installations and Multimedia, Hall for Contemporary Art Beijing, China
1996 Ruined City, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China
1995 Yin Xiuzhen, Installations and Multimedia, Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China
1995 Installations and Multimedia, Hall for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (solo)
Public Collections:
The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Annie Wong Art Foundation
Smart Museum
Groninger Museum
Mori Art Museum

Literature
2007 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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