Sui Jianguo  (Chinese, 1956) 

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Sui Jianguo Biography
1956   Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province
1984   Graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Shandong Institute of Fine Arts
1989   Graduated from the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Beijing
1994   UNESCO - Aschberg International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture
1989 - 1997   Associate Professor, Sculpture Department, CAFA
1997   Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne University Travel Grant for Young Asian Scholars
2000   Teaching at Ensba, Paris as a Guest Professor three months
  Currently lives in Bejing, China / Vit à Beijing (Chine).
  Director of the Sculpture Department for the Académie des Beaux Arts. It is thanks to him that abstract and conceptual sculpture have been accepted by the chinese authorities. Surpassing China's borders, he is probably one of the most promising sculptures of the 21st century.The red dinosaur – a symbol of imperialist China, like communist China- with the engraved door on the chest mentions ‘Made in China’; it is a glance toward plastic toys from the start of the Chinese economic flight, but definitely a powerful symbol of an antiquated China moving toward being contemporary.
  Throughout the 1960s, everything was 'Made in Japan', in the 1970s 'Made in Taiwan', and in the 1980s 'Made in China'. The fabrication of finished products based on models and imported raw materials has become the economic norm of emerging countries. This economic international capitalistic model has helped to accelerate stimulating an economic transformation of an archaic and impoverished China. The transplantation of the ‘Consumer Culture’ at such an astronomical scale from the chinese population has made China the biggest unknown in the world’ Proposed by Sui Jianguo, extract from the exhibition catalogue ‘Paris-Pékin’, Espace Pierre Cardin, October 5-28, 2002.
Selected Exhibitions
2010   Erotic, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China (group)
2009   Inaugural Exhibition, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China (group)
2008   Ships at Sea, C-Space, Beijing, China
2008   Hunting Birds, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
2008   Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
2008   New World Order, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
2008   Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon – Works on Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
2008   Sui Jianguo: Revealing Traces, JoyArt, Beijing, China (solo)
2007   Sui Jianguo, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
2007   Fashion Accidentally, MOCA Taipei, Taipei
2007   Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2007   Metamorphosis – The Generation of Transformation in Chinese
2007   Barcelona – Paris – Pekin, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
2007   Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2007   Absolute Images II, Arario Gallery, New York, USA
2007   ! CHINA NOW !, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
2007   MADE in CHINA – The Estella Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Louisiana
2007   China Now, Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
2007   RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA
2006   Speeding Up – Sui Jianguo Solo Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
2006   Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2006   CHINA TRADE, Centre A – Vancouver International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC
2006   Jiang Hu, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA, Los Angeles, USA
2006   ABSOLUTE IMAGES: Chinese Contemporary Art, Arario Chungcheongnam-do, Cheonan-si, Korea
2006   Under the Radar: Chinese Contemporary Art, Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA
2006   Double-sound Cracker, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
2004 - 2006   Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Asia Society, International Center for Photography, New York, USA, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2005   Mahjong – Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Germany
2005   Xianfeng – Chinese avant-garde, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
2005   Beijing International Contemporary Art Exhibition
2005   Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China
2005   Renovation – Relations of Production, Long March Foundation, Beijing, China
2005   Sui Jianguo—Sleep of Reason, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2004   Playing with CHI Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
2004   What is Art—Two Wrongs Can Make One Right, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China
2004   Gods Becoming Men, Firssiras Museum, Athens, Greece
2004   The First Nominative Literation, Exhibition of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
2004   Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
2004   Now—Conceptual Estate in Shanghai, Shanghai Show Center, China
2004   Image China, Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, France
2004   Le Moine and Le De’mon, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
2004   Busan Sculpture Project, Busan, Korea
2004   Light as Fuch, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
2004   Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2004   Art on the Beach, organized by Galerie Enrico Navarra and Hanart T Z Gallery, St. Tropez, France
2004   “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Asia Society, International Center for Photography, New York
2004   Lili Waiwai, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
2003   An Opening Era – 40th Anniversary of the Founding of CAFA, CAFA
2003   Open Sky, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai
2003   Left Wing, Left Bank Plaza, Beijing
2003   Second Reality, Apple Place, Beijing
2003   Red Memory, 798 Art District, Beijing
2003   Today’s Chinese Art, Shijitan, Beijing
2003   Open Time, NAGC
2003   2003 Beaufort – Triennial Contemporary Art, Oostende
2003   Contemporary Sculpture – China Korea Japan Osaka Museum, Japan
2003   Chinese Art Today, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing
2002   Mirage, Su Zhou Art Museum, Suzhou
2002   Guang Zhong Triennial, Guang Dong Art Museum
1999   Clothes Viens Studying, Passage Gallery, Beijing (solo)
1999   Clothes Viens Studying, Passage Gallery, Beijing (solo)
1997   Meeting the Shadow of 100 Years, Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne (solo)
1996   Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Hannart, Hong Kong (solo)
1995   Deposit and Fault, New Delhi Cultural Research Centre, India (solo)
1994   Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
1994   Memory Space - Works of Sui Jianguo, Beijing (solo)
1994   Sui Jianguo Sculpture, CAFA (solo)
1994   Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Hannart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
  Collections
  Private collections in Beijing, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Italy, Australia, Japan, Scotland and the USA.
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
1998   Zhu Wenfan, A Book of Outstanding Personalities from Shandong Art College, Shandong Pictorial, No. 276, Issue 10, p. 52
1998   Huang Du, Sculpture: The Extension of Idea and Terminology, Artlife, Jan/Feb
1998   Robert Leonard, Sui Jianguo/Li Gang, Art/Text, p. 60
1997   Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Sculpture in Beijing, Australian Art Monthly, November, No. 105
1997   Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Asian Artnotes, Australian Art Monthly, September, No. 103
1997   An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture by Sui Jianguo, Beijing Weekend, No. 297, No. 298
1997   Sui Jianguo’s Works, Fine Art Research, No. 3
1997   Ma Qin Zhong, Portrait of the Artist Sui Jianguo, Artlife, July/August
1997   Sui Jianguo’s Works, Fine Art Observation, Vol. 7
1997   Youichi Maki, China Avant-Garde, Chinese Library (Tokyo), Vol. 10
1997   Karen Smith, Exhibition Review, Asian Art News, Autumn
1997   Academic Sculpture Selection, Fine Arts Literature, Vol. 8
1997   Entertainment, China Daily, September 6, No. 6
1996   Shu Jiang, The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Art Gallery Magazine
1996   Hanart Presents Sui Jianguo, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Vol. 2, No. 1
1995   Susan Dewar, Sui Jianguo and the Sculptural Dilemma, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Winter
1995   Mo Shi, Taking Upon Himself the Pressures of Life - An Interview from the Artist’s Workshop, Gallery, No. 3
1995   A Discussion on Five Modern Sculptors Work, Sculpture, Vol. 2
1994   The Spiritual Meeting : Non-movement Competition in Asian Olympic Games, Ming Bao Weekend, October 9
1994   Sui Jianguo’s Sculpture, Contemporary, Vol. 5 No. 3