Xu Bing
Book from the Ground, 2007
ink on paper, 29.7 cm x 35.6 cm, signed by the artist.
Produced by Xu Bing Studio, New York. Edition of 199.
Starting Bid $350
Xu Bing
1955 Born in Chongqing, China
1957 Moved to Beijing
1977 Entered Printmaking Department, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1987 MFA Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1990 Moved to USA
Foundation Genius Award
Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
lives and works in New York
Exhibition:
South East Asian Contemporary Auction, Oct 27 - Oct 27, 2007
Borobudur Auction
China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People's Republic, Jul 14 - Aug 31, 2007
Deborah Colton Gallery
Landscape and Memory II, May 24 - Jul 7, 2007
Haines Gallery
Geng Jianyi: Book without Words, Sep 7 - Oct 21, 2006
Chambers Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
2006 Brush and Ink: the Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2006 Fever Variations: The Sixth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2005 Text Me, Sherman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Body Temperature, China Millennium Monument Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China & Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 INK, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
2005 On the Edge, Wellesley College, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Stanford University, USA
2005 The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, UK
2004 East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2004 Twenty-sixth São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
2004 Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
2004 Xu Bing & Gu Xiong, Museum of London, Ontario, Canada
2004 Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
2004 The Glassy Surface of a Lake, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, USA
2004 Xu Bing in Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2004 The Well of Truth, Sala La Gallera, Valencia, Spain
2004 Where Does the Dust Collect Itself? National Gallery and Museum, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2004 Tobacco Project by Xu Bing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2003 Xu Bing, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, UK
2003 Xu Bing, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China
2003 Book from the Sky, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
2002 Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
2002 Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
2000 National Gallery Prague
1999 Bates Museum of Art ME
1999 Banner Project, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1999 Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints, The Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel
1999 Global Conceptualism; Points of Origin, Queens Museum of Art New York, NY
1998 Crossings, The National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Canada
1998 Site of Desire, Taipei Bienniale, Taipei Fine Art Museum Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Babylon Tower, New Museum of Contemporary Art New York
1998 The Wood Street Galleries Pittsburgh, PA
1997 Classroom Calligraphy, Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro Mallorca, Spain
1997 lost letters, Asian Fine Arts Berlin, Germany
1997 Die Anderen Mordernen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany
1997 Around Us, Inside Us. Continents, , Konstmuseet Boras, Sweden
1996 A Book From the Sky, University Art Museum Albany, NY
1995 Language Lost, Massachusetts College of Arts Boston, MA
