born in 1962 in Shantou (China)
LIVES AND WORKS IN BEIJING
1984Graduated from the print department of Guangzhou Fine Art Academy
1990Formed “ Big Tail Elephant Group” with Lin Yilin, Liang Juhui
2007Formed “Xijing Men” with Tsuyoshi Ozawa and Gim hongsok
Exhibitions (selected)
2012Prepared: Strategies for Activist (solo) - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
K - Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.
K - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Cina Rinascita Contemporanea, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
Glass Factory - Art in the New Financial Era - Iberia Art Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Timelapse - Switzerland China Media Art Exhibition - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
Chen Shaoxiong: Ink Things - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS.
Up Close, Far Away at the Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
Post-American LA - 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2008
Free Zone China, BSI Art Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Orient Without Borders, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
REBOOT-The Third Chengdu Biennale,Chengdu,China
TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction, MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne
Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Critical Mass – Kritische Masse II, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
All About Laughter-Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
International Ink Biennale of Shenzhen: Ink,Life,Taste-To Sugar Add Some Salt, He Xiangning, Museum of Art,Shenzhen
Infiltration: Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
China - Between Past and Future, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Mirror Worlds––New video art from Asia,IMA-Institute of Modern Art,Australia
MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, USA;
Kunst Halle Bern, Switzerland;
Guangdong Museum of Art, China;
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation. Switzerland;
Uli Sigg collection, Switzerland;
China Minsheng Bank collection, China;
Haudenschild Collection, USA;
