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Lives and works in Beijing, China
2012
Pavillon for the London Olympics, collaboration with Herzog and de Meuron, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2008
Collaborated on design for Bird’s Nest, Beijing National Stadium for 2008
Summer Olympics
1994
Founded China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
1993
Returned to China
1983
Attended Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1981-93
Lived in New York, NY
1978
Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
1957
Born in Beijing, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Fragments, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC
Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Ai Weiwei: Perspectives, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Ai Weiwei, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2011-2012
Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals, Somerset House, London, UK; Pulitzer Fountain Central Park, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2011
Ai Weiwei Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Asia Society, New York, NY
Ai Weiwei: Art/Architecture, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland
2010
A Few Works from Ai Wei Wei, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Beijing, China
The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London,
England
Ai Weiwei: Barely Something. Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn. (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE - 2010 CE).
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2009
So Sorry. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Ai Weiwei: According to What? Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993. Three Shadows
Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
Ai Weiwei. Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2008
Under Construction. Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation,
Cambelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Go China! Ai Weiwei. Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Ai Weiwei. Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2007
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Traveling Landscapes. AedesLand, Berlin, Germany
2006
Fragments. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2004
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent,
Belgium
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
1988
Old Shoes - Safe Sex. Art Waves Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Asian Foundation, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Art + Press, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Public: Collective Identity: Occupied Space, Contact Festival, Toronto, Canada
2011
Contemporary Clay: Group Exhibition, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Camulodunum, Inaugural exhibition at Firstsite, Colchester, England
Poetry Without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
The last freedom: From the pioneers of Land-Art of the 1960s to nature in cyberspace, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
2010
Radical Conceptual. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
Beg Borrow and Steal. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL.
2009
Double Happiness. A Belgian Chinese dialogue on contemporary
art. Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, Belgium
The China Project. Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2008
OUT THERE: Architecture Beyond Building. Biennale Architecture, 11th
International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Half-Life of a Dream. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan
Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
5th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions. Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. The
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive,
Berkeley, USA
Map Games: Dynamics of Change. Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary. Museum of Arts and Design, New
York, NY
Reconstruction # 3. The Artists Playground. Sudeley Castle,
Gloucestershire, UK
China. The City exp(l)osed. Institut Francais d'Architecture & du
Patrimoine, Paris, France
Delirious Beijing. PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition Iberia Center for
Contemporary Art. Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
RED Aside: Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection. Fundacio
Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
The Real Thing. Contemporary Art from China. Institut Valencia d'Art
Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2007
EI - Entity Identity - Beijing Series. Western Concepts - Chinese Drafts.
Stedelijk Museum s' Hertogenbosch, MB 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros
Collection. CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
Inspired by China - Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese
Traditions. Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Branded and on Display. Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, KS
China Now. Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Get It Louder. SOHO Shangdu, Beijing, China
Something New Pussycat. Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Energies – Synergy. Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium
Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis. Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg.
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Contemporary Art Exhibitions of Kogo Art Space. Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese
Contemporary Art. Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves. Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Art from China - Collection Uli Sigg. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
China Welcomes you... Desires, Struggles, New Identities. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
The Year of the Golden Pig - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg
Collection. Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland
Money. Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, China
Forged Realities. Universal Studios, Beijing, China
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
We are the future. (Project). 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Centre Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Branded and on Display. Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
A Continuous Dialogue. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2006
Art in Motion - Chinese Contemporary Art meets BMW Art Cars.
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
This Is Not For You - Sculptural Discourses. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Detours. Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China. Eric Arthur
Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
CHINA NOW - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs / Art in times of change.
Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg.
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
MoCA Envisage / Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity.
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Zones of Contact. 15th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Altered, Stitched and Gathered. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, NY
China Power Station I. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China.
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Misleading Trails. Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg;
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Boyden Gallery,
St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD
Cityscapes 'Beijing Welcomes You'. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie
Fotografien von Ai Weiwei. Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
A Continuous Dialogue. Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Inspired by China - Contemporary Furniture makers Explore Chinese
Traditions. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
China Contemporary. Architecture, Art and Visual Culture. Netherlands
Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Black and Blue. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Antique Modernity - Breaking Traditions. Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2006 Beaufort Outside. Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium
China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Between Past and Future -
New Photography and Video from China. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA
2005
The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Misleading Trails. Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Convergence at E116'/N40. Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography. Tennis Palace
Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg.
Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
1st Monpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France
Cina. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists. Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Herzog & de Meuron. An Exhibition. Tate Modern, London, UK
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US.
University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
No 250. An Exhibition. Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog &
de Meuron. Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004
Silknet - Emerging Chinese Artists. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Persona3. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
Le Printemps de Chine. CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. David
Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence, USA
Piss Off. Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Misleading Trails. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. John Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video. Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions. Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China.
Museum of Contemporary Art Printemps Chicago and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Modern Style in East Asia. Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung. Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
2003
New Zone - Chinese Art. Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Strange Heaven. Contemporary Chinese Photography. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic Junction. Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art. Lianyang
Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Cement - Marginal Space in Contemporary Art. Chamber Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002
China - Tradition und Moderne. Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Art from a Changing World. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, Norway
1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
TAKE PART II. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
TU MU. Young Chinese Architecture. Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany
TAKE PART I. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000
Fuck off. EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups. BizArt, Shanghai, China
Our Chinese Friends. ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität
(in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar,
Germany
1999
Innovations Part I. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
d'APERTutto. 48th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Modern China Art Foundation Collection. Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
Concepts, Colors and Passions. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China
1998
Double Kitsch: Painters from China. Max Protetch, New York, NY
1997
A Point of Contact. Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art. Daegu Art Culture Hall, Daegu, Korea
1996
Begegnung mit China. Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1995
Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen. Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany
Change-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition. Goteborg Museum, Goteborg, Sweden
1993
Chinese Contemporary Art - The Stars 15 Years. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989
The Stars: Ten Years. Hanart Gallery, Hongkong
The Stars: Ten Years. Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1987
The Star at Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art. Fairbank Center for East
Asian Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1986
China's New Expression. Municipal Gallery, New York, NY
Avant-Garde Chinese Art. Albany University Art Museum, New York, NY
1980
The second Star Exhibition. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1979
The first Star Exhibition. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Kent Logan Collection, Vail, CO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Saatchi Collection, London, England
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate, London, England
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Awards
2011
Time Magazine’s List of ‘100 Most Influential Figures of 2011’
Wall Street Journal ‘Innovators of the Year’ Award
Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation Award for Courage
SELECT LITERATURE
Adrià, Miquel, Alberto Campo Baeza, Kurt Forster, Zaha Hadid, Davina Jackson and Jong-Kyu Kim. 10x10 2. London: Phaidon, 2007.
Ai, Weiwei. Ed. Ai Weiwei: Beijing 10/2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 ltd., 2005.
Ai, Weiwei. “The Multiple Predicaments and Upturns of Chinese Contemporary Art.” In
Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
Ai, Weiwei. The White Cover Book. Beijing: Red Flag Books, 1995.
Ai Weiwei, Aaron Betsky and Charles Merewether. Ai Weiwei. London: Albion Gallery, 2008.
Ai, Weiwei, Chen Weiqing and Nataline Colonnello. Ai Weiwei: Fragments 2006. Beijing:Galerie Urs Meile in collaboration with Timezone 8, 2006.
Ai Weiwei, Gao Minglu, Nataline Colonnello and Paul Donker Duyvis. Li Zhanhyang: Rent Collection Yard. Beijing/Lucerne: Galerie Urs Meile, 2008.
Ai, Weiwei and U. Grosenick. “All the Arts are the Same—and Different.” In China Art Book. The 80 most renowned Chinese artists. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2007.
Ai, Weiwei, Hua Tianxue and Feng Boyi. Fuck Off. Shanghai: Eastlink Gallery, 2000.
Ai, Weiwei and Eduard Kögel. Fake Design in the Village. Berlin: Andesland, 2007.
Ai, Weiwei, Camille Morineau and Nataline Colonnello. Energies-Synergy. Belgium: Foundation De Elf Lijnen, 2007.
Ai Weiwei and Karen Smith. Ai Weiwei: Illumination. New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 2008.
Ai Weiwei, Philip Tinari and Peter Pakesch. Ai Weiwei. Works 2004 – 2007. China Galerie Urs Meile, 2007.
Ai, Weiwei, J.P. Van der Meiren, Beatrice, Leanza and Carole Lauvergne. Ai Weiwei.
Ghent: Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.
Ai, Weiwei and Xu Bing. The Black Cover Book. Beijing: Red Flag Books, 1994.
Ai, Weiwei and Zeng Xiaojun. The Grey Cover Book. Beijing: Red Flag Books, 1997.
Art Basel Conversations. China: New Opportunities in the Global Art Arena. National Art Museum of China, September 12, 2006. Germany: Hatje Cantz and Art Basel, 2006.
Ammer, M. “2007 Ai Weiwei. Fairytale Performance.” In Documenta Kassel 16.06—23/09 2007. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.
Bernell, R and Ai Weiwei. “Ai Weiwei with Robert Bernell.” Interview in Chinese Art at the End of the Millenium. [Clark, J. Ed.] Hong Kong: New Art Media ltd., 2000.
Brewinska, M. New Zone. Chinese Art. Warsaw: Zacheta National Gallery of Art, 2003.
Brewinska, M. “New Zone. Chinese Art.” In New Zone Chinese Art. Warsaw: Zacheta National Gallery of Art, 2003.
Buergel, Roger M. and Ruth Noack. Documenta 12. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.
Cavalera, Fabio. Il Manager dei bagni pubblici (e alter storie di vita cinese). Milan: Rizzoli, 2007.
Chaos, Y. Chen and Brian Droitcour. Eds We Are Your Future. 2nd Moscow Biennale.
China: John Isaacs Books in Association with Art Star Books, 2007.
Clark, John and Hans van Dijk. Modern Chinese Art Foundation. Belgium: Osst-Vlanderen, 1999.
Clark, John Ed. and Robert Bernell. Chinese Art at the End of the Millenium. Hong Kong: Art Media Limited, 2000.
Clark, J. and Hans van Dijk. Modern Chinese Art Foundation. Belgium: Provincieraad, 1999.
Colonello, N. “Fragments Dialogue.” In Fragments Beijing 2006 Ai Weiwei. Beijing/Lucerne: Galeries Urs Meile, Timezone 8 Ltd., 2006.
Cram, G. and D. Zyman. “Interview with Ai Weiwei.” In Shooting Back. Vienna: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007.
Dijk, H. v, J. Noth, A. Schmid, et al. China Avantgarde. Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1993.
Feng, Boyi. “Ai Weiwei. Ming-Style Furniture 1999 Installation. In The First Guangzhou Triennial – Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art [1990-2000].
[Wu Hung, Huangsheng anf Feng Boyi. Eds.] Guangzhou/Chicago: Guangdong Museum of Art/Media Resources, 2002.
Fibicher, B. “Ai Weiwei.” In Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
Gong, Mingguang. Art in Motion. Shanghai: Shanghai Shuhua, 2006.
Goodman, Wendy. “Great Room: A Dissident Did Our Guesthouse.” New York, October 30, 2011.
Groom, S. “The Real Thing.” In The Real Thing. Contemporary Art in China. New York: Abrams, 2007.
Guangdong Museum of Art. An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization. Guangzhou: Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005.
Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guo Xiaoyan. Guangdong Museum of Art: An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization. Guangzhou: Lingnan Fine Arts, 2005
Hua Tianxue, Ai Weiwei, Feng Boyi. Eds. Fuck Off. Shanghai: Eastlink Gallery, 2000.
Jansen, G. “Seismic Shifts in ‘Grand Narratives:’ Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves.”
In Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves. [Rhee, W. Weibel, P. Jansen, G. Eds.] Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2007.
Jodidio, P. “Fake Design.” In Architecture in China. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.
Lauvergne, C. “Renaissance.” In Ai Weiwei. Ghent: Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.
Leanza, B. “Interval – From Dabeiyao to Dabeiyao. In Ai Weiwei. Ghent: Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.
Lü Peng, Yi Dan. A History of China Modern Art 1979-1989. Hunan: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1992.
Mami, Kataoka, Charles Merewether and Matsubara Hironori. Ai Weiwei: According to What? Japan: Mori Art Museum and Tankosha Publishing Co., ltd, 2009.
Merewether, Charles. Ai Weiwei: Under Construction. Australia: University of New South Wales Press in association with Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and Campbelltown Arts Center, 2008.
Merewether, Charles. “Ai Weiwei.” In Zones of Contact. Sydney: Biennale of Sydney, 2006.
Merewether, Charles. Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.
Merewether, Charles and Ai Weiwei. “Changing Perspective.” Interview in Ai Weiwei.
Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.
Morineau, C. “Tradition, Expantion, Exile Individual Paths in Chinese Contemporary Art.”
In Energies – Synergy. Oudenburg: Fondation De Elf Lijnen, 2007.
Napack, J. “Ai Weiwei.” In Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.
Neidhofer, A. “Images of Reality. Forms of Realism and Expression in Chinese Contemporary Art.” In Art in Motion. [Gong Mingguang. Ed.] Shanghai: Shanghai Shuhua Publsihing House, 2006.
Niermann, I. “Ai Weiwei. The Materials of Ai Weiwei.” In China Welcomes You…Desires Struggles, New Identities. [Pakesch, P. Ed.] Cologne: Verlag der Buchhand, 2007.
Ochoa Foster, Elena and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Eds. Ai Weiwei: Ways Beyond Art. London: Ivory Press, 2009.
Palazzoli, D. Cina. Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea. Milan: Skira Edittore, 2005.
Pollack, B. “Ai Weiwei.” In China Art Book. The 80 most renowned Chinese artists. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2007.
Shin Yong, Kim, D. A point of contact – Korean, Chinese, Japanese contemporary art. Korea: Taegu Art & Culture Hall, 1997.
Siemons, Mark and Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei: So Sorry. Munich: Prestel, 2009.
Smith, Karen, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bernard Fibicher. Ai Weiwei. London/New York: Phaidon, 2009.
Smith, Karen. “Ai Weiwei.” In The Real Thing. Contemporary Art in China. [Groom, S. Ed.] New York: Abrams, 2007.
Smith, Karen. Nine Lives. The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China. Switzerland: Scalo, 2005.
Tiffin, S. “Ai Weiwei. Redefined Anarchy.” In The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. [Seear, L. and Raffel, S. Eds.] Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2006.
Van den Bussche, W. “Ai Weiwei.” In 2006 Beaufort. 2e Tiennale d’art contemporain sur mer. Ghent: Borgerhoff & Lamberights, 2006.
Van der Meiren, J.P. “Ai Weiwei.” In Ai Weiwei. Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.
Van der Zijpp, Sue-an and Mark Wilson. Ai Weiwei. Netherlands: NAi Publishers, 2008.
Vine, Richard. New China. New Art. New York: Prestel, 2008.
Yap, Chin-Chin. “A Handful of Dust.” In Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003.
[Merewether, C. Ed.] Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.
Yap, Chin-Chin. and Ai Weiwei. “Conversations. Ai Weiwei with Chin-Chin Yap. In Works: Beijing 1993-2003. [Merewether, C. Ed.] Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.
The China Project. Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009.
SELECT PRESS
2012
Camille, J.J. “At Home with Ai Weiwei.” Art in America, January 2012.
Osnos, Evan. “Ai Weiwei: At Home, In Absentia.” NewYorker.com, January 27, 2012.
BBC News, “Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds Bought by Tate,” March 5, 2012.
Kepler, Adam. “Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron to Design Serpentine Pavilion”,
The New York Times, February 7, 2012.
Pulver, Andrew. “Berlin 2012: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry – review”, The Guardian, Feb 13, 2012.
Brown, Mark. “Ai Weiwei and Beijing stadium architects to make Serpentine pavilion”, The Guardian, February 7, 2012.
Crow, Kelly. “The Artist: He Pushes”, The Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2012.
2011
Crow, Kelly. "The Art of Resistance." Wall Street Journal Magazine, November 2011.
Knight, Christopher. "Art Review: Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animal Heads/Zodiac Heads' at LACMA." Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2011.
Barbier, Laura. "Circle of Animal Heads." Domus, June 2011.
Davis, Ben. "Chinese Officials Accuse Ai Weiwei of Tax Evasion, Whie U.S. Museums Are Criticized for Partnering With China." ARTINFO, My 23, 2011.
Vine, Richard. “Ai Weiwei Still Detained, Rears Heads in NY.” Art in America, May 5,
2011.
Rovzar, Chris. "Giant Animal Heads by Ai Weiwei Unveiled at Plaza Hotel Fountain." New York Magazine, May 4, 2011.
Pollack, Barbara. "Crossing the Line in China." Artnews, May 2011.
Bowie-Sell, Daisy. "Ai Weiwei Public Sculpture Opens in New York, But Where is the
Artist?" The Telegraph, May 2, 2011.
Klayman, Alison. “Crackdown on Ai Weiwei Extends to Family, Friends, and Associates.”
PBS Frontline, April 19, 2011.
Davis Ben. "1,001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei" Protesters Wouldn't Stand For Chinese
Oppression." ARTINFO, April 18, 2011.
Sydell, Laura. "Art and Consequence: A Talk with Controversial Artist Ai Weiwei." NPR,
April 16, 2011.
Vergne, Philippe. "Join Me in Protest of Ai Weiwei's Arrest." ARTINFO, April 15, 2011.
Davis, Ben. "Amid Chinese Reports That Ai Weiwei Has Confessed Guilt, a Global
Protest Is Planned and Blackjack Players Remember Their "Guru." ARTINFO, April 14, 2011.
Lloyd, Beth. "Prominent Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Detained and Missing." ABC News,
April 4, 2011.
Tan. Clarissa. "Ai Weiwei Points to a Bigger Picture." The Spectator, April 14, 2011.
Davis, Ben. "Ai Weiwei Faces Strange New Accusations in China as Supporters Rally in
Hong Kong: The Latest Developments." ARTINFO, April 11, 2011.
Davis, Ben. "Diplomat Blasts China as Ai WeiAwei's Disappearance Becomes an
International Incident." ARTINFO, April 5, 2011.
Griffin, Kevin. "Canada Must Join Call for Release of Artist Ai Weiwei: VAG Curator."
Vancouver Sun, April 5, 2011.
Branigan, Tania. "Ai Weiwei: France and Germany Lead Calls for Artist's Release." The
Guardian, April 4, 2011.
Davis, Ben. "Ai Weiwei Arrested in Beijing, Prompting International Outcry." ARTINFO,
April 4, 2011.
Sharp, Rob. "Arts Community Unites for the Release of Dissident Ai Weiwei." The
Independent, April 4, 2011.
_______. “Ai Wei Wei Willing to Go to Jail.” CNNGO.com, March 15, 2011.
_______. “Ai Weiwei’s New Art Installation Expected to Tour US.” The Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2011
_______. “Ai Weiwei’s Shanghai Art Studio is Torn Down Without Interference.” Global Times, January 12, 2011.
_______. “China Artist Ai Weiwei’s Shanghai Studio Demolished.” BBC News Asia
Pacific, January 12, 2011.
Osnos, Evans. “Ai Weiwei and the Art of Demolition.” The New Yorker, January 12,
2011.
Wong, Edward. “Chinese Authorities Raze an Artists Studio.” The New York Times,
January 12, 2011.
Peers, Alexandra. “Whitewashing the Art World: What’s Behind the Climate of
Censorship.” The New York Observer Culture, January 11, 2011.
2010
Secher, Benjamin. “Ai Weiwei’s Map of China: setting a new benchmark.” Guardian.uk.co, October 12, 2010.
Dorment, Richard. “Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Tate Modern, review.” Telegraph, “October 11, 2010.
Higgins, Charlotte. “People power comes to the Turbine Hall: Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds.” Guardian.co.uk, October 11, 2010.
Searle, Adrian. “Tate Modern’s sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand.” Guardian.co.uk, October 11, 2010.
Gayford, Martin. “Ai Weiwei Interview for Tate Modern Unilever Series.” Telegraph, October 5, 2010.
Clark, Garth. “Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE – 2010 CE.” Art Asia Pacific, September – October, 2010.
Burns, Charlotte and Georgina Adam. “Ai Weiwei recreates stolen bronzes in Brazil.”
The Art Newspaper, (web only) September 28, 2010.
“Ai Weiwei.” Whitewall, Spring, 2010.
Osnos, Evan. “It’s Not Beautiful.” New Yorker, May 17 – 23, 2010.
Baker, Kenneth. “Ai Weiwei: Sculptural Pileup of meaning.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2010.
“Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Transforms the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.” Artdaily.org, May, 2010.
Pilling, David. “Lunch with the FT: Ai Weiwei.” Financial Times.com, April 23, 2010.
The Editors. “Google or China: Who Has More to Lose?” The New York Times, March 23, 2010.
Branigan, Tania. “Ai Weiwei: I have to speak for the people who are afraid.” The
Guardian, March 18, 2010.
Evans, Tom. “Activist: China trying to silence critics.” CNN, March 17, 2010.
Ventura, Catherine. “Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So.” Huffington Post, March 17, 2010.
Ng, David. “Artist Ai Weiwei makes rare U.S. appearance to talk about digital activism.” Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2010.
Scott, Megan K. “Twitter working on Chinese registration page.” The Washington Post, March 15, 2010.
Thimm, Katja. “Detail und große Geste.” Der Spiegel, March 15, 2010.
Oster, Shai. “Activist’s Test China’s Promises to Open Up.” The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2010.
Hill, Amelia. “Tate Modern Turbine Hall to host China’s Warhol.” Guardian, March 5, 2010.
Kelley, Jeff. “Ai Weiwei. Haus der Kunst, Munich.” Artforum, March, 2010.
Wong, Edward. “Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China.” The New York, Times, January 19, 2010.
Anderlini, Jamil. “Chinese dissident’s ‘unknown visitors.’” Financial Times, January 15, 2010.
Gill, Chris. “Artist, Activist and social campaigner—meet the man brutally assaulted by Chinese Police.” The Art Newspaper, January 10, 2010.
Cembalest, Robin. “A Dealer with Ideas.” Art News, January, 2010.
“Ai Weiwei.” Art Asia Pacific, Almanac 2010.
2009
Frazier, David. “Ai Weiwei: According to What?” ArtAsiaPacific, November-December, 2009.
Grube, Katherine. “Ai Weiwei Hospitalized After Beating by Chinese Police.”
ArtAsiaPacific, November-December, 2009.
Grube, Katherine. “Ai Weiwei Hospitalized After Beating by Chinese Police.”
ArtAsiaPacific, November-December, 2009
Hickley, Catherine. “Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens China Criticism:
Review.” Bloomberg.com, October 14, 2009.
“Eroffnung der Ai Weiwei-Austellung ‘So Sorry.’” derStandard.at, October 12, 2009.
Grube, Katherine. “Ai Continues Activism Against China; Government Responds.”
ArtAsiaPacific, September-October, 2009.
Frazier, David. “Ai Weiwei’s Year of Living Dangerously.” Art in America, September, 2009.
Birmingham, Lucy. “Who is Ai Weiwei?” ArtInfo, August 10, 2009.
Ai Weiwei. “Censors can’t keep up with the web.” ArtAsiaPacific, July-August, 2009.
Grube, Katherine. “Ai Weiwei Challenges China’s Government Over Earthquake.” ArtAsiaPacific, July-August, 2009.
Hille, Kathrin. “Bloggers Celebrate Breaching Green Dam.” Financial Times, July 2, 2009.
Chen, Aric. “Super Studios.” Wallpaper, June, 2009.
Baeker, Angie. “Sichuan Earthquake Anniversary.” ArtAsiaPacific, May-June, 2009.
Oster, Shai. “The Collector: Ai Weiwei.” The Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2009.
Elegant, Simon. “Ai Weiwei: Interview Transcript.” Time Magazine, May 12, 2009.
Shen, S.L. “The Danger of Counting the Dead.” UPI Asia.com, April, 2009.
Deemer, Aaron. “Ai Weiwei.” The New York Times, March 14, 2009.
“Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983—1993.” Art Review, March, 2009.
Barboza, David. “Artist Defies Web Censors in a Rebuke of China, The New York Times, March 19, 2009.
Manaugh, Geoff. “Ai Weiwei: Surgeon of Space.” Phillips Art Expert, February 17, 2009.
2008
Harris, Gareth. “Big bubbles are no trouble for Ai Weiwei.” The Art Newspaper, December 3, 2008.
Thea, Carolee. “Making Everything: A Conversation with Ai Weiwei.” Sculpture Magazine, December, 2008.
Kelley, Jeff. “Look Back. Jeff Kelley on Ai Weiwei.” Art Forum, September, 2008.
Cooke, Rachel. “Cultural Revolutionary.” The Observer, July 6, 2008.
Vine, Richard and Ai Weiwei. “The Way We Were, The Way We Are.” Art in America,June, 2008.
Keller, Sean. “Bidden City.” Art Forum, Summer, 2008.
Jasper, Adam. “Critical Mass: Ai Weiwei.” Art Review, May, 2008.
Pollack, Barbara. “Ai Weiwei, ‘Illumination.’” Time Out New York, April 10, 2008.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show/Ai Weiwei: ‘Illumination.’” The Village Voice, April 9, 2008.
Meyer, James. et al. “Art and Its Markets: A Roundtable Discussion.” Art Forum, April, 2008.
Pasternack, Alex. “Reluctant Return for a Beijing Provocateur.” The New York Sun, March, 7 2008.
Toy, Mary-Anne. “The Artist as an Angry Man.” The Age, January 19, 2008.
“Global Summit.” Times Magazine, Winter, 2008.
2007
Pollack, Barbara. “Art’s New Superpower.” Vanity Fair, December, 2007.
Ai, Weiwei. “Production Notes: Ai Weiwei.” Art Forum, October, 2007.
Coggins, David. “Ai Weiwei’s Humane Conceptualism.” Art in America, September, 2007.
Harris, G. “Ai Weiwei Condems Beijing Olympics.” The Art Newspaper, September 1, 2007.
Ansfied, J. and Hewitt, D. “Architects on the Ramparts of the Chinese Design
Revolution. Draftmen’s Contract.” Newsweek, August 13, 2007.
Melvin, S. “Framing Photos as Art in China.” Herald International Tribune, August 8, 2007.
Tinari, Philip. “A Kind of True Living.” Art Forum, Summer, 2007.
Cotter, Holland. “Asking Serious Questions In a Very Quiet Voice.” The New York Times, June 22, 2007.
Cripps, Charlotte. “Explosive energy from the East.” The Independent, London, March 19, 2007.
Hosch, A. “China’s Renaissance Man.” Architectural Digest, March, 2007.
Politi, G. and A. Bellini. “Planet China: Ai Weiwei.” Flash Art, January-February, 2007.
Maerkle, A. “In Search of the Real Thing.” Art Asia Pacific, No. 53, 2007.
Merewether, C. “Ai Weiwei. The Freedom of Irreverence. Art Asia Pacific, No. 53, 2007.
2006
Pollack, B. “A Bowl of Pearls, a Ton of Tea, and an Olympic Stadium.” Artnews, October, 2006.
Spalding, D. “Ai Weiwei.” Artforum International, September, 2006.
Jun, Jun. “No Frontiers – The Artwork of Ai Weiwei.” ARTCO, May, 2006.
Colonello, N. “Figments of Fragments. Ai Weiwei on his first Chinese mainland solo
exhibition.” That’s Beijing, April, 2006.
Colonello, N and S. Huang. “Fragment – Conversation between Xiao Ling and Ai
Weiwei.” Art Today, No. 2, 2006.
Lu Heng-Zhong. “An Interview with Ai Weiwei, One of the Architects of Jinhua
Architecture Park, Zheiang.” Time + Architecture, No. 1, 2006.
2004
Hart, S. “2008 Beijing Olympics. Innovative Architecture ready to change the Face on an ancient city.” Architectural Records, No. 3, 2004.
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review; Ai Weiwei.” New York Times, October 1, 2004.
Colonnello, Nataline. “Beyond the Checkmate.” Art Asia Pacific, Spring, 2004.