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Born in Datong, Liaoning Province, China
1987
Graduated from Chinese Academy of Fine Arts
1987-present
Independent artist in Beijing
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2008
Wang Jin: Dream of China, Designer's Gallery, Köln, Germany
Food and Shelter, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Spring Training: Beijing 2008, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007
Wang Jin, Friedman Benda, New York, U.S.A.
The Quiet Gesture: Recent Chinese Art, Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ
The First Today's Documents - Energy: Spirit, Body, Material. Today Art Museum, Bejing, China
2006
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
2005
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, University of Buffalo Art Galleries, and the Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China.
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands.
2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, U.S.A.
Le Printemps de Chine, CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France.
Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2003
Together with Migrants, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China.
2002
Paris-Pékin, Place Cardin, Paris, France.
The Long March - A Walking Visual Display - On the Wall Hang the Swords, Which are Upside Down, Jing Gang Shan, China.
Triennale of Chinese Art - The Landscape Here is Beyond Compare, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
2001
My Tooth, Shandong, China.
2000
EXPO 2000 - My Tooth, Hannover, Germany.
Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie/Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany.
1999
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, SF MoMA, San Francisco, U.S.A., Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico.
Art 30 Basel, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
TRANSIENCE: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art; University of Chicago, Illinois; University of Oregon Museum of Art; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, U.S.A.
100%, Performance in Beijing, China.
POLYPHENOLRENE, Bow Gallery, Beijing, China.
APERTO over ALL: The 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
1998
Ink Art Released, National Gallery of Art, Beijing, China.
A Chinese Dream, Shen Lu, The site of the Ming Imperial Tombs, Beijing, China.
Museum City Fukuoka 1998 - Forward to the Victory, Memorealism, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, U.S.A.; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.
Eight Chinese Artists. Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
A Chinese Dream, Beihai Park, Beijing.
A Chinese Dream, The Forbidden City, Beijing.
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
W2.Z2: Multimedia Slide Art, CIFA Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
A Chinese Dream, The Long Corridor in the Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing, China.
Dream of China '97, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China.
1996
Ice, 96 Central China (Performance), Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Reality: Present and Future. International Art Palace, Beijing, China.
Chinese Art Festival (Performance), Munich, Germany.
1995
Quick Stir-frying RMB (Performance), Jianxin Hotel, Xicheng District, Beijing, China.
Fried Land, The Dong'AnMen Night Market (Performance) Wangfujing Dajie, Beijing.
Knocking at the Door (21 cash bricks) (Performance), The Wall of the Forbidden City, Beijing.
To Marry a Mule. (Performance) Laiguangying Village, Chaoyang District, China.
1994
Beijing-Kowloon (Performance) Beijing-Kowloon Railroad, Daxing County, Beijing, China.
Fighting the Flood - Red Flag Canal (Performance) Lin Xian, Henan Province, China.
Investment Guide - The Last Bus (Performance), Beijing Railway Station, China.
Endorse a Declaration - Insect Spray (Performance) The Wall of the Forbidden City, Beijing.
1993
Knocking at the Door (drawing US dollars on the Bricks of the Wall of the Forbidden City) (Performance), Site-specific work, Beijing, China.
1992
100 Straw Portraits, Works: March 1992. The Beijing Youle Amusement, Beijing, China.
1986
Trend - Ink Body. The Beijing International Art Center, Beijing, China.
1985
Advanced Chinese Youth Art - Pure Brightness. The National Gallery, Beijing, China.
Collections
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
Miriam and Guy Ullens Collection, Belgium
Logan Collection, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ, USA
Selected Bibliography
Fei Dawei; Debailleux, Henri-François; Decrop, Jean-Marc; Chang Tsong-zung. Paris - Pékin. Chinese Century: Paris, 2002.
Fibicher, Bernhard and Frehner, Matthias ed. Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips. Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; the International Center of Photography: New York; and Steidl Publishers: Gottingen, Germany, 2004.
Wu Hung. Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the 20th Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture. Museum Beelden aan Zee. The Hague, The Netherlands, 2005.