Miao Xiaochun: 1964 Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China 1989 Graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with MA Degree 1999 Graduated from the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany with MA Degree Actually professor at CAFA, works and lives in Beijing Selected group exhibitions: 2014 Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, USA Performance and Imaginations: Photography from China 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Translated Concussion Chinese New Media Art Techniques and Practice since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu Seeing the Unseen: Photography and Video Art in China Now, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA Metamorphosis of the Virtual 5+5: Digital Art Today, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China China Arte Brasil, OCA, Parque lbirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brasil 1 st Experimental Image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China Liquid Times, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Revisited Selected Video Works From 1 st Kiev Biennale, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Exhibition on Contemporary Digital Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2013 The 55 th Venice Biennale, The Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy Rewriting the Landscape, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea 1 st Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China Spectacle reconstruction Chinese Contemporary Art, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary Portrait of the Times 30 Years of Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Garden of Forking Paths Exploring Independent Animation, OCT Shanghai, China Move on Asia Video Art 2002-2012, ZKM, Karlshure, Germany @What New Contemporary Art from China, Arko Art Center of Arts Council Korea, Seoul Nothing to declare? World Maps of Art since 89, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Germany 2012 The 7 th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s, Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia The World of Soul: As Virtual Artistic Engineering, 1 st Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, B10 Art Center, Shenzhen, China Conceptual Renewal Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China Chinese Contemporary Public Art, Kassel, Germany The Unseen, The 4 th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey New Image after 2000, Enjoy Museum of Art, 798, Beijing, China Architecture China The 100 Contemporary Projects Reiss-Engelhorn Museum(REM), Mannheim, Germany Go figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture National Portrait Gallery and The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra and Sydney, Australia Passing Through Memory, Jinjihu Art Museum, Suzhou, China ARSENALE 2012, The 1 st Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine Photo España Image Anxiety, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2011 The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989(Art Worlds after 1989), ZKM, Germany The 54th Venice Biennale Future Pass, Venice, Italy New Horizon Contemporary Chinese Art, The National Museum of Australia Canberra, Australia Meta-Question Back to The Museum Per Se, Inauguration Exhibition of The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art Moving image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art
Museum, Shanghai, China Spectrum, Chinese Independent Animation, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China Verso Est. Chinese Architectural Landscapes, MAXXI, Rome, Italy Representation of Realistic Art The 5 th Chengdu Biennale 2011, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China Move on Asia The End of Video Art, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain New Age, New Media, exhibition tour in Ten Cities of China and Australia Dual senses" and "Dynamic views Contemporary Art Exhibition across the Taiwan Straits of 2011, NAMOC, Beijing; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (TMOA) A Decade of the Rabbit, White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia Magic Spaces, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 A Fresh Look at Chinese Landscapes, Galerie Moderne Chinesische Malerei des Museums für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany Mediators, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Negotiations The Second Today's Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Made in Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Reshaping History Chinart from 2000-2009, National Conference Center, Beijing, China DIGIFESTA Speed of Earth 2010 km/second, see, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea 2009 Beijing Time, Casa Asia, Matadero Madrid; Santiago Art Museum, Spain Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un/real, MoCa Shanghai, China Open Vision Chinese Contemporary Art, Czech National Gallery, Prague Next Nature, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Vistas Vision of U-City, Incheon International Digital Art Festival, Incheon, Korea Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam Social-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Dream Machine, The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Spectacle to Each His Own, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei 2008 Images in the night, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan MoMA, Korea
Up: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum Mediations, Poznan Biennale, Poland China: Construction Deconstruction, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil Go China New World Order, Present day Installation Art and Photography, Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands Re-Imagining Asia, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK China Design Now, 2008-2010 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA China Gold, Museum Maillol, Paris, France Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008 International Media Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 55 Days in Valencia, Institut Valencia d Art Modern, Spain 2007 China Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands Energy Spirit Body Material 1st Today s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA Floating New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Thermocline of Art New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany New Directions from China China New Media Art, Plug.in, Basel, Switzerland Contemporary Photography from China. Zhuyi! China!, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2006 Media City Seoul 2006, The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, the Philippines China now Art at a time of transformation, Essl Museum, Austria Totalstadt: Beijing case, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany New Urban Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2005 Scapes: The Century and Paradise, 2nd Chengdu Biennale, China Mahjong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, 2005-2009 Art Museum Bern, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria;UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive(BAM & PFA), Berkeley, California, USA; The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA Re-Viewing the City, Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China 2004 Between Past and Future New Photography and Video from China, 2004-2006, International Center of Photography and Asia Society, New York USA; Smart Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Spellbound Aura The new vision of Chinese Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan 2003 Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland Encounter, Museum of CAFA, Beijing; Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China Left hand, right hand A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Art Space, Beijing, China 2002 Urban Creation, The 4 th Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Media City Seoul 2002, The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea China Tradition and Modern, Ludwig Museum, Oberhausen, Germany Golden Harvest Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 1991 The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings, The National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China
Selected solo exhibitions: 2012 Miao Xiaochun: The Real in the Virtual, The Dennos Museum Center, MI, USA 2011 Limitless Miao Xiaochun, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China Out of Body, White Box Museum of Art, 798 Beijing, China Beijing Handscrolls, Guardini Foundation, Berlin, Germany Miao Xiaochun, Galeria Arsenał w Białymstoku, Poland 2010 Macromania, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany Miao Xiaochun Two Big Video Works, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2009 Miao Xiaochun, Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Index, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin Beijing, Beijing Miao Xiaochun-Microcosm, Arario Gallery, Beijing-New York-Seoul, 2009-2010 2008 The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO, USA Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm, Osage Galleries Singapore-Hong Kong Miao Xiaochun Microcosm, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin Beijing, Berlin, Germany 2007 The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia H 2 O A Study of Art History, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong H 2 O A Study of Art History, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin Beijing, Beijing; Berlin 2006 Urban Landscape, John Hope Franklin Centre of Duke University, USA A Birdview, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Image + Imagination, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong Viewpoint, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA 2004 Phantasmagoria Photographs by Miao Xiaochun, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA Miao Xiaochun: A Visitor from the Past, epsite Beijing-Shanghai, China 2002 Linger, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland 2001 From East to West and Back to East, Museum of CAFA, Beijing, China 1999 Kulturbegegnungen, Galerie Stellwerk, Kassel 1994 Miao Xiaochun, Beijing Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum 1992 Miao Xiaochun, National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China 1991 Miao Xiaochun: Recents Works, Beijing Art Museum 1988 Miao Xiaochun s Paintings, Gallery of CAFA, Beijing, China