BORN 1967 Born in Xi'an, China Lives and works in Bejing EDUCATION 2000 MFA Photo and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1992 BFA Fine Art (Painting), Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 1982-1986, Fine Art (Painting), Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an, China SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 disCONNEXION/duplication, the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia Urban Fiction, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada 2004 disCONNEXION, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA dis+dup, Gow Langsford gallery, Sydney, Australia Urban Fiction, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Private Lives, URBIS, Manchester, UK TOTALSTADT/BEIJING CASE, ZKM, Karisruhe, Germany C On Cities, the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy New Urban Realities, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Code:Blue-Confluence of Currents, New Media Center/Beijing Cubic Art Center, Beijing, China the ISEA 2006 / ZeroOne Festival, San Jose, California, USA Imaging a Global Culture, Toronto Photography Festival, Subway ST. Patrick Station, Toronto, Canada CHINA TRADE, International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada On the Edge, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Massachusetts / Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA Fantasy Landscapes, Asia House, London, UK Between Past and Future, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany / Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA MADE in CHINA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA 2005 CONVERGENCE at E116/N40, Beijing Off Biennale, Beijing, China Urban / Culture, CP Biennale, Museum Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia City of Dreams, The Red mansion Foundation, London, UK Traces and Omens, the 12th Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands The WALL, Millennium Art Museum/Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Albright-Knox Art Gallery/UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, USA In the Line of Flight, the 2nd Beijing International New Media Arts, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China Unspeakable Happiness, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico city, Mexico On the Edge, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA Between Past and Future, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Re-VIEWING the CITY, the 1st Guangzhou Photo Biennale, the Guangdong Museum of Art, Gunagzhou, China 2004 Grotesque Reality, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea GRAVITY, the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Die Chinesen - Contemporary Photography and Video in China, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Strange Planet: the Effects of Cultural Ambiguity, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery / Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA REASON & EMOTION, the Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China, The International Center for Photography & Asian Society, New York, USA and The Smart Museum of Art & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Je t'envisage: La disparition du portrait, the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland 2003 Chinese Maximalism, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal Global Detail, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Ja Groningen, the Netherlands Les Rencontres d'Arles Festival, Arles, France the American Effects, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Spatial Narrative, Japan Society, New York, USA CHINE(S) - VideoArt & Experimental Cinema from China & Taiwan, LightCone, Paris, France 2002 Reinterpretation-A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA 2001 Mega Wave-Towards a New Synthesis, 1st Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan the China Family, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania 1999 BEIJING-The Revolutionary Capital, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the 20th Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago / Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover / Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, USA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum of American Art, USA The Progressive Corporation, USA JGS Foundation, USA Estella Collection, USA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA ICP, International Center for Photography, USA The Smart Museum of Art, USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA Groupe Lhoist, Belgium Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland George Pompidou Center, France The Red Mansion Foundation, UK Guangdong Museum of Art, China AWARDS 2003 Best Publishing Project Award from Les Rencontres d'Arles Festival, Arles, France 1998-2001 Grant of Asian Cultural Council, New York, NY 1998-2000 Chairman's Grant of School of Visual Arts, New York, NY PUBLICATIONS 2006 a Personal Diary of Chinese Avant-garde Art in 1990s, a book by SCALO