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2002
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Chen Shaoxiong: Biography
1962 Born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China  
1990 Formed Big Tail Elephant Group with Lin Yilin and Liang Juhui  
Currently Lives and works in Guangzhou/Beijing  


 
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Collective Memory, Art & Public - Cabinet PH, Geneva, Switzerland  
     
2007

Visible and Invisible, Known and Unknown, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Chen Shaoxiong, Barbara Gross Galerie Munich Germany

 
     
2006

Chen Shaoxiong, Art & Public - Cabinet PH, Geneva, Switzerland
Ink City on Paper, The CourtYard Gallery, Beijing
Let¡¯s See Who¡¯s Lucky, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai

 
     
2005 Double Landscape, Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Ink City: New Works by Chen Shaoxiong, The CourtYard Annex, Beijing
 
     
2003 Anti-C.S.X., Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou  
Group Exhibitions
2008

Orient Without Borders, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris
Refabricating City, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture

 
     
2007

One Fine Day, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Tomorrow, Samuso: Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
City_Net Asia 2007, Seoul Museum Of Art, Korea
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture From Japan, Long March Space, Beijing/ Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Tomorrow Now¡ªWhen Design Meets Science Fiction, Mudam ¨C Mus¨¨e d¡¯Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Critical Mass ¨C Kritische Masse II, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
All About Laughter-Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

 
     
2006

International Ink Biennale of Shenzhen: Ink, Life, Taste-To Sugar Add Some Salt, He Xiangning Museum of Art,Shenzhen
Alllooksame? Art China Japan Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Turin, Italy
China Power Station: Part 1, Serpentine Gallery, London
Summer Holiday, Boers-Li Gallery
Infiltration: Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Guangdong-Tokyo, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
China-Between Past and Future, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Mirror Worlds¨C¨CNew Video Art from Asia, IMA-Institute of Modern

 
     
2005

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China Victoria and Albert Museum, London
City, Open Door! Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen
The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial: BEYOND-an Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
The 3rd Tirana Biennale: Go Inside, National Art Gallery, Tirana, Albania
Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Montpellier-China: 1 (The 1St Montpellier Biennale of Chinese Contemporary Art), Montpellier, France
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya: A Suitcase from Paris to Grosny, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Zooming into Focus, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
China! China!! China!!! Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
In-Between Realities, Shanghai Gallery of Art Three on the Bund, Shanghai

 
     
2004

Making Differences, Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Zooming into Focus, University Art Gallery San Diego State University, U.S.A./ Shanghai Art Museum, China
Stopover Hong Kong, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Light As Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004, The National Museum of Art, Norway, Oslo
A l1ouest du sud de l1est, Center of Contemporary Art, S¨¨te/Villa Arson in Nice, France
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, ICP International Center of Photography, New York

 
     
2003

The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of ¡°Post-Planning¡±, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre of Contemporary Art, France
10th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland
Everyday-Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Danmark
50th International Art Exhibition-Z.O.U. la Biennale di Venezia

 
     
2002

Pause-Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
New Internationalism, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Danmark
Golden Harvest, the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
Moist-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, The Art Museum of China Millennium Monument, Beijing
Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art-Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Urban Creation ¨C Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
Synthetic Reality, East Modern Art Centre, Beijing

 
     
2001

New Media Art of China, Loft New-Media Art Space, Beijing
City Slang, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen
Chinese Photography Now, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
Living in Time, National Gallery Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

 
     
2000

Our Chinese Friends, Bauhaus-University and ACC Gallery, Weimar
Individual and Society in Art, Guangdong Museum of Art
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific 2000 Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia
Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Pusan Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea
Fuck off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
2nd Festival International d¡¯Arts Multimedia, Urbains Belfort, France

 
     
1999

Cities on the Move 4,5,6,7: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London; Bangkok; The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video Art, Contemporary Art Center, Macau
Art For Sale, Shanghai
9th International Photography Biennial, Image Center, Mexico
8th Biennial of Moving Images, Saint-Gervais, Geneva

 
     
1998

Breach-, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Transmediale¡¯98, 11th Video Festival, Podewil, Berlin
Cities on the Move 2,3: CAPC, Bordeaux; PS1, New York
16th World-Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Inside Out, PS1, New York, San Francisco MoMA, USA
Big Tail Elephant, Kunsthalle, Bern

 
     
1997

Another Long March: Chinese Conceptual Art, Breda, The Netherlands
Demonstration of Video Art¡¯ 97 China, The Gallery of Center Fine Art Academy, Beijing
Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna
New Asia, New City, New Art, Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall

 
     
1996 Phenomenon and Image Video Art, China Fine Art Academy, Hangzhou  
     
1994 No Room, No.14 SanYu Road, Guangzhou  
     
1993 Third Exhibition of Big Tail Elephant Group, Red Ants Bar, Guangzhou  
     
1992 Big Tail Elephant Group, A Joint Exhibition, Guangdong, Broadcast/Television University, Guangzhou  
     
1991 Exhibition of Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangzhou No.1 Workers¡¯ Palace, Guangzhou  
Chen Shaoxiong: Bibliography
2007

Holmes, Rosalind."Cityscapes, Crazy Consumption, and Collective Memory: Chen Shaoxiong's Mimetic Reality. "Yishu March 2007: 128-131.
Chiu, Melissa.¡±Title Unknown¡° Art AsiaPacific xx 200x: xx-47.
Vill, Maria. ¡°Chen Shaoxiong.¡±