Qiu Zhijie

1969 Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China

1992 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of ZhejiangAcademy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art, CAA),Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts , D ean and professor of the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, professor of the School of Intermedia Art at China Academy of Art

As an artist, QiuZhijie is known for his calligraphy and ink painting, photography, video, installation and performance works. His art is representational of a new kind of experimental communication between the Chinese literati tradition and contemporary art, social participation and the power of self-liberation ofart.

As an art writer, QiuZhijie published several books include: On Total Art , The Image and Post Modernism , Give Me a Mask , The Limit of Freedom , What's Important Is the Site , ThePhotography after Photography , Reveal , The Ignorant , The Experimentalist , and The Loser . Catalogs of his work include: Talking to Things , Breaking Through the Ice , The Shape of Time , Archeology of Memory , etc.

He was also the curator of the first video art exhibition in China in 1996, and curated a series of “Post-sense Sensibility” exhibitions during 1999 and 2005 promoting the young generation of Chinese artists. In 2012 he was the chief curator of the 9 th Shanghai Biennale “Reactivation”, in 2017 he is the chief curator of the Chinese Pavilion of the 57 th Venice Biennale.

He was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize administered by the Guggenheim Foundation due to his work of The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Project. He was awarded “Artist of the Year” of the Award of Art China in 2009, and was nominated for the same award in 2016.

His works are collected by major museums and institutions around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum in NYC , the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Foundation by Christian Dior, Ullens Foundation, Neuer Berliner Kunstrerein, and the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Talbot Rice Gallery - The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

2021 Market Writing ,SanyuanliMarket, Beijing

2019 Mappa Mundi , Ullens Contemporary Art Center, Beijing

2018 Living Writing , 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2018 Qiu 's Notes on the ColorfulLantern Scroll , Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

2017 JourneywithoutArrivals ,Center of Contemporary Art Geneva , Geneva

2017 JourneywithoutArrivals, Van Abbe Musuem, Eindhoven

2015 The Big Project, Fujian Art Museum, Fuzhou

2015 Ink Remix: Contemporary art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong , Canberra Museum and Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, the UNSW Galleries in Sydney, and the Museum of Brisbane

2015 So, we'll go no more a roving , Café Florian project, Venice

2013 The Unicorn and The Dragon , Fondazione QueriniStampalia, Venice

2012 Blueprints , Witte De With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam

2009 Twilight of the Idols , Haus of World Culture, Berlin

2009 Breaking Through The Ice , Ullens Contemporary Art Center, Beijing

2008 A Suicidology of The Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge 1 - Ataraxic ofZhuang Zi, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022Bangkok Art Biennale

2019 Leaving theEcho Chamber ,Sharjah Biennial 14

2018 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World , Guggenheim, New York

2016 BenTudes artistes chinois dans la turbulence des mutations " , LV foundation, Paris

2016 Architecture of life , Berkeley Art Museum

2016 Language Pavilion, M21 Museum, Shanghai

2015 All The Worlds Future , 56th Venice Biennale, Venice

2014 How to (…) ThingsThatDon'tExist , 31st São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo

2013 INK ART: PastasPresent in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2013 Play: Recapturing Radical Imagination , Göteborg Biennale, Göteborg

2009 Whatis Coming , ChinesePavilion of 53rd VeniceBiennial, Venice

2008 A Question of Evidence , Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Vienna

2007 The Real Things: Contemporary Chinese Art , Tate Liverpool

2005 International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama

2004 Technology of Visible, 5th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum

2003 Tower of Babel , Mainz City Museum, Germany

2002 25th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo

1993 New Art In China , Post-1989 , City Hall, Hong Kong