Ai Weiwei

 

 

g, China, 1957. 

demy, 1978. Lived in NYC, NY, 1981-1993. 

 School of Design, 1983. 

ives and Warehouse, Beijing, China, 1994. 

Lives in Beijing, China. 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

1982  

 Foundation, San Francisco, California. 

1988  

 Shoes, Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, NYC, NY. 

2003  

 Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

2004  

 Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 

-Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium. 

 Miller Gallery, NYC, NY. 

2006  

ts, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China. 

2007  

ts, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 

2008  

, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. 

 Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea. 

 and Video Work ‘Fairytale’, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia. 

Ai Weiwei 
 
Born in Beijin
 
Education: 
Enrolled in Beijing Film Aca
Parsons
Returned to China, 1993. 
 
Founded China Art Arch
 

 

 

Asian

 

Old

 

Galerie

 

Kunsthalle

 

Caermersklooster

 

Robert

 

Fragmen

 

Fragmen

 

Illumination

 

Gallery

 

‘Through’

 

Ai 

 

Weiwei: Under Construction, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia. 

, Germany. 

 

 

2009   Haus der Kunst, Munich

 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

 

1980  

achusetts. 

Kong, Taipai, Taiwan, and Paris, France. 

n. 

1996  

 Ludwig Collection, Koln, Germany. 

1999  

ns Part I, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China. 

2000  

2003  

 Zone: Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. 

2004  

hotography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, 

 NY. 

generation: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art, 

 

2005  

 & de Meuron, Tate Modern, London, England. 

 Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography 

1979   The Stars First Exhibition, Beijing, China. 

 

The Stars Second Exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing, China. 

 

1986   China’s New Expression, Municipal Gallery, NYC, NY. 

 

Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York. 

 

1987   The Star of Harvard, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass

 

1989   The Star: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong 

 

1994   Contemporary Chinese Art, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Swede

 

Peter

 

Innovatio
d’Apertutto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. 

 

Fuck Off, Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai, China. 

 

2001   Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 

Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 

2002   China – Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany. 

 

New

 

Between Past and Future: New P
NYC,

 

Re
Williamstown, Massachusetts. 

 

Persona 3, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China.

 

Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 

 

Herzog

 

Between
and Asia Society, NYC, NY. 

 

Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. 

 

2006  

uburg/Vienna, Austria. 

15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. 

 

China Now: Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Klosterne

 

That is not for you – Diskurse der Skulptur, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. 

 

Art

 

Metamorpho
Tampere, Finland. 

 

China Welcomes You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Aus

 

We are the Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary

 

 in Motion, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. 

2007  

sis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, 

tria. 

 Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia.

 

 12, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. 

: The Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. 

 

 

 

221. 

 

Tinari, Philip, A Kind of True Living, ARTFORUM, Summer 2007, pp. 452-459. 

Cotter, Holland, Asking Serious Questions In a Very Quiet Voice, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22 June 2007, pp. E29-

 

7, pp. 118-125. 

 

 

 

SUN, 7 March 2008, p. 18. 

 

. 292-303. 

 

 

The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England. 

Documenta

 

2008   Reconstruction #3

 

Selected Bibliography 

Colonnello, Nataline, Beyond the Checkmate, ART ASIA PACIFIC, Spring 2004, pp. 52-58. 

Jun, Jun, No Frontiers – The Artwork of Ai Weiwei, ARTCO, May 2006, pp. 220-

Cripps, Charlotte, Explosive energy from the East, THE INDEPENDENT (London), 19 March 2007. 

 

 

E30. 

Coggins, David, Ai Weiwei’s Humane Conceptualism, ART IN AMERICA, September 200

Ai, Weiwei, Production Notes: Ai Weiwei, ARTFORUM, October 2007, p. 324. 

Pollack, Barbara, Art’s New Superpower, VANITY FAIR, December 2007, pp. 318-330. 

Pasternack, Alex, Reluctant Return for a Beijing Provocateur, THE NEW YORK 

Meyer, James, et al, Art and Its Markets: A Roundtable Discussion, ARTFORUM, April 2008, pp

Staff, Galleries – Chelsea: Ai Weiwei, THE NEW YORKER, 7 April 2008, p. 12. 

Baker, R.C., Best in Show/Ai Weiwei: ‘Illumination’, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 9 April 2008

ollack, Barbara, Ai Weiwei, ‘Illumination’, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 10 April 2008, p. 75. 

asper, Adam, Critical Mass: Ai Weiwei, ART REVIEW, May 2008, Cover, pp. 52-63

Vine,

, p. 56. 

. 

 Richard, and Ai Weiwei, The Way We Were, The Way We Are, ART IN AMERICA, June 2008, pp. 99-102. 

Boucher, Brian, Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, June 2008, p. 187. 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Farnsworth Art Museum, USA, Rockland
Ai Weiwei: Refutation, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Central
2017
Ai Weiwei: Mirror, FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium, Antwerp
Ai Weiwei, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, USA, South Loop
Ai Weiwei: Law of the Journey, Veletržní Palace, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Prague
Ai Weiwei: Maybe, Maybe Not, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem
Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, USA, National Mall
Ai Weiwei: Soleil Levant. Installation on the facade towards Nyhavn, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark, Indre by
Ai Weiwei: On Porcelain, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Turkey, Emirgan
Ai Weiwei, Massimo De Carlo, Milan / Belgioioso, Italy, Milan
Ai Weiwei: Arch, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Art in the Park, USA, Upper East Side
Ai Weiwei: Inoculación, Proa Foundation, Argentina, Buenos Aires
2016
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals, Crocker Art Museum, USA, Sacramento
Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Gold, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, USA, Tucson
Ai Weiwei 360, Royal Academy of Arts, UK, Mayfair
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Carnegie Museum of Art, USA, Pittsburgh
Ai Weiwei: Overrated, Haines Gallery, USA, Union Square
Ai Weiwei: Exaggeration, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki
Ai Weiwei at Cycladic, Museum of Cycladic Art, Greece, Athens
Ai Weiwei: translocation – transformation, Belvedere, Austria, Vienna
Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Nevada Museum of Art, USA, Reno
Ai Weiwei, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France, 4e
Ai Weiwei: #SafePassage, Foam Fotografie Museum, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Ai Weiwei: Libero, Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Italy, Florence
Ai Weiwei: Roots and Branches, Lisson Gallery, New York (Eldridge Street), USA, New York
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals Zodiac Heads, The Speed Art Museum, USA, Louisville
Ai Weiwei: Fondation, Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street), UK, Marylebone
Ai Weiwei: Laundromat, Jeffrey Deitch, USA, Soho
Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, USA, Chelsea
Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, Mary Boone Gallery, 5th Avenue, USA, Upper East Side
2015
Ai Weiwei: Ruptures, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA, Portland
Ai Weiwei: Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China, Beijing
Ai Weiwei, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, Chaoyang
Ai Weiwei: AB Blood Type, Magician Space, China, Chaoyang
Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy of Arts, UK, Mayfair
Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China, Beijing
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Gold, Phoenix Art Museum, USA, Phoenix
Ai Weiwei @ Helsinki, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland, Helsinki
Ai Weiwei: Lego Collection Points 2015, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark, Indre by
Ai Weiwei: LEGO Collection Point, Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA, Brooklyn
2014
Ai Weiwei: According to What, Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA, Brooklyn
Ai Weiwei: Evidence, Gropius-Bau, Germany, Kreuzberg
Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London (Bell Street), UK, Marylebone
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver
Ai Weiwei, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA, Chelsea
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, FOR-SITE Foundation, USA, Union Square
Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland, Lucerne
Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA, Palm Springs
Ai Wei Wei: In the Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, Wakefield
2013
Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA, Indianapolis
Ai Weiwei – Ordos, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France, Boissy-le-Châtel
Ai Weiwei – Baby Formula, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, Berlin
Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, Toronto
AI WEIWEI: Ordos, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France, Boissy-le-Châtel
Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA, Downtown Miami
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, Cleveland
2012
Ai Weiwei, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden, Stockholm
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, USA, Chelsea
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, USA, National Mall
Ai Weiwei : New York. 1983-1993, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Russia, Moscow
Ai Weiwei: Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals: Gold, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, USA, San Diego
Perspectives: Ai Weiwei, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, USA, National Mall
Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, USA, National Mall
Ai Weiwei, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, USA, Soho
Ai Weiwei: Rebars – Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland, Lucerne
Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, San Gimignano
Ai Weiwei: Forge, Mary Boone Gallery, 5th Avenue, USA, Upper East Side
Ai Weiwei – Forge, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, USA, Chelsea
Ai Weiwei: Rebar – Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China, Chaoyang
2011
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Somerset House, UK, London
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, AW Asia, USA, Chelsea
Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street), UK, Marylebone
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs, Asia Society and Museum, USA, Upper East Side
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA, Park La Brea
Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Kunsthaus Graz am Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria, Graz
Ai Weiwei: Art / Architecture, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Bregenz
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC – AD 2010), Victoria and Albert Museum, UK, South Kensington
Ai Weiwei: Louisiana Contemporary, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Humlebæk
Ai Weiwei: In New York – Photographs 1983-1993, Gropius-Bau, Germany, Kreuzberg
Ai Weiwei: Fairytale – 1001 Chairs, Olyvia Fine Art, UK, St. James’s
Ai Weiwei: Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, Taipei
2010
Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, USA, Union Square
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Museum of Contemporary Craft, USA, Portland
Ai Weiwei: The Unilever Series, Tate Modern, UK, Bankside
Ai Weiwei: Hurt Feelings, Christine König Galerie, Austria, Vienna
Ai Weiwei, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen
2009
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China, Chaoyang
Ai Weiwei: According To What?, Mori Art Museum, Japan, Minato-ku
Ai Weiwei: World Map, Faurschou Foundation Beijing, China, Chaoyang
Ai Weiwei: So Sorry, Haus der Kunst, Germany, Munich
2008
Ai Weiwei, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, USA, Chelsea
Ai Weiwei’s "Bowls of Pearls" 2007 at The Armory Show, March 27 – 30, 2008, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China, Chaoyang
AI WEIWEI, Gallery Hyundai, South Korea, Seoul
Ai Weiwei, The Groninger Museum, Netherlands, Groningen
Ai Weiwei, Albion, London, UK, Sloane Square
2007
Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland, Lucerne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Hope is Strong, Millennium Gallery, UK, Sheffield
HOUSE Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, USA, Amherst
The Fuck Off Generation: Chinese Art in the Post-Mao Era, Ethan Cohen, New York, USA, New York
De Calder à Koons, bijoux d’artistes. La collection idéale de Diane Venet, MAD, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, France, 1e
Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, USA, Saratoga Springs
2017
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Art Gallery, UK, London
Chinese Summer, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Norway, Oslo
Socially Engaged Art, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Japan, Chiyoda-ku
Soloceramica, C+N Canepaneri, Milan, Italy, Milan
RED ATTACK, Ethan Cohen, New York, USA, New York
Hansel & Gretel, Park Avenue Armory, USA, New York
Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, Chaoyang
Roland Flexner & Ai Weiwei, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Central
And what, for example, am I now seeing?, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France, Boissy-le-Châtel
In Print, Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street, New Zealand, Auckland
Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, USA, 57th Street
Go Tell It: Selections from MCASD’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, USA, San Diego
Red-Hot and Newly Acquired Recent Additions to the Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, Greensboro
Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine, Kiev
Wären Fluss und Meere Tinte…, Christine König Galerie, Austria, Vienna
Animals: Respect, Harmony, Subjugation, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Germany, Hamburg
Extra Bodies. The Use of the «Other Body» in Contemporary Art, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland, Zürich
Continua Sphères Ensemble, Centquatre, France, 19e
Immigrancy, Samson Projects, USA, South End
Recent Acquisitions, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen
Visionaire: Fashion, Art, and the Unexpected, Decker & Meyerhoff Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA, Baltimore
2016
Chinese Whispers: Recent Works from the Sigg und M+ Sigg Collections, Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland, Bern
Open House Selections from the John and Sue Wieland Collection, University of Kentucky Art Museum, USA, Lexington
Chinese Whispers: Recent Works from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, Bern
Megacities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, Back Bay
Towards a larger world, Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden, Malmö
Group Exhibition, Rennie Collection, Canada, Vancouver
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, M+, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wind and Art Don’t Care About Border, Metropolitan Art Society, Lebanon, Beirut
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, The Andy Warhol Museum, USA, Pittsburgh
Gardens of the World, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich
Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany, Berlin
Art From Elsewhere, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, UK, Bristol
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, Shinagawa-ku
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA, San Francisco
We Call It Ludwig. The Museum is turning 40!, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, Cologne
Facing the World: Self-Portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, UK, Edinburgh
Holiday Summer Group Show, Ibid Gallery, London, UK, London
Kneaded Knowledge. The Language of Ceramics, Kunsthaus Graz am Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria, Graz
Five / Fifty / Five Hundred, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy, Milan
Northern Land, Southern Seas, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok
Primary Structures and Speculative Forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, Sydney
Tudo Joia, Bergamin & Gomide, Brazil, Sao Paulo
2015
Self: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, USA, Upper East Side
Books Beyond Artists: Words and Images, IvoryPress, Spain, Madrid
When we share more than ever, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Germany, Hamburg
Go east, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, Sydney
Temporary Boundary, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium, Brussels
28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA, Union Square
The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Germany, Neu Ulm
Reshaping Tradition: Contemporary Ceramics from East Asia, Pacific Asia Museum, USA, Pasadena
The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to Now, The Whitworth Art Gallery, UK, Manchester
Risk, Turner Contemporary, UK, Margate
Ceramix, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Netherlands, Maastricht
Passage, Alexander Gray Associates, USA, New York
Après Eden: The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, France, 12e
A Brief History of the Future, Musée du Louvre, France, 1e
A New Dynasty – Created In China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Århus
Temporary Boundary, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France, Paris
DDW: Thing Nothing, Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands, Eindhoven
The Road Not Taken, Misa Shin Gallery, Japan, Minato-ku
Wind and Art don’t Care About Border, Metropolitan Art Society, Lebanon, Beirut
Mármakos: Ai Weiwei, Hu Qingyan, Li Zhanyang, Liu Ding, Not Vital, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland, Lucerne
2014
Artists for Artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, 526 West 22nd Street, USA, Chelsea
Conceal/Reveal: Making Meaning in Chinese Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, USA, Seattle
Trace: Performance and its Documents, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, Brisbane
Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, USA, Union Square
TIME::CODE, White Box, USA, Lower East Side
Lifelike, Phoenix Art Museum, USA, Phoenix
New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Bregenz
Focus Beijing – De Heus-Zomer Collection, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands, Rotterdam
15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award(CCAA), Power Station of Art, China, Huangpu
La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France, Avignon
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson: + Moon -, Christine König Galerie, Austria, Vienna
Beating around the bush Episode #3, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Netherlands, Maastricht
Joyride, Marlborough Broome Street, USA, New York
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, USA, Museum District
Mana Exposition, Mana Contemporary, USA, Jersey City
Beg, Borrow and Steal from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Taubman Museum of Art, USA, Roanoke
Beyond Stuff, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz am Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria, Graz
Secret Signs, Deichtorhallen, Germany, Hamburg
FIRE!, Venus Over Manhattan, USA, New York
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Vancouver
CORNUCOPIA, Parkett Editions, Switzerland, Zürich
2013
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA, Minneapolis
DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China, Beijing
“China China”, a group show of Chinese artists, PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine, Kiev
New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, Wong Chuk Hang
do it (outside), Socrates Sculpture Park, USA, Long Island City
55th International Art Biennale Venice 2013, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy, Venice
Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland, Basel
Lifelike, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, Austin
do it 2013 – A World Premiere for Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, UK, Manchester
SubRosa: The Language of Resistance, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, USA, Tampa
‘Pataphysics, A Theoretical Exhibition, Sean Kelly Gallery, USA, Chelsea
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, USA, Ft. Lauderdale
28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection, USA, Downtown Miami
Island, The Dairy Center for the Arts, USA, Boulder
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine, Kiev
Expression : A Philosophical Portrait of Humankind, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Central
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA, Palm Springs
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA, Palm Springs
built with love – [the] ideology department (or) ideological departure, mother’s tankstation, Ireland, Dublin
Alix Le Méléder – Wang Keping, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France, Paris
2012
No Borders, Arnolfini, UK, Bristol
No Borders: Contemporary art in a globalised world, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, UK, Bristol
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Kochi Biennale Foundation, India, Kerala
Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, USA, Midtown
Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week, Sperone Westwater, USA, Lower East Side
Persona 3, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA, Chelsea
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, USA, Minneapolis
Zoo, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada, Montreal
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, Serpentine Gallery, UK, Kensington
Sculpture Is Everything: Contemporary Works From The Collection, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, Brisbane
Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Australia, Paddington
PRIVACY, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt
Real Life Stories, KODE Art Museums of Bergen, Norway, Bergen
2011
Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, USA, Midtown
I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Prospect 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, USA, San Diego
MMK 1991 – 2011: 20 Years of the Contemporary, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, 1, Germany, Frankfurt
Art Parcours, Art Basel, Switzerland, Basel
World Beats: Global Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA, Minneapolis
Contemporary Clay, RH Gallery, USA, Tribeca
We are all Astronauts: Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller Reflected in Contemporary Art, Marta Herford, Germany, Herford
Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford, Lorne Street, New Zealand, Auckland
The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Wolfsburg
Relate, 34FineArt, South Africa, Cape Town
2010
Radical Conceptual, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, 1, Germany, Frankfurt
Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China, Beijing
State of Things: Exhibition for the Contemporary Art Exchange between China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, China, Dongcheng
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, Brisbane
2009
Ai Weiwei – Four Movements, Phillips London, UK, Mayfair
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt
A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, USA, Chelsea
The State of Things: Brussels/Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles, Belgium, Brussels
Santa’s Workshop Shanghai: Selected Works, Toys and Artists’ Editions, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China, Shanghai
2008
Accrochage, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland, Lucerne
Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China, Beijing
Material Terrain, Haines Gallery, USA, Union Square
Ai Weiwei, Albion, New York, USA, Upper East Side

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Ai Weiwei: Defend the Future, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • Ai Weiwei: Intertwine, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  • Ai Weiwei: Tradition and Dissent, Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Marbre, Porcelaine, Lego, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, 4e, Paris, France
  • Ai Weiwei: Trace, Skirball Cultural Center, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Year of the Ox, Pace Prints, 26th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
2020
  • Ai Weiwei: Year of the Rat, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Ai Weiwei: Boomerang, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2019
  • Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Roots, Lisson Gallery, London (Bell Street), Marylebone, London, UK
  • Circle Of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, The Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Ai Weiwei, Simões de Assis, Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
  • Ai Weiwei: Raiz, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
  • Ai Weiwei: Resetting memories, MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Ai Weiwei: Unbroken, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018
  • Ai Weiwei: Cao / Humanity, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Zodiac, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Fan-Tan, Mucem, Marseille, France
  • Ai Weiwei: Refutation, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, USA
2017
  • Ai Weiwei: Inoculación, Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Ai Weiwei: Mirror, FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Ai Weiwei: Arch, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Art in the Parks, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: On Porcelain, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Ai Weiwei, Massimo De Carlo, Milan / Belgioioso, Milan, Italy
  • Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Soleil Levant. Installation on the facade towards Nyhavn, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Maybe, Maybe Not, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
  • Ai Weiwei, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, South Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Law of the Journey, National Gallery Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
2016
  • Ai Weiwei: Fondation, Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street), Marylebone, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Laundromat, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (Wooster Str), Soho, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Roots and Branches, Lisson Gallery, New York (Eldridge Street), New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, Mary Boone Gallery, 5th Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals Zodiac Heads, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Libero, Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
  • Ai Weiwei: #SafePassage, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Ai Weiwei, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, 4e, Paris, France
  • Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: translocation – transformation, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Ai Weiwei at Cycladic, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
  • Ai Weiwei: Exaggeration, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • Ai Weiwei: Overrated, Haines Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Gold, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • 220th Anniversary of the National Gallery in Prague: Circle of Animals/ Zodiac Heads, National Gallery Prague, Kinský Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei 360, Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK
2015
  • Ai Weiwei: LEGO Collection Point, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Lego Collection Points 2015, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Ai Weiwei: Wooden Ball, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Gold, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  • Caochangdi: The studio and the community, Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei @ Helsinki, HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  • Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei: AB Blood Type, Magician Space, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (1st Space), Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Ruptures, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
  • Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, Chambers Fine Art, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Ai Wei Wei: In the Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
  • Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London (Bell Street), Marylebone, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: According to What, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Evidence, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2013
  • Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Downtown Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
  • AI WEIWEI: Ordos, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
  • Ai Weiwei: According to What?, AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • Ai Weiwei – Baby Formula, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
  • Ai Weiwei – Ordos, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
  • Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, Idaville, Indiana, USA
2012
  • Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, San Gimignano, Italy
  • Ai Weiwei: Rebars – Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Ai Weiwei: Rebar – Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei – Forge, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Forge, Mary Boone Gallery, 5th Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, Soho, New York, USA
  • Perspectives: Ai Weiwei, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • Ai Weiwei : New York. 1983-1993, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • Al Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street), Marylebone, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals: Gold, MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, San Diego, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
2011
  • Ai Weiwei: Louisiana Contemporary, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  • Ai Weiwei: Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC – AD 2010), V&A London, South Kensington, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: In New York – Photographs 1983-1993, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • Ai Weiwei: Fairytale – 1001 Chairs, Olyvia Fine Art, St. James’s, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  • According to Zhao Zhao: New Works, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: Art / Architecture, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
  • Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs, Asia Society and Museum, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Al Weiwie: Interlacing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street), Marylebone, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Somerset House, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, AW Asia, New York, USA
2010
  • Ai Weiwei, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Ai Weiwei: The Unilever Series, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, UK
  • Ai Weiwei: Hurt Feelings, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
2009
  • Art Basel Conversations | Premiere | Artist Talk, Oceanfront at Collins Park, Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Ai Weiwei: So Sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • Ai Weiwei: World Map, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei: According To What?, Mori Art Museum, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, Beijing, China
2008
  • Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) 2008 Exhibition, UCCA Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Ai Weiwei, Albion, London, Sloane Square, London, UK
  • AI WEIWEI, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
  • Ai Weiwei’s "Bowls of Pearls" 2007 at The Armory Show, March 27 – 30, 2008, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Ai Weiwei, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Ai Weiwei, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2007
  • Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Human Conditions of Clay, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, UK
  • Glasstress. Window to the Future, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Some People I Admire: Steve Linn’s Documentary Sculpture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, USA
  • From Ai Weiwei to Marcel Duchamp: Art For Art’s Sake, Shin Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Shared Brilliance, Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia
  • Chromotherapy, Haines Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • How to Win at Photography. Image-Making as Play, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Monster Mash, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Show Me What Plutocracy Looks Like, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
  • We Change the World, NGV Australia & The Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Australia
  • Gold and Magic, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  • At The End Of The Rainbow, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  • Edge of the Divine, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
  • ONLINE: Edge of Devine, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Please, Take A Seat!, C+N Canepaneri, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Truc a Faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
2020
  • Selected works in London, Lisson Gallery, London (Bell Street), Marylebone, London, UK
  • ONLINE: 30 Years: A Short Century, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • I Wanna Be With You, MAMBO, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
  • Bangkok Art Biennale 2020, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
  • ONLINE: Material Witness, Haines Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Follow the Line, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
  • ONLINE: Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Emergency on Planet Earth, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Horizon, Lisson Gallery, London (Cork Street), London, UK
  • Highlights, Chambers Fine Art, ARTFARM, Salt Point, New York, USA
  • Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee …, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
  • Szene Berlin: Berlin Kommt Nach Niedersachsen, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
  • New Relics I: Crossing Over, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Racket of Cobwebs, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Hyundai 50 Part II, Gallery Hyundai, Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea
  • 15 Years Of Galleria Continua In China: To Be Continua, Galleria Continua, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • ONLINE: Me, Myself And I, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront The Refugee Crisis, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
  • Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Wrightwood 659, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2019
  • The Red Bean Grows in the South, Faurschou Foundation, New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Co/Inspiration In Catastrophes, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 15 Artists X 15 Years in China, Galleria Continua, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
  • Unique Multiples: Teaching With the Parkett Collection From Uclm, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, USA
  • Notice the Small Things, Jealous Gallery, East, Shoreditch, London, UK
  • How The Light Gets In: Migration In Contemporary Art, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • Person/ne, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Then and Now. Life and Dreams Revisited, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Neu Ulm, Germany
  • Don’t Follow The Wind: Non-Visitor Center, Art in General, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Fears of Art, Ethan Cohen, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • A Time Capsule Continued, Parkett Editions, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
2018
  • Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
  • Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Singapore
  • Art and China after 1989. Theater of the World, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Do it, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
  • The Comedy of Being: Art and Humour from Antiquity until Today, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland
  • Big Art: Large-scale contemporary art in architecture, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • One Shot: featuring works by Color Field artists, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Face to Face, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • Life & Dreams: Photography & Media Art in China since the 1990s, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Neu Ulm, Germany
  • Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • De Calder à Koons, bijoux d’artistes. La collection idéale de Diane Venet, MAD, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1e, Paris, France
  • Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
  • Hope is Strong, Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
  • HOUSE Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
  • The Fuck Off Generation: Chinese Art in the Post-Mao Era, Ethan Cohen, Chelsea, New York, USA
2017
  • ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
  • Extra Bodies. The Use of the «Other Body» in Contemporary Art, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Dangerous Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
  • Visionaire: Fashion, Art, and the Unexpected, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Animals: Respect, Harmony, Subjugation, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Hamburg, Germany
  • Continua Sphères Ensemble, Centquatre, 19e, Paris, France
  • Immigrancy, Samson Projects, South End, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Recent Acquisitions, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Wären Fluss und Meere Tinte…, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Red-Hot and Newly Acquired Recent Additions to the Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
  • Hansel & Gretel, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
  • Chinese Summer, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
  • Go Tell It: Selections from MCASD’s Collection, MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, San Diego, California, USA
  • Soloceramica, C+N Canepaneri, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • In Print, Gow Langsford Gallery, Kitchener Street, Auckland, New Zealand
  • And what, for example, am I now seeing?, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
  • Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 57th Street, New York, USA
  • Roland Flexner & Ai Weiwei, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (1st Space), Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • RED ATTACK, Ethan Cohen, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Socially Engaged Art, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2016
  • Tudo Joia, Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Primary Structures and Speculative Forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Kneaded Knowledge. The Language of Ceramics, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  • Five / Fifty / Five Hundred, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Northern Land, Southern Seas, Tang Contemporary Art, VIP Space Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
  • We Call It Ludwig. The Museum is turning 40!, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Cologne, Germany
  • Facing the World: Self-Portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
  • Holiday Summer Group Show, Ibid Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Gardens of the World, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Art From Elsewhere, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
  • Megacities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Wind and Art Don’t Care About Border, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Towards a larger world, Moderna Museet, Malmo, Malmö, Sweden
  • Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  • M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, M+, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Chinese Whispers: Recent Works from the Sigg und M+ Sigg Collections, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
  • Chinese Whispers: Recent Works from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Open House Selections from the John and Sue Wieland Collection, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
  • Group Exhibition, Rennie Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2015
  • Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia
  • Wind and Art don’t Care About Border, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
  • The Road Not Taken, Misa Shin Gallery, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • A New Dynasty – Created In China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
  • Temporary Boundary, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, Paris, France
  • Passage, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • DDW: Thing Nothing, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Après Eden: The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, 12e, Paris, France
  • Ceramix, Bonnefanten Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Risk, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
  • 28 Chinese, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • A Brief History of the Future, Musée du Louvre, 1e, Paris, France
  • Reshaping Tradition: Contemporary Ceramics from East Asia, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
  • Beyond Stuff, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to Now, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
  • When we share more than ever, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Hamburg, Germany
  • 28 Chinese, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
  • The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Neu Ulm, Germany
  • Go east, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Temporary Boundary, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • A Journal of the Plague Year, Kadist, San Francisco, Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Mármakos: Ai Weiwei, Hu Qingyan, Li Zhanyang, Liu Ding, Not Vital, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Books Beyond Artists: Words and Images, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
  • Self: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy of Design, Midtown, New York, USA
  • Beyond G(l)aze, KODE Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2014
  • Conceal/Reveal: Making Meaning in Chinese Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
  • Artists for Artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (526 W 22nd), Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  • Secret Signs, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • Beg, Borrow and Steal from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
  • Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
  • FIRE!, Venus Over Manhattan, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Beyond Stuff, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • CORNUCOPIA, Parkett Editions, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
  • Beating around the bush Episode #3, Bonnefanten Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Joyride, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, USA
  • Focus Beijing – De Heus-Zomer Collection, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
  • Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson: + Moon -, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • Mana Exposition, Mana Contemporary Jersey City, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
  • 15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award(CCAA), Power Station of Art, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
  • Take Liberty!, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • TIME::CODE, WhiteBox, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
  • Trace: Performance and its Documents, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • Lifelike, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  • Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
2013
  • 28 Chinese, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Expression : A Philosophical Portrait of Humankind, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Alix Le Méléder – Wang Keping, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, Paris, France
  • Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  • Island, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • ‘Pataphysics, A Theoretical Exhibition, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • SubRosa: The Language of Resistance, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA
  • do it 2013 – A World Premiere for Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
  • Lifelike, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • 55th International Art Biennale Venice 2013, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  • “China China”, a group show of Chinese artists, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
  • do it (outside), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, USA
  • DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA, UCCA Beijing, Beijing, China
  • More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • built with love – [the] ideology department (or) ideological departure, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
  • Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
2012
  • No Borders: Contemporary art in a globalised world, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
  • No Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
  • Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kerala, India
  • PRIVACY, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Real Life Stories, KODE Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
  • Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
  • Sculpture Is Everything: Contemporary Works From The Collection, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, Serpentine South Gallery, Kensington, London, UK
  • Zoo, MAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Public: Collective Identity. Occupied Spaces, MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Print/Out, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, New York, USA
  • Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Persona 3, Chambers Fine Art, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
2011
  • Relate, 34FineArt, Cape Town, South Africa
  • The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand
  • World Beats: Global Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Contemporary Clay, RH Gallery, Tribeca, New York, USA
  • MMK 1991 – 2011: 20 Years of the Contemporary, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Art Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • We are all Astronauts: Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller Reflected in Contemporary Art, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
  • Prospect 2011, MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, San Diego, California, USA
  • I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, New York, USA
2010
  • 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • State of Things: Exhibition for the Contemporary Art Exchange between China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Dongcheng, Beijing, China
  • Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Radical Conceptual, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2009
  • Santa’s Workshop Shanghai: Selected Works, Toys and Artists’ Editions, James Cohan, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  • The State of Things: Brussels/Beijing, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
  • A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • The Making of Art, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Ai Weiwei – Four Movements, Phillips London, London, UK
2008
  • Ai Weiwei, Albion, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Material Terrain, Haines Gallery, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Accrochage, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

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