Chen W enbo
Born in 1969 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China. Currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
Education
1991 BA Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2016 “Day and Night,” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015
“The Fat Years,” Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY
2009 “Inorganic Vision, ” Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
“Chen Wenbo: Broken Series,” UCCA, Beijing, China
2008 “Epidemiology,” Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Asian Rays, ” PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2006 “On the Green,” Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2003 “Back Door, Chen Wenbo 2003,” He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000 “Chen Wenbo: Vitamines Z,” Galerie LOFT, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2016 "Doctrine of New Capital: Huang Yu Collection Exhibition,” Museum of Contemporary Art
Chengdu, China
“No Candy to Make Trouble,” Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
“Flower and Style - Exchange Exhibition between Taiwan and China,” Ant Nest Art Gallery,
ZhangZhou, China
“China 8: Chinese Contemporary Art From China at Rhine & Ruhr,” NRW-Forum Düsseldorf,
Düsseldorf, Germany; Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg,
Germany; MKM Museum Kuppersmuhle fur Moderene Kunst, Duisburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum,
Mulheim an Der Ruhr, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Skulptrenmuseum
Glaskasten, Marl, Germany; Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany; Kunstmuseum, Gelsenkirchen,
Germany
“The Cabinet of wonder,” Heiqiao Art District, Beijing, China
“Illuminated,” Gland Space, Beijing, China
“The Civil Power,” Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
525 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
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www.kleinsungallery.com | info@kleinsungallery 2014 “Re-View,” Long Museum, Shanghai, China
“Civilization,” OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
Harmonious Society: Asian Triennial Manchester 2014, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art,
Manchester, UK
Blue Roof Art Festival, Chengdu, China
“Broached Retreat,” UCCA, Beijing, China
“Life Path,” Wang Xingwei studio, Beijing, China
“Shanghai Deal,” Radical Space, Shanghai, China
“M Home: Living in Space,” UCCA, Beijing, China
“Aftermath: Post-Sensibility, Fifteen Years On,” Duddell’s, Hong Kong
2013
1st Auction Biennial, World Expo Museum, Shanghai, China
“Square Cube,” ArtDepot, Beijing, China
“Timeline- An exhibition of Contemporary Art (Session I),” Youmingtang Art Center, Nanning,
China
“Night-walk at Heiqiao,” Heiqiao Art District, Beijing, China
“Village Poem,” Gland Space, Beijing, China
2012
“Light Bending onto the Retina,” Bund 18, Shanghai, China
“Face,” Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011
“2011 Art Changsha,” Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China
2010
“When Art Meets News,” Beijing Prosper Center, Beijing, China
“The Official Opening of Minsheng Art Museum- Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art,”
Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Research Representational Painting,” Times Museum, Beijing, China
2009 1st Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists, Chongqing Center of Exhibition, Chongqing, China
“Metropolis Now! A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art,” Meridian International Center,
Washington, DC
2008 “OPEN/INVITED ev + a 2008: Too Early for Vacation,” Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick,
Ireland
“The Sichuan Movement,” Museum Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
“Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection,” UCCA, Beijing, China
2007 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves,” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Departing from the Southwest,” Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“Floating- New Generation of Art in China,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon,
South Korea
525 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
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www.kleinsungallery.com | info@kleinsungallery “Gong Zhen- Sport in Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
“Energy: Spirit · Body · Material,” Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006 Shanghai Biennial 2006, Shanghai, China
“Development of Realism: Oil Paintings from Mainland China after 1978,” Taipei City Art Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan
2005 1st Montpellier International Biennial of Contemporary Chinese Art, Montpellier, France
“Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection,” Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern,
Switzerland
“Follow Me! : Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2nd Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Beijing Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2004 “All under Heaven,” Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
“East of the South in the West/ West of the South in the East,” Villa Arson, Nice, France
2003 “Beyond Dimension- Chinese New Painting,” Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
“ChinaaRT,” Museo Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, ltaly; Ludwig Museum, Budapest,
Hungary
2002 ”Mirage I –An Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” Suzhou Art Museum, Godot Art Museum, South Shi
Pi Garden, Suzhou, China
“Paris-Pekin,” Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
“Chinese Modernity,” Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Chinart,” Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
2001
“Next Generation/ Art Contemporain D’Asie,” Passage de Retz, Paris, France
1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu MoCA, Chengdu, China
2000 “Contemporary Chinese Portraits,” Francois Mitterand Culture Space, Perigueux, France
“Individual and Society in Art,” Guangdong Province Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
“Ordinary and the Extraordinary,” Shanghai Yuangong space, Shanghai, China
1999
1997
“Post-Sense, Sensibility, Alien Bodies & Delusion,” Basement Shaoyaoju Residency, Beijing, China
“Dongyu Art Museum Collection,” Dongyu Library, Shenyang, China
“Beauty Like Materialism- The New Conceptual Art,” East China Normal University Museum,
Shanghai, China
“Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Paris Art Center, Paris, France
“Chinese Video Art 1997,” CAFA Art Museum Beijing, China
525 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
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www.kleinsungallery.com | info@kleinsungallery 1996
“South-Western Conceptual Art Show,” Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
1994
“Fragmentation,” Chongqing Teachers Training College, Chongqing, China
1992
1st Guangzhou Biennial, Guangzhou Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China
525 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
Tel +1.212.255.4388 Fax +1.212.255.4316
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