1961
Born in Xinjiang, China
1985   
Graduated from the Shandong Art Institute, Shandong, China
1985-90
Employed at publishing houses, research institutes and universities
1996
Moved to Berlin, Germany Taught at Berlin University of Art, HDK
1997    
Invited by the City of Berlin to serve as the Curator for Sino-German Cultural Exchange
1999    
Moved to the United States
2007   
Began teaching and serving as graduate advisor at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing

Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2008   
Exhibition Tour (Asia, Europe and North America)
2007   
798 Avant Gallery, New York
Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong
2006   
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York and London
Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2005   
Toll Collect, Berlin, Germany
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2004   
Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong
HaiShangShan International Art Center, Shanghai, China
2003    
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2002    
HaiShangShan International Art Center, Shanghai, China
Tao Water Gallery, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
2001    
MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, U.S
Revolving Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Asian Cultural Center, New York, New York
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
2000    
Tremont Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
1999    
Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Leucorea, Martin Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg, Germany
1997    
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
1996    
Benario Gallery, Berlin, Germany Center of Contemporary Arts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands New China Center, Hague, the Netherlands
1994   
Ammonal Gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Joint Exhibitions
2009   
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2007   
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Moscow Biennale, Russia
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, China    
2006   
Brush and Ink, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Christie’s Young Mandarins Exhibition, Miami
CAS Gallery, Kean University, New Jersey
2005   
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2004   
Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
2003    
Radical Line, Bowling Green State University Museum, Ohio
Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena, California
Millennium Building, Beijing, China
2002    
Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
2001    
Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2000    
South Boston Art Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1999    
International Art Exhibition, Köln, Germany
Asian Modern Paintings Auction, Christie’s, London, U.K.
1998    
New Art from China, Enpassant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1994    
New Trends—Art Hong Kong and Avant-Garde Chinese Art Exhibition, Hong Kong
1987    
International Art Exhibition, Lucia Art Gallery, New York, New York
1985    
Third Annual China Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
1984    
China Anonymous Artist Association Exhibition, Chongqin, Sichuan

Selected Curated (and participated) Exhibitions
2002    
Start Over Exhibition, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China
1999    
Chinese Face Exhibition, The Capital Center, Hamburg, Germany
1998    
Thirteen Chinese, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
1997    
Chinese Art in Berlin, in cooperation with the German Humanities Association, Berlin, Germany
Poets in the Sunlight, Kulturbrauerei Berlin, Sponsored by the City of Berlin, Germany
1995    
Second Annual Joint Exhibition of Chinese Professional Art, Ammonal Gallery, Beijing, China
1994    
Chinese Professional Painters’ Works, Winter Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
Avant-Garde Chinese Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
1993    
Founded Ammonal Gallery, Beijing, China
First Joint Exhibition of Chinese Professional Art, Beijing, China
1986    
Founded the Artist Circle BLUE
The First 12-Artist Joint Exhibition, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China

Selected Awards, Lectures, and Performance
1997-present       
Exhibitions and auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s
2005   
Syndicat National des Antiquaires at Le Louvre, Paris, and many other international art fairs 1992 to present.
2003    
Zero Space Ink Performance, Asia Society and Museum, New York
2001    
Fellowship and Residency, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire
2000    
Award from the Vermont Art Center
1998    
Art Award from the City of Berlin

Invited lectures at the Leucorea, Martin Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg; Berlin Art University HDK; Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, China Institute of Art Research in Beijing, International Society–Boston; Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; Emerson College, Boston; and Mobius Gallery, Boston