| 1957 | Born in Beijing, China |
| Currently | Lives and works in Beijing, China and Berlin, Germany |
| 2023 | Ai Weiwei, Tang Contemporary Art Ai Weiwei: Making Sense, The Design Museum, London, UK Ai Weiwei: In Search of Humanity, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2022 | Ai Wei Wei: In Search of Modernity, The Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria Ai Wei Wei: The Liberty of Doubt, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge La Commedia Umana, Memento Mori, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy |
| 2021 | Ai Weiwei: Year of the Ox, Pace Prints, New York, USA Intertwine, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal Defend the Future, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (MMCA), Seoul, Korea Trauma: Shooting the Pilitzer+15 Minutes, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Rapture, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2020 | Year of the Rat, Tang Contemporary Art Purgatory, Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin, Germany History of Bombs, Imperial War Museum, London, UK Forever Bicycles, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 2019 | Ai Weiwei: Everything is art. Everything is politics, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis Ai Weiwei: Roots, Lisson Gallery, London, England |
| 2018 | Ai Weiwei: Raiz, Oca exhibition space in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil Ai Weiwei: Cao, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, USA Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA Ai Weiwei: Zodiac, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2017 | Ai Weiwei: Inoculation, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentia Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Public Art Fund, New York, USA Ai Weiwei: Soleil Levant, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Ai Weiwei: Tyre, Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2016 | Ai Weiwei: Exaggeration, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Ai Weiwei: Transformation – Translocation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria Ai Weiwei: Cubes and Trees, The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, UK |
| 2015 | Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA Ruptures, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China Ai Weiwei, Tang Contemporary Fine Art, Beijing, China AB Blood Type, Magician Space, Beijing, China Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Beijing 2003, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2014 | @Large, Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA Ai Weiwei, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Ai Weiwei: New York 1983-1993, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Ai Weiwei in the Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London, England According to What?, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA Evidence, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Sunflower Seeds, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Baby Formula, Ayala Museum, Makati City, Metro Manila, Phillipines Ai Weiwei, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria |
| 2013 | According to What?, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, USA Ordos, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France Ai Weiwei: Screening Room, Hotel Bauer, Venice, Italy Baby Formula, Galerie Michael Janssen, Singapore, Singapore According to What?, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Ai Weiwei. Resistance and Tradition, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain Interlacing, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale de Venezia, German Pavilion, Venice, Italy Disposition, Zuecca Project Space, Complesse delle Zitelle, Giudecca, Chiesa di Sant’ Antonin, Venice, Italy According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| 2012 | Forge, Mary Boone Gallery, New York City, NY, USA New York Photographs 1983-1993, Ernst Museum (in collaboration with Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin|Beijing), Budapest, Hungary Ai Weiwei, Galleria Continua San Gimignano, San Gimignano, Italy Ai Weiwei: According to What? Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA Perspectives: Ai Weiwei, The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA A Living Sculpture, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, The Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy Ai Weiwei: Five Houses,Architecture Center Houston, Houston, TX, USA Interlacing, Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway Ai Weiwei, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands Interlacing, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Ai Weiwei, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Hermann Park, Houston, TX, USA Sunflower Seeds, Mary Boone Gallery, New York City, NY, USA |
| 2011 | Louisiana Contemporary: Ai Weiwei, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany Ai Weiwei: Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Dropping the Urn, ceramics 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Art|Architecture, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Asia Society, New York, NY, USA Interlacing, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Interlacing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Circle of Animals, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA a Ai Weiwei: Works in the collection, DKM Museum, Duisburg, Germany Circle of Animals, Somerset House, London, UK Circle of Animals, Pulitzer Fountain, New York, NY, USA Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, Londong UK Sunflower Seeds, Kunsthalle Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland Ai Weiwei, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Ai Weiwei - Teehaus, Museen Dahlem, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | Ai Weiwei, Faurschou Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Cube Light, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japann A Few Works from Ai Weiwei, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK Hurt Feelings, Galerie Christine Koenig, Vienna, Austria Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, USA (Travelling Exhibition) Ai Weiwei, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA Barely something, Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, USA (Travelling Exhibition) Mermaid Exchange, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2009 | Ai Weiwei, Friedman Benda, New York City, NY, USA With Milk find something everybody can use, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain World Map, Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China So sorry, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany According to What?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Ways Beyond Art?, Ivory Press Space, Madrid, Spain Four Movements, Phillips de Pury, London, UK Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China |
| 2008 | Ai Weiwei, Albion Gallery, London, UK Ai Weiwei, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea Under Construction, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA Go China! Ai Weiwei, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands “Through” and Video Work “Fairytale”, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 | Fragments, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Squitzerland Traveling Landscapes, AedesLand, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 | Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China |
| 2004 | Ai Weiwei, Kunsthalle, Bern, Bern, Switzerland Ai Weiwei in Gent, Belgium, Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium Ai Weiwei, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| 2003 | Ai Weiwei, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| 1988 | Old Shoes, Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| 1982 | Ai Weiwei, Asian Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 2023 | World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 | Enter the Forest, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK Super Natural, The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK Freedom, The Southbank Centre, London, UK |
| 2021 | Truc à faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, France Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| 2020 | Inaugural Installations: Kinder Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA Curators' selection. Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy, London, UK Facing the Collector - The Sigg Collection of Contemporary Art from China, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy Sky, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, The Netherlands Unflattening, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea escape routes, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2019 | Mobile Immobile, Archives Nationales Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Pierrefitte-sur Seine, France |
| 2018 | The Fuck Off Generation: Chinese Art in the Post-Mao Era, Ethan Cohen New York, New York Gifts for Fine Art Lovers, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York |
| 2017 | Current stock, 10 Hanover, London, UK With Love: Unforgettable Gifts for Fine Art Lovers, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York Alpha 137 Gallery Staff Favorites, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York Orphans of Painting, Ethan Cohen New York, New York Artist Skateboards and Skate Decks, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York Recent Acquisitions, Faurschou Foundation, Nordhavn Vintage Political Art, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York TASCHEN Store London Claridge’s, TASCHEN, London, UK Drawings, Prints & Graphic Works by Sculptors, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv 10H TS, 10 Hanover, London, UK GLASSTRESS 2017, Fondazione Berengo, Venice Body, Self, Society: Chinese Performance Photography of the 1990s, The Walther Collection, New York, USA Rare Art Historical Ephemera from our private collection 2017, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, USA Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Red Attack, Ethan Cohen New York, New York, USA |
| 2016 | Mega Cities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, USA Facing the World: Self Portraits from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA |
| 2015 | The 56th International Art Exhibition – All the World’s Future, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Go East, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014 | Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters, e-flux, New York, USA The 14th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di VeneziaPalazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy State of Emergency, Davidson College, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, USA Beyond and Between, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2013 | Ink Art:Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Framed, Duddell’s, Hong Kong Ground Zero, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar Island, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada Emscherkunst 2013, Emscher river, Essen/Ruhr Valley, Germany Fuck Off 2, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Sheung Wan Civic Centre Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Of Bridges and Borders, Parque Cultural of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile |
| 2012 | Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Kazerne Dossin Museum and Documentation Centre of the Holocaust and of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990, The Swiss National Museum, Zürich, Switzerland Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Art and the City, Zürich, Switzerland Art + Press, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| 2011 | Liu Wei & Ai Weiwei, Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea DaringDesign – Chinese and Dutch Designers with Guts, , Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Art Parcours in St. Alban-Tal, St. Alban, Switzerland Shanshui, The Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland Six Rooms, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York City, NY, USA |
| 2010 | 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy Acconci Studio + Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong |
| 2009 | Fairytale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA (Travelling Exhibition) |
| 2008 | Liverpool Biennial International 08: Made Up, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |
| 2007 | Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition A Vista of Perspectives, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China Origin Point: Stars Group Retrospective Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China documenta 12, Kassel, Germany Forged Realities, UniversalStudios, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Territorial: Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Fill in the Blanks, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea |
| 2005 | The 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. An Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron, , Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2004 | The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy On the Edge – Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA |
| 2002 | 1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| 2001 | Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland Tu Mu. Young Chinese Architecture, Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| 2000 | Fuck Off, EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 1999 | Innovations Part I, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China d’Apertutto, La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice, Italy Modern China Art Foundation Collection, Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium |
| 1998 | Double Kitsch: Painters from China, Max Protetch, New York, USA |
| 1993 | Chinese Contemporary Art – The Stars 15 Years, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1987 | The Stars at Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| 1980 | The Stars. Second Exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing |
| 1979 | The Stars. First Exhibition, Beijing |
| Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands |
| Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria |
| Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Michigan, USA |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
| Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA |
| Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA |
| The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, USA |
| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA |
| Tate, London, UK |