| 1970 | Born in Jinan, Shandong, China |
| 1989-93 | Painting, China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, BFA |
| 1998-01 | Painting, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Indiana, PA, USA, MFA |
| Currently | Lives and works in New York City |
| 2019 | Cui Fei: Counter Monument, Charles E. Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, CT |
| 2016 | Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin II, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2015 | Cui Fei: The Journey of Transformation, W10 Window Project, Art-in-Building Program, New York, USA |
| 2013 | Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2012 | Origins: Cui Fei and Taca Sui Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Re-interpreting Nature: Recent Work by Cui Fei, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA |
| 2011 | RE-NATURED: Cui Fei and Roy Nicholson, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York, USA |
| 2010 | Cui Fei,Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA |
| 2010 | Manuscript of Nature V, The New York Public Library, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Manuscript of Nature, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2003 | The Voice of the Voiceless, Gallery 456, New York, New York, USA |
| 2000 | 2000 Master of Fine Arts — Thesis Exhibition, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2023 | Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island, NY, USA |
| 2023 | Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society, Houston, TX |
| 2022 | Hill of the Madman, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Reconcile: Begin Anew, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY |
| 2021 | Nature as Measure, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY Communicating Beyond Words, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Paper! Paper! II, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2020 | The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, Chambers Fine Art, New York, |
| 2019 | Nature as Measure, Chambers Fine Art. Beijing, China Quietude, Hammond Museum & Japanese Scroll Garden, North Salem, NY Material Traditions,Chambers Fine Art & Pagoda Red, Chicago, IL Needlepoint, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Chinese Landscape Rethought, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT |
| 2018 | Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People, and Practices, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, USA Blurred Boundaries, New York School of Interior Design Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2017 | In Perspective, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Workspace Artists-In-Residence, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA Words in Characters, Books as Vehicle, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA |
| 2016 | SIP Fellowship Show, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York, USA A Space-Time of Transitional Desires, The Clemente, New York, USA Feminine Power: New Perspective, Daqian Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China |
| The Magic of Characters – 3000 years of Chinese calligraphy, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany (catalog) | |
| Gifts from the Tang Center, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, USA | |
| 2015 | The Magic Power of Characters – 3,000 Years of Chinese Calligraphy, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work by Chinese Artist, The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA ARS CONTINUUM: Amelie A. Wallace Gallery 1978 to the Present, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, New York, USA New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, New York, USA Remembering Things Past, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, USA Mot Juste, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA |
| 2014 | Remembering Things Past, Patchogue Arts Council, Patchogue, NY, USA The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, USA Wonder Cabinets/The Art of Collecting, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, USA |
| 2013 | 40 ARTISTS / 40 YEARS: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University New York, USA; Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Syracuse University, USA |
| 2012 | EAF 12: 2012 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, USA Alternative Processess: Alternative Content, Syracuse University, NY, USA Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum, Njew Jersey, USA Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Inter-Mediate: Selected Contemporary Chinese American Art, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA Secret Messages, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA Characters, Chambers Fine Arts ArtFarm, Salt Point, NY, USA Meditation in Contemporary Landscape, Asian Arts & Culture Center, Towson University, MD, USA Sticks and Stones, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, USA |
| 2010 | NYFA Boot Camp Arts Festival, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, New York, USA The Book: A Contemporary View, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, DE; Towson University Center for the Arts Gallery, MD, USA Coincidental Opposites, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, New York, USA Close Encounter, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea Connection: Nature, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, NY, USA Botanica, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey, USA Regarding Nature: thorns, twigs, buds, and branches, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York, USA Companion, EFA Project Space, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA |
| 2009 | Contemporary Mark Making: Blurring The Lines Between Drawing And Writing, Alpan Gallery, Long Island, NY, USA Here and Now, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, USA (Catalog) H2O Film on Water, The Newport Mill, MD, USA Paraphrase, Arario Gallery, New York, USA Beyond the Fray, Art Sites, Riverhead, New York, USA Present Tense Biannual, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, USA (Catalog) Making It Selections from the 2008 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, 60 Wall Street Gallery, NYFA & Deutsche Bank, New York, USA Women Forward, Brooklyn Watercolor Society in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA (Catalog) Unbounded, ChinaSquare Gallery, New York, USA In the Absence, Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH, USA |
| 2008-09 | Reason's Clue: 8 Artists Translate Past and Present, Lin and Keng Art Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2008 | Back to the Drawing Board, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, USA Object Salon 2, White Space Gallery, London, UK Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA Meditation in Contemporary Landscape, The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, New York, USA (Catalog) Chinese Biennial, Chinese Base, Beijing, China (Catalog) Cross-Reference, ShuiMu Art Space, 798 Art District, Beijing, China (Catalog) Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, Kunstgewerbe Museum (in cooperation with the National Art Museum of Beijing, China), Dresden, Germany (Catalog) Chinese Traditions Reconfigured, Amy Simon Fine Art, CT, USA Making Their Mark, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, USA The West Meets the East: Encounter with Chinese Art, Delaware Art Museum, DE, USA |
| 2007 | Touched by Women's Hands, Flushing Council of the Arts, New York, USA Glyphe, Chinese Base, Beijing, China Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, USA NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA Aberrance of Chinese Character, Chinese Base, Beijing, China Cursive: Mixed Media Art Exchange Exhibition, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China Impossible Familiar, Art Gotham Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2006 | The Artworks of 40 Leading Asian Artists, Asian Artworks, New York, USA (Catalog) Objects of Desire, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA Contemporary Chinese Visions, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT, USA Music to my Eyes, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, USA East Transplanted West, The Kean University Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA (Catalog) Emerge 7, Aljira, the Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, USA (Catalog) Transplant/Transculture, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, USA Wet in Summer, TAMA Gallery, New York, USA Art for Healing, Mushroomarts, New York, USA (Catalog) Ides of March 2006, ABC No Rio, New York, USA Well Read, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, USA New Chinese Occidentilism, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA (Catalog) |
| 2005-06 | Artville, 2 x 13 Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Surface Tension, 2 x 13 Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2004-05 | Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Fantasy: New York & Shanghai Yung Artists Exchange Exhibition, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China (Catalog) The Drawn Page, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA Ides of March 2004, ABC No Rio, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Re-Do China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA (Catalog) Brewster Project 2003, Brewster, NY, USA |
| 2002 | AIM 22, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA (Catalog) Bronx State of Mind, Hostos Gallery, Bronx, USA Culture in a Jar, Longwood Gallery, Bronx, USA BADD! Ass Women, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx, USA Hopscotch: Associative Leaps in the Construction of Narrative, College Art Association show, Painted Bride Art Center Philadelphia, Pensylvania, USA |
| 2001 | Reaction, Exit Art, New York, USA Postcards from the Edge, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Annual Graduate Art Association Juried Exhibition, University Museum, Indiana, PA, USA Juror: Marjetica Potrc Word and Meaning, Elberly, IUP, USA Untied Day, HUB, IUP, USA Annual Graduate Art Association Juried Exhibition, University Museum, Indiana, PA, USA |
| 1999 | re:place, Brew House Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Annual Graduate Art Association Juried Exhibition, University Museum, Indiana, PA |
| 1995 | National Landscape Exhibition, China National Gallery, Beijing, China(Catalog) |
| 1993 | Graduation Show, Gallery of China National Academy of Fine Arts, HangZhou, China |
| 1991 | Landscape Exhibition, Gallery of China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China |
| 1990 | Xihu Lake Art Festival, Gallery of China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China |
| 2016 | Workspace Artist-in-Residence Grant, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, USA |
| 2015 | Artist's Fellowship (The Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellow), New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, USA |
| SIP Fellowship, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program, New York, NY, USA | |
| 2013 | Peer Leadership Circles, Queens Council on the Arts, Astoria, NY, USA |
| 2012 | Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, USA |
| 2011 | Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY, USA |
| Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, USA | |
| 2009 | The Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, USA |
| 2007 | NYFA Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Emerge program, Aljira & Creative Capital, Newark, NJ, USA (nominated by Jessica Hough) |
| 2004 | Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center Award, New York, USA Viewing Program Slide Registry, The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Irving Sandler Artists File, Artists Space, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA Excellence in Arts Award, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA |
| 2000 | Travel Grant, IUP, PA, USA |
| Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Light Work, Syracuse University, New York, USA Omi International Arts Center, New York, USA Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA Tang Center, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China National Academy of Fine Arts), Hangzhou, China |