| 1965 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 1989 | Graduated from the Printmaking Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| Currently | Lives and works in Beijing |
| 2018 | Hong Hao – Border, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | Hong Hao , Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Form Through Narrative: New Chinese Art, Pace Palo Alto, Palo Alto, USA |
| 2016 | Where Can the Dust Alight, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| 2015 | Reflection, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| 2013 | Hong Hao, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China |
| 2011 | Hong Hao: As It Is, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Hong Hao and Yan Lei: Spark, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Bottom, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Elegant Gathering: Hong Hao's Opening, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Hong Hao's Reading Room, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Hong Hao, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | Hong Hao at Rencontres d'Arles 2003, Arles, France |
| 2000 | Scenes from the Metropolis, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China Suspended Disbelief, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
| 1999 | Hong Hao - Selected Scriptures, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Holland |
| 1997 | Selected Scriptures - Hong Hao, Asian Art Now, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shen Zhen, China Bank@Frieze New York 2018, Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan, KS, United States Frontier - Re-Assessment Of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Institute Beijing, Beijing, China Civilization – The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing China |
| 2017 | Referencing Alexander Calder – A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Klein Sun Gallery, New York City, United States |
| 2016 | Pace Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China Where Can The Dust Alight, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China |
| 2015 | Pace Gallery at FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France Pace Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China |
| 2014 | Summer Group Show, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| 2010 | About Glass Factory - Art in the New Financial Era, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Negotiations - The 2nd Today's Documents 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China |
| 2009 | Paper!Paper!, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Just Around the Corner, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China Chinese Gardens for Living at Europalia China, Brussels Square – Brussels Meeting Centre, Belgium Bourgeoisified Proletariat, Shanghai Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, China Tofu, Kungfu, POLIT-SHEER-FORM , Beijing Commune, Beijing, China The First Contemporary China Printmaking Academic Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Guangzhou International Photography Biennale Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangzhou, China |
| 2008 | Library, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China Downtown Production - An Exhibition of Chinese Urban Art, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK Reason's Clue, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA People, History: Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum of Art, Beijing, China Our Future, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China China Gold, Maillol Museum, Paris, France Another Lonely Planet Revisited, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Beijing—Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City of Athens, Athens, Greece Urban Mirroring, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Book/Shelf, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Building Code Violations II, Long March Space, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Net: Re-imagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Passion for Art, Essl Museum Vienna, Austria Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| 2006 | The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia China Now, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria Since 2000: Printmaking Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Twelve - Contemporary Chinese Art Awards 2006, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China One Work: the Taikang Project of Hong Hao+Yan Lei, Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China |
| 2005-06 | Mahjong, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Hamburg Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany Only One Wall, Beijing COmmune, Beijing, China & Art Space Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| 2005 | Fairy Tales Forever, AROS Arhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark China: Contemporary Art Perspectives, Art Museum, Milan, Italy Guangzhou International Photography Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| 2004 | Young Artists from China, Japan and Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Dreaming of The Dragon's Nation- Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland The Chinese.Contemporary Photography and Video in China, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
| 2003 | Too Much Flavor, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China An Opening Era, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Chinese Maximalism, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China Les Rencontres d'Arles 2003, Arles, France |
| 2002 | The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea |
| 2001 | Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Exhibition Hall, Chengdu, China Cross-Pressure: Contemporary Photography and Video from Beijing, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu and Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland L'Album de la Famille Chine- Septembre de la photo 2001, Nice, France Virtual Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| 2000 | Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Chinese Avant-Garde Artists Documenta, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Big Torino 2000: Biennial of Emerging Artists, Torino, Italy From Inside the Body: Chinese New Photography and Video, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Five Continents and One City, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK Chinese Maze, OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland La Biennale d'Issy, Issy, France 1999 Art China, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA Chinese New Conceptual Art, Gallery of the Art Department of Huadong Normal University, Shanghai, China |
| 1998-99 | Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, P. S. 1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, and Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
| 1998 | Images Telling Stories, Art College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China Impression of Transmuting Daily Lives in Beijing 1998, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China Double Kitsch: New Paintings, Prints and Photos from Mainland China, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1997 | Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art of the 90's, Gallery Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech Republic and OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland |
| 1996 | China Arktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Performance Installation, Munich, Germany |
| 1995 | New Anecdotes of Social Talk, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing, China |
| 1993 | China's New Art: Post 1989, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London, UK |
| 1992 | Art Asia '92 Information, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China |
| 1988 | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France |
| Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA |
| British Musuem, UK |
| China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| City Hall of Issy, France |
| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| Hong Kong Museum of Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| New York City Public Library, USA |
| NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia |
| Sammlung Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA |
| Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| UBS BANK Swissland (Hong Kong Branch), Hong Kong, China |
| Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |