| 1963 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 1989 | Graduated from Oil Painting Department, Capital Normal University, Beijingm China |
| Currently | Lives and works in Beijing |
| 2013 | 36 Calendars, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China Song Dong Doing Nothing, Pace Gallery, New York, USA Dad and mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well, 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia Was Not, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadephia, USA Nowhere to Land, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China |
| 2012 | Yin Xiuzhen, Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands |
| 2011 | Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks III, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks III, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2010 | Project 92, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA Yin Xiuzhen: Works 1996-2008, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA China in Four Seasons: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Second Skin, Pace Gallery Bejing, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Yin Xiuzhen, Anna Schwatz Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2008 | Commune, Galerie Weltecho, Chemnitz, Germany Yin Xiuzhen: Introspective Cavity, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China |
| 2006 | The Way of Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Fashion Terrorism, Town Hall, Friedrichshafen, Germany |
| 2003 | SARS TIMES: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, ISE Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Clotheres Airplane — Made in Siemens, Siemens Art Project, Beijing, China |
| 1998 | Brain, Manchester Craft Center, Manchester, UK |
| 1997 | Sun Clothes, Hua Yan Li, Beijing, China Dining Table, Ruine for Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 1996 | Ruined City, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, USA |
| 2016 | Mega Cities Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA |
| 2014 | Away from the Long Night, MSAC, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2013 | Crossroads: Another Dimension - A Cross-Strait Regions Artistic Exchange Project, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Landscape of Thinking Slow: Contemporary Art from China and India, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea The First Hangzhou International Fibre Art Triennial, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China Crossroads • Another Dimension: A Cross-Strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange Project 2013, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong, China Very Fun Park (Fubon Art Foundation), Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan DUCHAMP and/or/in China, UCCA, Beijing, China |
| 2012 | Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Surplus Authors, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Art of Dress, Espace Louis Vuitton Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| 2011 | Half the Sky: Women in the New Art of China, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA M-Shaped Society: 2011 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Our Magic Hour: Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan Car Culture, Medien der Mobilität, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany Trans/Formations: City, Spaces and Times, Alhonidga Bilbao, Spain |
| 2010 | Dreamlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Popping Up: Revisiting the Relationship Between 2 Dimensions and 3 Dimensions, Hong Kong Arts Centre, China The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia BALMORAL BLEND, 15 Jahre Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany 11th Fellbach Triennale, Stadt Fellbach – Kulturamt, Germany Beijing Time | Urbano Demasiado Urbano, Casa Asia, Madrid, Spain |
| 2009 | Harmonic Vision, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA Urban China, Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, USA Art Map, CAOS (Siri Industrial Arts Centre), Terni, Italy |
| 2008 | Orients sans frontières, de Beyrouth à Pékin sur les traces de la croisière jaune, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, Framce All Inclusive: a Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany China: Facing Reality, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Go China, Assen-Groningen Drents Museum, Groninger Museum, Groniger, the Netherlands Our Future, The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Beijing, China Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Deep Breathing, Shanghai Creek Gallery, Shanghai, China Beijing Map Games, Contemporary Art and Architecture in Beijing, Beijing, China; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK Art Map, Today Art Museum, Bejing, China Map Games: Dynamics of Change, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Facing Reality, MuMok, Wien, Austria China Now, Cobra Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, the Netherlands |
| 2006 | News Beijing Commune, Beijing 798, Beijing, China China Now, Sammlung Essl/Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria |
| 2005 | Follow Me!, Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Art-Robe: Women Artists At The Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France CONVERGENCE at E116°/N40°, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing, China The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Galleries, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York, USA & Millennium Art Museum, Beijing Asian Traffic, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2004 | On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA Officina Asia, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy Future Cities, Contemporary Art Museum, Hamilton, Canada Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, Asia Society and Museum, New York, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, USA 26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2004 Sydney Biennale, Art Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2003 | CONCRETE HORIZONS: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Home and Away: The New Globalism, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre d'art Contemporain, IBOS, France Second Hand Reality, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China Open Sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai, China Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 New Art Zone, Beijing, China How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA |
| 2002 | Time After Time: Asian a Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China Here and Now, BueroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany Bumper Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Agriculture Museum, Beijing, China The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Site + Sight: Translating Cultures, Asian Civilizations Museum, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea ARCO, Madrid, Spain |
| 2001 | De'rvie, Chapman University, Los Angeles, USA Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin, Germany Le Paysage comme Babel, Galerie Les Filles du calvaire, Paris-Bruxelles, France & Belgium Chronicles of Women: Illness as Metaphor, Shatin Town Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong, China Reinventing the Images and Signs, Universal Classical Cultural Arts Co. Ltd., Beijing, China The 4th Contemporary Sculpture Art Show, ShenZhen, China 1st Liang Sicheng Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing, China |
| 2000 | Unusual & Usual, YuanGong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China Our Chinese Friends, ACC gallery and Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany At The New Century, 1979-1999 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Art Exhibition, ChengDu Contemporary Museum, China |
| 1999 | Flooded Valley, Sao Paulo, Brazil Food for thought: Chinese Characters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Fast>>forward: New Chinese Video Art, Macao contemporary art center, Macao, China I am Here, Bad Ems, Germany Supermarket: Art for Sale, Shanghai, China Transience: Chinese Art At the end of the 20th Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia In/from China: Art + Archictecture, Berlin, Germany |
| 1998 | It's me!: A profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Forbidden City, Beijing, China Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Asia Society, New York, USA Half of the Sky: Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Frauen Museum, Germany Traditional and Anti-Traditional Art, German Embassy, Beijing, China Wildlife: Start From 1997, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, China 20th Century-Feminina, China National Gallery and Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China Cities on the Move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Secession, Austria; Cape Museum d' Art Contemporary of Bordeaux, France; and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York |
| 1997 | Against the Tide, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA Another Long march: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Chasse Kazerne-Breda, the Netherlands Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporary Female Artists in China, Artcmisia Gallery, Chicago, USA ART/OMI Visual Arts Program, ART/OMI Foundation, New York, USA Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Tokyo and Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan |
| 1996 | The 2nd United Art Project with American Artists, Tibet, China The 7th Com-Art Show of Artists from Korea, China and Japan, Suwon City, South Korea |
| 1995 | Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes: Beijing and Berlin Art Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China Displacement, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China |
| 1994 | 112-12 Installation Art Show of Women Artists, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China '94 Outdoor Art, Beijing, China |
| The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia |
| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan |
| Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China |
| Annie Wong Art Foundation, Canada |
| Heiner Wemhöner Collection, Herford, Germany |
| Smart Museum, USA |
| Groninger Museum, The Netherlands |
| Mori Art Museum, Japan |