CHAMBERS FINE ART

Biography of Yin Xiuzhen

1963	Born in Beijing, China
1985-1989	Majored in Oil Painting at the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, Awarded B.A. degree
Present	Lives and works in Beijing


Solo Exhibitions
2006	The Way of Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2004	Fashion Terrorism, Town Hall, Friedrichshafen, Germany
2003	SARS TIMES: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, ISE Foundation, New York
2002	Chopsticks: Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2001	Clotheres Airplane—made in Siemens, Siemens art project “What are they doing here?” An artwork by Yin xiuzhen in collaboration with the employees of STDC Installation and new media, Asian Fine Arts Berlin Gallery, Germany
2000	Building Materials, 200 Gertrude front gallery, Melbourne
1998	Brain, Manchester Craft Center, UK
1997	Sun Clothes, Hua Yan Li, Beijing Dinning Table, Ruine for Arts, Berlin, Germany
1996	Ruined City, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1995	Installations, Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing


Selected Group Exhibitions
2006	News, Beijing Commune, Beijing 798
2005	CONVERGENCE at E116°/N40°, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing In and Out or In-between: N Kinds of Space Displacement, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing Follow Me! Chinese contemporary art show, Mori art museum, Tokyo Art-Robe: Women Artists At The Nexus of Art and Fashion UNESCO Headquarters, France 2005 The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier, Montpellier, France The Wall, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Asian Traffic, Today Art Museum, Beijing The Other End, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen
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 26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2004 Sydney Biennale, Art Museum of New South Wales, Sydney
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 Open Sky, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai Left-wing, Beijing Left Hand, Right Hand, Beijing 798 New Art Zone How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Everyday - From China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
2002	Time After Time: Asian a Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Bumper Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Agriculture Museum, Beijing 2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Here and Now, BueroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany Making China Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York Site + Sight: Translating Cultures, Asian Civilizations Museum, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore Four Corners, Hong Kong 2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea 2002 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2001	De'rvie, Chapman University, Los Angeles, USA Living in Time, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin Womanifesto Workshop, Thailand The 4th Contemporary Sculpture Art Show, ShenZhen, China Reinventing the Images and Signs, Universal Classical Cultural Arts Co. Ltd., Beijing Le Paysage comme Babel, Galerie Les Filles du calvaire, Paris-Bruxelles Crossroads, Cheng Du Contemporary Art Museum, China Chronicles of Women: Illness as Metaphor, Shatin Town Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong 1st Architecture Biennale, China National Galley, Beijing
2000-2003	Text & Subtext, (Touring Exhibition) Earl lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore
2000	Unusuall & Usual; A Contemporary Art Exhibition, YuanGong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai Fuori Uso 2000 "the Bridges" Pescara, Italy 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 Virtual and Real, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing
1999	Flooded Valley, Sao Paulo, Brazil Food for thought: Chinese Characters, Amsterdam Beijing Document, Goethe Institute, Beijing I am Here, Bad Ems, Germany Fast >>forward: New Chinese Video Art, Macao contemporary art center, Macao Supermarket: Art for Sale, Shanghai The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia. Transience: Chinese Art At the end of the 20th Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago In/from China: Art + Archictecture, Berlin, Germany
1998	It's me!: A profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Forbidden City, Beijing Visiting Arts: South East Asian Artists' Residency Programme, Visiting Arts, London Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Asia Society, New York Half of the Sky: Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Frauen Museum, Bonn 20th Century-Feminina, China National Gallery and Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing Wildlife Starting From 1997 Jingzhe, Beijing, Shangai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, China Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China Contemporary Art '98, Art Now Studio, Beijing
1997-99	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	Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporary Female Artists in China, Artcmisia Gallery, Chicago ART/OMI Visual Arts Program, ART/OMI Foundation, New York Against the Tide, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York Another Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Chasse Kazerne-Breda, The Netherlands Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Tokyo and Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan
1996	Suwon: Beijing Art Show, Beijing The 2nd United Art Project with American Artists, Tibet, China The 7th Com-Art Show of Artists from Korea, China and Japan, Suwon City, Korea
1995	File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, New York United Art Project with American Artists, Sichuan, China Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes: Beijing and Berlin Art Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing Displacement, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing
1994	12 o 12: Installation Art show of Women Artists, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing '94 Outdoor Art, Beijing Post October 1st, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing
1993	Exhibition of Modern Art in China, Singapore The 1st Biennial of Chinese Oil Painting, China National Gallery, Beijing
1988	New Time Painting Exhibition, China National Gallery, Beijing


Collections
Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing COM--ART Museum, Korea Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan