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biography

Cao Fei

Lives and works in Beijing, China



1978 Born in Guangzhou, China

Education




2001 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
1997 The Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Awards




2017 Apollo 40 under 40 Global Artist, London, UK
2016 Best Artist, CCAA’s Prize, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Beijing, China
2016 Piedra de Sal, Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador
2010 Finalist, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
2010 Finalist, Hugo Boss Prize, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA
2006 Best Young Artist, CCAA’s Prize, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Beijing, China

Selected Public Collections



Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Tate Modern, London, GB
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
M+, Hong Kong

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

mar 04 - may 17 2020BlueprintsSerpentine Galleries,
London
jun 06 - aug 26 2019Cao Fei: HXCentre Pompidou,
Paris
oct 06 2018 - jan 13 2019Cao Fei21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Dusseldorf, Germany
sep 08 2018 - jan 04 2019A hollow in a world too fullTai Kwun Contemporary,
Hong Kong, China
- 2016Cao FeiMoMA PS1,
New York, US
- 2016Cao FeiThe Center for Contemporary Art, 
Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2016Cao Fei: La Town - 30 years of CFCCACentre for Chinese Contemporary Art,
Manchester , UK
- 2015Cao Fei: Shadow PlaysThe Mistake Room,
Los Angeles, US
- 2015Cao Fei: Splendid RiverSecession,
Vienna, Austria
- 2015Cao Fei: La TownBonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2015Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand NewArt Basel Hong Kong,
International Commerce Centre,
Hong Kong, China
- 2014La TownLombard Freid Gallery,
New York, US
- 2014Cao Fei's Theatrical MirrorOzAsia Festival,
Contemporary Art Center of South Australia,
Adelaide, Australia
- 2013Haze and FogEastside Projects,
Birmingham, UK
- 2013Haze and FogCentre for Chinese Contemporary Art, 
Manchester, UK
- 2013Haze and FogTate Modern, Starr Auditorium,
London, UK
- 2012Cao Fei: SimulusSurrey Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
- 2011Play TimeLombard-Freid,
New York, USA
- 2011RMB City OperaThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, USA
- 2010RMB CityA Space Gallery + Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival,
Toronto, Canada
- 2010RMB City Opera Live Performance TourCulturescapes 2010,
Basel, Bern, Switzerland
- 2010Cao Fei: RMB CityCrossFade Lounge, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, USA
- 2010Cao Fei: UtopiaDunedin Public Art Gallery,
Dunedin, New Zealand
- 2009Out of Space 1: Cao Fei - Whose UtopiaJulia Stoschek Collection, Gloriahalle,
Duesseldorf, Germany
- 2009RMB City OperaArtissima Art Fair 2009,
Torino, Italy
- 2009Cao Fei: UtopiaArtspace, Aukland,
New Zealand
- 2009UtopiaInstitute of Modern Art, Brisbane,
Australia
- 2009Can Fei: Live in RMB CityShiseido Gallery Solo Exhibition,
Tokyo, Japan
- 2009NO LAB on TourSavannah College of Art and Design Lacoste Campus; Galerie Pfriem du SCAD, Lacoste, France
- 2008Cao FeiKunsthalle Nürnberg,
Nürnberg, Germany
- 2008Cao Fei: RMB CitySerpentine Gallery, (2008-09),
London, UK
- 2008Cao FeiFrac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau,
Paris, France
- 2008RMB CityLombard-Freid Projects,
New York, USA
- 2007Whose UtopiaCCA Kitakyushu,
Kitakyushu, Japan
- 2007Cao Fei: Whose Utopia?Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA,
USA
- 2006COSPlayersPara Site Art Space,
Hong Kong
- 2006SIEMENS Art Project 2006: What Are You Doing Here?Fu Shan OSRAM factory,
Guangzhou, China
- 2006Hip HopLombard-Freid Projects,
New York, USA
- 2006PRD Anti-HeroesMuseum Het Domein, Sittard,
The Netherlands
- 2005COSPlayersCourtyard Gallery,
Beijing, China
- 2005COSPlayersLombard-Freid Fine Arts,
New York, USA
- 2004The San Yuan Li ProjectCourtyard Gallery,
Beijing, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

sep 05 2019 - jan 26 2020Micro Era. Media Art from China A.o., Cao FeiKulturforum,
Berlin
jun 08 - aug 18 2019The Street. Where the world is made A.o., Cao FeiLa Panacée,
Montpellier, France
may 02 - sep 15 2019The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging A.o., Cao FeiMuseum of Chinese in America,
New York
mar 01 - jul 31 2019Vertiginous Data A.o., Cao FeiMMCA Seoul,
South Korea
feb 16 - may 12 2019Producing Futures – An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminism A.o., Cao FeiMigros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zürich
feb 14 - may 12 2019Is This Tomorrow? A.o., Cao FeiWhitechapel Gallery, London
dec 21 2018 - may 12 2019Zombies: Pay Attention! Cao FeiAspen Art Museum,
Colorado, US
- 2018Cao Fei #18 Cao FeiCity Gallery Wellington,
New Zealand
- 2018The Street. Where the World is Made Cao FeiMaxxi,
Rome, Italy
- 2018The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta Cao FeiTimes Art Center,
Berlin, Germany
- 2018The Time Needs Changing Cao FeiPera Museum,
Istanbul, Turkey
- 20189th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Cao FeiQueensland Art Gallery,
Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA),
Queensland
- 2018Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World Cao FeiSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),
San Francisco, US
- 2018Heteroglossia - Sinocentrism and Globalization Cao FeiHow Art Museum,
Shanghai, China
- 2018ANTI, 6th Athens Biennale Cao Fei6th Athens Biennale
Athens,
Greece
- 201857th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade Biennial Cao FeiCultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
- 2018Virtual Insanity Cao FeiKunsthalle Mainz,
Mainz, Germany
- 2018I Was Raised on the Internet Cao FeiMuseum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
IL, US
- 2018Extreme. Nomads - RAY 2018 Cao FeiMMK Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany
- 2018One Hand Clapping Cao FeiSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, US
- 2018A World in a Grain of Sand - Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometrie Cao FeiFosun Foundation,
Shanghai, China
- 2018The Szechwan Tale. China, Theater and History Cao FeiFM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, Italy
- 2018BMW Art Car #18 Cao FeiArt Basel,
Hong Kong, China
- 2018On Struggling to Remain Present When You Want to Disappear Cao FeiKadist, OCAT Shanghai,
Shanghai, China
- 2018Art in the Age of the Internet 1989 to Today Cao FeiICA Boston,
MA, US
- 2018Playtime Cao FeiPeabody Essex Museum,
MA, US
- 2018globalocal Cao FeiKunsthalle zu Kiel,
Germany
- 2018Human+. The Futur of Our Species Cao FeiPalazzo delle Esposizioni,
Rome, Italy
- 2017Art & Life: Social Aesthetics Obscured Cao FeiTranen Contemporary Art Center,
Hellerup, Denmark
- 2017Utopia & Dystopia (Part II) Cao FeiMAAT Museum of Art and Technology,
Lisbon, Portugal
- 2017.com/ .cn Cao FeiK11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1,
Hong Kong, China
- 2017Repousser le tigre dans la montagne Cao FeiCentre d'art Le LAIT,
Albi, France
- 2017Haze and Fog Cao FeiTate Exchange, Tate Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK
- 2017Rip it Up, 2nd Edition of Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale Cao FeiChangjiang Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chongqing, China
- 2017Videobox Festival Cao FeiLe Carreau du Temple,
Paris, France
- 2017Mekong - New Mythologies Cao FeiHong Kong Arts Centre Pao Galleries,
Hong Kong, China
- 2017HUMAN+ The Future of Our Species Cao FeiArtScience Museum,
Singapore
- 2017What's in Store?, University of Salford Art Collection Cao FeiSalford Museum and Art Gallery, 
Salford, UK
- 2017Planet 9 Cao FeiKunsthalle Darmstadt,
Germany
- 2017Space Force Construction Cao FeiV-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere,
Venice, Italy
- 2017La Town Cao FeiHaras d'Annecy,
Annecy, France
- 201710 Years Julia Stoschek Collection: Generation Loss Cao FeiJulia Stoschek Collection,
Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2003Left Wing Cao FeiLeft Bank Community,
Beijing, China
- 2003Screening Programme: San Yuan Li Project Cao FeiMK2 (Bibliothèque),
Paris, France
- 2003Fabricated Paradises Cao FeiLe Parvis centre d'art contemporain,
Ibos, France
- 200310th Biennial of the Moving Image Cao FeiGeneva, Switzerland
- 2003Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection Cao FeiSan Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art,
San Diego, CA, USA
- 2003Public Space and Personal Eyes Cao FeiKampnagel,
Hamburg, Germany
- 2003Alors la Chine? Cao FeiCentre Pompidou,
Paris, France
- 2003Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency) Cao Fei50th Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy
- 2003+system Cao FeiShort Videos from the World 2002-2003,
BizArt, Shanghai, China
- 2003The Minority Is Subordinate to the Majority Cao FeiBizArt,
Shanghai, China
- 2002Mutations - INVIDEO 2002 Cao FeiSpazio Oberdan,
Milan. Italy
- 2002Kino Film Festival Cao FeiKino Film Festival
Manchester, UK
- 2002Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art – The 1st Guangzhou Triennale Cao FeiGuangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China
- 2002Media City Seoul - The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale Cao FeiThe 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale
Seoul,
South Korea
- 2002Pause: The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002 Cao FeiGwangju,
South Korea
- 2002Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Cao FeiClermont-Ferrand, 
France
- 2002Making China Cao FeiEthan Cohen Fine Arts,
New York, USA
- 2001Weightlessness Cao FeiGalerie Volker Diehl,
Berlin, Germany
- 2001The New Media Art Festival: Non-linear Narrative Cao FeiNational Academy of Art,
Hangzhou, China
- 2001Living in Time: 29 Contemporary Artists from China Cao FeiHamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum,
Berlin, Germany
- 2001City Slang: The First Annual Contemporary Art From Zhu Jiang Delta Cao FeiArtist Commune,
Cattle Depot Art Village, Hong Kong
- 2001The 2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art Cao FeiThe 2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
- 2001Take Part Cao FeiGalerie Urs Meile,
Luzern, Switzerland
- 2001Virtual Future Cao FeiGuangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China
- 2000Fuck Off: Uncooperative Approach Cao FeiEastlink Gallery,
Shanghai, China
- 2000Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival: Leaving the Island Cao FeiPusan,
South Korea
- 2000PhotoEspana 2000 Cao FeiMadrid,
Spain
- 19998th Biennial of Moving Images Cao FeiSaint-Gervais Geneva,
Switzerland
- 19994th Cross-Strait Cao FeiHong Kong and Macau Student Film & Video Festival,
Hong Kong, Japan
- 1999Video screening Cao FeiGalerie Büro Friedrich,
Berlin, Germany