Cao Fei
Lives and works in Beijing, China
1978 Born in Guangzhou, ChinaEducation
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
mar 04 - may 17 2020 | Blueprints | Serpentine Galleries,
London |
jun 06 - aug 26 2019 | Cao Fei: HX | Centre Pompidou,
Paris |
oct 06 2018 - jan 13 2019 | Cao Fei | 21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Dusseldorf, Germany |
sep 08 2018 - jan 04 2019 | A hollow in a world too full | Tai Kwun Contemporary,
Hong Kong, China |
- 2016 | Cao Fei | MoMA PS1,
New York, US |
- 2016 | Cao Fei | The Center for Contemporary Art,
Tel Aviv, Israel |
- 2016 | Cao Fei: La Town - 30 years of CFCCA | Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art,
Manchester , UK |
- 2015 | Cao Fei: Shadow Plays | The Mistake Room,
Los Angeles, US |
- 2015 | Cao Fei: Splendid River | Secession,
Vienna, Austria |
- 2015 | Cao Fei: La Town | Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands |
- 2015 | Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand New | Art Basel Hong Kong,
International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong, China |
- 2014 | La Town | Lombard Freid Gallery,
New York, US |
- 2014 | Cao Fei's Theatrical Mirror | OzAsia Festival,
Contemporary Art Center of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia |
- 2013 | Haze and Fog | Eastside Projects,
Birmingham, UK |
- 2013 | Haze and Fog | Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art,
Manchester, UK |
- 2013 | Haze and Fog | Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium,
London, UK |
- 2012 | Cao Fei: Simulus | Surrey Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada |
- 2011 | Play Time | Lombard-Freid,
New York, USA |
- 2011 | RMB City Opera | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, USA |
- 2010 | RMB City | A Space Gallery + Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival,
Toronto, Canada |
- 2010 | RMB City Opera Live Performance Tour | Culturescapes 2010,
Basel, Bern, Switzerland |
- 2010 | Cao Fei: RMB City | CrossFade Lounge, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, USA |
- 2010 | Cao Fei: Utopia | Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
Dunedin, New Zealand |
- 2009 | Out of Space 1: Cao Fei - Whose Utopia | Julia Stoschek Collection, Gloriahalle,
Duesseldorf, Germany |
- 2009 | RMB City Opera | Artissima Art Fair 2009,
Torino, Italy |
- 2009 | Cao Fei: Utopia | Artspace, Aukland,
New Zealand |
- 2009 | Utopia | Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane,
Australia |
- 2009 | Can Fei: Live in RMB City | Shiseido Gallery Solo Exhibition,
Tokyo, Japan |
- 2009 | NO LAB on Tour | Savannah College of Art and Design Lacoste Campus; Galerie Pfriem du SCAD, Lacoste, France |
- 2008 | Cao Fei | Kunsthalle Nürnberg,
Nürnberg, Germany |
- 2008 | Cao Fei: RMB City | Serpentine Gallery, (2008-09),
London, UK |
- 2008 | Cao Fei | Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau,
Paris, France |
- 2008 | RMB City | Lombard-Freid Projects,
New York, USA |
- 2007 | Whose Utopia | CCA Kitakyushu,
Kitakyushu, Japan |
- 2007 | Cao Fei: Whose Utopia? | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA,
USA |
- 2006 | COSPlayers | Para Site Art Space,
Hong Kong |
- 2006 | SIEMENS Art Project 2006: What Are You Doing Here? | Fu Shan OSRAM factory,
Guangzhou, China |
- 2006 | Hip Hop | Lombard-Freid Projects,
New York, USA |
- 2006 | PRD Anti-Heroes | Museum Het Domein, Sittard,
The Netherlands |
- 2005 | COSPlayers | Courtyard Gallery,
Beijing, China |
- 2005 | COSPlayers | Lombard-Freid Fine Arts,
New York, USA |
- 2004 | The San Yuan Li Project | Courtyard Gallery,
Beijing, China |
sep 05 2019 - jan 26 2020 | Micro Era. Media Art from China | A.o., Cao Fei | Kulturforum,
Berlin |
jun 08 - aug 18 2019 | The Street. Where the world is made | A.o., Cao Fei | La Panacée,
Montpellier, France |
may 02 - sep 15 2019 | The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging | A.o., Cao Fei | Museum of Chinese in America,
New York |
mar 01 - jul 31 2019 | Vertiginous Data | A.o., Cao Fei | MMCA Seoul,
South Korea |
feb 16 - may 12 2019 | Producing Futures – An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminism | A.o., Cao Fei | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zürich |
feb 14 - may 12 2019 | Is This Tomorrow? | A.o., Cao Fei | Whitechapel Gallery, London |
dec 21 2018 - may 12 2019 | Zombies: Pay Attention! | Cao Fei | Aspen Art Museum,
Colorado, US |
- 2018 | Cao Fei #18 | Cao Fei | City Gallery Wellington,
New Zealand |
- 2018 | The Street. Where the World is Made | Cao Fei | Maxxi,
Rome, Italy |
- 2018 | The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta | Cao Fei | Times Art Center,
Berlin, Germany |
- 2018 | The Time Needs Changing | Cao Fei | Pera Museum,
Istanbul, Turkey |
- 2018 | 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | Cao Fei | Queensland Art Gallery,
Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Queensland |
- 2018 | Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World | Cao Fei | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),
San Francisco, US |
- 2018 | Heteroglossia - Sinocentrism and Globalization | Cao Fei | How Art Museum,
Shanghai, China |
- 2018 | ANTI, 6th Athens Biennale | Cao Fei | 6th Athens Biennale
Athens, Greece |
- 2018 | 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade Biennial | Cao Fei | Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia |
- 2018 | Virtual Insanity | Cao Fei | Kunsthalle Mainz,
Mainz, Germany |
- 2018 | I Was Raised on the Internet | Cao Fei | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
IL, US |
- 2018 | Extreme. Nomads - RAY 2018 | Cao Fei | MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany |
- 2018 | One Hand Clapping | Cao Fei | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, US |
- 2018 | A World in a Grain of Sand - Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometrie | Cao Fei | Fosun Foundation,
Shanghai, China |
- 2018 | The Szechwan Tale. China, Theater and History | Cao Fei | FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, Italy |
- 2018 | BMW Art Car #18 | Cao Fei | Art Basel,
Hong Kong, China |
- 2018 | On Struggling to Remain Present When You Want to Disappear | Cao Fei | Kadist, OCAT Shanghai,
Shanghai, China |
- 2018 | Art in the Age of the Internet 1989 to Today | Cao Fei | ICA Boston,
MA, US |
- 2018 | Playtime | Cao Fei | Peabody Essex Museum,
MA, US |
- 2018 | globalocal | Cao Fei | Kunsthalle zu Kiel,
Germany |
- 2018 | Human+. The Futur of Our Species | Cao Fei | Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
Rome, Italy |
- 2017 | Art & Life: Social Aesthetics Obscured | Cao Fei | Tranen Contemporary Art Center,
Hellerup, Denmark |
- 2017 | Utopia & Dystopia (Part II) | Cao Fei | MAAT Museum of Art and Technology,
Lisbon, Portugal |
- 2017 | .com/ .cn | Cao Fei | K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1,
Hong Kong, China |
- 2017 | Repousser le tigre dans la montagne | Cao Fei | Centre d'art Le LAIT,
Albi, France |
- 2017 | Haze and Fog | Cao Fei | Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK |
- 2017 | Rip it Up, 2nd Edition of Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale | Cao Fei | Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chongqing, China |
- 2017 | Videobox Festival | Cao Fei | Le Carreau du Temple,
Paris, France |
- 2017 | Mekong - New Mythologies | Cao Fei | Hong Kong Arts Centre Pao Galleries,
Hong Kong, China |
- 2017 | HUMAN+ The Future of Our Species | Cao Fei | ArtScience Museum,
Singapore |
- 2017 | What's in Store?, University of Salford Art Collection | Cao Fei | Salford Museum and Art Gallery,
Salford, UK |
- 2017 | Planet 9 | Cao Fei | Kunsthalle Darmstadt,
Germany |
- 2017 | Space Force Construction | Cao Fei | V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere,
Venice, Italy |
- 2017 | La Town | Cao Fei | Haras d'Annecy,
Annecy, France |
- 2017 | 10 Years Julia Stoschek Collection: Generation Loss | Cao Fei | Julia Stoschek Collection,
Düsseldorf, Germany |
- 2003 | Left Wing | Cao Fei | Left Bank Community,
Beijing, China |
- 2003 | Screening Programme: San Yuan Li Project | Cao Fei | MK2 (Bibliothèque),
Paris, France |
- 2003 | Fabricated Paradises | Cao Fei | Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain,
Ibos, France |
- 2003 | 10th Biennial of the Moving Image | Cao Fei | Geneva, Switzerland |
- 2003 | Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection | Cao Fei | San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art,
San Diego, CA, USA |
- 2003 | Public Space and Personal Eyes | Cao Fei | Kampnagel,
Hamburg, Germany |
- 2003 | Alors la Chine? | Cao Fei | Centre Pompidou,
Paris, France |
- 2003 | Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency) | Cao Fei | 50th Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy |
- 2003 | +system | Cao Fei | Short Videos from the World 2002-2003,
BizArt, Shanghai, China |
- 2003 | The Minority Is Subordinate to the Majority | Cao Fei | BizArt,
Shanghai, China |
- 2002 | Mutations - INVIDEO 2002 | Cao Fei | Spazio Oberdan,
Milan. Italy |
- 2002 | Kino Film Festival | Cao Fei | Kino Film Festival
Manchester, UK |
- 2002 | Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art – The 1st Guangzhou Triennale | Cao Fei | Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China |
- 2002 | Media City Seoul - The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale | Cao Fei | The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale
Seoul, South Korea |
- 2002 | Pause: The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002 | Cao Fei | Gwangju,
South Korea |
- 2002 | Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival | Cao Fei | Clermont-Ferrand,
France |
- 2002 | Making China | Cao Fei | Ethan Cohen Fine Arts,
New York, USA |
- 2001 | Weightlessness | Cao Fei | Galerie Volker Diehl,
Berlin, Germany |
- 2001 | The New Media Art Festival: Non-linear Narrative | Cao Fei | National Academy of Art,
Hangzhou, China |
- 2001 | Living in Time: 29 Contemporary Artists from China | Cao Fei | Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum,
Berlin, Germany |
- 2001 | City Slang: The First Annual Contemporary Art From Zhu Jiang Delta | Cao Fei | Artist Commune,
Cattle Depot Art Village, Hong Kong |
- 2001 | The 2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art | Cao Fei | The 2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany |
- 2001 | Take Part | Cao Fei | Galerie Urs Meile,
Luzern, Switzerland |
- 2001 | Virtual Future | Cao Fei | Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China |
- 2000 | Fuck Off: Uncooperative Approach | Cao Fei | Eastlink Gallery,
Shanghai, China |
- 2000 | Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival: Leaving the Island | Cao Fei | Pusan,
South Korea |
- 2000 | PhotoEspana 2000 | Cao Fei | Madrid,
Spain |
- 1999 | 8th Biennial of Moving Images | Cao Fei | Saint-Gervais Geneva,
Switzerland |
- 1999 | 4th Cross-Strait | Cao Fei | Hong Kong and Macau Student Film & Video Festival,
Hong Kong, Japan |
- 1999 | Video screening | Cao Fei | Galerie Büro Friedrich,
Berlin, Germany |