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Biography: Ai Weiwei

Born 1957, Beijing
Lives and works in Beijing


Solo Exhibitions


2008

Ai Weiwei, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul

Under construction, Sherman
Contemporary Art Foundation,
Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney

Illumination, Mary Boone Gallery,
New
York

Go China! Ai Weiwei, Groninger
Museum, Groningen


2007

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne,
Lucerne

Traveling Landscapes, AedesLand,
Berlin


2006

Fragments, Galerie Urs Meile,
Beijing-
Lucerne, Beijing


2004

Kunsthalle Bern, Berne

Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum
voor Kunst en Cultuur, Ghent

Robert Miller Gallery, New York


2003

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne,
Lucerne


1988

Old Shoes - Safe Sex, Art Waves
Gallery, New York

Asian Foundation, San Francisco

Selected Group Exhibitions


2007

documenta 12, Kassel

The Year of the Golden Pig -
Contemporary Chinese Art from the
Sigg Collection
, Lewis Glucksman
Gallery, Cork University College, Cork

The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from
China
, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool


2006

MoCA Envisage / Entry Gate: Chinese
Aesthetics of Heterogeneity

Museum of Contemporary Art
Shanghai,Shanghai

The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art
, Queensland Art
Gallery Queensland

Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial of
Sydney, Sydney

Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge
Spitzer
,
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
am Main


2005

Mahjong - Chinesische Gegen-
wartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg
,
Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne


2002

1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002,
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou


1999

d'Apertutto, 48th Venice Biennale,
Venice


1979

The first Star Exhibition,
outside the
National Art Museum of China, Beijing



Selected Architectural Projects


2008

Curating, urban planning and landscape
design for Ordos 100, Ordos, China


2007

Three Shadows Photography Arts
Center, Beijing


2004

Curator of the Jinhua Architectural Art
Garden & Designer of garden landscape,
Jinhua


2003

National Stadium for Beijing's 2008
Olympics, in conjunction with Herzog &
De Meuron, Beijing Landscape design
for Beijing's 2008 Olympics, Beijing


2002

Landscape design for Yiwu River Bank,
Jinhua


2000

Landscape design of Soho
Contemporary City, Beijing
China Art Archives and Warehouse,
Beijing


1999

Ai Weiwei Studio, Beijing

Source:International 08 Made Up, Liverpool Biennial Catalogue
Date of source:2008

Gender: male
Type: person