

CAO FEI
Born 1978, Guangzhou, China Lives and works in Beijing, China
Education
2001 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts 1997 The Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Cao Fei: Whose Utopia?, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2006 PRD Anti-Heroes, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands Hip Hop, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York What Are You Doing Here?, SIEMENS Art Project 2006, Fu Shan OSRAM factory, Guangzhou, China COSPlayers, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong 2005 COSPlayers, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York COSPlayers, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 2004 The San Yuan Li Project, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 2003 Skowhegan Art Residency, Skowhegan, Maine
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Everyday Miracles, 52nd Venice Biennale, Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy Infiltration and Sound(e)scape, Senda-Espai 2nou2, Barcelona, Spain Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France Moving Targets: Business As Usual/ New Video from China/ Cao Fei and Yang Fudong, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ RED HOT- Asian Art from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston, TX The Real Thing, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK World Factory: Resistance and Dreams, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2006 China Power Station: Part 1, Battersea Power Station, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Panoramica- Ciclo de video: Mascaradas: disfraces, espejos, mascaras, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico New Photographers 2007, Cannes Lions Festival, Cannes, France Singapore Biennale, Singapore Empire and back, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Muenster, Germany China Contemporary exhibition, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Gaermany People, Land, State, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Japanimation, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing, China Guangzhou: Cantonese Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland AllLookSame?, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Guangzhou, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Territory, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Political Equator, University of California, San Diego, CA; Tijuana, Mexico Good Vibrations-le Arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Joy, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 15th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia Beijing Case: Culture of the High Speed Urbanism, The Center for Art and Median(ZKM) , Karlsruhe, Germany Never Go Out Without My DV cam - Video Art from China, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain Fantasy Landscapes, Asia House, London Festival of Love: Video Art Series, Asia Society, New York Astrup Fearnley Collection: Photo and Video, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway 2005 Irreality, Para Site, Hong Kong,China Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, NAMOC National Art Museum Of China, Beijing, China Mahjong, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Exchange Value of Pleasure, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea Art Basel Miami Beach Art Video Lounge: A Kind of a Portraiture Program, Miami, FL Sweet Taboos, 3rd Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania We Are the World, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Riena Sofia, Madrid, Spain I still believe in miracles, Part II, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Trouble with Fantasy, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany Out of Sight, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Neatherlands Get It Louder, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China Unspeakable Happiness, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico Women by Women IN PHOTOGRAPHY part two, Cook Fine Art, NY, New York CIRCULAR-domas, 2005 Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now, The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan Follow Me!: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan Emergency Biennale in Chechnya: A suitcase from Paris to Grosny, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Millennium, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1st Montpellier Biennale, Montpellier, France The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial: BEYOND an Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Yoko Ono’s Water Event 2005, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London London Chinese Film Festival 2005, SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, London, England Borders in Asia, World Social Forum, Porte Alegro, Brazil Dialectics of Hope, 1 Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia 2004 Do It, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taiwan, China Nuit Blanche, Art Public Contemporain, Paris, France Impakt Festival, Netherlands Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California Die Chinesen: Contemporary Photography and Video in China, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 5th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China China Moon, Watermill Center, Watermill, New York A l'Est du Sud de l'Ouest, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Villa Arson Nice, France Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, ICP and Asia Society, New York, NY Tatig Sein, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. (NGBK), Berlin, Germany China Now, Gramercy Theatre, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Chine: Generation Video, Maison Européenne de la Photogrqaphie, Paris, France Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan Heads & Portraits, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany Feverish Unconscious, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY Generation Video, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, South Korea 2003 Left Wing, Left Bank Community, Beijing, China Screening Programme: San Yuan Li Project, MK2 (Bibliothèque), Paris, France Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Ibos, France 10th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California Public Space and Personal Eyes, Kampnagel, Hamburg Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency), 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy +system, Short Videos from the World 2002-2003, BizArt, Shanghai The Minority Is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai 2002 In/Video, Milan. Italy Kino Film Festival, Manchester, UK Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art – The 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou Media City Seoul The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea Pause: The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, South Korea Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY 2001 Weightlessness, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany The New Media Art Festival: Non-linear Narrative, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Living in Time: 29 Contemporary Artists from China, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin, Germany City Slang, Art Village, Hong Kong, Japan The 2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Take Part, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland Virtual Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 2000 Fuck Off: Uncooperative Approach, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival: Leaving the Island, Pusan, South Korea PhotoEspana 2000, Madrid, Spain 1999 8th Biennial of Moving Images, Saint-Gervais Geneva, Switzerland 4th Cross-Strait, Hong Kong and Macau Student Film & Video Festival, Hong Kong, Japan Video screening, Galerie Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany
Film Projects
2006 Yuannan New Film Project, Yuannan Provincial Teleplay and Film Creation Supervision Panel, Yuannan and Beijing. 2005 Milkman 1999 Imbalance 257
Fellowship Program
2005 Beijing Case: Culture of the High Speed Urbanism, German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes), German |