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AI WEIWEI

Present Lives and works in , 2012 Pavilion for the London Olympics, collaboration with Herzog and de Meuron, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 2008 Collaborated on design for Bird’s Nest, for 2008 Summer Olympics 1994 Founded China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China 1993 Returned to China 1983 Attended , New York, NY 1981-93 Lived in New York, NY 1978 Enrolled in 1957 Born in Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions

2013-2012 Weiwei: According to What?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana . Resistance and Tradition, CAAC, Seville, Spain Ai Weiwei. Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark Fragments, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC Ai Weiwei: According to What?, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

2012 Ai Weiwei: Perspectives, Freer and Sackler Galleries, , Washington, DC Ai Weiwei, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands

2011-2012 Ai Weiwei: Interlacing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals, Somerset House, London, UK; Pulitzer Central Park, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

2011 Ai Weiwei: Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, Asia Society, New York, NY Ai Weiwei: Art/Architecture, , Bregenz, Austria Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Kunsthalle , Cully, Switzerland

2010 A Few Works from Ai Wei Wei, Alexander Ochs Gallery, , Germany;

Beijing, China The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei. , Turbine Hall, London, England Ai Weiwei: Barely Something. Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn. (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE - 2010 CE). Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

2009 So Sorry. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Ai Weiwei: According to What? Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993. Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China Ai Weiwei. Friedman Benda, New York, NY

2008 Under Construction. Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Cambelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Go China! Ai Weiwei. Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands Ai Weiwei. Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

2007 Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland Traveling Landscapes. AedesLand, Berlin, Germany

2006 Fragments. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China

2004 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

1988 Old Shoes - Safe Sex. Art Waves Gallery, New York, NY

1982 Asian Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2013-2014 Inaugural Show: Looking Back. The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH

2013 Bang Installation, Venice Art Biennale 2013, Venice, Italy

2012 Serpentine Pavilion 2012, with Herzog de Meuron, London, UK Art + Press, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Public: Collective Identity: Occupied Space, Contact Festival, Toronto,

2011 Contemporary Clay: Group Exhibition, RH Gallery, New York, NY Camulodunum, Inaugural exhibition at Firstsite, Colchester, England Shansui - Poetry Without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland The last freedom: From the pioneers of Land-Art of the 1960s to nature in cyberspace, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany I promise to love you, Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2010 Radical Conceptual. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Beg Borrow and Steal. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Zeitgenössische chinesische Fotografie, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2009 Double Happiness. A Belgian Chinese dialogue on contemporary art. Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, Belgium The China Project. Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

2008 OUT THERE: Architecture Beyond Building. Biennale Architecture, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy Half-Life of a Dream. Contemporary from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 5th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK Super Fengshui: UCCA Site Commissions. Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA Map Games: Dynamics of Change. Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Reconstruction # 3. The Artists Playground. Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK China. The City exp(l)osed. Institut Francais d'Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France Delirious Beijing. PKM Gallery, Beijing, China Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition Iberia Center for Contemporary Art. Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China RED Aside: Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection. Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain The Real Thing. Contemporary Art from China. Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

2007 EI - Entity Identity - Beijing Series. Western Concepts - Chinese Drafts. Stedelijk Museum s' Hertogenbosch, MB 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection. CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL Inspired by China - Contemporary Furniture makers Explore Chinese Traditions. Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA Branded and on Display. Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Wichita, KS China Now. Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Get It Louder. SOHO Shangdu, Beijing, China Something New Pussycat. Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany Energies – Synergy. Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium Chinese Video: Chord Chances in the Megalopolis. Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg. Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria documenta 12, Kassel, Germany Contemporary Art Exhibitions of Kogo Art Space. Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, China Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art. Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves. Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Art from China - Collection Uli Sigg. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil China Welcomes you... Desires, Struggles, New Identities. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria The Year of the Golden Pig - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland Money. Beijing Today Gallery, Beijing, China Forged Realities. Universal Studios, Beijing, China The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK We are the future. (Project). 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Centre Winzavod, Moscow, Russia Branded and on Display. Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL A Continuous Dialogue. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2006 Art in Motion - Chinese Contemporary Art meets BMW Art Cars. Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China This Is Not For You - Sculptural Discourses. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Detours. Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China. Eric Arthur Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of

Toronto, Toronto, Canada CHINA NOW - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs / Art in times of change. Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany MoCA Envisage / Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity. Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia Zones of Contact. 15th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Territorial. Ai Weiwei und Serge Spitzer. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Altered, Stitched and Gathered. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, NY China Power Station I. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. Nasher Museum of Art at , Durham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Busan Biennial 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea Misleading Trails. Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD Cityscapes 'Beijing Welcomes You'. Ein Stadtmodell von Lu Hao sowie Fotografien von Ai Weiwei. Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany A Continuous Dialogue. Galleria Continua, Beijing, China Inspired by China - Contemporary Furniture makers Explore Chinese Traditions. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA China Contemporary. Architecture, Art and Visual Culture. Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands Black and Blue. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA Antique Modernity - Breaking Traditions. Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY 2006 Beaufort Outside. Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium China zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft / Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA

2005 The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Misleading Trails. Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Convergence at E116'/N40. Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography. Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg. Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland 1st Monpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France Cina. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists. Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Herzog & de Meuron. An Exhibition. Tate Modern, London, UK Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA No 250. An Exhibition. Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron. Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2004 Silknet - Emerging Chinese Artists. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland Persona3. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China Le Printemps de Chine. CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence, USA Piss Off. Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Misleading Trails. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Regeneration. Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. John Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI On the Edge - Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video. Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions. Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. Museum of Contemporary Art Printemps Chicago and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; International Center of Photography, New York, NY Modern Style in East Asia. Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China Herzog & de Meuron. No 250. Eine Ausstellung. Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

2003 New Zone - Chinese Art. Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland A Strange Heaven. Contemporary Chinese Photography. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic Junction. Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art. Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China Cement - Marginal Space in Contemporary Art. Chamber Fine Arts, New York, NY

2002 China - Tradition und Moderne. Museum Ludwig Galerie Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany Art from a Changing World. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hoevikodden, Norway 1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2001 TAKE PART II. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland TU MU. Young Chinese Architecture. Aedes Galerie, Berlin, Germany TAKE PART I. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

2000 Fuck off. EastLink Gallery, Shanghai, China Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups. BizArt, Shanghai, China Our Chinese Friends. ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany

1999 Innovations Part I. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China d'APERTutto. 48th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Modern China Art Foundation Collection. Caermersklooster - Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium Concepts, Colors and Passions. China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing, China

1998 Double Kitsch: Painters from China. Max Protetch, New York, NY

1997 A Point of Contact. Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art. Daegu Art & Culture Hall, Daegu, Korea

1996 Begegnung mit China. Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

1995 Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen. Angermuseum, Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany Change-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition. Goteborg Museum, Goteborg, Sweden

1993 Chinese Contemporary Art - The Stars 15 Years. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1989 The Stars: Ten Years. Hanart Gallery, Hongkong The Stars: Ten Years. Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1987 The Star at Harvard: Chinese Dissident Art. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, , MA

1986 China's New Expression. Municipal Gallery, New York, NY Avant-Garde Chinese Art. Albany University Art Museum, Albany, NY

1980 The second Star Exhibition. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1979 The first Star Exhibition. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Public Collections

Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Kent Logan Collection, Vail, CO Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Saatchi Collection, London, England Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Sigg Collection, Switzerland Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Tate, London, England Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Awards

2012 Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

2011 Time Magazine’s List of 100 Most Influential Figures of 2011 Wall Street Journal Innovators of the Year Award Award for Courage

Select Literature

Adrià, Miquel, Alberto Campo Baeza, Kurt Forster, Zaha Hadid Davina Jackson and Jong-Kyu Kim. 10x10 2. London: Phaidon, 2007.

Ai, Weiwei. Ed. Ai Weiwei: Beijing 10/2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 ltd., 2005.

Ai, Weiwei. “The Multiple Predicaments and Upturns of Chinese Contemporary Art.” In Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.

Ai, Weiwei. The White Cover Book. Beijing: Red Flag Books, 1995.

Ai Weiwei, Aaron Betsky and Charles Merewether. Ai Weiwei. London: Albion Gallery, 2008.

Ai, Weiwei, Chen Weiqing and Nataline Colonnello. Ai Weiwei: Fragments 2006. Beijing: Galerie Urs Meile in collaboration with Timezone 8, 2006.

Ai Weiwei, Gao Minglu, Nataline Colonnello and Paul Donker Duyvis. Li Zhanhyang: Rent Collection Yard. Beijing/Lucerne: Galerie Urs Meile, 2008.

Ai, Weiwei and U. Grosenick. “All the Arts are the Same—and Different.” In China Art Book. The 80 most renowned Chinese artists. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2007.

Ai, Weiwei, Hua Tianxue and Feng Boyi. Fuck Off. Shanghai: Eastlink Gallery, 2000.

Ai, Weiwei and Eduard Kögel. Fake Design in the Village. Berlin: Andesland, 2007.

Ai, Weiwei, Camille Morineau and Nataline Colonnello. Energies-Synergy. Belgium: Foundation De Elf Lijnen, 2007.

Ai Weiwei and Karen Smith. Ai Weiwei: Illumination. New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 2008.

Ai Weiwei, and Peter Pakesch. Ai Weiwei. Works 2004 – 2007. China: Galerie Urs Meile, 2007.

Ai, Weiwei, J.P. Van der Meiren, Beatrice, Leanza and Carole Lauvergne. Ai Weiwei. Ghent: Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.

Ai, Weiwei and . The Black Cover Book. Beijing: Red Flag Books, 1994.

Ai, Weiwei and Zeng Xiaojun. The Grey Cover Book. Beijing: Red Flag Books, 1997.

Art Basel Conversations. China: New Opportunities in the Global Art Arena. National Art Museum of China, September 12, 2006. Germany: Hatje Cantz and Art Basel, 2006.

Ammer, M. “2007 Ai Weiwei. Fairytale Performance.” In Documenta Kassel 16.06— 23/09 2007. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.

Bernell, R and Ai Weiwei. “Ai Weiwei with Robert Bernell.” Interview in Chinese Art at the End of the Millenium. [Clark, J. Ed.] Hong Kong: New Art Media ltd., 2000.

Brewinska, M. New Zone. Chinese Art. Warsaw: Zacheta National Gallery of Art, 2003.

Brewinska, M. “New Zone. Chinese Art.” In New Zone Chinese Art. Warsaw: Zacheta National Gallery of Art, 2003.

Buergel, Roger M. and Ruth Noack. Documenta 12. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.

Cavalera, Fabio. Il Manager dei bagni pubblici (e alter storie di vita cinese). Milan: Rizzoli, 2007.

Chaos, Y. Chen and Brian Droitcour. Eds We Are Your Future. 2nd Moscow Biennale. China: John Isaacs Books in Association with Art Star Books, 2007.

Clark, John and Hans van Dijk. Modern Chinese Art Foundation. Belgium: Osst- Vlanderen, 1999.

Clark, John Ed. and Robert Bernell. Chinese Art at the End of the Millenium. Hong Kong: Art Media Limited, 2000.

Clark, J. and Hans van Dijk. Modern Chinese Art Foundation. Belgium: Provincieraad, 1999.

Colonello, N. “Fragments Dialogue.” In Fragments Beijing 2006 Ai Weiwei. Beijing/Lucerne: Galeries Urs Meile, Timezone 8 Ltd., 2006.

Cram, G. and D. Zyman. “Interview with Ai Weiwei.” In Shooting Back. Vienna: Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007.

Dijk, H. v, J. Noth, A. Schmid, et al. China Avantgarde. Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1993.

Feng, Boyi. “Ai Weiwei. Ming-Style Furniture 1999 Installation. In The First Guangzhou Triennial – Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art [1990-2000]. [Wu Hung, Huangsheng anf Feng Boyi. Eds.] Guangzhou/Chicago: Guangdong Museum of Art/Media Resources, 2002.

Fibicher, B. “Ai Weiwei.” In Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.

Gong, Mingguang. Art in Motion. Shanghai: Shanghai Shuhua, 2006.

Groom, S. “The Real Thing.” In The Real Thing. Contemporary Art in China. New York: Abrams, 2007.

Guangdong Museum of Art. An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization. Guangzhou: Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005.

Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guo Xiaoyan. Guangdong Museum of Art: An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization. Guangzhou: Lingnan Fine Arts, 2005

Hua Tianxue, Ai Weiwei, Feng Boyi. Eds. Fuck Off. Shanghai: Eastlink Gallery, 2000.

Jansen, G. “Seismic Shifts in ‘Grand Narratives:’ Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves.” In Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves. [Rhee, W. Weibel, P. Jansen, G. Eds.] Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2007.

Jodidio, P. “Fake Design.” In Architecture in China. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.

Lauvergne, C. “Renaissance.” In Ai Weiwei. Ghent: Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.

Leanza, B. “Interval – From Dabeiyao to Dabeiyao. In Ai Weiwei. Ghent: Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.

Lü Peng, Yi Dan. A History of China Modern Art 1979-1989. Hunan: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1992.

Mami, Kataoka, Charles Merewether and Matsubara Hironori. Ai Weiwei: According to What? Japan: Mori Art Museum and Tankosha Publishing Co., ltd, 2009.

Merewether, Charles. Ai Weiwei: Under Construction. Australia: University of New South Wales Press in association with Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and Campbelltown Arts Center, 2008.

Merewether, Charles. “Ai Weiwei.” In Zones of Contact. Sydney: Biennale of Sydney, 2006.

Merewether, Charles. Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.

Merewether, Charles and Ai Weiwei. “Changing Perspective.” Interview in Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.

Morineau, C. “Tradition, Expantion, Exile Individual Paths in Chinese Contemporary Art.” In Energies – Synergy. Oudenburg: Fondation De Elf Lijnen, 2007.

Napack, J. “Ai Weiwei.” In Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.

Neidhofer, A. “Images of Reality. Forms of Realism and Expression in Chinese Contemporary Art.” In Art in Motion. [Gong Mingguang. Ed.] Shanghai: Shanghai Shuhua Publsihing House, 2006.

Niermann, I. “Ai Weiwei. The Materials of Ai Weiwei.” In China Welcomes You…Desires Struggles, New Identities. [Pakesch, P. Ed.] Cologne: Verlag der Buchhand, 2007.

Ochoa Foster, Elena and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Eds. Ai Weiwei: Ways Beyond Art. London: Ivory Press, 2009.

Palazzoli, D. Cina. Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea. Milan: Skira Edittore, 2005.

Pollack, B. “Ai Weiwei.” In China Art Book. The 80 most renowned Chinese artists. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2007.

Shin Yong, Kim, D. A point of contact – Korean, Chinese, Japanese contemporary art. Korea: Taegu Art & Culture Hall, 1997.

Siemons, Mark and Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei: So Sorry. Munich: Prestel, 2009.

Smith, Karen, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bernard Fibicher. Ai Weiwei. London/New York: Phaidon, 2009.

Smith, Karen. “Ai Weiwei.” In The Real Thing. Contemporary Art in China. [Groom, S. Ed.] New York: Abrams, 2007.

Smith, Karen. Nine Lives. The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China. Switzerland: Scalo, 2005.

Tiffin, S. “Ai Weiwei. Redefined Anarchy.” In The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. [Seear, L. and Raffel, S. Eds.] Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2006.

Van den Bussche, W. “Ai Weiwei.” In 2006 Beaufort. 2e Tiennale d’art contemporain sur mer. Ghent: Borgerhoff & Lamberights, 2006.

Van der Meiren, J.P. “Ai Weiwei.” In Ai Weiwei. Caermersklooster Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 2004.

Van der Zijpp, Sue-an and Mark Wilson. Ai Weiwei. Netherlands: NAi Publishers, 2008.

Vine, Richard. New China. New Art. New York: Prestel, 2008.

Yap, Chin-Chin. “A Handful of Dust.” In Ai Weiwei. Works: Beijing 1993-2003. [Merewether, C. Ed.] Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.

Yap, Chin-Chin. and Ai Weiwei. “Conversations. Ai Weiwei with Chin-Chin Yap. In Works: Beijing 1993-2003. [Merewether, C. Ed.] Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003.

The China Project. Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009.

Select Press

2013

Yiquan, Wang. “Interview: Ai Weiwei on His Hectic Digital Life.” Blouin Artinfo, July 29, 2013.

Bollen, Christopher. "Ai Weiwei: On the Ground in China with the Dissident Artist Who is leading a Global Revolution for Free Expression-That is, if the Government doesn't Stop Him First." Interview Magazine, August 2013.

2012

Camille, J.J. “At Home with Ai Weiwei.” Art in America, January 2012.

Osnos, Evan. “Ai Weiwei: At Home, In Absentia.” NewYorker.com, January 27, 2012.

BBC News, “Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds Bought by Tate,” March 5, 2012.

Kepler, Adam. “Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron to Design Serpentine Pavilion”, , February 7, 2012.

Pulver, Andrew. “Berlin 2012: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry – review”, , Feb 13, 2012.

Brown, Mark. “Ai Weiwei and Beijing stadium architects to make Serpentine pavilion”, The Guardian, February 7, 2012.

Crow, Kelly. “The Artist: He Pushes”, The Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2012.

2011 Beech, Hannah and Austin Ramzy. “Person of the Year: Ai Weiwei: The Dissident”, Time, December 14, 2011

Crow, Kelly. "The Art of Resistance." Wall Street Journal Magazine, November 2011.

Knight, Christopher. "Art Review: Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animal Heads/Zodiac Heads' at LACMA." Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2011.

Barbier, Laura. ”Circle of Animal Heads.” Domus, June 2011.

Davis, Ben. “Chinese Officials Accuse Ai Weiwei of Tax Evasion, Whie U.S. Museums Are Criticized for Partnering With China.” ARTINFO, May 23, 2011.

Rovzar, Chris. "Giant Animal Heads by Ai Weiwei Unveiled at Plaza Hotel Fountain." New York Magazine, May 4, 2011.

Vine, Richard. “Ai Weiwei Still Detained, Rears Heads in NY.” Art in America, May 5, 2011.

Pollack, Barbara. "Crossing the Line in China." Artnews, May 2011.

Bowie-Sell, Daisy. "Ai Weiwei Public Sculpture Opens in New York, But Where is the Artist?" The Telegraph, May 2, 2011.

Klayman, Alison. “Crackdown on Ai Weiwei Extends to Family, Friends, and Associates.” PBS Frontline, April 19, 2011.

Davis Ben. "1,001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei" Protesters Wouldn't Stand For Chinese Oppression." ARTINFO, April 18, 2011.

Sydell, Laura. "Art and Consequence: A Talk with Controversial Artist Ai Weiwei." NPR, April 16, 2011.

Vergne, Philippe. "Join Me in Protest of Ai Weiwei's Arrest." ARTINFO, April 15, 2011.

Davis, Ben. "Amid Chinese Reports That Ai Weiwei Has Confessed Guilt, a Global Protest Is Planned and Blackjack Players Remember Their "Guru." ARTINFO, April 14, 2011.

Lloyd, Beth. "Prominent Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Detained and Missing." ABC News, April 4, 2011.

Tan. Clarissa. "Ai Weiwei Points to a Bigger Picture." The Spectator, April 14, 2011.

Davis, Ben. "Ai Weiwei Faces Strange New Accusations in China as Supporters Rally in Hong Kong: The Latest Developments." ARTINFO, April 11, 2011.

Davis, Ben. "Diplomat Blasts China as Ai WeiAwei's Disappearance Becomes an International Incident." ARTINFO, April 5, 2011.

Goodman, Wendy. “Great Room: A Dissident Did Our Guest-House.” New York, October 30, 2011.

Griffin, Kevin. "Canada Must Join Call for Release of Artist Ai Weiwei: VAG Curator." Vancouver Sun, April 5, 2011.

Branigan, Tania. "Ai Weiwei: France and Germany Lead Calls for Artist's Release." The Guardian, April 4, 2011.

Davis, Ben. "Ai Weiwei Arrested in Beijing, Prompting International Outcry." ARTINFO, April 4, 2011.

Sharp, Rob. "Arts Community Unites for the Release of Dissident Ai Weiwei." The Independent, April 4, 2011.

______. “Ai Wei Wei Willing to Go to Jail.” CNNGO.com, March 15, 2011.

______. “Ai Weiwei’s New Art Installation Expected to Tour US.” The Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2011

______. “Ai Weiwei’s Shanghai Art Studio is Torn Down Without Interference.” , January 12, 2011.

______. “China Artist Ai Weiwei’s Shanghai Studio Demolished.” BBC News Asia Pacific, January 12, 2011.

Osnos, Evans. “Ai Weiwei and the Art of Demolition.” The New Yorker, January 12, 2011.

Wong, Edward. “Chinese Authorities Raze an Artists Studio.” The New York Times, January 12, 2011.

Peers, Alexandra. “Whitewashing the Art World: What’s Behind the Climate of Censorship.” The New York Observer Culture, January 11, 2011.

2010 Secher, Benjamin. “Ai Weiwei’s : setting a new benchmark.” Guardian.uk.co, October 12, 2010.

Dorment, Richard. “Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Tate Modern, review.” Telegraph, “ October 11, 2010.

Higgins, Charlotte. “People power comes to the Turbine Hall: Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds.” Guardian.co.uk, October 11, 2010.

Searle, Adrian. “Tate Modern’s sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand.” Guardian.co.uk, October 11, 2010.

Gayford, Martin. “Ai Weiwei Interview for Tate Modern Unilever Series.” Telegraph, October 5, 2010.

Clark, Garth. “Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE – 2010 CE.” Art Asia Pacific, September – October, 2010.

Burns, Charlotte and Georgina Adam. “Ai Weiwei recreates stolen bronzes in Brazil.” The Art Newspaper, (web only) September 28, 2010.

“Ai Weiwei.” Whitewall, Spring, 2010.

Osnos, Evan. “It’s Not Beautiful.” New Yorker, May 17 – 23, 2010.

Baker, Kenneth. “Ai Weiwei: Sculptural Pileup of meaning.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2010.

“Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Transforms the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.” Artdaily.org, May, 2010.

Pilling, David. “Lunch with the FT: Ai Weiwei.” Financial Times.com, April 23, 2010.

The Editors. “Google or China: Who Has More to Lose?” The New York Times, March 23, 2010.

Branigan, Tania. “Ai Weiwei: I have to speak for the people who are afraid.” The Guardian, March 18, 2010.

Evans, Tom. “Activist: China trying to silence critics.” CNN, March 17, 2010.

Ventura, Catherine. “Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So.” Huffington Post, March 17, 2010.

Ng, David. “Artist Ai Weiwei makes rare U.S. appearance to talk about digital activism.” Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2010.

Scott, Megan K. “Twitter working on Chinese registration page.” The Washington Post, March 15, 2010.

Thimm, Katja. “Detail und große Geste.” Der Spiegel, March 15, 2010.

Oster, Shai. “Activist’s Test China’s Promises to Open Up.” The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2010.

Hill, Amelia. “Tate Modern Turbine Hall to host China’s Warhol.” Guardian, March 5, 2010.

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2009 Frazier, David. “Ai Weiwei: According to What?” ArtAsiaPacific, November-December, 2009.

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Baeker, Angie. “Sichuan Earthquake Anniversary.” ArtAsiaPacific, May-June, 2009.

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2008 Harris, Gareth. “Big bubbles are no trouble for Ai Weiwei.” The Art Newspaper, December 3, 2008.

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2007 Pollack, Barbara. “Art’s New Superpower.” Vanity Fair, December, 2007.

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2006 Pollack, B. “A Bowl of Pearls, a Ton of Tea, and an Olympic Stadium.” Artnews, October, 2006.

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Colonello, N. “Beyond the Checkmate.” Art Asia Pacific, No, 40, 2004.

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