Chen Wenbo Born 1969 in Chongqing, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
EDUCATION
1991 B.A., Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Chen Wenbo: Report, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
2016 Chen Wenbo: Day and Night, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
2015 Chen Wenbo: The Fat Years, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2009 Chen Wenbo: ABIO-VIEW, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai Chen Wenbo: Broken Series, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2008 Chen Wenbo: Asian Rays, PKM Gallery, Beijing Chen Wenbo: Epidemiology, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin
2006 Chen Wenbo: On the Green, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
2003 Back Door: Chen Wenbo 2003, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000 Chen Wenbo: Vitamines Z, Galerie LOFT, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Variable and The Generating, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai
2018 Go Live, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China The Contemporary of Figure Art - Round 4, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Cooling, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China The Unscene, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2017 Interaction: Contemporary Chinese Art in Nuremberg, Konfuzius-Institut Nürnberg-Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany
398 West Street, New York, NY 10014 | T: +1.212.255.4388 | [email protected] | www.galleryek.com 2016 2016-2017 “Sao Yi Sao” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing On Drawing: Apperceive of Liberation, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China Our Painting, Yang Art Museum, Beijing New Capital - Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China Overview 2016 - Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Banshanzhuyuan Art Museum, Wenzhou, China The Tale of New Year, Hui Art Space, Beijing
2015 The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing Flower and Style - Exchange Contemporary Art Exhibition between Taiwan and Mainland China, Ant Nest Art Museum, Zhangzhou, China China 8: Chinese Contemporary Art From China at Rhine & Ruhr, NRW-Forum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany The Cabinet of wonder, Heiqiao Art District, Beijing Illuminated, Gland Space, Beijing
2014 Re-View - Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai Civilization Round 2: Yu Lin, Xi’an OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Xi’an, China Harmonious Society - Asia Triennial Manchester 14, Manchester, United Kingdom By the Name of Dailiness - Daily Discourse and Generation of Ideas in Chinese Contemporary Art, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China Global Passage - Five Practical Subjects of Contemporary Chinese Art, Haikou Qilou Art Center, Haikou, China Living in Space - RedStar Macalline Art Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Aftermath: Post-Sense Sensibility, Fifteen Years On, Duddell's, Hong Kong
2013 Fang Cun, ArtDepot, Beijing Timeline - An Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Session I), Youmingtang Art Center, Nanning, China Heiqiao Night Away, Heiqiao Art District, Beijing Rural Poetics, Gland Space, Beijing
2012 Faces, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Light Bending Onto the Retina, 18Gallery, Shanghai
2011 Art Changsha 2011, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China Visual Structure, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China Fabricator, Soka Art Center, Beijing Spiritual/Material, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing
2010 RESHAPING HISTORY - Chinart from 2000-2009, Today Art Museum, National Conference Center, Arario Gallery, Beijing The Offcial Opening of Minsheng Art Museum - Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Research Representational Painting, Times Art Museum, Beijing
2009 METROPOLIS NOW! A Selection of Contemporary Chinese Art, Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. The First Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists, Chongqing Center of Exhibition, Chongqing, China The New Attitude of Image, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
2008 OPEN/INVITED e v+ a 2008 Too Early For Vacation, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland The Sichuan Movement, Indonesia National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2007 The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Departing from the Southwest, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Floating: New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Gong Zhen - Sport in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai The First Today's Documents 2007 - Energy: Spirit, Body, Material, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2006 The 6th Shanghai Biennial - HYPER DESIGN, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai The Blossoming of Realism - The Oil Painting of Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Beyond Dimension - Chinese New Painting, Nanjing Square Gallery, Nanjing, China
2005 The First Montpellier International Biennial of Contemporary Chinese Art, Montpellier, France Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Follow Me! - Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China The Second Beijing International Art Biennial 2005, National Art Museum of China, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing
2004 All Under Heaven, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium China’s Photographic Painting, Art Seasons, Beijing
2003 Beyond Dimension - Chinese New Painting, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai Chinart, Museo Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Chinese Modernity, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil Mirage I - An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China Paris - Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris Chinart, Museum Küppersmühle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
2001 Next Generation, Passage de Retz, Paris The First Chengdu Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
2000 Contemporary Chinese Portraits, François Mitterrand Cultural Space, Perigueux, France Individual and Society in Art, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Unusual and Usual, Shanghai YuAnGong space, Shanghai
1999 Beauty Like Materialism - The New Conceptual Art, East China Normal University Museum, Shanghai Post-Sense, Sensibility, Alien Bodies & Delusion, Basement Shaoyaoju, Beijing Dongyu Art Museum Collection Exhibition, Dongyu Library, Shenyang, China Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Paris Art Center, Paris
1997 Chinese Video Art 1997, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1996 South-Western Conceptual Art Show, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
1994 Fragmentation, Chongqing Teachers Training College, Chongqing, China
1992 The First Guangzhou Biennial, Guangzhou Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ullens Foundation, Belgium Olenska Foundation, Switzerland Guang Dong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China dslcollection, Paris White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney