Chen Ke

1978 Born in Sichuan Province, China 2005 Graduated with MFA from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China Currently lives and works in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 The Unknown Woman Artist, C5CNM, Beijing, China 2018-2019 The Real Deal Is Talking with Dad, YUZ , Shanghai, China 2016 Dream·Dew, Perrotin Gallery, Hong Kong A Woman: Launch of Chen Ke’s Latest Book, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2015 Cover: Recent Works by Chen Ke, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2013 Frida, a Woman, Art Basel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2012 With “You”, I Will Never Feel Lonely, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2009 Another Me in the World, Kunsthaus Viernheim, Viernheim, Germany 2008 With You, I Will Never Feel Lonely, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy Personal War, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2007 With You, I Will Never Feel Lonely, Star Gallery, Beijing, China GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Casting Votes, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China Sovereign Hill: Lal Lal Estate Artist-in-Residence Exhibition – Works and Documents, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2019 I LOVE BEIJING NEW WAVE, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2018 The Fiftieth Exhibition: Five Years in Qikeshu, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Suddenly It’s Summer, Star Gallery, Beijing, China It's Me? — Application of DNA Test in an Contemporary , Themed Art Exhibition of 2018 Shaoxing International Cultural Industries Forum, Ahn Luh Lanting, Shaoxing, China Keep Walking, Lal Lal Estate, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Reading the Raindrops — The Western China Artists Documenta, Moca Yinchuan Gallery, Yinchuan, China Osmosis-Symbiosis: Localizational Practices of Contemporary Art in China, Museum of Shanghai Oil & Institute, Shanghai, China 2016 Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland The 6th Exhibition of Next Generation of Artists as Superstars, CANS Tea & Book Shop, Taipei SHE: International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China 2015 The Story of Painting, Ginko Art Center, Beijing, China As Far as We See: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, A Beautiful New World: The 2nd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China It’s Not Right But It’s Okay, UCCA Store, Beijing, China As Far as We See: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Poly Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Fondation Taylor, Paris, France Inspired by Fashion, Poly Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2014 As Far as We See: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China By the Name of Dailiness: Daily Discourse and Generation of Ideas in Chinese Contemporary Art, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu, China Re-View: Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China 2013 Criss-CrossArtworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from the Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China Portrait of the Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China MIRROR AND SHADOW, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia 2012 Spin: the First Decade of New Century, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China After Deliverance, 798 Space, Beijing, China DAYBRFace, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2011 DAYBREAK, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea Shanshui: Poetry without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art - Works from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland 2010 Self-Image: Interpreting a Perspective of Chinese Woman Art in the 20th Century, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China Writing: the 1st Nanjing Biennial, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China The Franks-Suss Collection, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art: Painting 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China RESHAPING HISTORY: China Youth New Art, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China The Mirror of Time, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei 2009 Enliven — In Between Reality and Fiction — Animax Biennial 2009- 2019, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China China: The Contemporary Rebirth, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy 2008 Couples in Contemporary Art, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China Looking for Me, Minsheng Center for Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China Shanghai MoCA Envisage II, Butterfy Dream, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China Free Zone: China — An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Spazio in BSI Bank, Lugano, Switzerland Facing Reality — Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Enclave: New Contemporary Chinese Painting, Sifang Contemporary Art Museum, Nanjing, China 2007 China — Facing Reality, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria Your View, My Story, Pferdeställe des Postfuhramtes, Berlin, Germany Chen Ke, Wei Jia, Li Jikai, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA Floating — New Generation of Art in China, Doart Co., Seoul, Korea Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest of China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Generation Sweet and Sour: Chinese New Art, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheimer, Germany 2006 Naughty Kids, Star Gallery, Beijing, China The Originals: New Aesthetics of Animation, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China Beyond Experience: New China, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China New Interface: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum & Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China

Surpassing Boundaries: New Chinese Painting, Xifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China 2005 Next Station, Cartoon?, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Star Gallery, Beijing, China of the Future: the Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China The 2nd Chengdu Biennial Landscapes: the "Century" and the "Paradise", Chengdu, China The Self-made Generation: A Retrospective of New Chinese Painting, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Making Clouds with One Hand and Rain with the Other, TS1 Contemporary Art Center New Works Exhibition, The One Club, Beijing, China

PUBLICATIONS 2016 A Woman, New Star Press, Beijing, China Cover: Recent Works by Chen Ke, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2012 With You, I Will Never Feel Lonely, China Youth Press, Beijing, China Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China’ After Deliverance, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2011 Shanshui: Landscape in Contemporary Chinese Art (Contemporary Works from the Sigg Collection), Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland 2010 Self-Image: Interpreting a Perspective of Chinese Woman Art In The 20th Century, Lingnan Arts Publishing House, Guangzhou, China Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Star Gallery, Beijing, China 2009 Chen Ke, KehrerVerlag, Heidelberg, Germany 2008 Personal War, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Looking for Me, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Time–lag, the new force of Chinese contemporary art, Magee Gallery, Madrid, Spain Deep Breath — 19 Samples of Chinese Contemporary Female Artists, Shanghai, China Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists, Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, Japan Young Chinese Artist-the next generation, Prestel, Germany From Heaven to Earth, Chinese Contemporary , Damiani editore, Bologna, Italy 2007 With You, I Will Never Feel Lonely, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Generation Sweet and Sour: Chinese New Art, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheimer, Germany China — Facing Reality, Museum moderner Kunststiftung Ludwig wien, Vienna, Austria Floating — New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Your View, My Story, The Ministry of Art, Beijing, China 2006 Naughty Kids — The Chinese New Generation Born After 1970, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Fancy-Dream, Damiani editore, Bologna, Italy Beyond Dimension — Chinese New Painting, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, Wuhan, China 2005 Next Station, Cartoon?, Star Gallery, Beijing, China Archaeology of the Future — the Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, Wuhan, China NEW VISION NEW FACE — Young Artists in the Chengdu Biennial, Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, China 2001 Chengdu Biennial 2001, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, Chengdu, China

COLLECTIONS The Sigg Collection, Switzerland The Franks-Suss Collection, UK BSI Art Foundation, Switzerland Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, Italy Shenzhen Art Museum, China Yuz Museum, China Long Museum, China Minsheng Art Museum, China White Rabbit Collection, Australia