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WANG JIN

1962   Born in Datong, Shanxi Province, China
1987   Graduated from Chinese Academy of Fine Arts

Currently living and working in Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2007
Wang Jin, Friedman Benda, New York City, USA

2002
Measuring the USA, Beijing, China

1999
100%, Beijing, China (performance)

1996
Ice, 96 Central China, Zhengzhou, China (performance)
Munich Chinese Art Festival, Munich, Germany (performance)

1995
Quick Stir-Frying RMB, Jianxin Restaurant Xicheng District, Beijing, China (performance)
Fried Land, The Dong’anmen night market, Wangfujing Dajie, Beijing, China (performance)
Knocking at the Door (21 Cashbricks), Forbidden City wall, Beijing, China (performance)
To Marry a Mule, Laiguangying Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China (performance)

1994
Red: Beijing-Kowloon, Beijing-Kowloon railroad, Daxing County, Beijing, China (performance)
Fighting the Flood—Red Flag Canal, Lin Xian, Henan, China (performance)
Investment Guide—the Last Bus, the Beijing Railway Station, China (performance)
Endorse a Declaration—Insect Spray, Forbidden City walls, Beijing, China (performance)

1993      
Knocking at the Door, Beijing, China (site-specific performance)

Group Exhibitions

2008
Zhu Yi! Contemporary Chinese Photography, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Spring Training, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Food and Shelter, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2007
Energy: Spirit, Body, Material, curated by Huang Du, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Zhu Yi! Contemporary Chinese Photography, ARTIUM de Alava, Spain
The Year of the Golden Pig: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, UK

2006-07
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger, Kunsthalle,     Hamburg, Germany
XIANFENG! Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture, Beelden and Zee Museum, the Hague,     Netherlands

2005-06
The Wall, Millenium Art Museum, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; The Albright-Knox     Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA

2004-05
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Victoria and Albert     Museum, London

2004      
Chinese Objects: Dream and Obsessions, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, NY, USA
Le Printemps de Chine, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France

2003
Together with Migrants, 100%, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
Do you Have Swiss Franc?, Beijing, China

2002
Do You Change Your Money to Euro?, Beijing, China
Paris-Beijing: To Marry a Mule, A Chinese Dream, Fighting the Flood-Red Flag Canal, Espace     Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
Money and Value/The last taboo, Knocking at the Door, Switzerland
The Long March—A Walking Visual Display, On the Wall Hang the Swords, Which are Upside     Down, Jinggangshan, China
Triennial of Chinese Arts, The Landscape Here is Beyond Compare, Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou Triennial: My Tooth, Guangzhou, China

2001
My Tooth, Shandong, China
Take Part – Zeitgenössische Chinesische Kunst, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

2000
Expo 2000 Hanover, My Bone, Hanover, Germany
Our Chinese Friends, ACC Galerie / Galerie der Bauhaus-Universitat, Weimar, Germany

1999
Transcience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century,
    The Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
University of Oregon Art Museum / The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, USA
Poly Phenolremmne, Beijing, China
48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art: To Marry A Mule, Fighting the Flood-Red     Flag Canal, A Chinese Dream, Venice Biennale, Italy

1998
Ink Art Released, The National Gallery, Beijing, China
A Chinese Dream, Beihai Park, Beijing, China
Museum City Fukuoka 1998, Forward to the Victory, Memorealism, Fukuoka, Japan
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, A Chinese Dream, To Marry a Mule, Ice, 96 Central China, toured to New York, San Francisco, USA, Monterrey, Mexico, Seattle, USA and Lucerne,     Switzerland
Eight Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997-Tokyo Exposure 1997.4 Seconds, Watari
    Museum, Tokyo, Japan
W2 * Z2 —Multimedia Slide Art, Well-Cover, the Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts,     Beijing
A Chinese Dream, the Long Corridor in the Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing, China
Dream of China: ’97 Chinese Contemporary Art, China, the World of Mortals, Yanhuang Art     Museum, Beijing, China

1996
Reality: Present and Future, Knocking at the Door, Beijing, China

1992
100 Straw Portraits, The Beijing Youle Amusement Park, Beijing, China
Works: March 1992, Beijing, China

1986
Trend: Ink Body, The Beijing International Art Center, Beijing, China

1985
Advanced Chinese Youth Art, Pure Brightness, The National Gallery, Beijing, China

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