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  • 2024
    • Xu Bing: Where There Is a Question, There Is …
    • Xu Bing: Art Satellite
    • Xu Bing: Word Alchemy
    • A Moment in Time: Xu Bing in Rome
    • 【Now exhibiting】The Contemporary Logic of "Streams, Mountains and Qingyuan" : Contemporary Ink Lecture Series
    • 【Now exhibiting】Illusive Masks
    • Thirty years of Contemporary Art in China and Singapore
    • Universal / Remote
    • Inside & outside of a book
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  • 2023
    • 【Now exhibiting】Mythical Creatures: China and the World
    • Opening Ceremony of Hangzhou Center
    • Motion is Action
    • MMAF Shanghai
    • Beijing City Library "Exhibition Season" Public Art Exhibition
    • Art Encounters with Jay
    • White Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perceptions of Oracle Bone Script
    • “1 Tree 1 World ”ANOBO World Children's Science and Technology Art Tour
    • A Journey
    • Time Gravity 2023 Cheng Du Biennale
    • Opening Ceremony of National Museum of World Writing Systems
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  • 2022
    • Communication Through Art -- Wuhan Biennale 2022
    • Transmutation: The 7th Guangzhou Triennale
    • Accumulation -- Print Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art Masters
    • The Grand Canal As Epic on Earth
    • Body Cosmos: the Art of Living Together
    • Louis&Vuitton Exhibition
    • The World of Study
    • Xu Bing: Gravitational Arena
    • Hawai'i Triennial
    • 10th edition of Manif d'art 10: The Quebec City Biennial
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  • 2021
    • Xu Bing: Found in Translation
    • Xu Bing: Art Beyond the Kármán Line
    • Flying Ink: Hengshan International Calligraphy Art Exhibition
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Ground Pop-up Book
    • The Met—150th Anniversary Print Portfolio
    • Toward Common Cause
    • 2020 Asia Society Triennial
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  • 2020
    • Exodus II: Unhinging the Great Wall
    • Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists
    • The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
    • In Real Life
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  • 2019
    • Series of Repetition at the Reopened MoMA
    • Background Story: Landscape after Huang Gongwang
    • World Picture: Xu Bing Dragonfly Eyes
    • One: Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing: Thought and Method
    • The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
    • Xu Bing: Art for the People
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  • 2018
    • Xu Bing: Thought and Method
    • Xu Bing: Language and Nature
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  • 2017
    • Xu Bing
    • Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World
    • Language & the Art of Xu Bing
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  • 2016
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Ground
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Sky
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  • 2015
    • Bird Language
    • Phoenix (2015): All the World's Futures
    • Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting
    • Writing Between Heaven and Earth
    • Things Are Not What They First Appear
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  • 2014
    • The Language of Xu Bing
    • Xu Bing: A Retrospective
    • Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing
    • A Special Exhibition in Taiwan: Children's Forest Project
    • Xu Bing: Phoenix
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  • 2013
    • Traveling to the Wonderland
    • Xu Bing: Landscript
    • Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing's Phoenix Project
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  • 2012
    • Xu Bing:Phoenix
    • Book From the Ground: From Point to Point
    • Xu Bing: Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground
    • Forest Project & Book from the Ground
    • Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy
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  • 2011
    • Xu Bing: Background Story 7
    • Living Word 3
    • Tobacco Project 3
    • Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?
    • Square Word Calligraphy Classroom
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  • 2010
    • Xu Bing: Aerial Phoenix Project
    • Phoenix Project
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  • 2009
    • Xu Bing: Forest Project Exhibition
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  • 2008
    • Xu Bing
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  • 2007
    • Xu Bing's Literary Creations: From Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground
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  • 2006
    • Xu Bing: Special Exhibition
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  • 2005
    • Xu Bing: Ghosts Pounding the Wall
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  • 2004
    • Group Show: Artes Mundi - Wales International Visual Art Prize
    • Xu Bing: El Pozo de la Verdad/The Well of Truth
    • Xu Bing in Berlin
    • Xu Bing: Tobacco Project in Shanghai
    • Xu Bing: The Glassy Surface of a Lake
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  • 2002
    • Xu Bing: Living Word 2
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  • 2001
    • Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing
    • Reading Landscape
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  • 2000
    • Landscript: Sydney
    • The Tobacco Project: A Series of Installations Created by Xu Bing
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  • 1998
    • Xu Bing: Panda Zoo
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  • 1997
    • The Second Johannesburg Biennale
    • Xu Bing: Lost Letters
    ......
  • 1991
    • Three Installations by Xu Bing
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Bird Language

Bird Language (2003)

PHOTO|VIDEO

Location: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

Exhibited Work: Bird Language

Phoenix (2015): All the World's Futures

Phoenix (2015)

Phoenix (2015)

Phoenix (2015)

Phoenix (2015)

Phoenix (2015)

Phoenix (2015)

PHOTO|VIDEO

Duration:  May 9, 2015 — November 22, 2015

Location: 56th International Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, Venice, Italy

Exhibited Work: Phoenix 

Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting

Background Story,Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang (2015)

Background Story,Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang (2015)

Background Story,Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang (2015)

Background Story,Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang (2015)

Background Story,Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang (2015)

PHOTO|VIDEO

Duration: October 16, 2015 — January 10, 2016

Location: Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Exhibited Work: Background Story

Writing Between Heaven and Earth

Book From the Sky (1987-1991)

Book From the Sky (1987-1991)

Book From the Ground (2003- ongoing)

Book From the Ground (2003- ongoing)

Square Word Calligraphy Classroom (1994-1996)

Square Word Calligraphy Classroom (1994-1996)

Square Word Calligraphy Classroom: Student Works

【Left,Back】Landscript 1&2 【Right】Suzhou Landscripts

PHOTO|VIDEO

Duration: February 14, 2015 — May 24, 2015

Location: Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA

Exhibited Works: Book from the Sky, Book from the Ground, Landscript; Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, Stone Path

Things Are Not What They First Appear

Tobacco Project: Honor and Splendor (2004)

Traveling Down the River (2011)

Background Story: The South(2014)

Background Story: Demonstration Light Boxes

PHOTO|VIDEO

Duration: February 17, 2015 — July 3, 2015

Location: SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA

Exhibited Works: Tobacco Project, Background Story, The Character of Characters