FENG Mengbo
| 1966 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 1985 | Graduated from the Design Department of the Beijing School of Arts and Crafts |
| 1991 | Graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
| Currently lives and works in Beijing. |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2015 | The Loudest is Silent: Picturing Feng Mengbo, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | My Private Museum, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China |
| Not Too Late, Chambers Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| 2011 | Feng Mengbo: Limitless, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China |
| Mengbo 2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2010 | Feng Mengbo, PS1, New York, USA |
| Journey to the West, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| 1 BiTe, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA | |
| 2009 | Restart, UCCA, Beijing, China |
| Feng Mengbo, The East-Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice,Czech Republic | |
| 1 BiTe, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2008 | Chinese Painting: Feng Mengbo, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague,Czech Republic |
| Q2008, Shanghart Gallery, CIGE, Beijing, China | |
| 2007 | Wrong Code: Shanshui, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2006 | Build to Order: r_drawworld 0, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Shanghai, China |
| Build to Order, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| Bytes and Pieces, UNT Visual Art Gallery, Texas, USA | |
| 2005 | Q4U, The New England Institute of Art, Boston, USA |
| 2004 | Q3D Feng Mengbo - Video and Oil Paintings, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2003 | Ah Q - The Virtualized World by Feng Mengbo, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Past Virtualized - Future Cloned: Feng Mengbo 1994-2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei | |
| Q4U: the two dimensional works, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2002 | Q3, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France |
| Q4U, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA | |
| 2001 | Paintings by Feng Mengbo, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Feng Mengbo: Phantom Tales, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA | |
| 1998 | Feng Mengbo: Video Games, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, USA |
| Feng Mengbo, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 1994 | Game Over: Long March, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2015 | Scenes for a New Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2014 | 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, OCT Loft, Shenzhen, China |
| Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | |
| Secret Signs. Calligraphy in Contemporary Chinese Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany | |
| Metamorphosis Of The Virtual 5+5: Digital Art Today Paris-Shanghai, Chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China | |
| The 1st Exoteric Exhibition of Experimentation Images, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| “HANART 100: IDIOSYNCRASIES” Celebrating Hanart 30th Years, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong / Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong | |
| An Exhibition on Contemporary Digital Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2013 | Gameplay, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Talking Art Series, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE | |
| 2012 | 1st Xinjiang Biennial, Wulumuqi, China |
| Abu Dhabi Art 2012 Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, UAE | |
| ArtHK12 - Hong Kong International Art Fair 2012, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong | |
| 9th Kwangju Biennial, Korea | |
| Chinese Video Arts 1988-2011, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Italy | |
| The Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai | |
| 2011 | Chinese Video Arts 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 'One World' Exposition: Chinese Art in the Age of the New Media, Videotage, Hong Kong | |
| Chinese Character Festival, Chinese Art Institute, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| The Creators Project, VICE, UCCA, Beijing, China | |
| Shanshui, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| The Creators Project, Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Indio, USA | |
| “Wu Ming", Form is Formless: Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2010 | Museum on PaperL Twelve Chinese Artists, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| Decode: Digital Design Sensations, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; CAFA Art Gallery, Beijing, China (exhibition organized by V&A Museum) | |
| The Constructional Dimension: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Transmediale.10, Futurity Now!, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2009 | Mirror, Mirror, Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, USA |
| 13th Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Hong Kong | |
| 2008 | Shanghai eArts Festival 2008, Shanghai, China |
| The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China | |
| Our Future - The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China | |
| Try Again, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2007 | Game Art, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Museum der Moderne Monchsberg, Salzburg, Austria | |
| China Onward, The Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark | |
| China Welcome You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria | |
| 2006 | MAAP, Brisbane, Australia |
| Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany | |
| 2005 | GameDump, BERGEN KUNSTHALL, Bergen, Norway |
| Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland | |
| ElectroScape, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China | |
| Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, USA | |
| Sesiones Animadas, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno S.A., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | |
| 2004 | The 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale (media_city seoul 2004), Seoul, Korea |
| Shanghai Biennial: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, China | |
| SENI: Singapore 2004, Art and the Contemporary, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| Ars Electronica 2004, O.K Center, Linz, Austria | |
| l'art a la plage 2004 (Art on the Beach), Ramatuelle, Nice, France | |
| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, USA | |
| Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong | |
| Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Twilight Tomorrow, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| 2003 | Plaything, dLux media/art, Sydney, Australia |
| A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech | |
| Extra Lives: The Other Life of Video Games, The Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
| OPEN2OO3 Art and the Cinematic Vision, Venice, Italy | |
| ALORS, LA CHINE?,Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| From China with Art: The Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Indonesian National Gallery | |
| SCIENCE FICTIONS, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore | |
| Lab3D, Cornerhouse, Manchester/The Media Centre, Huddersfield, UK | |
| Cyber Asia -media art in near future, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan | |
| M_ARS: KUNST UND KRIEG, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria | |
| Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France | |
| 2002 | The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China |
| Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany | |
| 2001 | Tirana Biennale 1, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania |
| Living In Time, Nationalgalerie im Hamburg Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Next Generation/Art Contemporain D'Asie, Passage de Retz, Paris, France | |
| Polypolis: Art From Asian Pacific Megacities, Hamburg Kunsthaus, Germany | |
| 2000 | A Sparkling City: 2000 Taipei County Art and Technology Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Zeitwenden, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria | |
| 1999 | Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
| Asia Pacific Art Triennale/MAAP99, Brisbane, Australia | |
| The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 1999, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan | |
| 1998 | Shoot At The Chaos, SPIRAL/Wocal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| ISEA98 (the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Art): Revolution98, Liverpool, UK | |
| 1997 | documenta X, Kassel, Germany |
| The Rest of the World, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany | |
| Another Long March, Foundament, Breda, Netherlands | |
| In Between Limited, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwungju, Korea | |
| 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa | |
| Lyon Biennial, France | |
| 2nd Kwangju Biennial, Korea | |
| Remote Connections, Nikolaj - Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 1996 | Remote Connections, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turko, Finland |
| Remote Connections, ArtFocus - Jerusalem Foundation, Israel | |
| Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany | |
| Remote Connections, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria | |
| Reckoning with The Past - Contemporary Chinese Painting, the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| Pop Art China - Pop Art America, Galerie Wild, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 1995 | Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie/Neue Kunst Aus China, KulturBehorde, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1st Kwangju Biennial, Korea | |
| Out Of The Middle Kingdom, Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Configure 2, Dialog Der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany | |
| Visions of Happiness - Ten Asian Contemporary Artists, the Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1994 | New Art From China, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK |
| 1993 | 45th Venice Biennial, Italy |
| Mao Goes Pop, Melbourne, Australia | |
| China’s New Art, Post-1989, City Hall, Hong Kong | |
| Awards | |
| 2004 | Award of Distinction: Feng Mengbo: "Ah_Q", Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts 2004 |
| 1988 | Golden Prize of the year's Students' work, Central Academy of Fine Arts |
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