1956 | June,Born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, the Same Year Moved to and Settled down in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China |
1982 | Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Yunnan Academy of Fine Arts, Kunming |
2001 | Started teaching at Art and Design College of Yunnan University |
The Director of the Second Painting Studio of Art and Design College of Yunnan University | |
The Director of Oil Painting Art Committee of Yunnan Artists Association | |
The Vice-Chairman of Yunnan Oil Painting Society |
2013 |
Mao Xuhui—Natural, Fold, Blasphemy, MOCA@LOEWEN museum of modern art, Singapore |
2012 | Recapitulation-Mao Xuhui Solo Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China |
China International Gallery Exposition 2012 - Mao Xuhui - Guishan Series, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China | |
2011 | DISSOCIATION•2011 ART CHANGSHA: Mao Xuhui - The Eternity in Reflection, Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China |
2010 | Farewell to Trend: The Art of Mao Xuhui, Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing 2009 |
2009 | Mao Xuhui - Transcending New Concreteness, Gallery Artside, Beijing, China |
2008 | Mao Xuhui - Transcending New Concreteness, Gallery Artside, Seoul, South Korea |
ROAD - Mao Xuhui's Drawing Course 1973-2007, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
2007 | Mao Xuhui: 30 Years as an Artist, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong |
2005 | The Vocabulary of Power! - 20 Years of Mao Xuhui's Work, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
Scissors - Mao Xuhui, Nordica Gallery, Kunming, China | |
2004 | Mao Xuhui: Scissors, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
1999 | Scissors - Mao Xuhui, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
1997 |
Dream of the Red Earth by Mao Xuhui, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2014 |
Hanart 100: Idiosyncrasies Exhibition Brochure, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong |
2013 | Pure Views: Remote form Streams and Mountains - New Painting China, Arts Santa Monica,Spain |
Passage to History: 20 Years of the Venice Biennale and Chinese Contemporary Art,Biennale Art 2013,89# Venetian Arsenale, Italy | |
Voice of the Unseen / Chinese Independent Art, 55th Venice Biennale, Venetian Arsenale, Italy | |
Color of the Heart - From Tradition, Future Emerges; into History, Today Fades”, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
2012 | Modern Expression: Modern And Contemporary Oil Painting Of Yunnan, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
Looking Back, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
Quiet Energy: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dialogue Space, Beijing, China | |
Face,Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
2011 | Flowing Clouds: New Contemporary Chinese Art, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, China |
Commemoration: 10th Anniversary of Soka Art Beijing, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China | |
2011 Chengdu Biennale—Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition, East Chengdu Music Park, Chengdu, China | |
To Be An Audience In Guishan-Yunnan Contemporary Art Special Exhibition, Special Invitation Exhibition of 2011 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China | |
New Dream 2011: New Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Long lung International Conference and Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China | |
Collecting History, China New Art, Chengdu MOCA, Chengdu, China | |
Future Pass,Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice, Italy; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Taichung, Taiwan | |
The Seed from the Cradle of Yunnan, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Tainan, Taiwan |
2010 | Pure Views: Remote form Streams and Mountains, New Painting China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England |
Reshaping History - China art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China | |
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
Special Exhibition of China International Gallery Exposition 2010 - My Landscape, My Utopia, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China | |
2009 | Annexe / Infix, SZ Art Centre, Beijing, China |
Mao Xuhui & Tang Zhigang Nominate Yunnan Young Artist Art Show, 598 Art Space, Kunming, China | |
First Contact - Contemporary Art Exhibition from Taipei, Kunming, Hong Kong, 99 Art Space, Kunming, China | |
2008 | Back to Guishan—The 63rd Year Anniversary of UN Day, United Nations Development Programme, Beijing, China |
Beijing - Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City of Athens, Athens, Greece | |
Intimate Trend - Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Centre, Beijing, China | |
New Interface 4 - Here Comes Spring, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
Intersection - Pieces of 2008 Contemporary Art of China, Oriental Vista Gallery; Kee Prive Club; USA International Express Corp., Ltd., Hong Kong |
2007 | Viewing from Afar, Oriental Vista Art Collections Gallery, Shanghai |
The Trend of Art Thought in `85 & Post-`89 Art, Expol-Sources Gallery, Beijing | |
A Wakening from a Ten-Year Long Sleep, H.J.Y Contemporary Art Center, Beijing | |
‘85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing | |
From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing | |
Black White Grey - A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing | |
New Interface 3: Searching the Future, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai | |
Chinese Contemporary Soart, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia | |
Guiyang Art Biennale Exhibit 3th.2007: Word of Mouth from Four Corners, Guiyang Art Museum, China | |
Back to Guishan, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore | |
2006 | Invitational Exhibition of Yunnan Contemporary Art 2006, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing |
Creating History: Chinese Contemporary Art from the 80s of the 20th Century, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen | |
Academic State: Chinese Contemporary Artists Invitational Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing | |
2005 | A Retrospective of Chinese Oil Paintings from the New Period, National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artworks on Canvas 2005, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen | |
In Honour of ’85, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai | |
The 1st Kunming International Sculpture Festival, Daguan Park, Kunming | |
2004-2005 | Awakening: The Collision and Mergence of Chinese and French Arts, Contrasts Gallery, shanghai, China; Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
2004 | Yunnan Art Exhibition, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino,USA |
Unrelated to Reality! - Contemporary Art of China, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai | |
Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong | |
2003 | The 3rd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China |
The 2nd Guiyang Oil Paintings Biennial, Guizhou Normal Art Academy, Guiyang | |
From China with Art, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
2002 | The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou |
Paris-Pékin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France | |
Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum Kuppermunle Semmlung Grothe, in cooperation with Macro-Museo d`Arte Contemporane Roma, Ludwig Museum Budapest-Museum of Contemporary Art Municipal Gallery Bydgoszcz, Casa Asia Barcelona | |
Triennial of Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou | |
China-Korea Contemporary Paintings Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea | |
2001-2002 | Made in China, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France |
2001 | Dream: 2001 Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, The Atlantis Gallery, The Red Mansion, London, England |
From Depth to Surface: Works by Mao Xuhui and Ye Yongqing, Upriver Loft, Kunming | |
Singapore International Art Fair, Singapore | |
2000 | Tale of Two Cities: Asia Contemporary Art, London, England |
1999 | China-Japan Art Exchange Exhibition 1999, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai |
Art China 1999, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
1998 - 1999 | Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York, P.S 1 ; Contemporary Art Center, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S; Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; National Gallery of Art, Australia; Hong Kong Museum of Art |
1998 | The First Collection Exhibition of Upriver Gallery, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu |
Kunming - New York - Montreal, Contemporary Art Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Canada | |
Poem of the Daily Life, Wistaria Gallery, Kunming, China, | |
1997 | “Quotation Marks” Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
“Red and Grey” Eight Avant-garde Chinese Artists, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore | |
1996 | “Reality: Today and Tomorrow” Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition 1996, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing |
Shared Dreams, Jamaica Center, New York, USA | |
China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; also toured in Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria; Zacheta Modern Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany | |
1995 | From the Central Kingdom: Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain |
1993 | “Chinese Experience” Chinese Art from the 90s, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China |
China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre; also toured in Vancouver and US | |
1992 | The First Guangzhou Art Biennale, Guangzhou, China |
1991 | Art Documental Exhibition in Beijing Xisanhuan, Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting, Beijing |
“I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne” Exhibition of Chinese Avant-garde Paintings from the 1980s, Asia and Pacific Art Museum, California, USA |
1989 | Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China |
1988 | ‘88 Modern Art Exhibition of Southwestern China, Chengdu, China |
1987 | The 1st Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
1986 | The 4th New Figurative Images Exhibition, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China |
The 2nd New Figurative Images Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
The 3rd New Figurative Images Exhibition, Library of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China | |
1985 | Chinese Visions, Art Gallery of Florida University, USA |
The New Figurative Images Exhibition, Shanghai Jing’an Cultural Center, Shanghai, China |
Bibliography |
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The Current State of Chinese Contemporary Art, edited by Leng Lin, Zhao Li, Today China Publishing, 1993 |
History of Chinese Modern Art, 1979-1989, edited by Lv Peng, Yi Dan, Hunan Fine Art Publishing, 1992 |
A Hundred Young Artists from Mainland China (Oil painting section), edited by Liao Wen, Suiyuan Art Foundation |
History of Chinese Contemporary Art, 1985-1986, edited by Gao Minglu and others, Shanghai People’s Publishing, 1991 |
Mainland China | Fine Art, China Art Journal, Art Thought, Art Research, Chinese Oil Paintings, Painters, Art Galleries, Jiangsu Art Pictorial Journal, Art World, Art Life, Paintings Garden, Modern Art, Contemporary Artists, Art China, Rong Bao Zhai |
Taiwan | Artist Magazine, Lion Art, Art Currents |
Hong Kong | Chinese Art News, Journal of Arts and Letters |
Italy | Arte |
Germany | Kunse |
Major Collections |
Great Wall Fine Art Museum, China |
Hunan Provincial Museum, China |
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation |
Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China |
Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China |
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China |
Xin Dong Cheng Gallery, Beijing, China |
MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, China |
SOKA ART CENTER, China |
Long Museum, China |
Yuz Museum, China |
TanGuoBin Contemporary Art Museum, China |
Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China |
Asia-Pacific Art Museum, United States |
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany |
Suiyuan Art Foundation, Taiwan |
Expol-Sources Gallery, Taipei |
Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore |
Gallery Artside, Korea |
Kwai Fung Xuan Art Gallery, Hong Kong |
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |