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Born in Jiangsu, PRC, Lives and works in Beijing |
| 1996 |
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B. A. Xuzhou Normal University, Department of Art, PRC |
| 1999 |
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Advanced Studies, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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[Everyday Desire in the Theater of Chinese Modernization] Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
[The Fatalistic Language of Things: Han Bing] Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, USA
[Han Bing: On the Stage of Modernization] Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, U.S.A. |
| 2006 |
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[Other Modernities: Han Bing Solo Exhibition] Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles
[The Other Shore of Desire] UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Los Angeles
[Han Bing—Quotidian Iconic, with Orimoto Tatsumi Quotidian Holy Mother: Dual Solo Exhibition] Jing Art, Shanghai, PRC
[Love in the Age of Big Construction] IEAS Center, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2007 |
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[China-Chai-na Contemporary Photography Exhibition] Rencontres D'Arles, Arles, France
[Dragon's Evolution: Chinese Contemporary Photography] ChinaSquare, NYC
[Three Dimensions] Front Line Contemporary, Beijing
[Detour: The Moleskine Experience] Art Directors Club, New York City
[Mortal Worlds Contemporary Art Exhibition] Reflex Gallery, Paris
[Dragon's Evolution] 798 International Art Festival, Beijing
[Fractured Visions: Chinese Video Art] Center for Asian Studies, University of SC, Columbia, U.S.A.
[The Fragmented Gaze: Video Art from the PRC] Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA |
| 2006 |
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[Proyecto Generos] Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
[Misalignments: Chinese Performance Art Documenta] UCB Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley, U.S.A.
[Engagements and Estrangements] Contemporary Chinese Exchange, Toronto, Canada
[The Nekromantics] Temporary Contemporary, London, UK
[Open International Performance Art Festival] Must Be Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
[Beyond Experience: The New China] Arario Beijing, Beijing
[UNESCO's Together with Migrants Festival: China's Happiness and Pain] SOHO, Beijing
[China--Chai-na Exhibition] Dashanzi International Art Festival, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, PRC |
| 2005 |
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[Tian An Men- Gate to Heaven] Fotografiemuseum (FOAM) Amsterdam, Holland
[China Action 1: Video Art Exhibition] Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours, France
[Transborder Language Performance Art Exhibition] Beijing Tokyo Art Projects (DIAF), Beijing
[Vehicle and Mirror Exhibition] Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art Factory, Beijing |
| 2004 |
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[Photographic Memory] Thinking Hands Projects, 798 Art Factory, Beijing
[Tian An-Men] Chinese-Eyes Gallery, Paris
[Sense of Fragility Exhibition] Italian Embassy, Beijing |
| 2003 |
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[The First Dadao Live Art Festival] 798 Art Factory, Beijing
[I'm China Exhibition] SOHO, Beijing
[The Beautiful Life Exhibition] SOHO, Beijing
[DNA Visual Exhibition] Nanxincang, Beijing |
| 2002 |
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[New Chinese Photography] Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi, China
[Act of Flying Live Art Performance] Red Square Art Center, Beijing
[Post-Revolutionary Era Video Exhibition] China New Media Art Space, Beijing
[View/Distance Photography Exhibition] There Space, Beijing, PRC
[To Each His Own Contemporary Art Exhibition] Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
[Sino-Japanese Performance Art Exhibition] Waterside Space, Guangzhou |
| 2001 |
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[Knowledge is Power Exhibition] Beijing Book Building, Beijing
[Zero Degrees Contemporary Art Exhibition] Beijing Bridge Art Factory, Beijing
[Treatment Exhibition] Damu, Beijing
[Dang.com Performance Art Exhibition] Kaixin Leyuan, Beijing |
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[Man and Animal Performance Art Exhibition] Nanjing, China |
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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
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| 2007 |
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Walking the Cabbage at the Louvre, Paris, France
Walking the Cabbage at the Notre Dame, Paris, France
Walking the Cabbage at the Old Market Square, Brussels, Belgium
Walking the Cabbage at the Bourse, Brussels, Belgium
Walking the Cabbage in South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, SC Capitol Building, Columbia, U.S.A.
Walking the Cabbage at Art Basel-Miami, South Beach, Design District, Miami
Walking the Cabbage in New York City, Time's Square, Central Park, 5th Avenue, East Village, Chelsea, DUMBO, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Queens, New York
Walking the Cabbage in San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, Powell and Market, Fisherman's Wharf, North Beach, City Lights Bookstore, Chinatown, San Fransisco
Walking the Cabbage in Mississippi, Longwood, Mammy's Cupboard, Natchez, U.S.A.
Walking the Cabbage in Louisiana, along the banks of the Mississipi River, USA |
| 2006 |
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Walking the Cabbage in Los Angeles, LA MoCA, Hollywood, Santa Monica Mall, Venice Beach, The Grove, Chinatown, Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Walking the Cabbage in Berkeley, Telegraph Avenue, Shattuck, UC Berkeley, Jupiter Pub, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Walking the Cabbage in the East Bay, Oakland Chinatown, Livermore, San Mateo, U.S.A.
Walking the Cabbage in Ikebukuro, Ikebukuro International Art Festival,Tokyo, Japan
Walking the Cabbage in Tokyo, Ginza, Shibuya, Harajuku, Akihabara, Shinjuku, the Yamanote Subway Line, Tokyo Station, Shin Tokorazawa
Love in the Age of Big Construction III, Beyond Experience: The New China, Arario Beijing, PRC
Love in the Age of Big Construction II, China—Chai-na Exhibition, Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing, PRC
Mortal World II, Nanmen Reservoir, Dali Old Town, Yunnan, PRC |
| 2005 |
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A Dream between Cotton and Stone: Mating Season, No. 9, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, PRC
My Intimate Past with a Shovel: Mating Season, No. 8, Houhai, Beijing |
| 2003 |
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Mortal World I, Shilianghe River, Jiangsu, PRC |
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Strolling Bones, Guangzhou Art Museum, PRC |
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Hammer and Sickle: Mating Season, No. 6, Zero Degrees Exhibition, Bridge Art Factory, Beijing, PRC
Healing: Mating Season, No. Treatment Exhibition, Damu Space, Beijing
Making Love with Thirteen Shovels: Mating Season, No. 5, Dang.Com Performance Art Exhibition, Kaixin Le Yuan, Beijing |
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SELECTED ENGLISH LANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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"Quotidian Amor Mundi: Orimoto Tatsumi and Han Bing, " Maya Kóvskaya, Flash Art, January, 2007
"China's Art Factory," Jessica Au, Newsweek International, 20 November, 2006
"Critical Mass: Six artists and art industry experts select their favourite exhibitions of 2006," David Teh, Art & Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, December 2006
"Beyond Experience: The New China and the Landscape and Forms of its Selfhood," Zhu Qi,15 July, 2006
"Han Bing: Quotidian Iconic, Orimoto Tatsumi: Quotidian Holy Mother," Maya Kóvskaya, Art Picks Art iT, Fall/Winter Issue, 2006
"Field of Vision: Center Stage," David Drakeford, Beijing Today, 15 September, 2006
"Together with Migrants—Chinese Contemporary Art and Social Criticism," Nathaniel M. Stevens, NY Arts Magazine, September/October, 2006
"Beyond Experience," Luna Fenichel, NY Arts Magazine, September/October, 2006
"Arario Brings The New China," Maya Kóvskaya, Art Picks Art iT, Summer/Fall Issue, 2006
"China's Happiness and Pain Exhibition at the UNESCO "Together with Migrants" Festival," Maya Kóvskaya, ArtPost, 19 June, 2006
The "China--Chai-Na (Demolish There);" Exhibition Rocks the DIAF's Soldiers at the Gate Forum," Maya Kóvskaya, ArtPost, 15 May, 2006
"Tectonic Shifts in the Beijing Art Scene," Maya Kóvskaya, Art iT, Spring/Summer Issue, 2006
"Modulating Space: Negotiating the Aesthetic and the Semantic, Maya Kóvskaya, Artpost, Feb 2-11, 2006
"Engaging the Everyday," Luna Fenichel, City Weekend, Issue 4, February 09, 2006
"Han Bing: Chinese Performance Art Engaging Life on the Margins," Maya Kóvskaya, NY Arts Magazine, November-December, 2005
"Indeterminate Expression—Ambiguity Exhibition Preview," Maya Kóvskaya, Art iT, Fall/Winter 2005
"The Raw and the Reel," He Chang,City Weekend, Issue 15, August 1, 2005
"China Witnesses a Boom in Performance Arts," Lev, Micheal, Taiwan News, June, 12, 2005
"Artistic Revolution Emerges in China: From Torpedo-in-a-Cart to a Pet Cabbage, the Ultra Avant-Garde Movement Pushes the Changing Societal Limits," Lev, Micheal, Chicago Tribune, June 5, 2005
"Beyond Shock Value: Chinese Performance Art Make the Ordinary Extraordinary, " Hao Chong City Weekend, Issue 10, May 24, 2005
"Starving Artist Pet Theory: Han Bing Asks Pet Owners: Who’s Really in Charge?" Ching, Dixie, That's Beijing, January 01, 2003 |
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