Biography - Han Bing
1974 Born in Jiangsu Province,PRC, Lives and works in Beijing.
Han Bing grew up in an impoverished village in rural China. Fifteen years of labor in the rural areas,
Engaged in performance art, photography and painting , installation , documentary, video media art
and social projects .
Education
| 1996 |
B.A. at Xuzhou Fine Art University |
| 1999 | Advanced Studies at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | A cry from the narrow between:Han Bing With Tejal Shah.Espace gallery,New Delhi, India Were desecrated in order to be tried（Forever）:Han Bing, Khoj Space, New Delhi, India |
| 2008 | The Walking the Cabbage Project (2000-2008), The International 3, Manchester, UK |
| 2007 | Everyday Desire in the Theater of Chinese Modernization, Beursschouwburg Art Center, Brussels, Belgium The Fatalistic Language of Things: Han Bing, Columbia Museum of Art, USA Age of Big Construction, Beijing New Art Projects Space , Beijing Mortal Worlds, Reflex Gallery, Paris, France The Green Walking Movement in Columbia, USC Campus, State Capitol Building, Columbia Museum of Art Plaza, Columbia, USA Age of Big Construction, Beijing New Art Projects Space II, Beijing, PRC On the Stage of Modernization: Han Bing, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA Walking the Cabbage across America, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Natchez, Columbia, Baton Rouge, USA |
| 2006 | Other Modernities: Han Bing , Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles, USA The Other Shore of Desire, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Los Angeles, USA Love in the Age of Big Construction, IEAS Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA Han Bing—Quotidian Iconic & Orimoto Tatsumi—Quotidian Holy Mother, Jing Art Gallery, Shanghai, PRC Walking the Cabbage in Tokyo, Ginza, Harajuku, Akihabara, Shinjuku, Tokyo subway lines, Shin Tokorazawa, Shibuya, Japan |
| 2004 | Walking the Cabbage on the Great Wall, Jiaoshan, Shanhaiguan, Jinshaling Great Wall, PRC |
| 2002 | Strolling Bones II, Guangzhou Art Museum, PRC |
| 2001 | Walking the Cabbage in Beijing, Beijing Subways and bus-lines, Military Museum, Wangfujing, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, PRC |
| 2000 | Strolling Bones, Beijing Film Studios, Beitaiping Zhuang and other Beijing locales, PRC Fixed in Place, Beijing Train Station, Dianmen, Bell Drum Tower, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, PRC Walking the Cabbage Projects, (2000-2008,Performance) Beijing,( Beijing Film Studios, Beijing Subway, Beijing locales) Manchester, Brussels, Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Natchez, Baton Rouge, Columbia, Tokyo |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2012 | "The Secret Life of Plants", Exhibit 320, New Delhi, August, "Theatre de la Modernisation", Hotel Scribe, Paris, May. "Paradise Now", curated by Cis Biernickx, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, "Soooooooooooo viele!!! Gruppenfotografien seit 1840", photography exhibition, curated by Fritz Franz Vogel, Arthall, Memmingen, |
| 2011 | "Vous avez dit Révolution?", Maison de la Chine, Paris, November "In You is the Illusion of Each Day", Latitude 28, New Delhi, October. "Staging Selves: Power, Performativity, and Portraiture", Sakshi Gallery,Mumbai, September "Middle East, Middle Kingdom", curated by Pia Copper, Etemad Gallery, Dubai, September. "New Age: New Media", traveling exhibition curated by Reg Newitt and Wangboqiao, CAFA Art Museum – Beijing; Jinan Yuan Bo Yuan International Exhibition Center – Jinan; Hangzhou Art EXPO – Hangzhou; Sichuan Fine Art Academy Art Gallery – Chongqing; QUT – Brisbane; Songzhuang Art Center – Beijing; 146 Gallery, Arts Tas – Hobart; Federation Square – Melbourne; April to July |
| 2011 | "Excrescence", curated by Maya Kóvskaya, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai, India. 10th Korea Performance Art Spirit (Kopas), Korea Experimental Arts Festival (KEAF),curated by Kim Baekki, Seoul, Korea Homologous the actual and virtual —Beijing New Media Arts Exhibition, Shong Zhuang Art Center NEW AGE:Australia-China International New Media Arts Exhibition, Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Yuanboyuan International Exhibition Center, Hangzhou Art Expo. Sichuan Art Academy, Chongqing. Songzhuang Art Museum. The Art Yard, Lhasa. Beijing, PRC The Document Exhibition of Chinese Performance Art——1985-2010, Shong Zhuang Art Center |
| 2010 | Pot Luck: food and art, PM Gallery & House, London, UK The 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice ，"Detour" International Exhibition, "Detour", Bund 18, Zhongshan Dong Yi Road, Some place else, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA Pot Luck: food and art, Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales, UK KHOJ International Artist Workshop, New Delhi, India. |
| 2009 | Some place else, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA Pot Luck： food and art, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK The 10th Open International Performance Art Festival, Open Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, PRC Proyecto Género III, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain Made in China, Museum of New Art （MONA）, Art Channel Gallery, Beijing Journey to the End of the Night, Yan Club Arts Center 798 Art Factory, Beijing, PRC China Avant-Garde--Landscape in Transit, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA Action—Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada Made in China—Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2008 | Asia Triennial Manchester 2008 (ATM 08), Manchester, England, UK Texas Collects Asia: Contemporary Art, The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art Museum, Dallas, USA China…Forward!!! Tsum , 莫斯科， Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France Memory, Red Star Gallery, 798, Beijing, PRC Proyecto Género II, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain Multiple Realities, F2 Gallery, Beijing PRC Interval of Silence, Red Star Gallery, 798, Beijing, PRC Kitai Vperiod!!! China, Forward!!!, Tsum, Moscow, Russia Detour Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France China Under Construction II, Fotofest 12th Photography Biennial, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA |
| 2007 | Rencontres D'Arles Photography Festival, China—Chai-na Exhibition, Arles, France Third Annual Sino-Japanese International Performance Art Exchange, Beijing, PRC Performance Festival Pasage de la Paz, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain Love Expo, OFF *Ample, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain China Under Construction I, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA Dragon's Evolution: Chinese Contemporary Photography, China Square, NYC, USA Detour Exhibition, Director's Art Club, New York City, USA Night and Day Contemporary Art Exhibition, AKA Gallery, Rome, Italy China's Performance Art Photography, Inter Arts Center, Beijing The First Exhibition of Art Documents, Shangshang Art Museum, Beijing, PRC Barcelona—Paris—Pekin, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain Three Dimensions, Front Line Contemporary, Beijing, PRC Dragon's Evolution, 798 International Art Festival, Beijing, PRC Fractured Visions: Chinese Video Art, Center for Asian Studies, University of South Carolina, USA The Fragmented Gaze: Video Art from the PRC, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA |
| 2006 | Proyecto Género, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain Misalignments: Chinese Performance Art Documental, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, USA Engagements and Estrangements, Contemporary Chinese Exchange, Toronto, Canada The Nekromantics, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK Open International Performance Art Festival, Must Be Contemporary Art Center, 798, PRC Beyond Experience: The New China, Arario Beijing, PRC UNESCO's Together with Migrants Festival, SOHO, Beijing, PRC China—Chai-na Exhibition, Dashanzi International Art Festival, 798 Factory, Beijing, PRC |
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2005 |
Tian An Men-Gate to Heaven, Fotografiemuseum (FOAM) Amsterdam, Netherlands China Action 1: Video Art Exhibition, Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours, France Ambiguity: Hide Dimly, Zero Field Art Center, 798 Factory, Beijing, PRC Transborder Language Performance Art Exhibition: DIAF & Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, PRC Vehicle and Mirror Exhibition, Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Factory, Beijing |
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2004 |
Performance Art in 798: Photographic Memory, Thinking Hands Projects, Beijing, PRC Tian An-Men, Chinese-Eyes Gallery, Paris, France Sense of Fragility Exhibition, Italian Embassy, Beijing, PRC |
| 2003 | The First Dadao Live Art Festival, 798 Factory, Beijing, PRC I'm China—China Photography and Video 2003, SOHO, Beijing, PRC The Beautiful Life Exhibition, SOHO, Beijing, PRC DNA Visual Exhibition, Nanxincang, Beijing, PRC |
| 2002 | Pingyao International Photography Festival: New Chinese Photography, Shanxi, PRC Act of Flying Live Art Performance Exhibition, Red Square Art Center, Beijing Post-Revolutionary Era Video Exhibition, China New Media Art Space, Beijing Red Square Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Square Art Center, Beijing, PRC To Each His Own Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangzhou University, PRC Sino-Japanese Performance Art Exhibition, Waterside Space, Guangzhou, PRC |
| 2001 | Knowledge is Power Exhibition, Beijing Book Building, PRC Zero Degrees Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Bridge Art Factory, PRC Healing Contemporary Art Exhibition, Damu Space, Beijing, PRC Dang Dot Com Performance Art Exhibition, Kaixin Leyuan, Beijing, PRC |
| 2000 | Man and Animal Performance Art Exhibition, Nanjing, PRC |
| 1999 | Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts Oil Painting Advanced Studies Program Graduate Exhibition, Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, PRC |