Miao Xiaochun
1964 Born in Wuxi Jiangsu, China
1982-86 Studied at Nanjing University, China
1986-89 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1989-95 Lived as artist in Beijing, China
1995-99 Studied at Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
Presently works as a teacher at the Photography and Digital Media Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Selected Solo Exhibition
2008 MIAO XIAOCHUN: H2O, Gallery LVS, Seoul, Korea
2007 MIAO XIAOCHUN: H2O, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China
2007 MIAO XIAOCHUN: H2O, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2006 Image + Imagination, Osage contemporary art space, Hong Kong
2006 A Birdview, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2006 MIAO XIAOCHUN: THE LAST JUDGMENT IN CYBERSPACE, WHITE SPACE BEIJING; Beijing, China
2006 MIAO XIAOCHUN: The last judgement in cyberspace, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
1996 MIAO XIAOCHUN: THE LAST JUDGMENT IN CYBERSPACE; ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Germany
2004 Phantasmagoria, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2004 A visitor from the past, Epson Photogallery Shanghai-Beijing, China
2002 Linger, Gallery Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2001 From East to West and Back to East, Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1999 Kulturbegegnungen, Gallery Stellwerk, Kassel, Germany
1994 Beijing Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum, China
1992 National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China
1991 Beijing Art Museum, China
1988 Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 China, Beyond Socialist Realism, Chosun-Ilbo Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008, NAMOC, Beijing, China
2008 China Gold, Musée Maillol, Paris, France
2008 55 Days in Valencia. Chinese Art Meeting, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
2008 Go China! Contemporary Chinese Art, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2008 China Design Now, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2008 The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2008 Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007 China: Facing Reality, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2007 CHINA NOW, Works from the Essl Collection, cobra museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands
2007 Floating – New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2007 RED HOT – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
2007 Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 Dragon´s Evolution, ChinaSquare New York, New York, USA
2007 New Directions from China, [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland
2006 Another world. Photography from China, Gallery Lukas Feichtner, Vienna, Austria
2006 CHINA NOW – Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2006 Mahjong – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
2006 Field of Vision: Beijing, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China
2006 Susi: Opening up to China Art Today, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines
2006 Ultra- Sense, Seoul International Photo Festival, Seoul, Korea
2006 Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, MOCA Shanghai, China
2005 ASIA: THE PLACE TO BE? ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin,Germany
2005 Placed in China, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2005 Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Art Museum, China
2005 A Utopia of the Visible, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China
2005 Pingyao International Photography Festival 2005, Pingyao, China
2005 Grounding Reality – Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2004 Photokina, Cologne, Germany; ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2004 Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2004 Pinyao in Paris, National Library Francois Mitterrand, MK2, Paris, France
2004 Spellbound Aura – The New Vision of Chinese Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 Rivka Rinn and Miao Xiaochun, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China
2004 Le Printemps de Chine, Musée CRAC Alsace – Centre rhénan d´art contemporain, Altkirch, France
2003 Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland
2003 Left hand, right hand, A Sino German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Art Space, Beijing, China
2003 Concept in situ, The Villa Museum, Beijing, China
2003 Modernization & Urbanization – Asian Art Now, Marronnier Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2003 Encounter, Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2002 Urban creation, Shanghai Biennial 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2002 Media City Seoul 2002, 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea
2002 China – Tradition and Modernity, Ludwig Gallery, Oberhausen, Germany
2002 Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 Fantasia, East Modern Art Center, Beijing, China
2002 Under Construction, New Dimensions of Asian Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan