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Education |
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MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
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MA Fine Art, Byam Shaw at Central St. Martins School of Art, London, UK |
| 2000 |
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BA Fine Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 1996 |
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Guangzhou Academy of Art Affiliated Middle School, Guangzhou, China |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2009 |
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O Zhang: Cutting the Blaze to New Frontiers, Queens Museum, Queens, NY |
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The World is Yours (But Also Ours), CRG Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2008 |
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Daddy & I, Asia Song Society, New York, NY |
| 2007 |
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Daddy & I, Pekin Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2005 |
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My Little Girl, IMT Gallery, London, UK |
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Horizon, Chinese Art Center, Manchester, UK |
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| Group Exhibitions |
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| 2009 |
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The Borders, curated by Hyewon Yi, The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY |
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A Stream Bends for a Thousand Li, Asia Song Society, New York, NY |
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China Now: The Edge of Desire, curated by Rebecca Heidenberg, Max Lang Gallery, New York, NY |
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Ingenious Methodology, Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2008 |
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Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA |
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Red Aside-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Joan Miro Museum, Barcelona, Spain |
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The First Show-New Blood, Li Space, Beijing, China |
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Food and Shelter, Pekin Fine Art, Beijing, China |
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Future Was Then...So Now What, PAM at Scope Art Fair, New York, U.S.A. |
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Art at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, The New School Kellen Gallery, New York, NY |
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Out of the Spotlight, Chi Contemporary Chinese art, Brooklyn, NY |
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Constant Stream: CHINA08 at the RCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
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Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win: Emerging Artists from the Chinese Diaspora, (Curated by Eric C. Shiner), Deutsche Bank, New York, NY |
| 2007 |
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Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese artists from the Sigg collection, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria |
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Shcontemporary art fair, CRG gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Center, China |
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Chinese Eroticism, 456 Gallery, New York, USA |
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Surge, tour show in 798 Festival, Dashanzi, Beijing and He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China |
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Dream Place, A-Space, Beijing, China |
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You can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art, Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, USA |
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Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China |
| 2006 |
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Mahjong Contemporary Chinese from the Sigg Collection, Kunsthalle Museum, Hamburg, Germany |
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MoCA Envisage– Entry Gate: Chinese Aestherics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China |
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Duolun Exhibition of Young Artist, Duolun Museum, Shanghai, China |
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Looking at the Other, ISE Foundation, New York, U.S.A |
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Cantonese Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland |
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Purity and Innocence, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, U.S.A |
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Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, temporarycomporary, Shanghai/Beijing, China |
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Art Rotterdam, Domobaal Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland |
| 2005 |
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Preview Berlin, Domobaal Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
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Chicago Contemporary Classic Art Fair, Museum Work, Chicago, U.S.A. |
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It's a Wrap, Photo Do Not Bend Gallery, Texas, U.S.A |
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Imagin a World, OXO Tower Wharf barge house, London, UK |
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Crime, Artist net work gallery, New York, U.S.A |
| 2004 |
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On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A. |
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XS - an invitational exhibition, fa project Gallery, London, UK |
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Who Am I, 456 Gallery, New York, U.S.A. |
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Standing On the Edge, Hiscox Gallery, London, UK |
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Best of Royal College of Art Degree Show, Davis Langdon Gallery, London, UK |
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Summer Show, Hoopers Gallery, London, UK |
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The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London, UK |
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Portobello Film Festival, The Portobello Film Institute, London, UK |
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EMERGEANDSEE, tour show in Trafo Kortars Muveszetek Haza, Budapest, Hungary and Kino International, Berlin, Germany |
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Vector, L'Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, France |
| 2003 |
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Essen Art Festival, Folkwong Museum, Essen, Germany |
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Chinese Art Today, Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China |
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Detour, Neon Gallery, London, UK |
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The Art of Contemporary Asian Women: If The Shoe Fits, Fisher Art Studio, Bard College, New York, U.S.A. |
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Timeshare, OXO Tower Wharf barge house, London, UK |
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Umea Video/Performance/Music Festival, Umea, Gallery 60, Sweden |
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RCA Film Night, 291 Gallery, London, UK |
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Photography Open Competition, AOP Gallery, London, UK |
| 2002 |
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Vanishing, East73 Gallery, London, UK |
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Generator, L'Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, France |
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Emerge and See - short film screening, Curzon Soho Cinema, London, UK |
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Orange/Dazed & Confused Big Break New Talent Awards Exhibition, Great Eastern Hotel, London, UK |
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Paris - San Francisco: One Exhibition Two Sites, Somarts Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A and Glaz'Art, Paris, France |
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48 Student Neukoelln Art and Culture Festival, Berlin, Germany |
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Behind the Closed Door, Seven Worcester Terrace Gallery, Bath, UK |
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Visual Art in Nunnery 2002, Nunnery Gallery, London UK |
| 2001 |
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The Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toal Gallery, Boston, U.S.A |
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Deal With It, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A |
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Synaesthesia Film Night, Chats Palace Art Center, London, UK |
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Challenge The Nail, Salon des Arts, London, UK |
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The 8th Annual Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A |
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Eel, The Rhythm Factory, London, UK |
| 2000 |
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Skin and Words, Artists Space, Hauts de Cagnes, France |
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Er-Chang Age, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing, China |
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Contemporary Photography from The People's Republic of China, Cypress College and BC Space Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A |
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Winter Sunshine, Panorama Gallery, Beijing, China |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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| 2009 |
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HO, Art gallery launches outdoor exhibition space in downtown Vancouver, The Canadian Press, June 30, 2009 |
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Lentini, Lara Kristin, O Zhang, ArtPapers, March/April, 2009 |
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Liu, Yue, Contemporary Chinese Art Narrates the Change of Chinese Society, Sampan, Feb 27, 2009 |
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Phelan, Sarah, Mahjong and Beyond, Taunton Daily Gazette, Feb 24, 2009 |
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Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers, The art of interpreting doublespeak, ChelseaNow, Jan 2, 2009 |
| 2008 |
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Kunitz, Daniel, O Zhang shoots her own cultural revolution, TimeOut, Dec 23, 2008 |
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Walker, Benjamin, Beijing Competes with New York for Art Glory, NPR / WNYC, August 11th, 2008 |
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Liu Xiaojin, 2008 Asian Contemporary Art Week, This Art, April 29, 2008 |
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O Zhang at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, WPS1 (Art Radio), March 27, 2008 |
| 2007 |
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Barbara Pollock on Zhang O, China Photo magazine, P76-83, Nov 2007, Beijing, China |
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O Zhang, Daddy & I, The Meaning of Faces in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Yang Xiao Yan, Chinese Photography Magazine, P32-35, June 2007, Beijing, China |
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O Zhang at Pekin Fine Art, Exhibition of the Week, Bitesize Beijing Time Out, July 26, 2007 |
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O Zhang, Art Review, artkrush.com, issue 62, 2007 |
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O Zhang’s work is a Must See, The Modern & Contemporary Design Blog, Art Moco, Mocoloco.com, June 8, 2007 |
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Stacey Duff on Zhang O at Pekin Fine Art, Saatchi Gallery online Daily Magazine, June 27, 2007 |
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Barbara Pollock on Zhang O at Pekin Fine Art, Saatchi Gallery online Daily Magazine, May, 2007 |
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Stacey Duff on Zhang O at Pekin Fine Art, Time Out Beijing Magazine, June 27, 2007 |
| 2006 |
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Interview with three Mahjong artists(Yue Ming-Jun, Zhou Xiaohu and O Zhang), Szene Magazine, Fall Issue, 2006, Hamburg, Germany |
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Guangzhou, Kunstmuseum Bern catalogue, P34, Feb, 2006, Bern, Switzerland |
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Entry Gate: Chinese Aestherics of Heterogeneity catalogue, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art publication, 2006 |
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Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists exhibition catalogue, Duolun Museum publication, 2006 |
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Kunstmuseum Bern exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Bern publication, 2006 |
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Kunstmuseum Bern exhibition review, ART iT magazine, Issue 11, P10, April 2006, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 |
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Imagine A World, Guardian.co.uk/Art, 28th November, 2005, London, UK |
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Imagine A World, Art Review, Metro, 1st December, 2005, London, UK |
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Imagine A World, Art Review, The Guide-Guardian, 25th Nov 2005, P.39, London, UK |
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Frieze, Issue 94, October 2005, P.125, London, UK |
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Daddy & I, Flux 50th issue special Sept/Oct, 2005, P.117, London, UK |
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Hackney Gazette, 22nd September, 2005, P.6, London, UK |
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Daddy & I, The Big Issue magazine, September 19-25, 2005, No. 660, P.25, London, UK |
| 2004 |
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10:00pm News-Who Am I exhibition, Sino TV Channel, 8th Nov 2004, New York, U.S.A. |
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Exhibitions in Manhattan, The World Daily, 9th Nov 2004, New York, U.S.A. |
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Art Review XS Exhibition, Time Out London, July 2004, P48, Issue No.1768, London, UK |
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Contemporary Photography 2004, Guardian Saturday colour supplement, Saturday 29th May 2004, P8, Guardian, London, UK |
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Zhang O - in transit, Yishu Magazine- journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Sep 2004, Fall issue P28-P31, Vancouver, Canada |
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Shows in Manhattan, The China Press, 9th Nov, 2004, New York, U.S.A. |
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Art & Culture, Sing Tao Daily, 9th Nov 2004, New York, U.S.A. |
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Royal College of Art Show 2004, Hot Shoe Magazine - fresh perspectives on contemporary photography, June/July 2004, P51, Issue No. 130, London, UK |
| 2003 |
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Essen Art Festival, Folkwang Museum Catalogue, Nov 2003, P.29, Essen, Germany |
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Chinese Art Today - exhibition, Beijing Publishing House and Beijing Photographic Art Publishig House, May 2003, P349, Beijing, China |
| 2002 |
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Chinese Art Today, Beijing Publishing House and Beijing Photographic Art Publishing House, Feb 2002, P524, Beijing, China |
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Angel Magazine, Arts Focus, Issue 56, March, 2002, p. 28, London, UK |
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Create, Art, Monday 19, March, 2002, no. 19, p. 24, London, UK |
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Artist O Zhang, Ms Chen Di An broadcast interview, BBC News World Service Chinese Section, May 2002, London, UK |
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100 Review book -- 100 reviews of contemporary art exhibitions in London, Edited by Matthew Arnatt, Alberta Press, Cornerhouse, P81-82,April 2002, London, UK |
| 2000 |
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Support to Chinese New Art, Beijing Publishing House, Jun 2000, P180-181, Beijing, China |
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Dream & Reality, Chinese Photography Magazine Issue 247, P42-45, Jan 2000, Beijing, China |
| 1999 |
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A Visible Spirit -- Contemporary Photography from the People's Republic of China, B.C. Space Gallery Catalogue, P29-30, July 1999, Los Angeles, U.S.A |
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| Awards and Honors |
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| 2008 |
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First selected artist to start the Artist in Residency program at the Queen’s Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. |
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Invited speaker for “Places at the Table” symposium, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, U.S.A. |
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Bellagio Center Artist Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, U.S.A. |
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Artist talk at Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Organized by Asia Society and Museum, Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York, U.S.A. |
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Featured in a feature-length documentary: “The Rising Tide”, screened at Max protetch Gallery and Hirshhorn Museum among other locations, NY/Washington DC, U.S.A. |
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Invited artist for the Tribeca Film Festival Art Award, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, U.S.A. |
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Nominated for Art Matters Spring Grant, Art Matters Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2007 |
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Nominated for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, New York, USA |
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Final shortlisted for Creative Capital Awards, New York, USA |
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Nominated for The 2007 Visual Art Grant, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, USA |
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Art residency of Bellagio Study and Conference Center, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2006 |
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Nominated for Chinese Contemporary Art Awards( CCAA), Beijing, China |
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Winner of RCA Photography Graduate Award, Royal College of Art, London, UK Art Residency of The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, U.S.A |
| 2005 |
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Nominated for Beck's Future, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK |
| 2004 |
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Mathews Wrightson Awards 2004, Wrightson Educational Trust, London UK |
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Royal College of Art Fine Art Student Awards 2004, London, UK |
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Short listed for Design for Our Future Selves Awards 2004, The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, London, UK |
| 2003 |
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Wilson Centre for Photography Fellowship, Wilson Centre For Photography, London, UK |
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The Chinese Student Awards, The Great Britain-China Educational Trust, London, UK |
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Royal College of Art Fine Art Student Awards 2003, London, UK |
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The Sir Richard Stapley Awards 2003, The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust, London, UK |
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Marthews Wrightson Award 2003, Wrightson Educational Trust, London, UK |
| 2002 |
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Fuji Film Student Awards 2002, London, UK |
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The Hackney Parochial Awards, Hackney Parochial Charities, London, UK |
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Eaton Fund for Artist, Eaton Charities, London, UK |
| 2001 |
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Top six for Orange/Dazed & Confused Big Break New Talent Awards, Dazed and Confused Fashion Magazine, London, UK |
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Art Award 2001, Ray Trust Charity, London, UK |
| 1989 |
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Young Artist Representative for China, Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Public Collections |
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Guggenheim Museum (New York) |
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Santa Barbara Museum (California) |
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Millennium Monument Art Museum (Beijing) |
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Hiscox Art Projects, London (UK) |
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