Né à Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, Chine en 1966.
Diplômé de la China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, Chine et de la Kunsthochschule Kassel, Allemagne, professeur à la CAFA.

COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Collection, Sydney, Australie
Essl Art Museum / Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Autriche
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Autriche
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Chine
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
FNAC, Paris, France
Goetz Collection, Munich, Allemagne
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Corée
Uli Sigg Collection, Mauensee, Suisse
LEISTER Collection, Suisse
The Red Mansion Foundation, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Zabludoeicz Collection, Londres, Royaume-Uni
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Royaume-Uni
The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, Chine
The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, États-Unis
The Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Zabludowicz Collection, London, Royame-Uni
Uli Sigg Collection, Mauensee, Suisse
USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, États-Unis

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES

2019
Miao Xiaochun: Gyro Dance, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, États-Unis
“01 Variable Cycle: Miao Xiaochun 2006-2018,” OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, Chine

2016
“Metamorphosis,” Klein Sun Gallery, New York, États-Unis
Echo, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France

2015
Miao Xiaochun 2015, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Nanjing, Chine
Miao Xiaochun: Grammar, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, Chine
Miao Xiaochun: Save As, Whitebox Art Center, 798 Beijing, Chine

2014
Dreamland, K.Gallery, Chengdu, Chine

2012
Miao Xiaochun: The Real in the Virtual, The Dennos Museum Center, MI, USA

2011
Limitless-Feng Mengbo | Miao Xiaochun, Arario Gallery, Beijing, Chine
Out of Body, White Box Museum of Art, 798 Beijing, Chine
Beijing Handscrolls, Guardini Foundation, Berlin, Allemagne

2010
Miao Xiaochun, Galeria Arsena? w Bia?ymstoku, Pologne
Macromania, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Allemagne

2009
Miao Xiaochun-Two Big Video Works, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
Miao Xiaochun, Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, Chine
Index, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Beijing

2008
Miao Xiaochun-Microcosm, Arario Gallery, Beijing-New York-Seoul, 2009-2010 The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO. USA
Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm, Osage Galleries Singapore-Hong Kong

2007
Miao Xiaochun | Microcosm, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Allemagne
The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australie
H2O-A Study of Art History, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong
H2O-A Study of Art History, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Beijing; Berlin

2006
Urban Landscape, John Hope Franklin Centre of Duke University, USA
A Birdview, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Image + Imagination, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong Viewpoint, White Space Beijing, Beijing, Chine

2004
The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
Phantasmagoria-Photographs by Miao Xiaochun, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA

2002
Miao Xiaochun: A Visitor from the Past, epSITE Beijing-Shanghai, Chine

2001
Linger, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Suisse

1999
From East to West and Back to East, Museum of CAFA, Beijing, Chine

1994
Kulturbegegnungen, Galerie Stellwerk, Kassel

1992
Miao Xiaochun, Beijing Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum

1991
Miao Xiaochun, National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, Chine

1988
Miao Xiaochun: Recents Works, Beijing Art Museum
Miao Xiaochun’s Paintings, Gallery of CAFA, Beijing, Chine

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES

2019
“The Dream of Being an Artist,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
“New Art History 2000 – 2018 Chinese Contemporary Art,” MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
“Traces,” Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, États-Unis
“Golden Panda Photography Awards Exhibition,” Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
«180 Years of Photography in China,» MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, Chine

2018
“Hybridizations: the ghost of painting,” Whitebox Art Center, Beijing, Chine
«40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography,» OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Chine
«Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art,» The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Allemagne
“Ambush on All Sides An Alternative Intervention in Social Vision,” Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, Chine
“Open Source Shenzhen Biennale 2018,” Luohu Museum of Art, Shenzhen, Chine
“Screen Refreshing / Labor AMNUA Photography Exhibition 2018,” Art Museum of Nanjing Museum of Art, Nanjing, Chine

2017
“Image of the Mind: Contemporary Chinese Art,” Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, États-Unis
Heaven beyond the Sea, Haitang Bay, Sanya, Chine
Mutual Supplementary Merge, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Allemagne
Luther and the Avantgarde, Alten Gefängnis Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Allemagne
China, Art in Motion, Musée du Film d’Animation, Château d’Annecy, Annecy, France

2016
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
The Shadow Never Lies，Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Utopias·Heterotopias-Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, Chine

2015
A New Dynasty-Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Danemark
Fascination Photography, Essl Museum, Vienna, Autriche
Designing VIEW beyond the earth, The First Xi’an Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Chine
What I saw with your eyes, ART021, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, Chine
B3 Biennial of The Moving Image, Frankfurt, Allemagne
Experimental Zone, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, Chine
Myth, Whitebox Art Center, 798, Beijing, Chine
Imagined Future, Opening Exhibition of Future Gallery, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
Inter – locking stratagem, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Chine
Fervent China-Contemporary Monumental Sculptures, The Former Slaughterhouse, Mons, Belgique
Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2nd Experimental Image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, Chine
Epoch Writing-Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, Chine
Moving in Time: B3+Beijing Moving Image Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
China 8-Contemporary Art from China along the Rhine and Ruhr, 9 Museums including NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Allemagne
Fairy Tales, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Essential Matters-Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turquie
Sudden Change of Idea–An Exhibition on comparative study between Chinese and German Conceptual Art, United Museum, Wuhan, Chine
2015 Invited Academic Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine

2014
Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI, USA
Performance and Imaginations: Photography from China 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norvège
Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Seeing the Unseen: Photography and Video Art in China Now, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA
Metamorphosis of the Virtual 5+5: Digital Art Today, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
China Arte Brasil, OCA, Parque lbirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brésil
1st Experimental Image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, Chine
Liquid Times, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Corée
Tour Exhibition of Pavilion of China at the 55th Venice Biennale
How Art Museum, Wenzhou, Chine
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Revisited—Selected Video Works From 1st Kiev Biennale, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, Chine
Exhibition on Contemporary Digital Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
Digital Triangle—Media Art Today in Korea-China-Japan, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Corée
8+1—A Project of Experimental Art, Guangdong Contemporary Art Centre (GCAC), Guangzhou, Chine
Translated Concussion—Chinese New Media Art Techniques and Practice since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chine
10 Years of Contemporary Photography in China 2005-2014, The 10th Lianzhou International Photo Exhibition, Lianzhou, Chine

2013
The 55th Venice Biennale, The Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italie
Rewriting the Landscape, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Corée
1st Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, Chine
Spectacle reconstruction—Chinese Contemporary Art, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hongrie
Portrait of the Times—30 Years of Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, Chine
The Garden of Forking Paths—Exploring Independent Animation, OCT Shanghai, Chine
Move on Asia—Video Art 2002 -2012, ZKM, Karlshure, Allemagne
@What—New Contemporary Art from China, Arko Art Center of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
Nothing to declare?—World Maps of Art since 89, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Allemagne

2012
7e Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art—Mountains and Waters: Chinese
Animation Since the 1930s, Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australie
The World of Soul: As Virtual Artistic Engineering, 1st Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, B10 Art Center, Shenzhen, Chine
Conceptual Renewal—Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
Chinese Contemporary Public Art, Kassel, Allemagne
The Unseen, 4e Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Chine
Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turquie
New Image after 2000, Enjoy Museum of Art, 798, Beijing, Chine
Architecture China—The 100 Contemporary Projects, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum(REM), Mannheim, Allemagne
Go figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery and The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra and Sydney, Australie
Passing Through Memory, Jinjihu Art Museum, Suzhou, Chine
ARSENALE 2012, The 1st Kiev International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Photo España—Image Anxiety, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Espagne
Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine

2011
The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989 (Art Worlds after 1989), ZKM, Allemagne
The 54th Venice Biennale—Future Pass, Venice, Italie
New Horizon—Contemporary Chinese Art, The National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australie
Meta-Question Back to The Museum Per Se, Inauguration Exhibition of the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Chine
30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art—Moving image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Spectrum, Chinese Independent Animation, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, Chine
Verso Est. Chinese Architectural Landscapes, MAXXI, Rome, Italie
Representation of Realistic Art—The 5th Chengdu Biennale 2011, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, Chine
Move on Asia—The End of Video Art, Casa Asia, Barcelone, Espagne
New Age, New Media, exhibition tour in Ten Cities of China and Australia
“Dual senses» and «Dynamic views”— Contemporary Art Exhibition across the Taiwan Straits of 2011, NAMOC, Beijing; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (TMOA)
A Decade of the Rabbit, White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australie
Magic Spaces, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine

2010
A Fresh Look at Chinese Landscapes, Galerie Moderne Chinesische Malerei des Museums für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Allemagne
Mediators, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Pologne
Negotiations—The Second Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
Made in Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Corée
Reshaping History—Chinart from 2000-2009, National Conference Center, Beijing, Chine
DIGIFESTA—Speed of Earth ‘2010 km/second, see’, Gwangju Museum of Art, Corée

2009
Beijing Time, Casa Asia, Matadero Madrid; Santiago Art Museum, Espagne Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Chine
Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un/real, MoCa Shanghai, Chine
Open Vision—Chinese Contemporary Art, Czech National Gallery, Prague Next Nature, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesie
Vistas | Vision of U-City, Incheon International Digital Art Festival, Incheon, Corée
Nature | Nation, Museum on the Seam | Social-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israël
The Dream Machine, The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
Spectacle—to Each His Own, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

2008
Images in the night, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France
Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan MoMA, Corée
Up: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapour
Mediations, Poznan Biennale, Pologne
China: Construction—Deconstruction, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brésil
Go China—New World Order, Present day Installation Art and Photography, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Pays-Bas
Re-Imagining Asia, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Allemagne; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, Royaume-Uni
China Design Now, 2008-2010 Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres Royaume-Uni; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA
China Gold, Museum Maillol, Paris, France
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008—International Media Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Chine
55 Days in Valencia, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Espagne

2007
China—Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Autriche; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Chine
China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Pays-Bas
Energy Spirit·Body·Material—1st Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, Chine
Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Floating—New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Corée
Thermocline of Art—New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Allemagne
New Directions from China New Media Art, Plug.in, Basel, Suisse
Contemporary Photography from China. Zhuyi! China!, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelone, Espagne
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israël

2006
Media City Seoul 2006, 4e Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Corée
SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines
China now—Art at a time of transformation, Essl Museum, Autriche
Totalstadt: Beijing case, ZKM Karlsruhe, Allemagne
New Urban Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

2005
Scapes: The Century and Paradise, 2e Chengdu Biennale, Chine
Mahjong—Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, 2005-2009, Art Museum, Bern, Suisse; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Allemagne; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Autriche; UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAM & PFA), Berkeley, Californie, USA; The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Re-Viewing the City, Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Chine

2004
Between Past and Future—New Photography and Video from China, 2004-2006, International Center of Photography and Asia Society, New York, USA; Smart Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres Royaume-Uni; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Allemagne
Spellbound Aura—The new vision of Chinese Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2003
Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Suisse
Encounter, Museum of CAFA, Beijing; Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Left hand, right hand Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Art Space, Beijing, Chine

2002
Urban Creation, 4e Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Chine
Media City Seoul 2002, 2e Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Corée
China—Tradition and Modern, Ludwig Museum, Oberhausen, Allemagne
Golden Harvest—Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatie

1991
The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings, The National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, Chine

PUBLICATIONS

2011
Miao Xiaochun: Kulturbegegnungen, Deutsche Botschaft Peking

2010
Miao Xiaochun 2009-1999, Dumont

2009
Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm, Arario Gallery
Miao Xiaochun A Visitor From the Past, Epson

2007
Miao Xiaochun H2O – A Study of Art History, Osage Contemporary Art Space

2006
Miao Xiaochun: The Last Judgment in Cyberspace
Miao Xiaochun A Visitor From the Past, Epson
Miao Xiaochun Image + Imagination,Osage Contemporary Art Space
Miao Xiaochun Macromania, Ludwig Museum, Timezone 8

2004
Phantasmagoria, Photographs by Miao Xiaochun, Walsh Gallery