| 1980 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 2002 | Graduated from Beijing Broadcasting Institute, B.A. Degree, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Graduated from Central Academy of Fine Art, M.A. Degree, Beijing, China |
| Currently | Lives and works in Beijing as Associate Professor of School of Experimental Art of Central Academy of Fine Art |
| 2023 | A Bridge Between Two Worlds: Works by Wu Jian’an, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA |
| 2022 | Recent Works, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2021 | The huge sand dunes are the bed of the Sea, CAFA Art Museum-Langfang, Langfang, Hebei, China |
| 2020 | The Myths of Innovation, Hermès Maison, Shanghai, China |
| 2019 | Infinite Labyrinth: New Works by Wu Jian'an, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Of the Infinite Mind, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | Daydream Forest, University of Chicago Center, Beijing, China |
| The Celebration Show of 2017 Chinese Lunar New Year, Galeries Lafayette Haussman, Paris, France | |
| 2016 | Da Hua Shen Guai,Chinese Museum of Finance Art Center, Beijing, China |
| Omens: Recent Works by Wu Jian'an, Curated by Wu Hung, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Lunar New Year Installation by Wu Jian’an: “Release the Buddhist Mantra”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
| Ten Thousand Things: New Works by Wu Jian'an, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| Ten Thousand Things: New Works by Wu Jian'an, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2015 | Transformation: A Tale of Contemporary Art and Intangible Cultural Heritage, Prince Gong's Palace, Beijing, China Having Floods under Control, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore Change of Power, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China |
| 2014 | Transformation, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China & New York, USA Faces,Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, China Having Floods under Control,SCOPE Art Show, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2012 | Seven Layered Shell, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Seven Layered Shell, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Mountain Ranges, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong |
| 2008 | Heaven of Nine Levels, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China & New York, USA |
| 2006 | Daydreams, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Search for Piyingxi (Shadow Play), Oil Painting Department Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China |
| 2024 | Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Stanford University, California, USA |
| 2023 | Echo of Water, MOCA Yinchuan, Ningxia, China The Rabbit Projects, Chambers Fine Art, New York Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 2022 | The Trace of Civilization: The Great Art of Dun-huang, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China BVLGARI SERPENTI RHAPSODY, BVLGARI, Beijing, China |
| 2021 | Laminated Time & Space: Kulangsu Center for Contemporary Art Opening Exhibition, Kulangsu Center for Contemporary Art, Xiamen, China The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China Shanghai 2020, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Chen Yujun, Li Jikai, Wu Jian’an, Wu Junyong, ECHO ARETE, Hangzhou, China Zeit-geist Co-Evolution: 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China Foresights, Guardian Fine Art Asia, Beijing, China Towards a New Land: Tales of the Ancient Pavilion-Suzhou Garden Art Festival, Pavilion of Surging Waves/Keyuan/Yiyuan/Yipu, Suzhou, China Ignescent: Group Exhibition of Xennial Artists, Holly’s Space, Beijing, China Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China Glasstress: Window to the Future, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, USA Futurism of the Past-Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art, Inaugural Exhibition of the Culture and Art Hub of Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China The Logic of Painting, Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi Art at Fuliang 2021-Held·Discovery, Hanxi Village, Fuliang County, Jingdezhen, China All of You, Art You, Taiyuan, China Kaiwu: Art and Design from China, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France Local Individuals: Chinese Contemporary Painting Research Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China |
| 2020 | The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Whole Cloth, SITE131, Dallas, Texas, USA The Revival of Tradition, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China 7th MoCA Animamix Biennial, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China The New Classic of Mountains and Seas: Contemporary Art on Chinese Original Myths and Legends, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China The Endless Life: The Narrative of the Yellow River, The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China Clouds Gathering and Unfolding: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art on Paper, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Ichihara, Japan Union, Objective Space, Shanghai, China The Logic of Painting, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China The Curation WorkshopⅡ, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China |
| 2019 | Material Traditions, Chambers Fine Art and Pagoda Red, Chicago, USA Chambers Review II, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Needlepoint, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2018 | Continuum – Generation by Generation, Pavilion of China, 57th Venice Biennale, Times Art Museum/Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing/Shanghai China |
| Wu Jian'an and Wang Tianwen: In The Mythical Forest, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China Echigo-Tsumari Triennale 2018, Echigo Tsumari, Japan | |
| Where Worlds Weave: Modern Mores and Traditional Miao Values, Today Art Museum/Prince Kung's Mansion, Beijing, China | |
| 2017 | Continuum - Generation by Generation, Pavilion of China, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice |
| Paper Play: Kindergarten to Contemporary Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA | |
| HappyChinese New Year: Fantastic Art China, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA | |
| Impuls: Contemporary Chinese Art, Beinal deCuritiba2017 China/Pais, Homdenageado, Oscar, Niemeyer Museum,Curitiba, Brazil | |
| Fashion Art – Contemporary Dialogues between Fashion and Art, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| SerpentiForm,ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Mori Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Echo of Civilization: Chinese craft art and contemporary art,Empirical Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Hands Plus Embrace: 2017 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju Tobacco Processing Plant, Cheongju, Korea | |
| 15thASIA Arts Festival: The Echo of Civilization-The Beauty of Crafts, Ningbo Museum, Zhejiang, China | |
| Paper into the Fold, Wanying Art Museum, Hebei, China | |
| Medium Utopia-Art Jiangxi Academic Invitational Exhibition, Jiangxi Exhibition Center, Jiangxi, China | |
| Ya Shan, G&G Creatie Community, Shenzhen, China | |
| Baton,Shandong Art Museum, Shandong, China | |
| In Progress-The Annual Exhibition of Teachers in CAFA School of Experimental Art, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Reciprocal Enlightenment,Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2016 | Monkey Business: Celebrating the Year of the Monkey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City,USA |
| July Festival in China House, 2016 Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata, Japan | |
| Beautiful Asset Art Project, Art 16, London, UK | |
| Echo of Civilization: Crossing Dunhuang, Empirical Art Museum of China, Beijing, China China Now, Gallery@OXO, London, UK Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China | |
| Peony Pavilion Contemporary Art, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| Everlasting Mountain and Water: Chinese Landscape in Multiple Dimensions, Hua Yu Hotel, Sanya, China | |
| 2015 | The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China Up – Youth China Young Artists Exhibition 2015, Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing, China Hetero – Entity Myths Narration Imagination, E Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China The Carolyn Hsu and René Balcer Collection: Exploring Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA |
| Annual of Contemporary Art in China 2014, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2014 | COSMOS, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Present-ing Recital Louder than Paint, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai Ten Years in One Inspection CAFA Achievement Exhibition of Ten – Year – Education on Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2013 | The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Zhongshan Park Project – City Memory: Zhangzhou, Zhangzhou Bihu Exhibition Hall, Fujian, China Forward! Contemporary Art & Contemporary City, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China The 6th Chengdu Biennale: Relation, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, China A4 Young Artist Experimental Season, 2nd Round Exhibition,A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China The 2nd Datong International Sculpture Biennale, Heyang Art Museum, Datong, China The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Time Zone-Creation and Exploration of Contemporary Young College Teachers, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China Special Exhibition of 2013 CAFA Teaching Staff, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2012 | The First CAFAM – Future Exhibition Sub – Phenomena: Report on the State ofChinese Young Art Nominationt, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| “Explosion!” 2012 CYAP Exhibition, International Convention Center, Beijing, China ALLES UNTER DEM HIMMEL GEHORT ALLEN, Chinese Public Art inKassel, Kassel, Germany I, Pencil, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China Not only Paper, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China China Young Artists Project, Beijing International Conference and Exhibition Center,Beijing, China Contrast - Inheritance & Development, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Gallery, Suzhou, China The Exhibition of Works by Teachers at CAFA 2013,Central Academy of Fine Arts Art, Beijing, China Also World, T Art Center, Beijing, China. | |
| 2011 | Mind in Landscape, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, USA 1+1 A Cross-Strait-Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project, Hexiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China Start from the Horizon: Chinese Contemporary Art Since 1978, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China Print, Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | Modeling,Central Academy of Fine Art Art Museum, Beijing, China River Flows East: Landscapes of the Imagination, The Collection the County Museum of Lincolnshire, England Beyond Mediations- the 2nd Mediations Biennale, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan, Poland Sharism-Get It Louder 2010, Sanlitun SOHO, Beijing, China Post Traditions: Enlarge The Carve, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China |
| 2009 | Live and Let Live: Creators of Tomorrow—The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Always—As It Was, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Paper! Paper!, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2008 | Another Lonely Planet Revisited, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China A+A’ 2008 The Third A+A, PIFO New Art Studios, Beijing; Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China |
| 2007 | Net: Re-imagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China A+A’ 2007 The Second A+A, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Sichuan University Museum, Chengdu; Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China |
| 2006 | Coming from Daily Life: The 1st Academy Documentary of Experimental Art, Zhulou Art Space, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China New Folk Movement: The Reconstruct of Commonality Living, U Space, Beijing, China Painting and Handwork, PIFO New Art Studios, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Archaeology of the Future: The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China |
| Kalamazoo Institute of Art, USA |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA |
| Fidelity Investments Art Collection, USA |
| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan |
| Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, China |
| National Art Museum of China, China |
| White Rabbit Collection, Australia |
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| 21C Museum Hotel, Kentucky, USA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA |