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Wu Jian'an - Paper into the Fold

1980Born in Beijing, China
2002Graduated from Beijing Broadcasting Institute, B.A. Degree, Beijing, China
2005Graduated from Central Academy of Fine Art, M.A. Degree, Beijing, China
CurrentlyLives and works in Beijing as Associate Professor of School of Experimental Art of Central Academy of Fine Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023A Bridge Between Two Worlds: Works by Wu Jian’an, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
2022Recent Works, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2021The huge sand dunes are the bed of the Sea, CAFA Art Museum-Langfang, Langfang, Hebei,
China
2020The Myths of Innovation, Hermès Maison, Shanghai, China
2019Infinite Labyrinth: New Works by Wu Jian'an, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
2018Of the Infinite Mind, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
2017Daydream Forest, University of Chicago Center, Beijing, China
 The Celebration Show of 2017 Chinese Lunar New Year, Galeries Lafayette Haussman, Paris, France
2016Da 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
2015Transformation: 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
2014Transformation, 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
2012Seven Layered Shell, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2011Seven Layered Shell, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
Mountain Ranges, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
2008Heaven of Nine Levels, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China & New York, USA
2006Daydreams, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2005Search for Piyingxi (Shadow Play), Oil Painting Department Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Stanford University, California, USA
2023Echo of Water, MOCA Yinchuan, Ningxia, China
The Rabbit Projects, Chambers Fine Art, New York
Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2022The Trace of Civilization: The Great Art of Dun-huang, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
BVLGARI SERPENTI RHAPSODY, BVLGARI, Beijing, China
2021Laminated 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
2020The 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
2019Material 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
2018Continuum – 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
2017Continuum - 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
2016Monkey 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
2015The 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
2014COSMOS, 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
2013The 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
2012The 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.
2011Mind 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
2010Modeling,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
2009Live 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
2008Another 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
2007Net: 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
2006Coming 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
2005Archaeology of the Future: The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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
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