Qiu Anxiong 邱黯雄 (China, b.1972)

1972       Born in Chengdu, China 
1994       B.A. Education in the Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China 
2003       School of Art and Design Kassel, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany 

Works and lives in Shanghai, China

Solo Exhibition 

2012       Historical Landscape, Marabini Gallery, Bologna，Italy 
2011       Animated Narrative - Crow Collection of Asian Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, Dallas, U.S
            A Zoo, OCAT Contemporary Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
           Portrait – Cover and Clean, Marabini Gallery, Bologna, Italy 
2010       A Zoo, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing 
          Qiu Anxiong: New Book of Mountains and Seas, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, U.S.A 
2009       Utopia, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen 
           Nostalgia, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia

About - New Book of Mountains and Seas, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing

Temptation of the Land, Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich, Germany 

2008       Nostalgia, Bund18 creative Centre, Shanghai 

2007       Staring into Amnesia, Boers – Li Gallery, Beijing
Qiu Anxiong Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Minguo Landscape, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich 

2006       Animation and Painting by Qiu Anxiong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Qiu Anxiong Selected Works, Big Screen Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K. 

2005       Decoding Time-Shredding Narratives, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China

2002       Painting by Qiu Anxiong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 

 

Selected Group Exhibition 

 

2012       Nostalgia, East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, MOCA, Shanghai, China
Museum of the Unknown: Social Meditation, Aike Gallery, Shanghai, China 
Diversity in Harmony, 5 Art Gallery, Guangzhou, China 
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 
1st Animation Film Festival Xi’an, Xi’an, China 
Shadow film festival, Studio des Ursulines, Paris 
Wandering Eyes-Video Art from Shanghai, Landes Galerie, Linz, Austria

Ink Painting Exhibition from China, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China 
Museum of the Unknown: See/Saw, UCCA Art Museum, Beijing 
1st Animation Biennale Shen Zhen, OCAT Art Center, Shenzhen, China 
OMEN 2012 - New Chinese Art, Art Museum of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2011       Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul

Moving Image in China1988-2011, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 
Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Industrial Civilization Museum, Chengdu, China 
Museum of the Unknown: Pattern-Vortex-Encounter, Space Station, Beijing; Times Museum, Guangzhou, China                    

Oscurita: Collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice 
Campo SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Castello, Venice
Museum of the Unknown: Coral, MOCA, Shanghai, China
Museum of the Unknown: Decor, Arrow Factory Space, Beijing
2010 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Nanjing Biennale, Nanjing, China 
Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Chinese Film Days, The Foundation 3.14, Bergen, Norway 
Museum of the Unknown: The Seat of Meditation, Art House, Shanghai 
Culture(s) of Copy, Goethe - Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Trailer, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing FAX, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 

2009       In Between Reality and Fiction - Anima mix Biennial Beijing, Today Art Museum, Beijing
City_net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 
Shanghype!, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, U.S.
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia 
PRAXIS: Art in Times of Uncertainty - 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece 
Uncanny world in Volk and Asia Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

2008       Other - 11th Cairo Biennale, Cairo
The characters in Transition time - Chinese contemporary ink painting, Dresden State Art Collections, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 
Moving Horizon, UBS Art Collection, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing 
Turn and Widen - the 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 
Mediations Biennale, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznań, Poland
We Are the World, Contrast Gallery, Shanghai, China
The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 
16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 
Art 39 Basel

2008       Art Unlimited: Staring into Amnesia, Basel, Switzerland 
Still & Motion, National Museum of Modern Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Four Seasons, China Fine Art Institute, Hangzhou, China 
China Power Station Part 3, Museum d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg 

2007       Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007, Lianzhou, China 
Video Lounge, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Swiss
China Power Station Part 2, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Animation Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, U.S.A. 
Animated Histories, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 
Chinese Ink Painting, Guan Shanyue Museum, Shenzhen, China 
Contemporary Visual Art Project SA 2007, The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 
ArtLan@Asia, ZAIM Art Center, Yokohama, Japan 

2006       The 6th Shanghai Biennale: Hyper Design, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 
Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 
The Twelve, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai China 
Independence Film Festival, Paris 
Restless, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 
Chaos City, Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing China 
Power Station, Battersea Power Station, Serpentine Gallery, London
Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Yellow Box, Contemporary Art in Chinese Space, Shanghai, China

2005       Gift, Modern Art Gallery of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
East Wind - West Wind, Creek Art Center, Shanghai, China
2005 Chengdu Biennial - Scapes: The Century and Paradise, Chengdu, China 
Retrospective Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland 

2004       Four Corners, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Exhibition of Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 
24 Artists from Germany and China, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing Mensa, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing 

2003       New landscapes, New Portraits- Shen Xiaotong, Qiu Anxiong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 
From China with Art, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta 

2001       1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China 

2000       Tale of Two Cities, Asia Contemporary Art, London 
The Chengdu Movement, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam 
The Land and Sea, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 

1996       Paintings of Chengdu, National Art Museum, Beijing

 

Awards

2006 Honorable Mention, Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Beijing Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York Spensor Museum of Art, Lawrence, U.S.A. Museum of the University Oxford, Oxford Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo