Cai Dongdong

(Chinese, born 1978)

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Cai Dongdong

Practice Shooting, 2015

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Cai Dongdong

Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, 2016

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Cai Dongdong

Barrier, 2016

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Cai Dongdong

Big Harvest, 2017

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Cai Dongdong

Winding, 2017

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Cai Dongdong

Burning Man, 2015

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Cai Dongdong

Showers, 2016

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Cai Dongdong

Lift the Mirror, 2016

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Cai Dongdong

Theater, 2021

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Cai Dongdong

On Fire, 2020

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Biography

Timeline

1978
born in Gansu, China
2002
received BA Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
lives and works in Beijing, China

Exhibitions

2018
Cai Dongdong Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2017
Cai Dongdong Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Photography Autocracy, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Évidences du réel: La photographie face à ses facunes, Musée d'art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland
Bizarreland, Exhibition of Chinese and Contemporary Photography, Nantong City Center Art Museum, Nantong, China
Working on History. Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution, Staatliche Mussen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Strolling along the Discernible Min Jiang, Blue Roof Art Zone, Cheng Du, China
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976 - 2017), Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
Future Forest Children Lab, T80 Technology Culture International Community, Nanjing, China
2016
Cai Dongdong Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Fountain泉, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Let it Be, Gallery 100, Taipai, Taiwan (solo exhibition)
Off Target: Photographs by Cai Dongdong, Charles Chu Reading Room, Charles Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, CT (solo exhibition)
The Lost Diary of Beijing, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
It’s exactly as if it had never happened, 1 House (Art + Fashion), 798 District, Beijing, China
The Exhibition of Annual Contemporary Art in China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Silk Road International, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Guns and Roses - Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstraum, Potsdam c/o Waschhaus, Germany
Scripts of the Bodies, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen, China
Sayizheng III, Tuanjiehu Park, Beijing, China
This is why we play, Zaisan Gallery Beijing, China
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Ghost in Flash: After Photography, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
New Capital: Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
TAKE ME OUT, Chi K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
2016 Photo Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
Daegu Photo Biennale 2016, Daegu, South Korea
2015
Cai Dongdong Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Rebirth, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China (solo exhibition)
Following Stone, Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing, China (solo exhibition)
Trans- Section of Memory, Jiali Gallery, Beijing, China (solo exhibition)
Links – Locality and Nomadism, Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Beyond the Earth – The First Xi’an Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China
Editing the Spectacle: the Individual and Working Methods Post Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Unfamiliar Asia: The Second Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Economic Foundation, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Store, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photo Award Exhibition, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Tokamachi, Japan
Re-exposure, Poly Art Space, Hong Kong
China 8: Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Perception of Reality, Pa Ta Gallery, Beijing, China
2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Fat Choi, A307, Beijing, China
Fundamental Labor, Koala Space, Tianjin, China
Consciousness and Reconstruction- from Yan’an Woodcut to the Practice of nameless, Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, China
Winter Discovery 2015 Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2014
Cai Dongdong Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Oh My God, Action Space, Beijing, China (solo exhibition)
The Images of Mundane Life- Second Yuandian Contemporary Photography Festival, Yuan Dian Gallery, Beijing, China
Unlived by What is Seen, Galeria Continua, Beijing, China; Pace Beijing, Beijing, China; Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The Soft of Painting, Jing Gallery, Beijing, China
Unfathomable, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Future is the Past: Transitional Chinese Portrait, Les Amis de Nouvelles D’Europe, Vienna, Austria
Civilization Round 2 – Yu Lin, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
Pull Left – Not Always Right, Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, MN; The Trout Gallery, The Art Museum of Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA; HACC Rose Lehrman Art Gallery, Harrisburg, PA
Uneasy Trip in Asia 2014, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
From New Photography to Rookie Award: Three Shadows’ Collection, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Arts on the Papers, Space Station, Beijing, China
Imaginary Happiness, Bottega Veneta, Yifeng Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Home Project No. 1, Space Regeneration, Tianjin, China
Get it Louder, SOHO Sanlitun, Beijing, China

Public Collections

Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
UNIDEE Art Foundation, Biella, Italy
CAFA (China Central Academy of Fine Arts), Beijing, China
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
Blue Mountain Contemporary Art, Israel