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Sui Jianguo
(
Chinese
, born 1956)
Sui Jianguo
Garden in the Cloud ,
2012–2019
Price on Request
Sui Jianguo
Garden in the Cloud ,
2012–2019
Price on Request
Biography
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Timeline
1956
Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province
1984
Graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Shandong Institute of Fine Arts
1989 - 1997
Associate Professor, Sculpture Department, CAFA
1989
Graduated from the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Beijing
1994
UNESCO - Aschberg International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture
1997
Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne University Travel Grant for Young Asian Scholars
2000
Taught at Ensba, Paris as a Guest Professor three months
Currently lives in Bejing, China
Exhibitions
2014 - 2015
Sui Jianguo: Blind Portraits
, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freeman Plaza, Central Park, NY
Sui Jianguo, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2013
Sui Jianguo: Physical Trace
, Galerie Scheffel, Frankfurt, Germany
Sui Jianguo: Physical Trace 2
, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Experiments in Chinese Contemporary Art, The Exhibition: Round 1 Conformation and COnsciousness - Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
He Xiangning Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2012
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale: Accidental Message -OCAT, Shenzhen, China
"The Special Show for The First International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture 2012" Kiev, Ukraine
Sui Jianguo's Discus Thrower - The British Museum, London, UK
Sui Jianguo - Pace Beijing, 798, Beijing (solo)
Restrained Power: Sui Jianguo's Work - MOCA, Singapore (solo)
2011
Blickachsen 8 – Skulpturen in Bad Homburg und Frankfurt RheinMain, Germany; Galerie Scheffel in collaboration with Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands
Leaving Realism Behind - Pace Beijing, Beijng, China
Start from the Horizon-Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Since 1978 - Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China
deology and Manifestation - Wenxuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China
The 4th Guangdong Trinnale - GMOA, China
Super-Organism-CAFAM Biennale - Beijing, China
Collection Histry: China New Art - MOCA Chengdu, China
Martell Artists of the Year - Beijing,Shanghai, Guangzhou
2010
Erotic, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China (group), Made in China by Sui Jianguo - Art Issue Projects, Beijing, China
Made in Pop Land" National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Sculpture - Sui Jianguo and his students - A4 gallery, Chengdu, China
2009
Inaugural Exhibition, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China (group)
2008
Ships at Sea, C-Space, Beijing, China
Hunting Birds, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
New World Order, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon – Works on Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Sui Jianguo: Revealing Traces, JoyArt, Beijing, China (solo)
2007
Sui Jianguo, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
Fashion Accidentally, MOCA Taipei, Taipei
Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Metamorphosis – The Generation of Transformation in Chinese
Barcelona – Paris – Pekin, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Absolute Images II, Arario Gallery, New York, USA
! CHINA NOW !, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
MADE in CHINA – The Estella Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Louisiana
China Now, Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA
2006
Speeding Up – Sui Jianguo Solo Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
CHINA TRADE, Centre A – Vancouver International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC
Jiang Hu, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA, Los Angeles, USA
ABSOLUTE IMAGES: Chinese Contemporary Art, Arario Chungcheongnam-do, Cheonan-si, Korea
Under the Radar: Chinese Contemporary Art, Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA
Double-sound Cracker, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Asia Society, International Center for Photography, New York, USA, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2005
Mahjong – Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Germany
Xianfeng – Chinese avant-garde, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Beijing International Contemporary Art Exhibition
Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China
Renovation – Relations of Production, Long March Foundation, Beijing, China
2004
Playing with CHI Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
What is Art—Two Wrongs Can Make One Right, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China
Gods Becoming Men, Firssiras Museum, Athens, Greece
The First Nominative Literation, Exhibition of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
Now—Conceptual Estate in Shanghai, Shanghai Show Center, China
Image China, Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, France
Le Moine and Le De’mon, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
Busan Sculpture Project, Busan, Korea
Light as Fuch, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Art on the Beach, organized by Galerie Enrico Navarra and Hanart T Z Gallery, St. Tropez, France
Art on the Beach, organized by Galerie Enrico Navarra and Hanart T Z Gallery, St. Tropez, France
“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Asia Society, International Center for Photography, New York
Lili Waiwai, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
2003
An Opening Era – 40th Anniversary of the Founding of CAFA, CAFA
Open Sky, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai
Left Wing, Left Bank Plaza, Beijing
Second Reality, Apple Place, Beijing
Red Memory, 798 Art District, Beijing
Today’s Chinese Art, Shijitan, Beijing
Open Time, NAGC
2003 Beaufort – Triennial Contemporary Art, Oostende
Contemporary Sculpture – China Korea Japan Osaka Museum, Japan
Chinese Art Today, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing
2002
Mirage, Su Zhou Art Museum, Suzhou
Guang Zhong Triennial, Guang Dong Art Museum
1999
Clothes Viens Studying, Passage Gallery, Beijing (solo)
1997
Meeting the Shadow of 100 Years, Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne (solo)
1996
Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Hannart, Hong Kong (solo)
1995
Deposit and Fault, New Delhi Cultural Research Centre, India (solo)
1994
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Memory Space - Works of Sui Jianguo, Beijing (solo)
Sui Jianguo Sculpture, CAFA (solo)
Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Hannart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
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Literature
2007
China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007.
1998
Robert Leonard, Sui Jianguo/Li Gang, Art/Text, p. 60
Huang Du, Sculpture: The Extension of Idea and Terminology, Artlife, Jan/Feb
Zhu Wenfan, A Book of Outstanding Personalities from Shandong Art College, Shandong Pictorial, No. 276, Issue 10, p. 52
1997
Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Sculpture in Beijing, Australian Art Monthly, November, No. 105
Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Asian Artnotes, Australian Art Monthly, September, No. 103
An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture by Sui Jianguo, Beijing Weekend, No. 297, No. 298
Sui Jianguo’s Works, Fine Art Research, No. 3
Ma Qin Zhong, Portrait of the Artist Sui Jianguo, Artlife, July/August
Sui Jianguo’s Works, Fine Art Observation, Vol. 7
Youichi Maki, China Avant-Garde, Chinese Library (Tokyo), Vol. 10
Karen Smith, Exhibition Review, Asian Art News, Autumn
Academic Sculpture Selection, Fine Arts Literature, Vol. 8
Entertainment, China Daily, September 6, No. 6
1996
Shu Jiang, The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Art Gallery Magazine
Hanart Presents Sui Jianguo, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Vol. 2, No. 1
1995
Susan Dewar, Sui Jianguo and the Sculptural Dilemma, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Winter
Mo Shi, Taking Upon Himself the Pressures of Life - An Interview from the Artist’s Workshop, Gallery, No. 3
A Discussion on Five Modern Sculptors Work, Sculpture, Vol. 2
1994
The Spiritual Meeting : Non-movement Competition in Asian Olympic Games, Ming Bao Weekend, October 9
Sui Jianguo’s Sculpture, Contemporary, Vol. 5 No. 3