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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2004 The Empty City, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
The Empty City, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Rose Museum (Brandeis University), and elsewhere
East Wind, ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 The One-Hundred Old Names, ZenoX, Antwerp, Belgium
The One-Hundred Old Names, The Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
2001 New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Initial Encounters, organized and curated by the Viewing Program committee of the Drawing Center, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY (March 12–June6, 2004)
Regeneration: Contemporary Art from China and the US, curated by Dan Mills and Xiaoze Xie, organized by the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA (Opening at the Samek Art Gallery January 26 ﾐ April 4. Traveling nationally between Summer 2004 and Fall 2006)
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (April 16ﾐAugust)
2003
Thinking in Line, A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, curated by John Moore and Ron Janowich, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (November 4ﾐJanuary 10, 2004)
Reality/Fiction: (Re) Constructing Representation, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc., Jamaica, NY (Oct. 25, 2003ﾐJanuary 17, 2004)
Strange Worlds, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College (Oct. 30ﾐDec. 13) catalogue
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, The Vancouver Art Gallery (June 28ﾐSeptember 21)
In Heat, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (July 5ﾐ28)
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (June 17ﾐAugust 1)
Breaking Away, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Clock Tower Fellowship exhibition
Pierogi Presents, curated by Joe Amrhein, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
A Brush with Tradition: Chinese Tradition and Contemporary Art, Newark Museum, curated by Carmen Ramos, Newark, NJ (April 23-July 6)
Beyond the Flâneur, ISE Cultural Foundation NY Gallery, curated by Yasufumi Nakamori, NY 2002 Whitney Biennial
2002
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Umano Animale Vegetale Minerale, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Fantasyland, d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Strolling Through an Ancient Shrine and Garden, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selection 1; Made in Brooklyn, Wythe Studio, curated by Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY
Faux Real, Borusan Art & Culture, Istanbul
PROJECT 3, curated by Elga Wimmer, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Altoid's Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Fellow's Exhibition, Art Association, Provincetown, RI
2001
Best of the Season, Selected Work from the 2000-01 Manhattan Exhibition Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
ArtForum Berlin 2001, work exhibited by Pierogi, Berlin
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Palm Beach, Florida
Selection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2000
The Meat Market Art Fair, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
The Old News, curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY
Haulin' Ass: Pierogi in L.A., Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Sensations, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA
Super Duper New York, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Sensation, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty Show, Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
1998 Yun-Fei Ji, Andrea Dezso, Randy Wray, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Fermented, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Relocating Landscape-East and West, Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey
Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Travel-Sized, City College, New York, NY
Reflecting Pool, Kenkeleban Gallery, New York, NY
Twelve Cicadas in the Tree of Knowledge, Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY
1996 Immigrant Artists from East and West, ONETWENTYEIGHT Galley, New York
1993 Recent Paintings, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
1990 Introduction, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
AWARDS
2004 Sharp Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
2003 PS1 Contemporary Arts National Studio Program Fellowship, LIC, NY
2002 Headland Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001-02 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Rhode Island
2001 Art OMI, New York 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, works on paper
1998 Joan Mitchel Foundation Grant
1997 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996 The Millay Colony For the Arts. Residency, Austerlitz, New York
Artist in the Marketplace Program, the Bronx Museum, New York
1995 The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
1994 Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
1993 The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1991 Henry Street Settlement, New York
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EDUCATION
1989 M.F.A Fullbright College of Art and Science. U.S.A.
1982 B.F.A Centual Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, P.R. China
BORN
1963, Beijing
