CAO FEI
Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou, China) received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and currently lives and works in Beijing. In her photographs, videos, performances and new-media work she examines the rapid evolution of Chinese society and the burgeoning of cultural trends, such as costumed role-play and online communities, that enable the creation of alternate identities and realities.
Cao was selected as Best Young Artist in the 2006 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards. She was a recipient of a German Federal Cultural Foundation fellowship in 2005.SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- Serpentine Gallery, London (2008-09)
- Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2008-09)
- FRAC Ile-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris (2008)
- Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2007)
- Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan (2007)
- Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (2006)
- SIEMENS Art Project, Fu Shan OSRAM Factory, Guangzhou, China (2005-06)
GROUP SHOWS
- The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York (2009)
- The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2009)
- There Goes the Neighborhood, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2009)
- H BOX, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2009)
- Prospect.1 New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (2008)
- Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008-09)
- Time Crevasse, Third Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2008)
- China Power Station: Part III, Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2008)
- Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London (2008)
- Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China (2008)
- Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007-08)
- Second Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007)
- Ninth Biennale de Lyon (2007)
- Tenth International Istanbul Biennial (2007)
- Everyday Miracles (Extended), 52nd Venice Biennale (2007)
- China Welcomes You . . . Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2007)
- Fifth Taipei Biennial (2006)
- China Power Station: Part I, Serpentine Gallery, London (2006)
- Seventh Busan Biennale, South Korea (2006)
- First Singapore Biennale (2006)
- 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006)
- Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2005)
- First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005)
- Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art (2004-05)
GROUP SHOWS
- Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography in New York,
- David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, Asia Society and Museum in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2004-07)
- Fifth Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum (2004)
- China Now, Museum of Modern Art at Gramercy Theater, New York (2004)
- Tenth Biennial of the Moving Image, Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Geneva (2003)
- Alors, la Chine? Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003)
- Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency), 50th Venice Biennale (2003)
- Fourth Kwangju Biennale, South Korea (2002)
- Living in Time: 29 Contemporary Artists from China, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001-02)
Second Berlin Biennial (2001)
