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![]() Ai Weiwei (Chinese, 1957) 
 
 
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai gained recognition for collaborating with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights, and in 2011 he was held by police for over two months without any official charges being filed. Ai is ranked at the top of ArtReview's 2011 guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art, and was one of four runners-up for Time's 2011 Person of the Year award.
 
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g, China, 1957. demy, 1978. Lived in NYC, NY, 1981-1993. School of Design, 1983. ives and Warehouse, Beijing, China, 1994. Lives in Beijing, China.
Selected Solo Exhibitions 1982 Foundation, San Francisco, California. 1988 Shoes, Safe Sex, Art Waves Gallery, NYC, NY. 2003 Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland. 2004 Bern, Bern, Switzerland. -Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium. Miller Gallery, NYC, NY. 2006 ts, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China. 2007 ts, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 2008 , Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea. and Video Work ‘Fairytale’, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia. Ai Weiwei
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Weiwei: Under Construction, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia. , Germany.
2009 Haus der Kunst, Munich
Selected Group Exhibitions
1980 achusetts. Kong, Taipai, Taiwan, and Paris, France. n. 1996 Ludwig Collection, Koln, Germany. 1999 ns Part I, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China. 2000 2003 Zone: Chinese Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. 2004 hotography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, NY. generation: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Williams College Museum of Art,
2005 & de Meuron, Tate Modern, London, England. Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography 1979 The Stars First Exhibition, Beijing, China.
The Stars Second Exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing, China.
1986 China’s New Expression, Municipal Gallery, NYC, NY.
Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York.
1987 The Star of Harvard, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
1989 The Star: Ten Years, Hanart Gallery, Hong
1994 Contemporary Chinese Art, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Swede
Peter
Innovatio
Fuck Off, Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai, China.
2001 Take Part I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2002 China – Tradition und Moderne, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany.
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Between Past and Future: New P
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Persona 3, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China.
Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Between
Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
2006 uburg/Vienna, Austria. 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
China Now: Faszination einer Weltveränderung, Sammlung Essl, Klosterne
That is not for you – Diskurse der Skulptur, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
Art
Metamorpho
China Welcomes You… Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Aus
We are the Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary
in Motion, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. 2007 sis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, tria. Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
12, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. : The Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England.
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Tinari, Philip, A Kind of True Living, ARTFORUM, Summer 2007, pp. 452-459. Cotter, Holland, Asking Serious Questions In a Very Quiet Voice, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22 June 2007, pp. E29-
7, pp. 118-125.
SUN, 7 March 2008, p. 18.
. 292-303.
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England. Documenta
2008 Reconstruction #3
Selected Bibliography Colonnello, Nataline, Beyond the Checkmate, ART ASIA PACIFIC, Spring 2004, pp. 52-58. Jun, Jun, No Frontiers – The Artwork of Ai Weiwei, ARTCO, May 2006, pp. 220- Cripps, Charlotte, Explosive energy from the East, THE INDEPENDENT (London), 19 March 2007.
E30. Coggins, David, Ai Weiwei’s Humane Conceptualism, ART IN AMERICA, September 200 Ai, Weiwei, Production Notes: Ai Weiwei, ARTFORUM, October 2007, p. 324. Pollack, Barbara, Art’s New Superpower, VANITY FAIR, December 2007, pp. 318-330. Pasternack, Alex, Reluctant Return for a Beijing Provocateur, THE NEW YORK Meyer, James, et al, Art and Its Markets: A Roundtable Discussion, ARTFORUM, April 2008, pp Staff, Galleries – Chelsea: Ai Weiwei, THE NEW YORKER, 7 April 2008, p. 12. Baker, R.C., Best in Show/Ai Weiwei: ‘Illumination’, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 9 April 2008 ollack, Barbara, Ai Weiwei, ‘Illumination’, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 10 April 2008, p. 75. asper, Adam, Critical Mass: Ai Weiwei, ART REVIEW, May 2008, Cover, pp. 52-63 Vine, , p. 56. . Richard, and Ai Weiwei, The Way We Were, The Way We Are, ART IN AMERICA, June 2008, pp. 99-102. Boucher, Brian, Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, June 2008, p. 187.
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