About the artist:

1965 Born in Beijing 1978 Graduated from the Print Department, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing Current Lives and works in Beijing ________________________________________ Solo Exhibitions 2004 Hong Hao's Reading Room , Chambers Fine Art, New York , USA Hong Hao , Base Gallery, Tokyo , Japan 2000 Scenes from the Metropolis , Courtyard Gallery, Beijing , China Suspended Disbelief, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver 1999 Hong Hao - Selected Scriptures, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam 1997 Selected Scriptures - Hong Hao, Asian Art Now, Berlin ________________________________________ Selected Group Exhibitions 2004 Between Past and Future , International Center of Photography , New York , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago , USA 2003 Too Much Flavor , Chambers Fine Art , New York , USA Chinese Maximalism , Millennium Monument Art Museum , Beijing , China Les Rencontres d'Arles 2003 , Arles , France 2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial , Guangdong Museum of Art , Guangzhou , China Paris-Pekin , Espace Cardin, Paris , France Red Continent , Gwangju Art Museum , Gwangju , Korea 2001 Cross Pressures , Oulu Art Museum , Oulu and The Finnish Museum of Photography , Helsinki , Finland L'Album de la Famille Chine , Nice Museum , Nice , France Virtual Future , Guangdong Museum of Art , Guangdong , China 2000 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Basel Art Fair 2000, Basel, Switzerland Gig Torino 2000: Biennial of Emerging Artists, Torino, Italy 1999 Five Continents and One City, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico Beijing in London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Chinese Maze, OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland La Biennale d'Issy, Issly, France 1999 Art China, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco Chinese New Conceptual Art, Gallery of the Art Department of Huadong Normal University, Shanghai 1998 - 1999 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asian Art Society, New York, P. S. 1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 1998 Images Telling Stories, Art College of Shanghai University, Shanghai Impression of Transmuting Daily Lives in Beijing 1998, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing Double Kitsch: New Paintings, Prints and Photos from Mainland China, Max Protetch Gallery, New York 1997 Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art of the 90's, Gallery Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech Republic and OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland 1996 China Arktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Performance Installation, Munich 1995 New Anecdotes of Social Talk, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing 1993 China's New Art: Post 1989, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London 1992 Art Asia'92 Information, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre 1988 19'es Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France ________________________________________ Reviews, Publications and Selected Material 2000 Artichoke, Summer 2000, Volume 12, Number 12 Art, May 2000 ART Asia Pacific, Issue 25 1999 The Selected Scriptures of Hong Hao, Amsterdam , Holland 1997 Flash Art, May - June, 1997 1995 Jiang Art Monthly, August 1995 ________________________________________ Collections Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. British Museum, U. K. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U. S. A. City Hall of Issy, France The University of Sydney, Australia Shanghai Art Museum, China