"Art of Xu Bing: Between Visual and Written Languages"
Xu Bing
Chinese Artist
February 11, 2003
6 p.m.
Shell Auditorium
Jones School of Management
(Co-Sponsored by Transnational China Project, Art and Art History Scholars Forum,
Dean of Humanities and the Asian Studies Program of Rice University,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
NOTE: This event is open to students, faculty and staff of Rice University;
seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis;
to reserve a seat, please register online by February 7


Photo of Xu Bing

Biographical Note on Xu Bing

Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China, in 1955 and grew up in Beijing. In 1975, he was relocated to the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution. In 1977, he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing where he studied printmaking. He received an M.F.A. from the Central Academy in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the United States and he still lives there today, making his home in Brooklyn, New York.

In July 1999, Xu Bing won the MacArthur Award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recognition of his “originality, creativity, self-direction, and capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.”

His work also has been shown in the 45th Venice Biennial; MoMA, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; The Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art; and National Gallery of Australia, among others. He has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Joan Miro Foundation, Spain; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; National Gallery of Prague; National Gallery of Beijing; North Carolina Museum of Art; and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

More information is available at http://www.xubing.com

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