XU BING
Born 1955, Chongqing, China

BIOGRAPHY
1957 Moved to Beijing, China
1984 Member to the board of Directors, Chinese Fine Arts Association
1987 Graduated, Master of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1988 Invited as visiting artist, The Fine Arts Academy of Paris, France
1989 Committee member, Directors for Printmaking, Chinese Fine Arts Association
Appointed Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
1993 Invited as visiting member, The Australian University Institute of Art, Canberra
2001 Currently lives in New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Xu Bing in Berlin: Sprachäume, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
2003 Book From the Sky, The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
2002 Xu Bing: Living Word 2, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
Xu Bing, Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, US
Classroom Calligraphy, Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., US
Xu Bing, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
2001 Xu Bing: Reading Landscape, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, US
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US
Xu Bing: Prints and Books, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, US
Xu Bing, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Sculpture Park, Montenmedio Art Center, Cadiz, Spain
Cultural Park, Joan Miro’s Foundation, Mallorca, Spain (Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca)
Xu Bing, Gianni Giacobbi Gallery, Mallorca, Spain
2000 Xu Bing Book/Ends (part of B from S), Albany State University, NY, US
Shen Wai Shen: The Books and the Computers, Project Tokyo, Japan
Book from the Sky, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
Tobacco Project, Duke University Durham, NC, US
1999 Xu Bing Chair Mao’s Poem Calligraphy, Bates College Museum of Art, ME, US
1998 Xu Bing, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Xu Bing, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Xu Bing, The Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, US
Xu Bing, Gallery of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
1997 Classroom Calligraphy, Joan Miro’s Foundation, Mallorca, Spain (Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca)
Installation by Xu Bing, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Xu Bing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Charpa Gallery (Galeria Charpa), Valencia
Xu Bing: Lost Letters, Asian Fine Arts Factory Berlin, Germany
The Net: A Collaborative Installation by Xu Bing, December Art Center, Eastern Illinois University Charlston, Illinois, US
1996 Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, US
Xu Bing: A Case Study of Transference, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
1995 Xu Bing: Language Lost, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, US
Xu Bing Series Exhibition 2, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, US
Xu Bing, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US
Xu Bing, Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead State University, Minnesota, US
Xu Bing: Recent Projects, University Gallery, University of South Dakota, US
1994 Xu Bing Recent Work, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Xu Bing: Negotiation Table, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, US
Xu Bing: Experimental Exhibit, Han Mo Art Center, Beijing, China
1992 Xu Bing Series Exhibition 1, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, US
1991 Three Installations by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison- Wisconsin, US
1990 Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky, National Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 The Politics of Fear, Albion Gallery, London
2006 6th Gwangju Biennale: Fever Variations, Gwangju, South Korea
2005 The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum Beijing & Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo, New York
Body Temperature, China Millennium Monument Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China & Copenhagen, Denmark
The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Critic’s Choice, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), UK
Text Me, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
One the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encourter the West, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, US
2004 East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
26th São Paulo Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo, San Paulo, Brazil
Crossroads, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Reinventing Traditions in the New World, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, US
Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China, Pittsburg University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, US
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
2003 New Zone – Chinese Art, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Chinese Printmaking Today, The British Library, London
TypO, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Culture Center, Staten Island, New York
The First Beijing International Art Biennale, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Left Hand, Right Hand, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Harmony vs. Confrontation, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Love and/or Terror: Contemporary Book Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Der Rest Der Welt, Prüess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
William Anastasi, Xu Bing, Marino & Costanza at the Annex, White Box, New York
Austral-Asia Zero Three, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Cyber Asia, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2002 China, Tradition & Moderne, Ludwig Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Overt Operation, Joseph Helman, New York
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial – Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990–2000, Guang Dong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Global Priority, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, New York; Pier-2 Art District, Kaohsing, Taiwan
China Agricultural Museum Exhibition, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Café in Mito, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
China’s Changing Culture and Enduring Heritage, Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Staten Island, New York
The 2002 International Flag Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
ES 2002 Tijuana: Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Hard to Read, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
Project 3, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York
Avant Garde Calligraphy, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, US
Contemporary Art Commissions, The Asia Society and Museum, New York
Power of the Word, Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York; The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Tracing: Works on Paper by Chinese Contemporary Artists, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University School of Art and Design, Alfred, New York
Brooklyn, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida, US
A Shriek Inside an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bogus/ the Counterfeit and Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, University of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2001 Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Ohio State University and Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio, US
Ink: Calligraphic Performance by Mixed Generations of Ink Artists, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Media Messages: Look Through Language, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Give and Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2000 Power of the World, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, US
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Miami Art Museum, US
House, Home and Family, Furniture Depot in Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation Show 1990s, Fukoka Asian Art Museum, Fukoka, Japan
2000 Friends and Neighbours, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Inside Out, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Himalaya Project, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
Animal.Anima.Animus, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Group Show, Fuller Museum of Art, Boston, US
Art Chicago 2000, Chicago, US
Group Show, Apex Art Curatorial Programs, New York
Group Show, White Box Gallery, New York
Word Project, Museum of Ohio University, Ohio, US
1999 Banner Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Worlds in Dialogue – Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Animal.Anima.Animus, P.S.1, New York
1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, SFMOMA and the Asian Art Museum
Third Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Zeitwenden – Looking Back Forward through the Fine Arts, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
The 3rd Art Life 21, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
CON(TEXT), The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York
Transience-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, University of Chicago Museum, Chicago, US
Concerning Truth, Gallery 400, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
Text Project, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
The Art of Artist’s Books, Mexico City
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, US
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hamphire, US
Chinese Woodblock Prints, Mishkan Le ’Omanut Museum of Art, Israel
Contemporary East Asian Letter Arts, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1998 Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Animal.Anima.Animus, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland
The Library of Babel, ICC-Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
Transatlantic, CAAM-Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno Museum, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Site of Desire ’98, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Unreadable Books. Love Letters, The Mitaka City Art Center, Japan
Animal.Anima.Animus, Pori Art Museum, Finland
Inside Out, Asia Society Gallery and P.S.1, New York
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo-Qiang, Museum of Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
New Installations by Xu Bing & Hong Yong Ping (Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River and Exhibition and Symposium), Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Form: The Transformation and the Symbolic of Chinese Character in the Arts, New York Lincoln Center Cork Gallery, New York
Freedom of Art Project, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art and the Fin de Siecle, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
5 Continentes y Una Cuidad (5 Continents and a City), Mexico City Museum, Mexico
Autonomous Action: New Chinese Performance Art on Video, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Plural Speech, White Box Gallery, New York
1997 power, 2nd Kwangji Biennale, Korea
Transversions, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
Around Us, Inside Us – Continents, Boras Konsmuseet Museum (Boras Konstmusem) Broas, Sweden
The Other Modernities, House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin, Germany
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art: In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea
New Art in China: Post 1989, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, US
1996 Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
Interzones 2, Uppsala Museum (Konstmuseum, Uppsala) Sweden
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, US
Origins and Myths of Fire, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
New Works: 96.3, The International Artist-in-Residence Program, ArtPace: A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, New Mexico
Installation/ Performances, Marstall Performance Centre, Mexico
New Art in China: Post 1989, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado
1995 China Avant-Garde Art, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona
New Art in China: 1989–1994, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
1994 Cocido y Crudo, Reina Sofia Museum of Art (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid
Jumping Typography, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Flesh and Ciphers, Here Foundation, New York
1993 45th Venice Biennale, Venice
Fragmented Memory – The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Colombus, Ohio, US
Mao Goes Pop: China Post-1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992 Desire for Words, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
New Art from China, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; City of Ballarat Art Museum, Ballarat; Canberra School of Art, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Looking for Tree of Life: A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
International Art Project FAX-ART, Venice, Manchester, Tokyo and Vienna
1991 The Book as an Object d’Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne and other Works, Pacific Asia Museum, California
1989 China Avant-Garde, National Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
1986 1st Turkey Biennial, Ankara, Turkey
British Museum, London, UK

LECTURES
1994 Lecture, Yale University, CT, US
1995 Lecture, Columbia University, NY, US
Lecture, Duke University, NC, US
Lecture, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, US
2000 Lecture, Book/Ends, Albany State University, NY, US
Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US
Lecture, Grinnell College Iowa, IA, US
Lecture, University of Iowa, IA, US
Lecture, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, US
2001 Lecture, RISD Rode Island School of Art, RI, US

GRANTS AND PRIZES
2006 Southern Graphics Council Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 The Youth Friends Award, NYC
2004 Artes Mundi Prize
American Academy in Berlin Coca-Cola Fellowship
2003 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
1999 MacArthur Award
1998 Pollack Krasner Foundation Prize
1996 ArtPace Foundation Resident Artist

COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The British Museum, London, UK
The Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Elvehijem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
The National Fine Arts Museum

CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Ian Driscoll, ‘Howard Farber: An unlikely collector sells’, Art AsiaPacific, no. 55, September–October 2007, pp. 104–05
Xu Bing (trans. Jesse Coffino-Greenberg), ‘Regarding Book from the Ground, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, June 2007, pp. 70–93
Don J. Cohn, ‘Auction report: The floating biubble’, Art AsiaPacific, no. 53, May–June 2007, p. 58
Gina Fairley, ‘The Singapore Biennale 2006: Belief, Art Monthly Australia, no. 197, March 2007, pp. 34–7
In the Frame, The Art Newspaper, no. 176, January 2007, p. 2
2006-07 Felicity Fenner, ‘My place or yours’, Broadhsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 212–213
Clark, John, ‘A narrowing of horizons: The Shanghai and Gwangju Biennales 2006, Art Monthly Australia, no. 196, December 2006–February 2007, pp. 50–55
2006 Cohen, Joan Lebold, ‘Chinese art on edge’, Art Asia Pacific, no. 51, 2006, p. 75
Lew, Christopher Y., ‘Yun-Fei Ji: Dead and alive’, Art Asia Pacific, no. 51, 2006, p. 64
Murray Cree, Laura (ed.), Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986–2006, Craftsman House (Thames and Hudson), Melbourne, 2006
2005 Mair, Victor H., Nancy S. Steinhardt & Paul R. Goldin, ‘Xu Bing: The living word’, Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 642–45
Erickson, Britta, On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, pp. 9, 18, 19, 23, 82–87, 157
2004 Xu Bing in Berlin: Sprachäume, exhibition catalogue, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
Collette Chattopadhyay, 'Beyond iconography: The power of graffiti', Art AsiaPacific, no. 40, spring 2004, pp. 32–35
2003 Yao Souchou, 'Two faces of contemporary art in China', The China Phenomenon, Artlink, vol. 23, no. 4, 2003, pp. 16–19
Harper, Glenn, ‘A converation with Xu Bing: Exterior form, interior substance’, Sculpture, January–February, pp. 46–51
2000 Kesner, Ladislav, ‘To Frighten heaven and earth and make the spirits cry’, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery in Prague
Olivova, Luicie, ‘Nase generace povazuie Kulturu z a cosi zmateneho’ in Atelier, Prague
Abe, Stanley K., ‘Tobacco art: Xu Bing’s Tobacco Project, Duke University Libraries
Mong, Adrienne, ‘The power of make-believe’ (review), Art Far Eastern Economic Review, 14 September, pp. 84–85
Wilson Lloyd, Ann, ‘Binding together cultures with cords of wit’, Arts and Leisure, New York Times, 18 June, pp. 35–37
Wilson Lloyd, Ann, ‘Reality-trek’, Delicate Balance: six routes to the Himalayas’, exhibition catalogue, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland, pp. 40–41
Marja-Terttu, Kivirinta, ‘Xu Bing naki Nepalin koyhyyden’, Helsingin Sanomat, 27 June
Berger, Patricia, ‘Pun Intended: A response to Stanley Abe, “Reading the Sky”’, in Wen-hsin Yeh (ed.), Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness,) Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkley, pp. 80–100
Goodman, Jonathan, ‘Xu Bing: The Cage of Words’, Art AsiaPacific, issue 26, spring, p. 46
Daftari, Fershteh, ‘The Museum of Modern Art New York Projects’, MoMA Projects Series, New York
1999 Yao Souchou, ‘Xu Bing: Frighten heaven and make the spirits cry’ in Beyond the Future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Goodman, Jonathan, ‘Xu Bing at Jack Tilton and the New Museum’, Art in America, January, no. 1, p. 95
Rawanchaikul, Toshiko, ‘Xu Bing’, The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, exhibition catalogue Fukuoka, Japan
Hung, Wu, ‘Counter movement, Xu Bing: Ghosts Pounding on the Wall’,Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the 20th Century, exhibition catalogue
Erickson, Britta, ‘The art of Xu Bing’, Beijing Beat, issue 9, 15 January
1998 Cameron, Dan, ‘Xu Bing: Introduction to new English calligraphy’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibition brochure, New York
Abe, Stanley K., ‘No questions, no answers: China and A Book from the Sky’, Boundary 2, vol. 25, no. 3, autumn
Komatsuzaki, Takuo, ‘Were it a single anthology: Infinite chains and letter play’, The Library of Babel, exhibition catalogue, ICC-NTT Inter Communication Center, Tokyo
Cho, Christina, ‘Xu Bing – Jack Tilton/ New Museum of Contemporary Art’, Art News, December, p. 147
Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum, ‘Chinese artists living in the West: Xing Fei, Xu Bing, Longbin Chen and Zhao Suikang’, Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literary Culture of China, , exhibition catalogue, New York, pp. 21–27
Weintraub, Linda, ‘Allegorical persona’, Animal.Anima.Animus, , exhibition catalogue, Pori Art Museum, Finland, pp. 43–49
Kim, Yu Yeon, ‘Fragmented stories’, Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Gobierno del Distrito Federal, p. 131
Koh, Germaine, ‘Xu Bing’, Crossings, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, pp. 174–79
Erickson, Britta, ‘Question: Can contemporary Chinese ink painting receive international recognition?’, Shanghai Biannual Symposium, published papers
1997 Yang Lian & John Cayley (dialogue), ‘Three words and non-words on the art of Xu Bing’, Xu Bing: Classroom Calligraphy, exhibition catalogue Joan Miro’s Foundation, Mallorca, Spain (Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca)
Goodman, Jonathon, ‘Chinese character’, World Art, Quarterly Magazine, New York, no. 14
Wang Yichuan, Dao Zi, Zhang Yiwu, Lei Yi, Feng Boyi, Bai Qianshen, John R. Finlay, ‘Seven critics discuss “Elementary new English calligraphy”’ (Xu Bing), Artscircle, Guangxi, China, no. 129, pp. 21–24
Boardman, Andrew, ‘Xu Bing’s square words and the fragility of language’, Around Us, Inside Us – Continues, exhibition catalogue, Boras Konsmuseum, Sweden, pp. 18–22
Shiba, Shigeo, ‘A question concerning the imitation Chinese characters’, Classroom Calligraphy, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1996 Erickson, Britta, ‘A case study of transference: Xu Bing and the process of interpreting art’, Thesis presented at Communications with/ In Asia: Asian Studies Association of Australia 20th Anniversary Conference, Melbourne, pp. 1–14
Abe, Stanley K., ‘No-sense from out there: Xu Bing’s Tian Shu (A Book from the Sky) in the West’, Thesis presented at CAA 84th Annual Conference, Boston, pp. 1-–14
Boardman, Andrew, ‘Xu Bing and the door to the infinite’, Interzones, exhibition catalogue, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen & Uppsala Konstmuseum, Slottet, Uppsala, pp. 35–41
Pasquariello, Lisa, ‘From work to text and back again’, Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Exhibition catalogue, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, pp. 13–24
Colpitt, Frances, ‘Xu Bing: An introduction’, Xu Bing 96.3, exhibition brochure, International Artist-In-Residence Program
1995 Sherman, Mary, ‘Xu Bing and a prayer’, Art News (monthly), New York, vol. 94, no. 10, December, pp. 55–56
Wang, Yuejin Eugrene, ‘Of text and texture: The cultural relevance of Xu Bing’s art’, Xu Bing: Language Lost, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Art, p. 7
Wilson Lloyd, Ann, ‘Lost and found’, Xu Bing: Language Lost, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Art, pp. 20–24
1994 Goodman, Jonathan, ‘Bing Xu: 4,000 Characters in search of a meaning’, Art News (monthly), New York, vol. 93, no. 7, September, pp. 99–101
Cotter, Holland, ‘Metalanguage of Chinese and English’, Art in Review,The New York Times, 26 August
Wu, Hung, ‘A ghost rebellion: Notes on Xu Bing’s “Nonsense writing” and other works, Public Culture (monthly), University of Chicago, vol. 6, no. 2, winter, pp. 411–18
Hamish, Tamara, ‘Prestidigitation: A reply to Charles Stone’, Public Culture (monthly), University of Chicago, vol. 6, no. 2, winter, pp. 419–42
Yee, Lydia, ‘Xu Bing’, Xu Bing: Recent Work, exhibition brochure, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, pp. 1–2
Reuter, Laurel, ‘Musing into winter’, Art Journal, CAA College Art Association, New York, vol. 53, no. 3, autumn, pp. 46–59
Stone, Charles, ‘Xu Bing and the printed word’, Public Culture, (monthly), University of Chicago, vol. 6, no. 2, winter, pp. 407–10
1993 Barme, Geremie, ‘Xu Bing: A Chinese character’, Art Monthly Australia, vol. 61, July, pp. 13–14
Danto, Ginger, review of Installation of A Book from the Sky at Bellefroid Gallery, Paris, Art News (monthly), New York, vol. 92, no. 6, summer, p. 186
Gao Minglu, ‘Meaninglessness and confrontation in Xu Bing’s art’, Fragmented Memory, exhibition catalogue, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 28–31
1992 Chang Tosng-Zung, ‘Desire for words’, Desire for Words, exhibition catalogue, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Peterson, Michael, ‘A Book that resists reading: The enormous signs of Xu Bing’, Fine Art (monthly) New York, January, pp. 1–3
Hay, Jonathan, ‘Ambivalent icons: Works by five Chinese artists based in the United States’, Orientations, Art Monthly, Hong Kong, vol. 23, no. 7, July, pp. 37–43
Reuter, Laurel, ‘Into the dark sings the nightingale: The work of Xu Bing’, Xu Bing Series Exhibition 1, exhibition brochure, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Folks, US, pp. 1–3
Rhem, James, review of Three Installation by Xu Bing, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, New Art Examiner (monthly), vol. 19, no. 9, May, p. 37
Sturman, Peter C., ‘Measuring the weight of the written word: Reflections on the character paintings of Chu Ko and the role of writing in contemporary Chinese art’, Orientations, Art Monthly, Hong Kong, vol. 23, no. 7, July, pp. 44–52
1991 Chiba, Shigeo, ‘Far East art of Xu Bing’, Thesis presented at China Tomorrow: Misunderstandings in Cultural Exchange between East and West, a symposium, Paris, p. 15
Dal Lago, Francesca and Laura Trombetta-Panigadi, ‘Gli Ideogrammi come arte astratta’, Arte, Art Monthly, Italy, no. 218, May, pp. 72–75
Erickson, Britta, ‘Process and meaning in the art of Xu Bing’, Three Installations by Xu Bing, exhibition catalogue, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, pp. 2–32
Kato, Chihiro, ‘Chinese avant-garde art: Creation of 4,000 real- looking but spurious ideograms’, Aera (monthly), Tokyo, vol. 41, no. 4, October, p. 50
1990 Yin, Jinan, ‘Ghosts Pounding the Wall and meaninglessness’, Hsiung Shi Art Monthly, Taibei, vol. 235, September, pp. 125–133
Buchanan, Richard, ‘Art, design and the pursuit of happiness: No turning back’, Thesis presented at a Chicago Museum of Art Symposium, pp. 1–28
1989 Jia, Fangzhou, ‘A Book from the Sky: Five explanations’, Jiangsu Art Monthly, Nanjing, China, May pp. 17–20
1988 Chen, Weihe, ‘Xu Bing and his A Book from the Sky’, Intellectuals, (quarterly cultural magazine), Beijing, no. 1, pp. 58–62

INTERVIEWS WITH XU BING
2002 Yang Zi, ‘Xu Bing: Making intellectuals uncomfortable’, South Weekly News (Nanfang Zhoumo), Culture Section, 28 November, p. c19
2001 Chou, Brandon, ‘Once having excellent works: Interview with Xu Bing on his ice-breaking journey abroad’, Diancang (Art and Collection), no. 102, Taipei, March, pp. 53–54
Chou, Brandon, ‘Starting from “A Feeling: Interview with Xu Bing on his Exhibition Project in Taipei”’, Diancang (Art and Collection), no. 105, Taipei, June, pp. 47–50
2000 Tam, Vivienne Interview with Xu Bing, ‘China Chic’
Xiaoxia, Song, ‘A golden cicada sheds its skin’, Dialogue with Xu Bing at Peking University, 7 February
Shu Kewwn, ‘Interview with Xu Bing’ Living Weekly, Beijing, no. 1 pp. 5–8
1999 Hua Tian, Sue, ‘Interview – Xu Bing: Reflection of time vs the Concept of Art’ (Art Observation, Beijing), vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 4–6
1998 Kaye, Nick, ‘Interview – Xu Bing: Performance Research magazine, London, vol. 3, no. 1
1997 Fine Art Research, Monthly, Beijing, no. 1
Artists Mail, Monthly, Beijing, vol. 85, no., pp. 25–27
1996 Feng, Boyi, ‘Problems of contemporary art: A conversation between Xu Bing and Feng Boyi’, Orient, couture magazine, Beijing, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 65–68
1994 Davidson, Christina, ‘Words from heaven: Xu Bing interviewed, Art & AsiaPacific , Quarterly Journal, Australia, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 48–52
1993 Taylor, Janelle S., ‘Non-sense in context: Xu Bing’s art and its publics, Public Culture (Monthly, University of Chicago, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 317–27

ARTICLES BY XU BING
Xu Bing, ‘An artist’s view’, Persistency, Transformation—Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing. Symposium at the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 16 February 2003
Xu Bing, ‘About a consideration of golden apples, Harvest, exhibition catalogue, Beijing, 2002
Xu Bing, ‘The living word’, Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words: The Art of Xu Bing, Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001, pp.13–19
Xu Bing, ‘Gaining grass-roots experience’, Delicate Balance: Six Routes to the Himalayas, exhibition catalogue, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2000, pp. 36–37
Xu Bing, ‘Xu Bing’s statement on words, Culture and Morality, vol. 4 , Hong Kong, 2000), pp. 1–7; Power of the Word, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Taiwan, 1999, p. 33
Xu Bing, ‘To frighten heaven and earth and make the spirits cry’, The Library of Babel, exhibition catalogue, ICC – NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, 1998, pp. 64–72
Xu Bing, ‘In commemoration of Gu Yuan’, Meishu Yanjiu (Fine Art Research). vol. 85, no.1, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1997, pp. 15–17
Xu Bing, ‘Questions and answers on pig breeding’, Heipi shu (Black Cover Magazine), no. 1, Beijing, 1994, pp. 85–90
Xu Bing, ‘Analysis and observation: A letter by Xu Bing to Qi Li’, Hsiung Shih Meishu (Lion Art), vol. 242, no. 4, Taipei, 1991, pp. 90–91
Xu Bing, ‘Seeking individuation in secluded places’, Beijing Qingnian Bao (Beijing Youth Newspaper), Beijing, 10 February 1989
Xu Bing, ‘Drawing instruction: Generally speaking and in practical terms’, Meishu Yanjiu (Fine Art Research), no. 4, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1988, pp. 36–39
Xu Bing, ‘A re-exploration and re-assessment of repetitive painting’, Meishu (Fine Arts), Beijing, October 1987, pp. 50–51
Xu Bing, ‘Me and my small woodblock prints’, Xu Bing’s Series of Small Woodblock Prints, Preface, Hunan Fine Art Press, Beijing, 1985
Xu Bing, ‘How they think affects how they paint’, Meishu (Fine Arts), no. 7, Beijing, 1985, pp. 28–32
Xu Bing, ‘Some ideas on woodblock printmaking’, Meishu Yanjiu (Fine Art Research), no. 4, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1984, pp. 22–24
Xu Bing, ‘I paint the things that I love’, Meishu (Fine Arts), Beijing, May 1981, pp. 18–19

SELECTED WEBSITES
http://www.xubing.com
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/past.htm
http://plexus.org/bing.html
http://www.duke.edu/web/CIS/tobacco/main.html
http://www.albany.edu/museum/wwwmuseum/xb/xubingmain.html
http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/exhibits/00_01/chinesewoodblock/xubing.html
http://www.hkw.de/deutsch/kultur/2001/translated_acts/xu_bing.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/xubingt.html
http://www.echinaart.com/Advisor/adv_xubing_intro.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cear/issues/fall99/text-only/masuda.htm
http://www.artbeatus.com
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic027/html/178e.html
http://www.carolinaarts.com/501ncmus2.html
http://www.jacktiltongallery.com
http://www.honco.net/honcoten/profile/Xu.html
http://arts.tom.com/Archive/2001/12/6-35342.html
http://www.rice.edu/projects/reno/rn/20030206/xubing.html
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/xubingbio0203.html
http://www.booklyn.org/artists/Xu%20Bing.php
http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/collections/myer/xubing.htm
http://www.whiteboxny.org/theannex/past_xb.html