Xu Bing (China)
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Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China in 1955, and grown up in Beijing. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) where he completed his bachelor’s degree in 1981 and stayed on as an instructor. In 1990, he moved to the United States. He returned to China in 2007 and has served as the Vice President as well as professor of CAFA. His works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the British Museum (London), the Louvre Museum (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Museum of Art and Design (New York), etc. In 1999, Xu Bing was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2003, Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and in 2004, he won the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. The Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in 2006. In 2004 Art in America listed Xu Bing, along with 15 others, in their annual "People in Review". In recent years, Xu Bing has permeated his work to the areas beyond art, applying art to the realm of public welfare which he pays close attention to in recent years.


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My Art Methodology