HAN Bing
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 A cry from the narrow between: Han Bing Tejal Shah, Espace Gallery, New Delhi, India
Forever, Khoj, New Delhi, India
2008 The Walking the Cabbage Project (2000-2008), The International 3, Manchester, United Kingdom
2007 Everyday Desire in the Theater of Chinese Modernization, Beursschouwburg Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
The Fatalistic Language of Things: Han Bing, Columbia Museum of Art, United States
Age of Big Construction, Beijing New Art Projects Space , Beijing, China
On the Stage of Modernization: Han Bing, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
Theater of Modernization Project, Dali, Yunnan, China
The Walking the Cabbage Movement in Paris, Rue Montorgueil, Reflex Gallery, France
Green Peace—The Walking the Cabbage Movement in Columbia, USC Campus, State Capitol Building, Columbia Museum of Art Plaza, Columbia, United States
Age of Big Construction, Beijing New Art Projects Space II, Beijing, China
On the Stage of Modernization: Han Bing, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
Walking the Cabbage across America, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Natchez, Columbia, Baton Rouge, United States
2006 Other Modernities: Han Bing Solo Exhibition, Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Other Shore of Desire, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Los Angeles, California, United States
Love in the Age of Big Construction, IEAS Center, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
Han Bing—Quotidian Iconic & Orimoto Tatsumi—Quotidian Holy Mother, Jing Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Walking the Cabbage in Tokyo, Ginza, Harajuku, Akihabara, Shinjuku, Tokyo subway lines, Shin Tokorazawa, Shibuya, Japan
Walking the Cabbage in Yunnan, Kunming, Dali, Yunnan, China
2004 Walking the Cabbage on the Great Wall, Jiaoshan, Shanhaiguan, Jinshaling Great Wall, China
Walking the Cabbage in the Beijing Subway, Beijing, China
2003 Mortal World: The Other Shore, Shilianghe River, Jiangsu, China
2002 Strolling Bones II, Guangzhou Art Museum, China
2001 Walking the Cabbage in Beijing, Beijing Subways and bus-lines, Military Museum, Wangfujing, Xidan, Bell Drum Tower, Houhai, Tiananmen Square, Chang'an Boulevard, Beijing, China
An Intimate Day with My Shovel, Beijing, China
2000 Walking the Cabbage Project, across the World (through 2008)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Pot Luck, PM Gallery & House, London, United Kingdom
Some place else, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, United States
Pot Luck, Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales, United Kingdom
The 10th Open International Performance Art Festival, Open Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Pot Luck, New Art Gallery, Walsall, United Kingdom
Proyecto Género III, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Made in China, Museum of New Art (MONA), Art Channel Gallery, Beijing,China
Journey to the End of the Night, Yan Club Arts Center 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China
China Avant-Garde--Landscape in Transit, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, United States
Action—Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada
Made in China—Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
2008 Asia Triennial Manchester 2008 (ATM 08), Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Texas Collects Asia:Contemporary Art, The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art Museum, Dallas, Texas, United States
China…Forward!!! Tsum , 莫斯科， Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France
Memory, Red Star Gallery, 798, Beijing, China
Proyecto Género II, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Multiple Realities, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Interval of Silence, Red Star Gallery, 798, Beijing, China
Kitai Vperiod!!! China, Forward!!!, Tsum, Moscow, Russia
Detour Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
China Under Construction II, Fotofest 12th Photography Biennial, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
2007 Rencontres D'Arles Photography Festival, China—Chai-na Exhibition, Arles, France
Third Annual Sino-Japanese International Performance Art Exchange, Beijing, China
Performance Festival Pasage de la Paz, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Love Expo, OFF *Ample, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
China Under Construction I, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
Dragon's Evolution: Chinese Contemporary Photography, China Square, New York City, New York , United States
Detour Exhibition, Director's Art Club, New York City, New York, United States
Night and Day Contemporary Art Exhibition, AKA Gallery, Rome, Italy
China's Performance Art Photography, Inter Arts Center, Beijing, China
The First Exhibition of Art Documents, Shangshang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Barcelona—Paris—Pekin, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Three Dimensions, Front Line Contemporary, Beijing, China
Mortal Worlds Contemporary Art Exhibition, Reflex Gallery, Paris, France
Dragon's Evolution, 798 International Art Festival, Beijing, China
Fractured Visions: Chinese Video Art, Center for Asian Studies, University of South Carolina, United States
The Fragmented Gaze: Video Art from the PRC, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
2006 Proyecto Género, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Misalignments: Chinese Performance Art Documenta, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, United States
Engagements and Estrangements, Contemporary Chinese Exchange, Toronto, Canada
The Nekromantics, Temporary Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
Open International Performance Art Festival, Must Be Contemporary Art Center, 798, China
Beyond Experience: The New China, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China
UNESCO's Together with Migrants Festival, SOHO, Beijing, China
China—Chai-na Exhibition, Dashanzi International Art Festival, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
2005 Tian An Men-Gate to Heaven, Fotografiemuseum (FOAM) Amsterdam, Netherlands
China Action 1: Video Art Exhibition, Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours, France
Ambiguity: Hide Dimly, Zero Field Art Center, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
Transborder Language Performance Art Exhibition: DIAF & Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
Vehicle and Mirror Exhibition, Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
2004 Performance Art in 798: Photographic Memory, Thinking Hands Projects, Beijing, China
Tian An-Men, Chinese-Eyes Gallery, Paris, France
Sense of Fragility Exhibition, Italian Embassy, Beijing, China
2003 The First Dadao Live Art Festival, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
I'm China—China Photography and Video 2003, SOHO, Beijing, China
The Beautiful Life Exhibition, SOHO, Beijing, China
DNA Visual Exhibition, Nanxincang, Beijing, China
2002 Pingyao International Photography Festival: New Chinese Photography, Shanxi, China
Act of Flying Live Art Performance Exhibition, Red Square Art Center, Beijing, China
Post-Revolutionary Era Video Exhibition, China New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
Red Square Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Square Art Center, Beijing, China
To Each His Own Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangzhou University, China
Sino-Japanese Performance Art Exhibition, Waterside Space, Guangzhou, China
2001 Knowledge is Power Exhibition, Beijing Book Building, China
Zero Degrees Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Bridge Art Factory, China
Healing Contemporary Art Exhibition, Damu Space, Beijing, China
Dang Dot Com Performance Art Exhibition, Kaixin Leyuan, Beijing, China
2000 Man and Animal Performance Art Exhibition, Nanjing, China
1999 Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts Oil Painting Advanced Studies Program Graduate Exhibition, Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Selected Performances and Performances Projects
2008 The Walking the Cabbage Movement in Manchester, Asia Triennial Manchester, United Kingdom
2007 Love in the Age of Big Construction IV: Stars and Stripes, China Under Construction I, Deborah Colton Gallery, United States
Walking the Cabbage in Paris, Louvre, Notre Dame, Paris, France
Walking the Cabbage in Brussels, Old Market Square, the Bourse, Beursschouwburg, Belgium
Walking the Cabbage in New York City, Time's Square, Central Park, 5th Avenue, East Village, DUMBO, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Queens, New York, United States
Walking the Cabbage in San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, Powell and Market, Fisherman's Wharf, North Beach, City Lights Bookstore, Chinatown, California, United States
Walking the Cabbage in Mississippi, Longwood, Mammy's Cupboard, Natchez, Mississippi, United States
Walking the Cabbage in Louisiana, along the banks of the Mississippi River, Lousiana, United States
2006 Walking the Cabbage at Art Basel-Miami, South Beach, Design District, Miami, Florida, United States
Walking the Cabbage in Los Angeles, LA MoCA, Hollywood, Santa Monica Mall, Venice Beach, California, United STates
Walking the Cabbage in Berkeley, Telegraph Avenue, Shattuck, UC Berkeley, Jupiter Pub, California, United States
Walking the Cabbage in the East Bay, Oakland Chinatown, Livermore, San Mateo, California, United States
Walking the Cabbage in Ikebukuro, Ikebukuro International Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Love in the Age of Big Construction III, Beyond Experience: The New China, Arario Beijing, China
Love in the Age of Big Construction II, Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing, China
Love in the Age of Big Construction I, urban ruins, Shanghai, China
Amor Mundi, Nanmen Reservoir, Dali Old Town, Yunnan, China
Transnational Geographic, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
2005 Walking the Cabbage in Yunnan, Kunming, Dali, Yunnan, China
2005 A Dream between Cotton and Stone: Mating Season, No. 9, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
Walking the Cabbage in Shanghai, The Bund, Lao Xi Men Old Quarter, Odin Palace Villas, Pudong, Wanpinglu, Shanghai, China
Walking the Cabbage in Hanhu Village, Jiangsu, China
Walking the Cabbage in Suzhou, Suzhou City, Tongli, Luzhi, China
Walking the Cabbage at Houhai, Beijing, China
2004 Countdown to the Society of Modest Prosperity, Qu Fu, Shandong; Shilianghe, Jiangsu; Kempinski Hotel and other Beijing locales, China
Walking the Cabbage on the Great Wall, Jiaoshan, Shanhaiguan, Jinshaling Great Wall, China
Walking the Cabbage at Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
Walking the Cabbage at Taishan Mountain, Shandong, China
Walking the Cabbage in the Beijing Subway, Beijing, China
2003 Mortal World: The Other Shore, Shilianghe River, Jiangsu, China
Walking the Cabbage in the Beautiful New World, The Beautiful Life, Jianwai SOHO, Beijing, China
Article 47 of the Constitution, (with Wang Chuyu) Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing, China
To be Cow or to Eat Cow? Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing, China
Walking the Cabbage in Beijing, durational daily performance across Beijing, China
Walking the Cabbage at the Fragrant Hills, Midi Music Festival, Beijing, China
2002 Strolling Bones II, Guangzhou Art Museum, China
Walking the Cabbage in Guangzhou, Guangzhou University, and Guangzhou locales, China
Walking the Cabbage in Beijing, durational daily performance across Beijing, China
Walking the Cabbage in Songzhuang, durational daily performance, Tongzhou, China
Pet Fashion Show, Red Square Art Center, Beijing, China
2001 Hammer and Sickle: Mating Season, No. 6, Zero Degrees Exhibition, Bridge Art Factory Beijing, China
Making Love with Thirteen Shovels: Mating Season, No. 5, Beijing, China
Sleeping Together: Mating Season, No. 4, Binghe Xiaoqu, Tongxian, China
Sexual Fantasies of the Knife: Mating Season, No. 2, Sanyuancun, Tongzhou, China
Body Heat: Mating Season, No. 1, Sanyuancun, Tongzhou, China
Walking the Cabbage in Beijing, Beijing Subways and bus-lines, Military Museum, Wangfujing, Xidan, Bell Drum Tower, Houhai, Tiananmen Square, Chang'an Boulevard, Beijing, China
An Intimate Day with My Shovel, Beijing, China
2000 Strolling Bones, Beijing Film Studios, Beitaiping Zhuang and other Beijing locales, China
Walking the Brick, Xingfu Building, Beijing Film Studios, construction sites in Beijing, China
Fixed in Place, Beijing Train Station, Dianmen, Bell Drum Tower, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Walking the Cabbage, Beijing Film Studios, Beitaipingzhuang, Beijing locales, China
1999 Countdown to the Society of Modest Prosperity, Tiananmen Square, Wangfujing, Oriental Plaza, Chang'an Boulevard, Beijing Train Station, Beijing Subway, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
Selected Bibliography
2008 Theater of Modernization: Han Bing, artist monograph (Futurista Art, 2008)
"Theater of Modernization: Possible Futures and Shifting Alliances," 2008 Chinese Contemporary Art Guide, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 2008
Texas Collects Asia, (Texas: The Trammel & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2008)
Interval of Silence: Contemporary Art From Asia, (Beijing: Red Star Gallery, 2008)
China…Forward!!! (Paris: Galerie Albert Benamou, 2008)
"Asian Art Triennial Launches in Manchester," Eliza Gluckman, Asia Art Pacific, No. 57, March/April, 2008
"Han Bing's Unfinished Road to Modernization," Evan Garza, Theater of Modernization, (Futurista Art, 2008)
2007 "Eroticizing the Everyday: Han Bing, the Power of Desire and the Drama of Modernization, " Eyemazing International Contemporary Photography Magazine, August, 2007
"Seeing What Is To Be Forgotten: The Photography, Video and Performance Art of Han Bing," Shannon May, Yishu: Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, Summer, 2007
"Han Bing," Update Art Magazine, 2007
"China Under Construction: Chinese Contemporary Art of the Everyday Comes of Age," Maya Kóvskaya, China Under Construction: Contemporary Art From the People's Republic ( Futurista Art, 2007)
"Space City Looks Eastward: Contemporary Asian Art in Houston," Arts Houston, August, 2007
"Deconstruction Workers: Deborah Colton Gallery presents China sans pop," Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, August 9, 2007
"Asian Invasion," Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, 7/28/2007
"Dragon's Evolution," Art Picks, Maya Kóvskaya, Art IT, Spring/Summer, 2007
"The Other Shore of Desire: Han Bing," Zhuang Jia, Dragon's Evolution: Chinese Contemporary Photography, New York, 2007
"Quotidian Amor Mundi: Orimoto Tatsumi and Han Bing, " Maya Kóvskaya, Flash Art, January, 2007
2006 "China's Art Factory," Jessica Au, Newsweek International, 20 November, 2006
"Critical Mass: Six artists and art industry experts select their favourite exhibitions of 2006," David Teh, Art & Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, December 2006
"Bittersweet: Han Bing's Meditations on the Humble Cabbage," Lisa Movius, That's Shanghai, December, 2006
"All You Knead is Loaf, Say Cabbage Patch Kids," Lisa Movius, South China Morning Post, 12 November, 2006
"Beyond Experience: The New China and the Landscape and Forms of its Selfhood," Zhu Qi, Beyond Experience: The New China (Beiing: Arario Beijing Press, 2006)
"Han Bing: Quotidian Iconic, Orimoto Tatsumi: Quotidian Holy Mother" Art Picks , Maya Kóvskaya, Art iT, Fall/Winter Issue, 2006
"Field of Vision: Center Stage," David Drakeford, Beijing Today, 15 September, 2006
"Together with Migrants—Chinese Contemporary Art and Social Criticism," Nathaniel M. Stevens, NY Arts Magazine, September/October, 2006
"Beyond Experience," Luna Fenichel, NY Arts Magazine, September/October, 2006
"Arario Brings The New China" Art Picks, Maya Kóvskaya, Art iT, Summer/Fall Issue, 2006
"China's Happiness and Pain Exhibition at the UNESCO "Together with Migrants" Festival," Maya Kóvskaya, ArtPost, 19 June, 2006
The "China--Chai-Na (Demolish There);" Exhibition Rocks the DIAF's Soldiers at the Gate Forum," Maya Kóvskaya, ArtPost, 15 May, 2006
"Tectonic Shifts in the Beijing Art Scene," Maya Kóvskaya, Art iT, Spring/Summer Issue, 2006
"Modulating Space: Negotiating the Aesthetic and the Semantic, Maya Kóvskaya, Artpost, Feb 2-11, 2006