Xu Tan

1957
Born in Wuhan, China

Education

1979-83
Obtained Bachelor‘s degree, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

1986-89
Obtained Master‘s degree, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

1993
Joined Big Tailed Elephant Working Group

2002
Awarded by Asia Cultural Council

2004
Awarded by DAAD, Berlin, Germany
Currently Living in Zhuhai, China and New York Exhibitions

Exhibitions

2008
“Critical Moment-New Media & Installation,” Oriental Vista Gallery Shanghai, China
“Transmediale.08-CONSPIRE,” Berlin
“Art Sheffield 08,” Sheffield’s, Britain

2007
“Searching for Key Words,” Location 1 Art Centre, New York
“Transit City,” Luxemburg, Belgium
“Hyper City,” Berlin, Germany
“Salzburg Sommerszene-Festival,” Salzburg, Austria
“Mahjong,” Centre of The City of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
“Video Art in Internet Time,” Chelsea Museum, New York, USA
“China Welcomes You.. Desires, Struggles, New Identities,” Kunsthaus Graz Austria

2006
“Through Popular Expression,” University of Central England; Het Domein Museum Sittard, UK, Holland
“Guangzhou-Cantones Artists in The Sigg Collection,” Kunst Museum Bern Switzerland
“Great Expectations,” OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
“Take Down,” Universal Studios-Beijing, Beijing
“13 Chinese Video,” PS1 Art Centre (MOMA), New York
“China Power Station:Part 1,” Serpentine Gallery, London
“Asian Video Art Selection,” Moma New York and Asia Society, New York
“Guangdong Express (II),” Beijing, Milan
“Zhang Jiang Art Festival,” Shanghai Gallery of Art-Three on the Bund, Zhang Jiang Development Zone, Shanghai, China
“The Second Guangzhou Triennial-BEYOUND: An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization,” Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“2nd Chinese Contemporary Art Triennial,” Nanjing, China
“Out of Sight,” De Apple, Amsterdam, Holland
“Loose,” Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
“In South, West of West,” Nise, Sete, France
“Object System: Doing Nothing,” ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain

2003
“Open Sky: Contemporary Art Exhibition” Duolun MOMA, Shanghai, China
“Z.O.U-50th Venice Biennial,” Venice, Italy
“Alors Le Chinese,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“Left Wing,” Beijing, China

2002
“Blue and White Porcelain,” Location 1 Art Centre, New York
“Pause-4th Gwanju Biennial,” Gwanju, Korea

2001
“2nd Berlin Biennial,” Berlin, Germany
“Polypolis-Art from Asian Pacific Megacities,” Hamburg, Germany
“2nd Chengdu Biennial,” Chengdu, China
“Transportation in the place-Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of Artist from China and France,” Shenzhen, China
“Virtual Reality-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Guangzhou, China

2000
“The Bridge Under Bridge, 2000 Piscara Biennial,” Piscara, Italy
“Our Chinese Friend,” Bauhaus University and ACC Art Centre Weimmar, Germany
“2000 Chinese Video Festival in Hong Kong,” Hong Kong, China
“Fuck off,” Shanghai, China

1999
“The 3nd Triennial of Asian and Pacifica Contemporary Art,” Queensland Australia
“Unveiled Reality: Chinese Contemporary Photography” Vancouver; Bangkok; Chicago
“Unusual Way of Writing,” Nanjing, China
“Food of Thought-Chinese Contemporary Art Festival,” Amsterdam
“Chinese, Korean and Japanese Artists Joint Exhibition” Pusan, Korea

1998
“The first Taipei Biennial,” Taipei, China
“Inside Out-Chinese New Art Exhibition,” New York; Hong Kong, China
“Big Tailed Elephant,” Bern, Switzerland
“Traffic Jam,” Berlin, Germany
“Four Sides-Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Hong Kong, China

1997
“Another Long March-Chinese Conceptual Art 97,” Netherlands
“Cities on The Move,” Vienna, Austria, Bordeaux, France; New York, USA; Copenhagen, Denmark; London, UK; Bangkok, Thailand
“New City, New Art, New Asia-Chinese, Korean New Art,” Shanghai, China

1996
“Question-Twenty Cubic Yard of Soil,” Vermont Art Centre, U.S.A
“Possibility-Big Tailed Elephant 96,” Guangzhou, China
“Container 96-European Cultural Festival 96,” Copenhagen, Denmark
“Munich Chinese Contemporary Art Festival,” Munich, Germany

1994
“Ha, Ch, Ch-Chinese and German Joint Contemporary Art Show” Cologne, Germany

1992
“No Room-Big Tailed Elephant,” Guangzhou, China
“Big Tailed Elephant 1992,” Guangzhou, China