Gao Lei
Born 1980 in Changsha, China. Lives and works in Beijing and Shanghai.

 

EDUCATION

2002
B.A., Digital Media Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Gao Lei: OH! And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, White Space, Beijing

2017
Gao Lei, Asia Art Center Taipei ll, Taipei
Gao Lei: Enzyme of Trial, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2016
Gao Lei: Wilderness, White Space Beijing, Beijing

2014   
Gao Lei: Windowsky, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
Gao Lei
, Arario Gallery, Shanghai

2013
Gao Lei: CARRIER, White Space Beijing, Beijing

2012    
Gao Lei: Projections, Arario Gallery, Seoul

2011    
Gao Lei: The Principle, White Space Beijing, Beijing

2008
Objec(ts)pace - Photography Works by Gao Lei, Aye Gallery, Beijing

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2023
Per-Form, M50, Shanghai
Night is the Shadow of the Earth, Wind H Art Center, Beijing
Feel the Impact of Nature on the Soul, Caiyunli Art Center, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Where Wood Stands, P.art Group & P.art Lab, Shanghai
A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Blunt Society, Shanghai

2021
Futurism of the Past - Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing
Red, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The Unbearable Blue of Being, neXtlab, Shanghai
Tangle of Revolution and Political Soul, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Parallel Universes: Parafacts and Parafictions, Design Republic, Shanghai

2020
Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2019
The Racing Will Continue, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Pal(ate)ette, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
A White Space Odyssey, White Space Beijing, Beijing
A Strong Wind in Beijing, Arario Gallery Cheonan, Cheonan-si, Korea
Hic Sunt Leones, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
Exchange Value, BANK, Shanghai

2018
After Sunset, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris
On Paper 2, White Space Beijing, Beijing
Art Patrons, Qiao Space, Shanghai

2017
A Catalyst for Contemporary Culture in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
All Happens After Sunset, The Museum of Contemporary Art Pavilion, Shanghai
Voice of Asia, Arario Gallery, Shanghai

2016 
Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
The Decameron - BMCA Documenting Art, Red Brick Yard in Caochangdi, Beijing
New voices: a dslcollection story, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
We, A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
Over the Wall, Paintings Tempted by Installation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
ACROSS THE DIVIDE, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London

2015   
The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Editing the Spectacle: The Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2014    
Present-ing Recital Louder than Paint, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
MEMO II, White Space Beijing, Beijing

2013    
Criss - Cross: Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai
MEMO I, White Space Beijing, Beijing

2012    
A City of Others, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei

2011   
Start from the Horizon - Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Since 1978, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing
DAS ICH IM ANDEREN, Mercator Foundation, Essen, Germany
Options, Li Space, Beijing
Daybreak, Arario Gallery, Cheonan and Beijing
Almost Tangible, Arario Gallery, Beijing

2010    
Beijing Time/La Hora de China, Matadero Madrid Contemporary Art Center, Madrid
Absolute Distance, White Space Beijing, Beijing
Wasabi - Exhibition of Young Contemporary Artists, Li Space, Beijing
The Pavilion of Realism - International Contemporary Art, Other Gallery, Beijing

2009    
The Second Reality - Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Meridian International Center, Washington DC​
Chinetik, Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel
Future Together - Nomination Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing

2008    
China’s ReVision - Chinese Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Accelerate: Chinese Contemporary Art
, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Butterfly Dream - Shanghai MoCA Envisage II, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
Whatever - Chinese Young Artists, I-MYU Projects, London
The Evolution of Concept - the Past and the Future of Chinese Conceptual Photography, 798 Space, Beijing
Hanging in the Sky Drifting on Surface, Linda Gallery, Beijing

2007    
Floating - Modern Chinese Art Exhibition in Commemoration between Korea and China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2006    
Yokohama International New Media Art Festival, Yokohama

2005   
New Beijing New Life, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Korea NABI Art Center, Seoul
Project Sound and City, British Council China, Beijing
The Line of Flight - Second International New Media Art Exhibition, China Millennium Monument, Beijing
Ten Eras Ten Colors, Soka Art Center, Beijing

2003   
Second Independent Visual Art of Youth, 22FILM, Beijing

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel
Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Long Museum, Shanghai
Arario Museum, Seoul
dslcollection, Paris

 

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2019
Roots of Clouds Adrift - Temporality: OCAT Nanjing Public Art Project 2019, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Nanjing Qixia Exhibition Site, Nanjing, China