Shen Shaomin
Born 1956 in Heilongjiang, China.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Shen Shaomin: Chinese Carp, Shenzhen Yanhan Highland 404 Space, Shenzhen, China
2018
Shen Shaomin: This Side Up: Fragile, Mucciacci Contemporary, Rome, Italy
2017
Shen Shaomin: Keep Upright, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2015
Shen Shaomin: There is no problem, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Shen Shaomin: Handle With Care, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2014
Shen Shaomin: So What, Breeze, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing
2013
Shen Shaomin: I Touched the Voice of God, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2011
Shen Shaomin: The Day After Tomorrow, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2010
Shen Shaomin: Distortion, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
Shen Shaomin: One Monk Temple, ARTCHANNEL, Beijing
2008
Shen Shaomin: Experimental Studio, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California
Shen Shaomin: Unassailable (Activated Organism), Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
2007
Project No.1 - Solo Exhibition of Shaomin SHEN, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Shen Shaomin: Kowtow Pump, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Shen Shaomin: Bonsai, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
Shen Shaomin: Fighter-X, Platform China, Beijing
2006
Shen Shaomin: Scary Monsters, Osage Contemporary Art Space, Hong Kong
2005
Shen Shaomin: Creature Factory, Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
2001
Shen Shaomin: Transplantation, Asia-Australia Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
1995
Shen Shaomin: Dialogue, East & West Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
In Our Time, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
SIGG: Chinese Contemporary Art From The Sigg Collection, Songeun Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul
2022
1.5: 15 Years of Eli Klein Gallery, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
No Point in Time, Vermilion Art, Sydney
2021
Drifting Memories, TNT Contemporary Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2020
The Curation Workshop II - Sample cases from OCAT, Hua Art Museum, OCT Art & Design Gallery and OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Whitebox Choice Selection, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing
Sum Art, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome, Italy
Questioning Power, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2019
The Curation Workshop – Exhibition Curation and Design, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Even the Trees Bleed, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
The Gaze of History – Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, The Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
Shan Shui - Nature Oppressed, Lee Ungno Museum, Daejeon, South Korea
Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection, The MAK, Vienna, Austria
Ascending City, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture - At Ease In Xichong, Xichong Resort, Shenzhen, China
THEN, White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale, Australia
Pal/ate/ette/, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2018
Capital@Art.International, Ost-Stern, Frankfurt, Germany
2017
Almost There, Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Art Basel, Hong Kong: Encounters, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
Fields of Communion - The 4th Shenzhen Public Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen Central Park, Shenzhen, China
This Connection: Sharing a Future Public Space, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Shanghai
OutLook, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Very Sustainable – Environmental Revelation, MOCA Yinchuan, Ningxia, China
Conversation, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing
Second Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Chongqing, China
2016
I Never Thought You Were Like That, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Layered Image, Hampshire College online exhibition, Institute for Curatorial Practice at Hampshire College, Massachusetts
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg and M+ Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
The Archer of Autumn Grove Crossing, The Decameron – BMCA Documenting Art, Wenyu River, Wenyu, China
2015
Civilization Round III: Jiang Ling, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
East Bridge 2015-2016: Plastic Garden, Korean & Chinese Contemporary Art, 798 Art Factory, Beijing; Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Peers, Shan Hai Museum, Beijing
Open Sea, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Go East, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2014
Xinjiang Biennale, Urumqi, China
Fusion Convergence, T Museum, Hangzhou, China
St.art - International Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2013
Serve the People, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Individual Growth – Momentum of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China; Shi Jiazhuang Art Museum, Shi Jiazhuang, China
A Better Tomorrow, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing
Creases of Memory, T-Museum and Surroundings Art Center, Hangzhou, China
2012
Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
The First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
2011
Scenes from Within: Contemporary Art from China, Blackbridge Hall Art Gallery, Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia
New Age, New Media, New Media Art Exhibition in China & Australia, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
An Ode to Discernment, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
Mutation, 798 Art Bridge Gallery, Beijing
Flora and Fauna: MAD about Nature, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
BAD Exhibition, Pin Gallery, Beijing
An Exhibition Tour, Shanghu Art Museum, Beijing
Nature Contrast – From 125 Years to the Next 125 Years, Shanghai Time Square, Shanghai
Retrospection and Deviation - Heart Outside Body Series, Horizon Times Art Museum, Beijing
2010
Absolute Distance, White Space and MK2 Art Space, Beijing
Myriad Things, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai
Last Words, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2009
Mid Way, Wollongong City Gallery Traveling Exhibition, Australia; Fine Art College of Shanghai University 99 Creative Center, Shanghai
Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Human Nature, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
The Home Court: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing
Hey Market, Songzhuang Art Gallery, Songzhuang, Beijing
Coming Home – 37 Chinese Australian Artists, Linda Gallery, Beijing
A Conversation with Chicago - Contemporary Sculptures from China, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
I Want Talk to You: Film & Video Show, T. Art Center, Beijing
19 GAME, T. Art Center, Beijing
2008
Shen Shaomin and Zhang Dali, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
Intrude: Art & Life 366, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
China Independent Film Festival, South Visual Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Hunting Birds, T Space, and Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
The Revolution Continues: New Art From China, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Inside & Outside Art History, Found Art Museum, Beijing
Shanghai MoCA Envisage II-Butterfly Dream, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai
3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
China Contemporary Art Biennale 2008, Yuangong Museum, Shanghai
2D/3D Negotiating Visual Languages, PKM Gallery, Beijing
Kowtow Pumps, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Beyond Reminiscence, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing
Chinese Gardens for Living, National Art Collection Museum, Dresden, Germany
Portraying Food, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL
Critical Moment, OV Gallery, Shanghai
New World Order, Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Re-imagining Asia, House of World Culture, Berlin; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
China China China!!! - Contemporary Chinese Art Beyond the Global Market, Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
3.15 Let’s Consume, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing
New Vista, White Space, Beijing
Die Wahren Orte III Alexander, Ochs Galleries, Berlin
Reasia, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
Inter Electrode Horizon, Today Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2007
The Power of the Universe - The Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing
Destination - Installation Art Exhibition, Oriental Vista Art Collections, Shanghai
Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Wild Beast, Gallery Mook, Beijing
To Get Down to Brass Tacks, Osage Art Space, Shanghai
Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
A Vision of the Future, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2006
Floweriness, Song Zhuang Art Museum, Beijing
Double-Kick Cracker, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Susi: Key to Chinese Art Today, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
Liverpool Biennial 2006, Liverpool, UK
Shanghai MoCA Envisage - Butterfly Dream, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai
From Polar Region to Tie Xi Qu – Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Northeast 1985-2006 Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Endless Clone, Space Leum, Beijing
2005
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Grounding Reality - Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul
Two Asias, Two Europes, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Ten Thousand Years, Postmodern City, Beijing
Unusual Scene, Today Art Museum, Beijing
City Net Asia 2005, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2004
Is it what?, Shaanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xi’an, China
The 1st Architectural Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Asian Traffic, Asia-Australia Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2003
Open Sky, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Left Wing, Left Bank Community, Beijing
Alternative Modernity, X-Ray Art Centre, Beijing
Düsseldorf Art Exhibition, Museum Kunst Palast, Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
Science Fictions, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Beijing Shan Hai Art Museum, Beijing
Droga 8 Collection, Sydney
Heilongjiang Art Museum, Harbin, China
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
White Rabbit Collection, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Red Mansion Foundation, London
The Saatchi Gallery, London
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Today Art Museum, Beijing
Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China