Cao Fei

1978, born in Guangzhou
1997, graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
2001, graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Founder of Alternative Archive
Now lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing

Fellowship Program

Beijing Case: Culture of the High Speed Urbanism, 2005, German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes)

Visiting Programs

Acadia Summer Art Program, 2005, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

Solo Exhibitions

Cosplayers, 2005, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Cosplayers, 2005, CourtYard Gallery, Beijing
San Yuan Li, 2004, CourtYard Gallery, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

The 2nd Guangzhou Triennia, 2005, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Out of Sight, 2005, De Appel Foundation of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now, 2005, 3th Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
Kunst und Film, 2005, Kunstmuseum Bern
Traveling Outside & Within: 4 Contemporary Chinese Artists, 2005, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, 2005, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, USA
Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, 2005, Mori Museum, Tokyo
I still believe in miracles, Part.II, 2005, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris / ARC, Paris
CIRCULAR-domus, 2005, San Siro stadium, Milan
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya , 2005, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The 1st Moscow Biennial: Dialectics of Hope, 2005, Mosow, Russia
Yoko Ono: Water Event 2005, 2005, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
London Chinese Film Festival 2005 SOAS, 2005, University of London, London
Do It, 2004, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
Nuit Blanche, 2004, Art Public Contemporain, Paris
Impakt Festival, 2004, Utrecht, Netherlands
Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, 2004, San Diego Museum of Art
Die Chinesen: Contemporary Photography and Video in China, 2004, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
5th Shanghai Biennial, 2004, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai
China Moon, 2004, Watermill Center 2004 Summer Program, New York
A l'Est du Sud de l'Ouest, 2004, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Villa Arson Nice, France
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, 2004, ICP and Asia Society, New York
Tatig Sein, 2004, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. (NGBK), Berlin
China Now, 2004, Gramercy Theatre, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Heads & Portraits, 2004, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Feverish Unconscious, 2004, Chambers Fine Art, New York
Generation Video, 2004, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, 2004, Japan Foundation, Tokyo; Darling Art Foundation, Seoul
Left Wing, 2003, Left Bank Community, Beijing
Screening Programme, MK2 (Bibliothèque), 2003, Paris
Fabricated Paradises, 2003, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Ibos, France
10th Biennial of the Moving Image, 2003, Geneva
Zooming into Focus: Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild, Collection, 2003, San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Public Space and Personal Eyes, 2003, Kampnagel, Hamburg
Alors la Chine, 2003, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Z.O.U., 50th Venice Biennale, 2003, Venice, Italy
+system, Short Videos from the World 2002-2003, 2003, BizArt, Shanghai
The Minority Is Subordinate to the Majority, 2003, BizArt, Shanghai
In/Video, 2002, Milan
Kino Film Festival, 2002, Manchester, UK
Guangzhou Triennial, 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
media_city seoul 2002, 2002, Korea
Gwangju Biennale, 2002, Korea
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, 2002, France
Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, 2002, New York
Weightlessness, 2001, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
The New Media Art Festival: Non-linear Narrative, 2001, National Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Living in Time, 2001, Hamburger Bahnhof Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin
City Slang, 2001, Art Village, Hong Kong
Berlin Biennale, 2001, Berlin
Take Part, 2001, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland
Virtual Future, 2001, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Fuck Off, 2000, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival: Leaving the Island, 2000, Pusan, Korea
PhotoEspana 2000, 2000, Madrid
8th Biennial of Moving Images, 1999, Saint-Gervais Geneva, Switzerland
4th Cross-Strait, Hong Kong and Macau Student Film & Video Festival, 1999, Hong Kong
Video screening, 1999, Galerie Büro Friedrich, Berli