Chen Wenling

1969 Born in Anxi, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Graduated from Xiamen Academy of Art and Design Completed study in Sculpture Dept and then Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Now works and lives in Beijing, a professional artist, China

Solo Exhibitions

2008 God of Materialism, 798Asia Art Center, Beijing, China

2007 Metamorphose Chen Wenling Exhibition, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Japan

Chen Wenling’s Contemporary Sculpture Solo Exhibition, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia

2006 Chen Wenling’s Sculpture Solo Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai,

China

Red Memory--Chen Wenling’s Sculpture Exhibition, Singapore

Beneath Above, BANG-Beijing Art Now Gellery, Beijing, China

2004 Happy Life, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China

2003 Seeking the True Nature, Xuri Bay, Zhuhai, China

2002 Red Memory, Pearl Bay Beach, Xiamen, China

Red = Culture + Consumption, Laiya Department Store, Xiamen, Chian

1991 Chen WenLing Woodcarving Show, Xiamen Academy of Art and Design, China

Group Exhibitions

2008 Third International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Centro Andaluz de Arte

Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain

The 3rd Nanjing Triennial—Reflective Asia, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, Beijing

Art Beijing Contemporary Art Fair Subject Matter Exhibition--Public Art, Beijing Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

Shanghai Art Fair Subject Matter Exhibition--Best of Discovery, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

Busan Biennale--Expenditure, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea

China…Forward! TSUM, Moscow, Russia

Red, Smooth and Luminescent Contemporary Expression, Xin Dong Chen Space For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Lido, Venice, Italy

Art of Pigs--Pigs Expressed in Art, Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokka, Japan

Mountain Flowers in Full Bloom, The First Sound Gallery, Beijing, China

3.15--LET′S CONSUME, Xin Dong Chen Space For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Happy Together, Aura Gallery, Beijing, China

China--Facing Reality, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Beijing--Athens Contemporary Art From China, Technopolis of the city of Athens, Athens, Greece

Chinese Scene, Wanhao Hotel, Beijing, China

Source, Moon River Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

China Blue, Beijing Overseas Chinese City, Beijing , China

China Blue, Katrinetorps Gard, Malmo, Sweden

Image Spirit, K Gallery, Chengdu, China

2007 My Chinese Friends, Gallery Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Beyond Reality, 798 Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China

The Power of Universe, 798 Asia Art Center, Beijing, China

Reconstructed World View, K?gallery, Chengdu, China

Post Avant-Garde Chinese Contemporary Art: Four Directions of the New Era, Hong Kong, China

Energy--Spirit、Body、Material, Today’s Museum, Beijing, China

Calling a Stag a Horse--Exhibition of sculptures by Guangci, ChenWenling, Xiangjing and Caohui, Sanshang Art, Beijing, China

A Truth beyond the Real, Doosan Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Wild Beasts, 798 Mook Gallery of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Floating--New Contemporary Art, The National Art Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Red Hot--Asian Art Today, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, American

China--Facing Reality, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

Departure From Mainstream Contemporary Art Exhibition, Creative Plaze 798, Beijing, China

Top10 Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China

Chinese Whispers, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China

2006 Chinese Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, World Art Museum, Beijing,China

Chinese Art Today, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Hyper Design--Shangai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA

Humanistic Shan-shui--An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture Art, Huizhou,China

The Road To Open--the 2nd Art Festival Invitation Exhibition For Public Sculpture,

Song Zhuang, China

New Folk Movement--The Reconstruct of the Commonality Living, Song Zhuang, Beijing

China

Beyond Experience-New China: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China

37th Art Exposition in Basel of Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland

In the Name of Material--Exhibition of contemporary Art of Sculpture, HSS Art Centre Shanghai, China

Made in China, Vecchiato Art Gallery, Padova, Italy

2005 Grounding reality--Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea

Time of Sea International--Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai China

Second China Art Triennial, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Heaven and Earth--Chinese Contemporary Exhibition, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China

Peace and Prosperity--60th Anniversary of the Victory of Anti-Fascist War

Commemoration Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing, China

Sculpture century--Shanghai City Exhibition, Shanghai, China

Luxury Time--China Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Tianjin, China

Beautiful World--Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

No Boundary--China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

Sword--Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

Contemporary Beijing--Art Literature Exhibition, Beijing, China

Build up Fable--China Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

One Fourth--Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

2004 Porcelain﹒Vita﹒Xiamen, Fujian, China

Expressions of State--Xiamen Contemporary Art Show, Fujian, China

10th National Art Exhibitions, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

China-Belgium Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Antwerpen, Belgium

2003 Chinese Sculpture Masterpieces Exhibition of the Beijing International Biennale, Beijing, China

Sea and Music--International Sculpture Exhibition, Xiamen, China

The Northeast Annual Exhibition of the Works of Sculpture, Changchun, China

China-Holland--Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Xiamen, China

Ship-Xiamen Port--Modern Art Exhibition, Xiamen, China

The National Fujian-born Modern Artists Invitation Exhibition, Fuzhou, China

2002 First China Art Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangdong, China

2001 Sculpture Show--Shanghai Young Artists Exhibition, Normal University of Shanghai, China

1999 Ninth National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1997 The first Chinese Huaihuabei Environmental Sculpture Exhibition, China

1991 Chen Wenling’s Woodcarving Exhibition, Xiamen College of Art, Xiamen, China