Dai Guangyu 戴光郁
Lives and works in Beijing |
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1997 - present |
Editor and Creative Director of Humanities & Art (Shanghai Joint Publishing Company)
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1994 |
Visited the United States (Washington, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix) on the United States Information Agency’s International Visitor Program
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1955 |
Born in Chengdu, China
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES |
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2017 |
Making Traces: The Arts of Participation and Refusal, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
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2015
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Endowed with Speech from Birth, YaFeng Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu, China Dreamlike Memories of Wang River, Tree Gallery, Beijing, China
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2014
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Diluted Shadows, Ifa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Black Paper, Ifa Gallery at Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France
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2012 |
Still Crossing, Dai Guangyu Solo Show, Ifa Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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2010 |
Dai Guangyu—Recent Works, Galerie Adler, Paris, France Erased Memory and Flexible Type Printing (live performances), Ifa Gallery at Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France
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2008 |
Ink Games, Ifa Gallery, Shanghai, China
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2007 |
“Mend the Fold If a Sheep Is Lost”—A Sheep’s Lecture on Chinese Contemporary Art, South Gate Space, Beijing, China
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2005 |
Little Scares: A Solo Exhibition of Dai Guangyu’s Videos, Dogpig Art Café, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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2002 |
Food and Words (performance in a public space), Triune Bookshop, Chengdu, China
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2000 |
Shooting at Myself, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
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1999 |
Making Love to the Earth (performance in a public space), banks of Jinjiang River, Chengdu, China Missing (performance in a public space), Chengdu and Wenjiang, China
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1998 |
Fossil (performance in a public space), Ming-dynasty fortifications, Chengdu, China Meditation (performance in a public space), Section 2, First Ring Road (West), Chengdu, China Turning Stone to Gold (series of performances in public spaces), city center, Chengdu, China
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1997 |
I Am a Good Person (performance in a public space), city center, Chengdu, China A Frog in a Well (open exhibition), 152B Studio, Chengdu, China Leaving Traces (performance in a public space), unofficial burial ground near Shuangliu International Airport, Chengdu, China Borderline (open exhibition), 152B Studio, Chengdu, China Like Flowing Water (performance in a public space), Hongqi Supermarket Ximen Branch, Chengdu, China
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1996 |
Resurrection '96, Sichuan University (Eastern District), Chengdu, China
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1995 |
A Red Room, and the Landscape Outside of It (room-sized installation), No. 164, Section 2, First Ring Road (West), Chengdu, China
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1994 |
Chinese Landscape (room-sized installation), No. 164, Section 2, First Ring Road (West), Chengdu, China
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1993 |
Dai Guangyu—Exhibition of Paintings, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2017 |
Super Body: Performance Art and Its Documentary, Li Space, Beijing, China
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2016 |
Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, 1980s and 1990s, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China Beijing Live—International Performance Art Festival, Danish Cultural Centre, Beijing, China Deconstruction and Liberation of Ink, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China Critical Connections, China-Switzerland Art Exhibition, Museum art-st-urban and Abbey St Urban, St Urban, Lucerne, Switzerland Group exhibition, Swiss Embassy, Beijing, China Deconstruction and Liberation of Ink, Phoenix Art Palace, Wuxi, China
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2015
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On Literati and Humanistic Ink Paintings, Wanchai Gallery, Hong Kong, China Enough of Art, Fuck Art, Espace Cinko, Paris, France Ming Gathering / Force 12 Hurricane, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
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2014 |
Secret Signs—Contemporary Chinese Art in the Name of Writing, Deichtorhallen, Collection Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany Open, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China Ink and the Body, Ink Studio, Beijing, China OSTRALE’014—8th International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts (now OSTRALE Biennale of Contemporary Art), Ostragehege, Dresden, Germany Reshaping Shuimo: New History, Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing, China
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2013 |
Forms of the Formless: Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin; Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China A New Spirit in Ink–Contemporary Space Ink 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Insightful Charisma, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China Voice of the Unseen, Collateral Event of the55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Sensor Ship 0.46% Dai Guangyu, Gao Brothers, Zhang Dali, Ifa Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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2012 |
My Country, Ifa Gallery, Shanghai, China Paper, Art and Dao, Yidian Art Center, Shanghai, China The Way of Writing, Zendai Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai, China Undoing Shuimo, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Disenchantment of Chinese Imagination, Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
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2011 |
Shanshui–Poetry without Words? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland Right Eye–Left Leg, Ifa Gallery, Shanghai, China The Hell–The Heaven–On the Way–In Between, Ifa Gallery, Shanghai, China
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2009 |
Passages: Video Art from the People's Republic, Gallery OED, Kochi, India Chinese Masters of Ink, Grand Chamber of the Royal Castle Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Ink Storm, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, U.S.A. In the 1980s—Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China OPEN International Performance Arts Festival 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Realization Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China 13 No KAOs, Duffy Gallery, Kunming, China Ink–Not–Ink, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Drexel University, Phoenix, U.S.A
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2008 |
Oriental Imagination—The 3rd Asian International Art Exhibition, Wall Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada China Under Construction II (part of Fotofest2008), Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, U.S.A. Interval of Silence—Contemporary Art from China, Red Star Gallery,Beijing, China
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2007 |
China Under Construction I (part of Art Houston), Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, U.S.A. Made in China (live performance art event), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Echoes: Chengdu New Visual Art Documentary Exhibition 1989-2007, 1000 Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China The 3rd China-Japan Performance Art Exchange Project 2007, Beijing, Chengdu, Xi’an, China
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2006 |
Misalignments: Chinese Performance & Video Art Documents, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley Red Star, Red Star, Red Star, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China
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2005 |
Artists in Action—Performance Art Project, Hong Kong, China Inward Gazes—Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macau, China In Honor of ‘85, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China Making Relations??!!!, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Transborder Language: Performance Art / Language Art—Second Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China China Live: Reflections on Contemporary Performance Art, Arnolfini, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Chapter Arts Centre, Chinese Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre, Warwick Arts Centre, Greenroom, BALTIC, Victoria and Albert Museum, U.K. Rain Art Salon, Rain Gallery, Beijing, China
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2004 |
Performance Art in 798, Thinking Hands, Beijing, China Double Happiness Festival, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China Transborder Language 2004: Volume Control—First Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing, China
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2003 |
NIPAF: Asia Central Europe, Performance Art Meeting 2003, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland Chinese Ink in Contemporary Art, National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Live International Performance Art, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China China-Japan Performance Art Exchange Project 2003, Chengdu, Xi’an, Chongqing, China Interlocking Floors: Know White–Preserve Black, Chengdu Sports Center, Chengdu, China
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2002 |
Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China First Chinese Art Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Friday—Concerning Sound—Performance & Poetry Exchange, Chengdu Eastern Centre, Chengdu, China Daydream, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China Mushroom Cloud or Utopia, Old Suzhou River Warehouse, Shanghai, China Mask Vs Face, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
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2001 |
Physical Resources and Objects, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China The First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
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2000 |
Think of Danger in Times of Safety (art action), Guihu Lake Park, Xindu, China Chinese Glamours—Conceptual Images, East Link Gallery, Shanghai, China People and Animals (performance art exhibition), Chengdu, China
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1999 |
Chinese Artists in the World—Installation and Documentary,Artist Commune,Hong Kong,China Interactive Time: Chinese Painting Exhibition, Chongqing Department Store, Chongqing, China Idea, Concept, East China Normal University, 666 Zhizaoju Lu, Shanghai, China Unusual Ways of Writing, Art Museum of Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China Basement Manuscript, Aozhen Gardens Underground Carpark, Chengdu, China Gate of the Century: 1979-1999, Chengdu Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
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1998 |
Preserving Memory, Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, China
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1997 |
In the Wild (multi-city simultaneous performance project), Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, China
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1996
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Keepers of the Waters—Outdoor Art Performances, Lhasa, China
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1995
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Keepers of the Waters—Outdoor Art Performances, Chengdu, China Jiangsu Huakan 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
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1993
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Inside-Out: New Chinese Art, Toronto, Canada Dream of China: Exhibition of Paintings, City Hall, Hong Kong, China
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1992 |
First Biennale of Chinese Art in the 90's, Central Hotel, Guangzhou, China
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1991 |
Dai Guangyu, Wang Falin, Li Jixiang Exhibition of Paintings, Chengdu Art Salon, Chengdu, China
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1990 |
000'90 Exhibition of Modern Art, Chengdu Art Salon, Chengdu, China
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1989 |
China Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
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1988
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1988 Southwest Art Exhibition, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China Itinerary Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art, Bonn, Bremen, and Frankfurt, Germany
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1986 |
Red, Yellow, Blue: Young Artists of Sichuan, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
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CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES |
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2008 |
Interval of Silence—Contemporary Art from China, Red Star Gallery,Beijing, China
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2004 |
Transborder Language 2004: Volume Control—First Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing, China
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2003 |
China-Japan Performance Art Exchange Project 2003, Chengdu, Xi’an, Chongqing, China Interlocking Floors: Know White–Preserve Black, Chengdu Sports Center, Chengdu, China
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2002 |
Performance Art Hebdomadal Exhibition Series, Triune Bookshop, Chengdu, China Friday—Concerning Sound—Performance & Poetry Exchange, Chengdu Eastern Centre, Chengdu, China
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2001 |
Parabola, Maoyuan, Chengdu, China Holding the White Piece, Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu, China
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2000 |
Think of Danger in Times of Safety (art action), Guihu Lake Park, Xindu, China Explaining Water–Keepers of the Waters–Fourth Art Action, along Minjiang River from Dujiangyan to Chengdu, China
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1999 |
Basement Manuscript, Aozhen Gardens Underground Carpark, Chengdu, China
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1998 |
Preserving Memory, Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, China Ming-dynasty Fortifications Live Exhibition Series and Academic Exposition for the Protection of Cultural Relics, Chengdu, China
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1997 |
Man in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, site of the former Chengdu Lacquer Factory, Chengdu, China Resources—Life: Keepers of the Waters—Third Art Action, Dujiangyan, China 719 Artist Studio Alliance, teahouse of Chengdu Municipal Library, Chengdu, China 152B Open Studio Exhibition, Chengdu, China
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1995 |
Keepers of the Waters—Outdoor Art Performances, Chengdu, China Slideshow Symposium of Chineseand American Artists and Scientists, Garment Factory of the Chengdu Military Zone, Chengdu, China
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1991 |
Dai Guangyu, Wang Falin, Li Jixiang Exhibition of Paintings, Chengdu Art Salon, Chengdu, China
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1990 |
000'90 Exhibition of Modern Art, Chengdu Art Salon, Chengdu, China
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1986 |
Red, Yellow, Blue: Young Artists of Sichuan, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
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Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Art Alliance, Zurich, Switzerland Joan Lebold Cohen Collection, New York, U.S.A. Uli Sigg Collection, Zurich, Switzerland |
Last Updated: October 2017