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Xu Bing is a contemporary artist who creates installations, printmaking and calligraphy works that explore language, meaning and culture. He is known for his inventive and experimental use of Chinese characters, such as in A Book from the Sky and Ghosts Pounding the Wall.
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Xu Bing is a renowned printmaker and calligrapher who was born in Chongqing and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He has exhibited his works in major museums and biennales around the world and received several prestigious awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Fukuoka Asian Cultural Award.
Xu Bing is a MacArthur Fellow and a pioneer of printmaking and calligraphy. Learn about his biography, artworks, exhibitions, and auction prices on Artnet.
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Xu Bing works confront how meaning is generated and consumed through language, to consider message, and its dissemination.
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- Chongqing, China
Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰; pinyin: Xú Bīng; born 1955) is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world.
XU BING - ABOUT - GROUP. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS. 2024. Inside & outside of a book, Fang suo, Beijing, China. The 3rd Guardian Art Book Fair, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China. Illusive Masks, SeeWell International Art Center, Fuzhou, China. Thirty years of Contemporary Art in China and Singapore, Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China.
