EDUCATION
1989 Born in Beijing, China
2011 BFA Photography and Imaging, Art Center College of Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Towards Evenings, My Heart, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
2020 A Slow Remembering of A Long Forgetting, BANK, Shanghai, China
2020 Towards Evenings: 891 Dusks, an Encyclopedia of Psychological Experiences, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2018 The Only Question is How to Endure, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
2017 Flown Away Is the Gold of Days, BANK, Shanghai, China
2011 Bees, Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Stepping Out! – Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art, Salzburg Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2022
Stepping Out! – Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art, Gamle Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Being Theoria: the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Pure Reason, Hangzhou Museum, Hangzhou, China
Stepping Out! – Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Persona and Parasite, White Space, Beijing, China
ON|OFF: Carousel of Progress, He Art Museum, Shunde, China
2021
The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Parallel Universes: Parafacts and Parafictions, Design Republic, Shanghai, China
Space Oddity, UCCA Dune, Aranya, China
2020
As Time Goes By, Surging Wave Pavilion, Suzhou, China
China Imagined, Grote Kerk, Breda, Netherlands
Gold Flow, Chao Art Center, Beijing, China
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Participation Mystique, McaM, Shanghai, China
2019
Peer to Peer, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
The Dark and Bright Room of CAMERAer, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Long Day, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
Peer to Peer, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, OCAT Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen, China
Foam Talent 2019, Deutsche Börse AG, Eschborn, Germany
Hot Blood, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Psyche and Politics, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2018
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
I Know Something About Love: Asian Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Insights: The Same But Also Changed, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen, China
Crush, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
on paper 2, White Space, Beijing, China
Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the TSPA, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Frieze New York, New York, US
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Prix YISHU 8 China: 2018 Finalists' Exhibition, YISHU 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, China
2017
Guangzhou Photo Triennial: Simultaneous Eidos, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Indoors Universe: the 5th Huayu Youth Award, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China
Anren Biennale: Today’s Yesterday, Chengdu, China
Zhongguo 2185, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Without Leaving Any Traces, MOCUBE, Beijing, China
The Modern Look, Modern Media Base, Shanghai, China
Anyball, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016
Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain: Eight Emerging Artists, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Profound Silence, Jimei Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
The 11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist, ASIA NOW, Paris, France
Insights: New Approaches to Photography Since 2000, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Snacks, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Scripts of the Bodies, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
Xitek New Talent Award Exhibition, Artemis Space, Shanghai, China
Linguistic Pavilion, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015
Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
LEAP Pavilion: Coming Image, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Three Shadows Collection, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
2014
Staging Encounters: Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China, Lianzhou Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Close, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
Through the Body: Lens-based Works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2013
From New Photography to Rookie Award: Three Shadows Collection, Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing, China
ON|OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2012
Flash Forward 2012 Emerging Photographers, Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
Sui Generis: Chinese Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Photo, Tokyo, Japan
CAFAM Future: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Why Don't You Love Me Anymore?, stageBACK Art Space, Shanghai, China
The Inge Morath Award Exhibition, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
2011
Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
Bees, Luoca Gallery, Xiamen, China
Ian Parry Scholarship Exhibition, Getty Images Gallery, London, UK
One Man’s Theater, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
WON’T: Contemporary Woman Artists in China, J Gallery, Shanghai, China
Myriad Visions: Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2010
Is the World Real?, Lianzhou Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2018 Foam Talent
Prix Yishu 8 Award (finalist)
2017 The 5th Huayu Youth Award (finalist)
2016 Best Photobooks, Fotobookfestival Kassel
SIGMA Art Fund
Xitek New Talent Award
2012 Flash Forward Emerging Photographer (U.S.)
Prix Pictet (nominated)
Foam Paul Huf Award (nominated)
2011 Inge Morath Award, Magnum Foundation
Three Shadows Photography Award
Photographer of the Year, Lianzhou Photography Festival
COLLECTION
Sammlung Zimmermann, Cologne, Germany
Wemhöner Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
M+ Museum, Hongkong, China
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Taikang Collection, Beijing, China
Light Society, Beijing, China
A4 Museum, Chengdu, China
FILM FEATURING
2017 Laboratory for Chinese Contemporary Photography
produced by and screened at Mori Art Museum, Japan
2014 Asia Insight: China Through the Lens of Youth
produced by and aired on NHK WORLD & NHK BS1, Japan
2013 La Chine dans L'objectif (Chinese Viewfinders), a film by Emma Tassy, produced by Artline Films, France, aired on ARTE & Taiwan Public TV
2013 ON|OFF: Young Artists in China, a film by Xie Meng
produced by and screened at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China
LECTURE & PRESENTATION
2020
Chen Zhe in Conversation with Nasrin Himada, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2018
APT9: Artist Conversation, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
I Know Something About Love, Daikanyama Photo Fair, Tokyo, Japan
Photography as Contemporary Art: From Practice to Collection, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Histories of Writing: On the State of Contemporary Writing, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Reshaping the Ecology of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
The Amity of Dusk, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
2017
Imaging as A Method of Art-making, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Exhibition as Literary Form, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2016
Journey in a Study, Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Polyphonic Seeing: On Combinations of Photography and Text, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Visible and the Articulable, Ray Art Center, Shanghai, China
Another Way of Telling: Photography and Writing in Artist Books, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Linguistic Practices in Visual Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015
Exile of Semantics: The Parrallel Connection of Image and Text, Kurbrick Bookstore, Beijing, China
2013
Photographic Cultures, RockBund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Photography as Means/Medium, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China