Miao Xiaochun

Miao Xiaochun was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In 1986 he received his bachelor's degree and graduated from Nanjing University. In 1989 Miao graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China and from Kassel Academy of Fine Arts in Germany in 1999 for two master's degrees. Until now he is teaching Art Photography and Digital Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is best known for his large scale photographs, often assembled panoramas, of modern Chinese cityscapes. His signature element is the presence of "He", a figure in ancient Chinese scholar costume. Other works include computer graphics installations such as The Last Judgement in Cyberspace, a 3D monochrome reworking of Michelangelo's The Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel replacing every figure with a virtual model of Miao himself. Miao Xiaochun is considered one of the most representative and influential artists In the domain of China’s new media art. He started in 90s his creative explorations on the interface between the real and the virtual. His extensive body of work includes photography, painting and 3D computer animation which are parallel to each other. He works in contemporary photography based on the “multiple view point” perspective to pioneer connections between history and the modern world. Miao Xiaochun successfully uses 3D technology to create upon a 2D image a virtual 3D scene, to transform a still canvas into moving images, concurrently changing the traditional way of viewing paintings and giving a completely new interpretation and significance to a masterpiece of art, especially with the striking use of his idiosyncratic imagination about history and the future. His works add an important example to contemporary negotiations with art history, and open up new potential for art as he experiments with new possibilities, taking a step forward into new potential spheres. His photographic and 3D animation works such as The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, H2O, Microcosm, Restart and Disillusion as well as his digital ink painting series "Beijing Handscroll"are worldwide exhibited. 2011 Out of Body, White Box Museum of Art, 798 Beijing; Beijing Handscrolls, Guardini Foundation, Berlin, Germany; MIAO XIAOCHUN, Galeria Arsenał w Białymstoku, Poland 2010 Macromania, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany; Miao Xiaochun—Two Big Video Works, Today Art Museum, Beijing; Recent Works by Miao Xiaochun, Arario Gallery, Seoul 2009 Index, White Space Beijing and Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin|Beijing, Beijing; Microcosm, Arario Gallery, Beijing-New York 2008 The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO, USA 2007 The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia; H2O—A Study of Art History, Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Hong Kong 2006 Urban Landscape, John Hope Franklin Centre of Duke University, USA; A Birdview, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China; The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Walsh Gallery, Chicago 2004 Phantasmagoria—Photographs by Miao Xiaochun, Walsh Gallery, Chicago 2002 Linger, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland 2001 From East to West and Back to East, Museum of CAFA, Beijing, China 1999 Kulturbegegnungen, Galerie Stellwerk, Kassel 1994 Miao Xiaochun, Beijing Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum 1992 Miao Xiaochun, National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing 1991 Miao Xiaochun: Recents Works, Beijing Art Museum 1988 Miao Xiaochun’s Paintings, Gallery of CAFA, Beijing

2013 55th Venice Biennale, The Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy Move on Asia-Video Art 2002 to 2012, ZKM, Karlshure, Germany Nothing to declare? – World Maps of Art since 89, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Germany 2012 The World of Soul: As Virtual Artistic Engineering, First Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, B10 Art Center, Shenzhen The 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art- Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s, Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Conceptual Renewal – Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing Chinese Contemporary Public Art, Kassel, Germany The Unseen, Main Exhibition of The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey Architecture China-The 100 Contemporary Projects, Reiss-EngelhornMuseen(REM), Mannheim, Germany Go figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery and The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra and Sydney, Australia Height, The First Xinjiang Contemporary Art Biennale, Ürümqi International Exhibition Center Whatever You Want—New Media Show, Kara Kitchen, Beijing, China ARSENALE 2012, The 1st Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine Photo España—Image Anxiety, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Beijing Index, Digital Art Museum, Art Beijing 2012 2011 The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989(Art Worlds after 1989), ZKM, Germany The 54th Venice Biennale—Future Pass, Venice, Italy Limitless, Arario Gallery, Beijing New Horizon—Contemporary Chinese Art, The National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia Meta-Question Back to The Museum Per Se, Inauguration Exhibition of The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art—Moving image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Spectrum, Chinese Independent Animation, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China Verso Est. Chinese Architectural Landscapes, MAXXI, Rome, Italy Representation of Realistic Art—The 5th Chengdu Biennale 2011, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China Move on Asia - The End of Video Art, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain New Age, New Media, exhibition tour in Ten Cities of China and Australia “Dual senses" and "Dynamic views”— Contemporary Art Exhibition across the Taiwan Straits of 2011, NAMOC, Beijing; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts(TMOA) A Decade of the Rabbit, White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia Magic Spaces, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 A Fresh Look at Chinese Landscapes, Galerie Moderne Chinesische Malerei des Museums für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany Mediators, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Negotiations—The Second Today's Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Made in Korea, China and Japan(Made in Pop Land), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Reshaping History—Chinart from 2000-2009, National Conference Center, Beijing, China DIGIFESTA—Speed of Earth ‘2010 km/second, see’, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea 2009 Beijing Time, Casa Asia, Matadero Madrid; Santiago Art Museum, Spain Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un/real, MoCa Shanghai, China Open Vision—Chinese Contemporary Art, Czech National Gallery, Prague Next Nature, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Vistas | Vision of U-City, Incheon International Digital Art Festival, Incheon, Korea Nature | Nation, Museum on the Seam | Social-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Dream Machine, The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Spectacle—to Each His Own, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei 2008 Images in the night, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan MoMA, Korea Up: Chinese Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum Mediations, Poznan Biennale, Poland China: Construction—Deconstruction, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil Go China—New World Order, Present day Installation Art and Photography, Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands Re-Imagining Asia, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK China Design Now, 2008-2010, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA China Gold, Museum Maillol, Paris, France Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008—International Media Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 55 Days in Valencia, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Spain 2007 China—Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria; National Art Museum of China, Beijing China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands Energy: Spirit • Body • Material—1st Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA Floating—New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany New Directions from China: China New Media Art, Plug.in, Basel, Switzerland Contemporary Photography from China. 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China!, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2006 Media City Seoul 2006, The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, the Philippines China now—Art at a time of transformation, Essl Museum, Austria Totalstadt: Beijing case, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany New Urban Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2005 Scapes: The Century and Paradise, 2nd Chengdu Biennale, China Mahjong—Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, 2005-2009, Art Museum Bern, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria;UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive(BAM & PFA), Berkeley, California, USA; The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA Re-Viewing the City, Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China 2004 Between Past and Future—New Photography and Video from China, 2004-2006, International Center of Photography and Asia Society, New York, USA; Smart Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Spellbound Aura—The new vision of Chinese Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei 2003 Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland Encounter, Museum of CAFA, Beijing; Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China Left hand, right handA Sino German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Art Space, Beijing, China 2002 Urban Creation, The 4th Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Media City Seoul 2002, The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea China—Tradition and Modern, Ludwig Museum, Oberhausen, Germany Golden Harvest—Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 1991 The First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings, The National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. The register further records that miao Xiaochun is recorded with the occupation photographer. Institutional cataloguing adds that miao Xiaochun is recorded with the occupation painter. The same evidence establishes that miao Xiaochun is recorded as a citizen of People's Republic of China. Recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that miao Xiaochun was born on 1 January 1964.