Artist

Xu Bing

Portrait of Xu Bing

Chinese, b. 1955

Xu Bing is a Chinese artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Xu Bing was born in Chongqing.

Xu Bing 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. He is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program in 1999 and the Fukuoka Prize in 2003.

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.