徐冰祖籍是浙江省温岭市,1955年出生于重庆。他于1977年进入北京的中央美术学院版画系学习,1981年获学士学位,后留校担任辅导员,于1987年获硕士文凭。1990年应威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的邀请,他移居美国。徐冰现任中央美术学院副院长。他的个展曾在诸多重要机构举办,如华盛顿的Arthur M. Sackler画廊,纽约的新当代艺术博物馆,西班牙的米罗基金会,布拉格国家美术馆和堪萨斯州的斯宾塞美术馆等。另外,他也曾经参展于多个国际性展览,如第45届与第51届威尼斯双年展,悉尼双年展和约翰内斯堡双年展等。
数年间,徐冰的作品陆续出现在世界众多高校与学院的教科书中,如Abram的《过去的艺术,现在的艺术》,加德纳的《世界艺术史》,Greg Clunas在《牛津艺术史》系列中的一卷“中国艺术”,Jane Farver的《全球的观念主义化:观点的起源 1950s-1980s》(皇后美术馆出版社)以及《对话中的艺术世界》(路德维格美术馆出版社)等。在2006年,普林斯顿大学出版社发行了著作《持续/转型:徐冰艺术中作为图像的字》,是对徐冰的力作《天书》的跨界研究。纽约哥伦比亚大学的中国艺术系主任Robert Harrist教授于2008年开始设立研究生课程“徐冰的艺术”。
徐冰于1999年获得麦克·阿瑟奖项,以表彰他“对社会的重要贡献,尤其在版画与书法领域”。后于2003年被授予福冈亚洲文化大奖,2004年获得首个威尔斯国际视觉艺术奖。南部图像委员会于2006年授予徐冰终身成就奖,以表彰他“在文字,语言和书本的运用对版画与艺术世界之间的对话产生了前所未有的影响力”。艺术权威杂志《Art in America》将徐冰及其它15位艺术家列入他们的年度评选单元。在2010年,徐冰被哥伦比亚大学授予人文学荣誉博士学位。
Xu Bing finds his family roots in Wenling of Zhejiang province. He was born in Chongqing, China in 1955. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) where completed his bachelor’s degree in 1981 and stayed on as an instructor, earning his MFA in 1987. In 1990, on the invitation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States. Xu currently serves as the Vice President of CAFA. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Joan Miro Foundation, Spain; National Gallery of Prague and the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, amongst other major institutions. Additionally, Xu Bing has shown at the 45th and 51st Venice Biennales; the Biennale of Sydney and the Johannesburg Biennale amongst other international exhibitions.
Over the years, Xu Bing’s work has appeared in high-school and college textbooks around the world including Abram’s “Art Past – Art Present,” Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages” and Greg Clunas’s “Chinese Art” a volume in the “Oxford History of Art” series, Jane Farver’s Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s – 1980s (Queens Museum of Art Press) and Art Worlds in Dialogue (Museum Ludwig Press). In 2006, the Princeton University Press published “Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing” a multidisciplinary study of Xu Bing’s landmark work “Book from the Sky.” In 2008, Professor Robert Harrist, Chair of Chinese Art at Columbia University, New York, began teaching a graduate seminar entitled “The Art of Xu Bing.”
In 1999, Xu Bing was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his “capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” In 2003 Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and in 2004 he won the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. In 2006, the Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in recognition of the fact that his, “use of text, language and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways.” “Art in America” listed Xu Bing, along with 15 others, in their annual Year in Review. Xu Bing was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters by Columbia University in 2010.
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数年间,徐冰的作品陆续出现在世界众多高校与学院的教科书中,如Abram的《过去的艺术,现在的艺术》,加德纳的《世界艺术史》,Greg Clunas在《牛津艺术史》系列中的一卷“中国艺术”,Jane Farver的《全球的观念主义化:观点的起源 1950s-1980s》(皇后美术馆出版社)以及《对话中的艺术世界》(路德维格美术馆出版社)等。在2006年,普林斯顿大学出版社发行了著作《持续/转型:徐冰艺术中作为图像的字》,是对徐冰的力作《天书》的跨界研究。纽约哥伦比亚大学的中国艺术系主任Robert Harrist教授于2008年开始设立研究生课程“徐冰的艺术”。
徐冰于1999年获得麦克·阿瑟奖项,以表彰他“对社会的重要贡献,尤其在版画与书法领域”。后于2003年被授予福冈亚洲文化大奖,2004年获得首个威尔斯国际视觉艺术奖。南部图像委员会于2006年授予徐冰终身成就奖,以表彰他“在文字,语言和书本的运用对版画与艺术世界之间的对话产生了前所未有的影响力”。艺术权威杂志《Art in America》将徐冰及其它15位艺术家列入他们的年度评选单元。在2010年,徐冰被哥伦比亚大学授予人文学荣誉博士学位。
Xu Bing finds his family roots in Wenling of Zhejiang province. He was born in Chongqing, China in 1955. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) where completed his bachelor’s degree in 1981 and stayed on as an instructor, earning his MFA in 1987. In 1990, on the invitation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he moved to the United States. Xu currently serves as the Vice President of CAFA. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Joan Miro Foundation, Spain; National Gallery of Prague and the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, amongst other major institutions. Additionally, Xu Bing has shown at the 45th and 51st Venice Biennales; the Biennale of Sydney and the Johannesburg Biennale amongst other international exhibitions.
Over the years, Xu Bing’s work has appeared in high-school and college textbooks around the world including Abram’s “Art Past – Art Present,” Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages” and Greg Clunas’s “Chinese Art” a volume in the “Oxford History of Art” series, Jane Farver’s Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s – 1980s (Queens Museum of Art Press) and Art Worlds in Dialogue (Museum Ludwig Press). In 2006, the Princeton University Press published “Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing” a multidisciplinary study of Xu Bing’s landmark work “Book from the Sky.” In 2008, Professor Robert Harrist, Chair of Chinese Art at Columbia University, New York, began teaching a graduate seminar entitled “The Art of Xu Bing.”
In 1999, Xu Bing was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his “capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” In 2003 Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and in 2004 he won the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. In 2006, the Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in recognition of the fact that his, “use of text, language and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways.” “Art in America” listed Xu Bing, along with 15 others, in their annual Year in Review. Xu Bing was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters by Columbia University in 2010.
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