Professor of School of Arts at Renmin University of China, Former Dean
Member of Executive Committee, China Oil Painting Association
Member of Oil Painting Art Committee, Chinese Artists’ Association
Education
1987 Master of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
1981 Bachelor degree, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts
Lecture
2010 “Road for China’s Contemporary Art Market”, Art Panel of “PRC after Sixty: Growth and Prospects”, Harvard China Review’s Thirteenth Annual Conference, Harvard University, the USA
Solo Exhibition
2014 “Chinese Portraits”, Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Scheduled
2012 “Seven Miners” –Center in Beijing, University of Chicago
2011 “Renminbi: Faces of China and Currency of Images” – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
2010 “Figures – Xu Weixin Artwork Exhibition”, Wuhan Art Museum, Hubei, China
2008 “Portraits of Emptiness – Xu Weixin’s Narrative of Post-Maoist China”, ChinaSquare, New York
2007 “Chinese Historical Figures: 1966-1976”, Today Art Museum, Beijing
“Song of Workers - Xu Weixin Solo Exhibition“, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei
“Song of Workers - Xu Weixin Solo Exhibition”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Group Exhibition
2013 Art Basel Miami, 55Bellechasse
2009 Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland
The fifth Anniversary Exhibition of China Realism School, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
“China Narratives - Fourth Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu
2008 Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing
“Asia, Post Colonial, and Contemporary Arts - Fusing International Biennale 2008”, Lugang, Changhua County, Taiwan
2007 “The Dialogue of Images”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2006 “Modern Art in China”, Asian Gallery, Tokyo
“The Road to Realism: Exhibition of Paintings of 7 Artists”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
“Vigor of the Century: the 3rd Beijing Biennale”, Art Museum of the China Millennium Monument
“Grassroots Humanism: 21 Cases of Contemporary Art", Songzhuang Original Creation Art Center, Beijing
2005 “Along the River: 1976-2005 Oil Painting Retrospect Exhibition”
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
“City Skin- Research of Possibilities of Contemporary Urban Images”
Macau Tap Seac Gallery, Shenzhen Art Museum
“Contemporary Art with Humanistic Concerns – the 2nd Beijing International Art Biennale”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
“Contemporary Art in China”, National Gallery, Seoul
1999 The Ninth National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1994 The Eighth National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1987 The First China Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
1984 The Sixth National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Awards
2009 “Outstanding Achievement in Art”, Yale University
2008 “AAC The Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art, 2007”
2004 Silver Prize, “Work Shed”, the Tenth National Art Exhibition
Literary and Art Award of Beijing Municipal Government, “Work Shed”
1999 Bronze Prize, “The Acid Rain”, the Ninth National Art Exhibition
1987 Award of Distinction, “The Nang Bread Kitchen”, the First China Oil Painting Exhibition
Collection
Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Taitong County Art Museum, Taitong, Taiwan
Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong
Jiangsu Publishing Group, Jiangsu
Kissinger Foundation, USA
