徐冰 Xu Bing

1955生于重庆，1981年毕业中央美术学院并留校任教，1990年移居美国纽约，现工作、生活于北京和纽约。1999年获得美国麦克阿瑟“天才奖”。2015年被美国国务院授予“AIE艺术勋章”。作品展出于美国大都会博物馆、纽约现代美术馆、古根海姆美术馆、大英博物馆等艺术机构，并被广泛收藏。

Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China, in 1955. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (CAFA) in 1981 and became a teacher. He moved to the United States in 1990. He currently lives and works in Beijing and New York. In 1999, Xu Bing was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his “capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.” In 2015, he was awarded the 2014 Department of State-Medal of Arts for his efforts to promote cultural understanding through his artworks. Xu Bing’s work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the British Museum, London, etc. and has been collected by many leading international art institutions.