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Solo Exhibitions

Welcome to Birdhead World Again - Shanghai 2016, Fab-Union Space on the West Bund, Shanghai

Birdhead-Art Unlimited Art Basel 2016, Booth Nr. U46, Basel, Switzerland

Birdhead Special Project: Landscape, ShanghART S-Space798 Art Zone, Beijing

Birdhead - Welcome to Birdhead world again Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2015Welcome to Birdhead World Again, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2014Birdhead Solo Exhibition, Yifeng Galleria (Bottega Veneta), Shanghai

2012Welcome to Bird Head World Again-Beijing 2012, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing

Welcome to the World of Bird Head Again-London, Paradise Row Gallery, London, U.K.

2011Birdhead: New Village, EX3 Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Firenze, Florence, Italy

Artist File 2011 The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2010Welcome to the World of Bird Head Again-2010, Guangzhou; Lianzhou

2009Birdhead: Ji Weiyu & Song Tao, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, U.K.

2008Landscape, Birdhead Solo Exhibition, ShanghART F-Space, Shanghai

2007Birdhead 2006+2007, Photography Show by SONG Tao and JI Weiyu, BizArt, Shanghai

2005Welcome to Bird Head World, Photography by Bird Head 2004-2005, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions(Selected)

Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones,Group Exhibition JAX District, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia (2021-2022)

City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium, UCCA edge, Shanghai (2021)

Shanghai Waves: Historical Archives and Works of Shanghai Biennale, PSA, Shanghai (2020)

The Avant-Garde is Not Afraid of a Long March,ShanghART Singapore 2019, Singapore

Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai

Mass Energy 1862 HBC Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shipyard 1862, Shanghai

40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017), The 10th Anniversary Special

When the Other Meets the Other Other, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Living Cities, Tate Modern, London, U.K.

The 6th Moscow Biennale, How to gather? Acting in a city in the heart of the island of Eurasia, Moscow, Russia

Shanghai Ever, MOCA, Shanghai

Jing Shen, The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC - Milan museum of contemporary art, Italy

2014Performance and Imaginations: Photography from China 1911-2014, Museum Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.

Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Exhibition of Finalist Artists, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai

Clutch, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Portrait of the Times, 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Revel, Celebrating MoCA's 8 Years in Shanghai, MoCA, Shanghai

ON|OFF, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing

New Photography 2012, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.

9th Shanghai Biennale, Reactivation, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Architectural Photography - Made in China, Guest Exhibition of the International Photography Scene in Koeln Museum of Applied Arts, MAKK, Cologne, Germany

2011The 54th Venice Biennale——ILLUMInations, Venice, Italy

2010Focus Shanghai, Lu Chunsheng and Birdhead, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

China Power Station: Part IV, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy

2009Emporium, A New Common Sense of Space, The National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da Vinci", Milano, Italy

Reversed Image, Representations of Shanghai and its Contemporary Material Culture, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.

Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

Up Close, Far Away, Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

2008Insomnia, Photographs Exhibition, BizART, Shanghai

China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

2005The 1st Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Double Vision, Culture Square Lianzhou, Lianzhou, Guangdong

Projects

2018Condo Shanghai 2018, ShanghART, Shanghai(Bldg 8, Westbund, Shanghai)

2017Artists Talk:When the other meets the other Other? What matters? What not?, The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2016BIRDHEAD: Southeast Asia Residency Program, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore

Welcome to Birdhead World Again, Gluck50 Residency Project, Gluck50, Milano

2013Art on the Way, Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Subway Stations, Shanghai

2012Xin Cun, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai

2011Prevent 2012 - Doomsday Party, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai

2009B.A.G Art Project, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai

2008Pre-order Birdhead 2006 Album, Shanghai

Collections

The Margulies Collection, Miami, U.S.A

Wemhöner Collection, Germany

Tate, London, U.K.

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway

MOMA New York, New York, U.S.A

Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland