1971 Born in Hotan, Xinjiang Province
2003-04 Studied at the École National des Beaux-Arts de Dijon in France
2004 BA in Mixed Media Arts and Painting, China Academy of Art
2010 MA in Mixed Media Arts, China Academy of Art
Shao is currently a professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He has exhibited widely in China and abroad, including recent exhibitions at the Mingyuan Museum, Shanghai; the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou; Beijing Photography Biennial, Beijing; the First Biennale China-Italia of Contemporary Art, Milan; the Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan; the Lucerne Art Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland, among others. His works are part of many private and public collections around the world, including the Uli Sigg collection.
Selected Exhibitions：
2017 “The Unusual West Lake” The First Art Scene of West Lake Photo Exhibition, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou
2016 “Insight”, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai, Shanghai
“Another Landscape”, Yang Art Museum, Beijing
“Re-enchantments”, DAK’ART 2016, Dakar
“Chinese Whispers”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
2015 “JIMEI·ARLES 2015”, International Photo Festival, Xiamen
“Chinese Pictures” Unfamiliar Asia: The 2nd Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing
China 8 – Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2014 New Photography in China since 2009, Wuhuan Art Museum, Wuhan, Hubei
“In the Name of Experience” Academic Invitational Exhibition for Photography, China
Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou
“Acting among…” Exhibition for Contemporary Artists from Hangzhou and Shanghai,
Duoyun Gallery, Shanghai
2013 Farewell to Experience, Lainzhou Foto 2013, Lianzhou, Guangdong
Awakening Ink, Sansan Gallery, Hangzhou
The First Beijing Photo Biennale, Beijing
Top 20.2013: Chinese Cutting Edge Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Zhejiang
“This…” exhibition, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
Artistic Practice I: Problems and Standpoints, Zhong Gellery, Berlin
Pure Views: Transformacions de l’Art Xinès Contemporàni Exposició, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
Not Same, Not Different – Experimental Exhibition of Young Artists, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou
I Don’t Know – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sansan Gallery, Hangzhou
2012 “Naturamente”, 1° Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea Italia – Cina: due culture millenarie a confronto, Villa Reale di Monza, Milano
Rain Mask of Maison, Form of Loading, Zhejiang Art Museum
2011 “Nostalgia and Encounter” Contemporary Itinerant Art Exhibition, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing
Suture of Memory, Special Invitation Biennial, Chengdu
Creating Mountain and Water, Town Biennial, Gaomi
2010 Mystical Garden, Time Machine, Beijing
Open Frame – New Landscape Exhibition, YAVUZ Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
“Indefinite…”, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
“The Youth Upstair” Nominated Exhibition for Young Artist 2010, Time Museum, Beijing
Experiencing Syntheses, Jiaxing Museum, Jiaxing, Zhejiang
Edge-Rebuilding Leifeng Tower, Shengzhi Art Centre, Beijing
Transposing-Dialogue with Holland Artist Hans Wilschut, Donglang Art Gallery, Shanghai
2009 Edge-Rebuilding, Shengzhi Art Center, Beijing
2008 Translocalmotion, 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
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