Artists / Feng Mengbo
Feng Mengbo


1966 Born in Beijing
1985 Graduated form the Design Department of Beijing School of Arts & Crafts
1991 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

Feng is one of the country's best-known media artists, his work combines his experiences as a child of the Cultural Revolution with contemporary Western technology and the visual language of video games.Feng began using computers and video game concepts to create new forms of art. After more than a decade-long romance with the computer, he became a painter again late in 2005.


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2003 Q4U 2003: The Two-dimensional Works, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Past Virtualized - Future Cloned: Feng Mengbo 1994-2003, MOCA Museum, Taipei
2002 Q4U, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
2001 Feng Mengbo: Phantom Tales, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
Paintings by Feng Mengbo, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1998 Feng Mengbo, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA
Feng Mengbo: Video Games, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, USA
1994 Game Over, Long March, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Red, Smooth and Luminescent- Contemporary Expresion, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Beijing- Athens, Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the city of Athens, Greece
3.15- Let's consume!, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Shanghart at CIGE, Two Solo Shows-Booth # A8, Art Fair China World Trade Centre Exhibition Hall, Beijing
2007 China Welcomes You-Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2005 Zooming into Focus (NAMOC)-Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, National Art Museum Of China, Beijing
The Wall-Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, UB Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery and Albrigh-Knox Art Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, USA; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
2004 5th Shanghai Biennale-Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP and the Asia Society, NY, USA (traveling, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA; V&A, London, UK; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany)
Zooming into Focus (SAM)-Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Zooming into Focus (Singapore)-Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
Zooming into Focus (Tijuana)-Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection , Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
2003 MARS: KUNST UND KRIEG, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Cyber Asia - media art in near future, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Lab3D, Cornerhouse, Manchester/The Media Centre, Huddersfield, UK
Zooming into Focus (San Diego)-Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, University Gallery of San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
2002 The First Guangzhou Trienniale-Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990subtle2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Q3, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
Documenta 11, Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Paris-Pekin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France 
2001 Tirana Biennale 1, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania
Next Generation Art Contemporain d'Asie, Passage de Retz, France
Polypolis-Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Hamburger Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
Living in Time-29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
2000 Zeitwenden, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Germany 
A Sparkling City: 2000 Taipei County Art and Technology Exhibition, Taipei
1999 The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 1999, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Asia Pacific Art Triennale/MAAP99, Brisbane, Australia
Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn
1998 ISEA98 (the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Art): Revolution98, Liverpool, UK
Shoot At The Chaos, SPIRAL/Wocal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
1997 2nd Kwangju Biennial, Korea
Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg,South Africa
The Rest of the World, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Another Long March-Chinese Conceptual Art in the nineties, Chasse Kazerne, Fundament Foundation, Breda, The Netherlands
In Between Limits - An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiungju, Korea
1996 Pop Art China - Pop Art America, Galerie Wild, Frankfurt, Germany
Remote Connections, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Remote Connections,  Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turko, Finland
Remote Connections, ArtFocus - Jerusalem Foundation, Israel
Remote Connections, Nikolaj -, Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Reckoning with the Past-Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
1995 Visions of Happiness - Ten Asian Contemporary Artists, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Configure 2, Dialog Der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany
1st Kwangju Biennial, Korea
Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie/Neue Kunst Aus China, KulturBehorde, Hamburg, Germany
Out of the Middle Kingdom:-Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Santa Monica Arts Centre, Barcelona, Spain
Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
1994 New Art from China, Marlborough Fine Arts, London, UK
1993 45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale-Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney & Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre and City Hall, Hong Kong
   
   

 

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