XU BING
Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China in 1955, and grown up in Beijing. In 1977 he entered the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) where completed his bachelor’s degree in 1981 and stayed on as an instructor. In 1990, he moved to the United States. Xu returned to China in 2007 and has served as the Vice President as well as professor of CAFA. His work have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the British Museum (London), the Louvre Museum (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Museum of Art and Design (New York), etc. In 1999, Xu Bing was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2003, Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and in 2004 he won the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. The Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in 2006. “Art in America” listed Xu Bing, along with 15 others, in their annual Year in Review. For recent years, Xu Bing has permeated his work to the areas beyond art, taking art as a method and applying it in public welfare which he pays close attention to.
藝術(shù)家徐冰
徐冰 1955年生于重慶，長在北京。1977年入中央美術(shù)學(xué)院版畫系，1981年畢業(yè)留校任教。1990年移居美國。2007年回國就任中央美術(shù)學(xué)院副院長、教授。作品曾在紐約大都會博物館、倫敦大英博物館、法國盧浮宮博物館、紐約現(xiàn)代美術(shù)館、紐約藝術(shù)與設(shè)計博物館等藝術(shù)機構(gòu)展出。1999年獲美國文化界最高獎——麥克阿瑟天才獎。2003年獲第十四屆日本福岡亞洲文化貢獻獎。2004年獲首屆英國威爾士國際視覺藝術(shù)獎（ArtesMundi）。2006年獲全美版畫家協(xié)會“版畫藝術(shù)終身成就獎”。被《美國藝術(shù)》雜志評為15名國際藝術(shù)界年度最受注目人物。徐冰近年作品將藝術(shù)滲透到藝術(shù)之外的領(lǐng)域，并將藝術(shù)作為一種手段運用到他所關(guān)注的公益事業(yè)中。