Exhibition
Wei Jia, Sun Xun, Yu Hang, Hou Yijie Tree of Fire
2023.12.22-2024.01.27
2023.12.22-2024.01.27
Biography
Sun Xun was born in Fuxin, Liaoning Province in 1980. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China, and founded the π Animation Studio in Hangzhou, China.
The works of Sun Xun are mainly drawing and/or short animation. Sun Xun’s personal visual language consist of metaphoric imagery, dark and intense hand drawing, and dreamy narrative. In recent years, Sun Xun uses New Media Art as a point of origin to explore more possibilities within the expansive realm of visual art: he explores narrative methods using diverse mediums such as newspaper, book, woodcut print, Chinese ink, pigment powder, probe into non-linear expressions of time and space, and inquire into both realistic and fantastical representations based on his own understanding of society and sociological theories.
As a young artist, Sun Xun made an impressive impact, especially during recent years. He has received several notable awards including the “Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA Best Young Artist)” and “Taiwan Contemporary Art Link Young Art Award” in 2010, and the Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship 2011/ 2012. In 2012, his latest wood printing animation film “Some Actions Which Haven’t Been Defined yet in the Revolution” has been nominated by the Berlinale Shorts 2012 jury in 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. 2009 π Animation Studio Moved to Beijing, and now Sun Xun works and lives there 2006 Established π Animation Studio in Hangzhou 1980 Born in Fuxin, Liaoning Province
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2024Sun Xun: Parallel Circus, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2023Sun Xun | Art Jakarta 2023, JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta, Indonesia
Sun Xun: Tears of Chiwen, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, United States
2022Sun Xun: An Infinite Journey, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
2021Sun Xun：Sky Studio, West Bund Art & Design 2021, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
Sun Xun: Atlas Obscura, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
First Spring, Chapter 2, SUN Xun, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China
Sun Xun: Mythological Time, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019Sun Xun: Time Spy, Center of Creation Contemporary of Andalusia, Cordoba, Spain
Sun Xun: Frontier, Part II, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
Sun Xun: Magic of Atlas, The Release of the New Film “Magic of Atlas” and Experimental Space, ShanghART M50, Shanghai, China
Sun Xun: Time Spy, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, United States
2018Sun Xun: Frontier, Phase I, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
Sun Xun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
Sun Xun: Time Spy, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, United States
2017Sun Xun: Time Spy, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States Sun Xun: Tears of Chiwen, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2016Sun Xun: Reconstruction of the Universe, 2016 Audemars Piguet Art Commission, Art Basel in Miami Beach, Miami, United States Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China 2015Sun Xun: Unfounded Predictions, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore Sun Xun: Script Film, Theater Residence Project, Hangzhou, China 2014Sun Xun: Stately Shadows, Graceful Chester Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom Sun Xun: The Time Vivarium, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States Sun Xun: PALIMPSESTES, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore Sun Xun: Brave New World, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China Sun Xun: Yesterday is Tomorrow, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2013Sun Xun: Magician Party and Dead Crow, Residency Project, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China 2012Sun Xun: Last Night, Platform China, Hong Kong, China Sun Xun: The Parallel World, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China Sun Xun: Undefined Revolution, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Sun Xun: A Footnote to Time, Wall/ladder/machine, New York, United States 2011Sun Xun: A Candid Dialogue, LV Taipei Maison, Taipei, China Sun Xun: Clown’s Revolution, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China Land-Ta-Morphosis Last of the Trilogy—Beyond-ism, I/O Gallery, Hong Kong, China Sun Xun: Beyond-ism, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China 2010Sun Xun: 21KE, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Soul of Time, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland After Doctrine, Yokohama Creativecity Center, Yokohama, Japan 2009Sun Xun, ZIAM Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Sun Xun: Animals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, United States Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation, Pacific film archive Theater, California University of Berkeley, Berkeley, United States Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, United States Sun Xun: His Story, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China Sun Xun: People’s Republic of Zoo, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester, United Kingdom Sun Xun: Shock of Time, The Drawing Center, New York, United States 2008The New China, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States Coal Spell, Platform China, Beijing, China 2007Sun Xun: Mythos, ShanghART F-Space, Shanghai, China
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023Tree of Fire, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
Infinite, ShanghART M50, Shanghai, China
Imprinting in Time, Chinese Printmaking at the Beginning of a New Era, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, United States
Swirl – The 8th Stars Plan Young Artists Research Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum Qintai, Wuhan, China
East, VVVVVV Gallery, Hangzhou, China
Mending the Sky, ShanghART M50, Shanghai, China
Beyond 2003-2023, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Source, Nart Museum, Ningbo, China
Follow the Rabbit, Museum Liaunig, Austria
Days after Days after Days, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2022Shuo Shu, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia Print in the Post Print-The 3rd CAA International Printmaking Triennial, Zhejiang Provincial Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou, China Chuo: Academic Invitation Exhibition for the 6th Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Ink, Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China Buddha 10: A fragmented display on Buddhist visual evolution, MAO d’arte Orientale, Torino, Italy The Good Life, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China My CASA, AD, Shanghai, China Path 3.0, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China Welcome to Fantasy, Holly’s Space, Shanghai, China Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition, UCCA, Beijing, China Behind the Great Wall, Modern Art of Brasília Museum, Brasília, Brazil Hawai’i Triennial 2022, Royal Hawaiian Center, Hawaiian, United States CEL: The Artist as Animator, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst, Australia 2021Carve the Boat for the Sword, JIMU Culture Space, Hangzhou, China Spirit of Youth, 2021 Triennial of Chinese Industrial Art Prints, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan; Three Gorges Art Museum, Wuhan, China Encounter of Imagination: The Divine Comedy & Classic of Mountains and Seas, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China Xin Jing, 1950 Art Space, Shenyang, China Animist Tallinn Festival Exhibition, Animation and Contemporary, EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia Ink City, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China Hangzhou Style: Landscape and City Comprehensive Paintings Exhibition, The Roof Gallery of Liangzhu Culture and Art Center, Hangzhou, China 2020Works from the Clouds, Celebrating 5 Years of “Annealing” Project, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China Asia Society Triennial, We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Museum, New York, United States Winding Time, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China Come across ShanghART, Art Tower, Shanghai, China The New Classic of Mountains and Seas: Contemporary Art on Chinese Original Myths and Legends, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China New Look, Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing, China Panorama: Serendipitous Encounters of Worlds, The G Museumm, Nanjing, China Out of The Blue, Calligraphic Journey Through ALCANTARA, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai, China Platform China’s 15th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing, China A Hypothetical Show for A Closed Museum, M Woods (online) Visionaries: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, China 2019Arts of Asia, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States Artificial Intelligence Art Exhibition, King Fahd Cultural Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Anren Biennale 2nd, A Confrontation of Ideals, OCAT, Chengdu, China Third Realm, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, United States Artificial Intelligence and the Dialogue of Cultures, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Entropy, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy A Fairy Tale in Red Times, Works from the White Rabbit Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 13th Havana Biennial, National Art Center, Havana, Cuba Mega World, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand Evolutionary Tradition, Asian Contemporary Prints Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China The Avant-Garde is Not Afraid of a Long March, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore 2018The 2nd International Animation Exhibition, International Animation Exhibition China-Canada Experimental Animation Exhibition, Beijing Tongniu Movie Industrial Park, Beijing, China Yambaru Art Festival, Okinawa, Japan China (Xi`an) Experimental Art Exhibition of Young Artists, Western Art Museum, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China Saudade – Irretrievable Place in Time, China & Portugal Contemporary Art by Fosun Art Foundation, Museu Coleção Berardo, Portugal Smiles Without Freedom, Leroy Neiman gallery, Columbia University, New York, United States Lyrik·Film, Der Zauber, The Purple Mountain, Nanjing, China 2018 Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, Korea Partial Parable?, Extrart Base, Shanghai, China Entropy I, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China White Flash, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China Clouds Stretching for A Thousand Miles, Ink in Asian Art, Asia Society, New York, United States Clouds Stretching for A Thousand Miles, Ink in Asian Art, Asia Society, New York, United States The exhibition of annual of contemporary art of China 2017, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Art & Coal, Homage to Jannis Kounellis, MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art, Duisburg, Germany Assembling, Chi K11 Art Space, Shenyang, China Life and Dreams, Photography & Media Art in China since the 1990s, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany Contemporary Chaos, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway Instruction for the Audience, Seoul Museum of Art Bunker, Seoul, South Korea South, Wu Space, Shenyang, China The Sleeper Awakes, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia Chinese Contemporary Selected Videos, Cinema Dynamo, Centre D’Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland As A Reason for December 12th, Imagokinetics Lab – ChaBu, Hangzhou, China #You#Me#Our Selfies, One World Exposition 2.2, Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong, China 2017The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China Landmark, Guardian Art Centre, Beijing, China Light Art, Old Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa, Kyoto, Japan Facing the Sea, Extra Time x Screenroom, Extrart Base, Shenzhen, China Jungle III: Common, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China Mass Energy 1862 HBC Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shipyard 1862, Shanghai, China Anren Biennale, Today’s Yesterday, OCAT, Chengdu, China Zhongguo 2185(China 2185), Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom From Pop Art to New Media, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore Zhao Yang, Liu Xiaohui, Sun Xun, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China Ballade – Animamix Contemporary Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States SELECTED, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States Chinese Summer, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway China, Art of Movement, Castle Museum, Annecy, France Sun Xun, Gao Yuan, Henry Coombes, Telescope Art Studio, Beijing, China Luther and the Avantgarde, Artist-In-Residence, Wittenberg, Old Prison, Germany Move on Asia 2017, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea One World Exposition：#Like4Like, Chi K11 Art Space, Hong Kong, China Rosa’s Wound, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei, China 201620, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China The Third Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale Time Based. Non-Places, C2 Space, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai, China Everyday Legend, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative at the Guggenheim, Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States 2016 Global China, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Green Land Group Center of Zheng Dong, Zhengzhou, China The 1st Daojiao New New Art Festival, Another Wave, XI Contemporary Art Center, Dongguan, China The Pleasure of Love-56th October Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia Across the Divide, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London, United Kingdom The Uncertain, or the Shelved…, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China The Uncertain, or the Shelved…, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai, China Group Exhibition: How Should I Explain to You, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China The Crocodile in the Pond, 11 artists from ShanghART Gallery, Museum Art St. Urban and Abbey St. Urban, Luzern, Switzerland Being and Inking, Documenting Contemporary Ink Art（2001-2016）, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Society, Houston, United States 2015Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China TANIMAMIX BIENNALE 2015-2016, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea Print in the Post-Print Age: The 1st CAA Printmaking Biennial, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2015 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, China The 2nd Nanjing International Art festival, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China A Beautiful New World, The 2nd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China HETERO-ENTITY: Myths, Narration, Imagination, Shenzhen E Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China My Generation: Young Chinese Artist, Orange county museum of art, Costa Mesa, United States Garden Splendors, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China Paper, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore China 8, Contemporary Art from China at the Rhine and Ruhr, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany 201410th Shanghai Biennale, Social Factory, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Unscrolled, Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada China Onscreen Biennial, Los Angeles and Washington D.C, United States Social Scenery, Landscape Narration in Contemporary Art, East Lake Park Western Bonded Center Exhibition Hall, Chengdu, China Collective Thoughts Divided Worlds, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore The Ultimate Capital is the Sun, Metabolism in Contemporary Art, Politics, Philosophy and Science, Neue Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany CFCCA Floating Cinema, CFCCA, London, United Kingdom The 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Now You See: New Chinese Video Art from the Collection of Dr. Michael I. Jacobs, Whitebox Art Center, New York, United States Myth/History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China The 8 of Paths, Art Exhibition in the Uferhallen, Uferhallen Kulturstandort, Berlin, Germany 15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Time Being Time, Contemporary Drawing in Motion, Museum of contemporary Art of republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Global City, Surreal City, IVAM, Valencia, Spain Starlight, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai, China Video Art at Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India 2013The Spectacle of the Spectacles, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States Animation Is a Piece of Skin, Case Studies of 11 Artists, Times Culture Complex Art Center, Guangzhou, China The Garden of Diversion, Sifang Art Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China The Light, HAFF Invitation Exhibition, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Waterfront of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China Yalta European Strategy, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine Drawing · Expression and Limit, Art Museum of Nanjing University of The Art, Nanjing, China Clutch, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China Foundational Work II, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China Warehouse Story, The Second Round, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China China China, A Group Show of Chinese Artists, The Garden of Forking Paths, Exploring Independent Animation, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China Foundational Work, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China Ignition Point, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Moving on Asia, Towards a New Art Network 2004-2013, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Documentary Fortnight 2013: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, New York, United States ON | OFF, China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, UCCA, Beijing, China Green Box, Remapping – The Space of Media Reality, Tianhong Mei Heyuan Arts Center, Hangzhou, China 2012First Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, The World of Soul: As Virtual Artistic Engineering, OCAT, Shenzhen, China Revolving Stage, Contemporary Video Art in China, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Fort Kochi, India The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane, Australia Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China Queen LiLi’s Garden, BIRD HEAD, CHEN Xiaoyun, GENG Jianyi, LIANG Yue, SUN Xun, YANG Fudong Video& Photography, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai, China Perspectives 180 – Unfinished Country, New Video from China, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, United States Diagnostic Mind_1: Catastrophe, DongdaeMoon Design plaza, Seoul, South Korea China Onscreen Biennial, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., United States The 4th Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Tai-chung; Taipei; Tao-yüan, China Taipei Biennial 2012, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China D For Drawing, Platform China, Hong Kong, China Liverpool Biennial 2012, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom 2nd N Minutes Video Art Festival, Shanghai, China Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium The First “CAFAM·Future” Exhibition – Sub-Phenomena:Report on the State of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China Clouds, Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden LIU Weijian, SUN Xun, ZHOU Zixi-ShanghART Group Exhibition, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai, China Diversity in Harmony, 5 Art, Guangzhou, China TransMedia Art & Fashion Exhibition, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China Cross-Time Stories, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, United States Nomadic Report 2012, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Re: Painting, Platform China, Beijing, China 2011Me/You, In-Out Club, Shenzhen, China The Power of Doubt, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Alternative Narrative, V Art Center, Shanghai, China 3 Countries 3 Artists, Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China Hell/Helvete, Liljevalchs Konsthalli, Stockholm; Boras Museum of Modern Art, Boras, Sweden Spectrum, Chinese Independent Animation, A4 Contemporary Arts, Chengdu, China Impossible Universe, Now Here, Parer Place Urban Screens, Brisbane, Australia Daybreak, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China Daybreak, Young Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China The End of the Brush and Ink Era: Chinese Landscape, True Color Museum, Suzhou, China Yokohama 2011, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan Catch the Moon in the Water: Emerging Chinese Artists, James Cohan Gallery, New York, United States PHotoEspana 2011, Madrid, Spain Tales from the New Chinese Cinema, Jordan Shnitzer Museum of the Moving Image, New York, United States Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, United States New Experimental Media: China and Hong Kong, Jordan Shnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, United States 19 Solo Shows About Painting, Platform China, Beijing, China A Pile of Passion, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai, China N Minutes Video Art Festival, Shanghai, China 2010Shenzhen International Ink Art Biennale, Shenzhen, China In the Garden, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China The Third Party, An Exhibition in Three Acts, Platform China, Beijing, China China Power Station: Part IV, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy By Day By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China The 7th China Independent Film Festival Contemporary Artists New Video Works Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art Shangdong, Nanjing, China 2010 Impark Festival Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Flowers of chaos, Veneto Videoart Archive, Verona, Italy Get It Louder, Sanlitun SOHO, Beijing, China Work in Spreading, Images of Circulation and Retranslation, Iberie Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Negotiation, The Second Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Aichi Triennale 2010, Arts and Cities, Aichi Arts Center; Nagoya City Art Museum; the Choja-machi area, Japan Do You See What I Mean?, Fabiben Fryns Fine Art, Los Angeles, United States 幕MU: Screen, Three Generations of Chinese Video Art, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Looking through Film: Traces of Cinema and Self-Constructs in Contemporary Art, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Jungle: A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China, Beijing, China Heroes No Longer——10th Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany 2010 Get It Louder, Sharism, Sanlitun SOHO, Beijing; 800 Show, Shanghai, China 200913th Microwave Internation New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Hong Kong, China 2009 International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan 2009 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands Double Happiness, Leonhardi Kulturprojekte, Frankfurt, Germany Other Channel, Fine Arts Literature Art Centre, Wuhan, China Rebirth, Art meets Architecture, 800 Show Creative Center, Shanghai, China The Shape of Things to Come, 140 sqm Gallery, Shanghai, China Generation Hangzhou 2.0, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China 2009 Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China China Narratives, The Fourth Chengdu Biennale, Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China Shahzia Sikander & Sun Xun, Smithsonian Museum Freer and Sackler Gallery Washington, D.C., United States The Tree, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China Yi Pai: Century Thinking, A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Speak Describe, 2009 Cross-strait Contemporary Art, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China Blackboard, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China Blade – Reconstruct Leifeng Pagoda, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China What has been happening here? The Inaugural Exhibition of Chinese Independent Film Archive, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China In the Mood for Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China Another Scene, Artists’ Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China New Work from China, Painting, Photography & Video, Fortune Cookie Projects Singapore, HT Contemporary Space, Singapore Post 24 Animation, 1933 CORE Level 2, Shanghai, China 2008Five Years of Duolun, Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Future Sky, Chinese Contemporary Young Nomination Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China An Unforgettable Tour, National Museum of Cinema, Turin, Italy IN-BETWEEN, Asia Video Art Weekend, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Focus Shanghai, New Video from China, Anthology Film Archives, New York, United States Mellow Fever, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France Artseason, The Third China New Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon, Works on Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China There Is No I In Team, Group Show of Chinse FIlm Video & Installation Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Fokus Kina, Riksutst, Llningar, Sweden Travelling Exhibitions, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Sweden 2007Refresh: Chinese Emerging Artists, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China Amateur World, Platform China, Beijing, China SunXun: Art Didn’t Have a Standard, 12+Contemprary Film Screening of Experimental Animation, MoCA, Shanghai, China Refresh: Chinese Emerging Artists, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Individual Position 2, Video, Photo, and Installation, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China Jellytimes, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Shouting Truth, A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China, Beijing, China 2006Gifts 2: A Case of Contemporary Art, Fanren Villa, Hangzhou, China It’s All Right, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hu Qing Tang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, China Second Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 2006 Borderline International Video Festival, 98 Factory; Caochangdi Village; CAFA, Beijing, China Thirty-Eight Solo Exhibitions, 2577 Creative Garden, Shanghai, China China’s Cutting Edge, New Video Art from Shanghai and Beijing, Anthology Film Archives, New York, United States A Yellow Box in Qingpu, Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese Space, Xiao Ximen (Minor West Gate), Qingpu Town, Shanghai, China Chaos City, Universal Studios, Beijing, China The 3rd Annual Chinese Independent Film & Video Exhibition, AMNUA, Nanjing, China Future Landscapes, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 2005Gifts 1, A Case of Contemporary Art, Modern Art Museum of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China In the Deep of Reality, A Case of Chinese Contemporary Art, Basement of Tianyu Apartment, Hangzhou, China 2004Maze – 2004 Chinese New Media Art Festival, China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Video Exhibition, on the Hill, Baitaling Art Space, Hangzhou, China Blink in Video Festival, Beijing; Shanghai; Changsha; Hangzhou, China Format, Contemporary Art Exhibition, 31#Bar, Hangzhou, China 2003Characters, Coffee box, Hangzhou, China The Minority is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai, China White Tower Mountain (Bai Ta Ling), Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bai Ta Ling Art Space, Hangzhou, China 2002Shadow-XXX Art Exhibition, Qin Zhou Nan Road, Shanghai, China
Collections (Selection)
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, New South Wales, Australia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.
Hong Kong M+ Art Museum, Hong Kong
Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.
Kadist Art Foundation, San Fransicao,
U.S.A. Metropolitan Art Museum, U.S.A.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, U.S.A.
Dr. Michael I. Jacobs Collection, U.S.A.
Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, U.S.A.
Franks Suss Collection, London, U.K.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway DSL Collection, Paris, France
Awards
2018Asia Arts Game Changer Awards, Delhi, India
2017Art of Dining 2017 honoree Sun Xun, Orange County Art Museum, California, United States
2014The 8th AAC Art China · Young Artist Awards
2010Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA Best Young Artist)
Taiwan Contemporary Art Link (Young Art Award）
Artist in Residence at Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy
Exhibitions
