Zhijie Qiu
b. 1969, China
Chinese conceptual artist, born 1969
Qiu Zhijie (b. Zhangzhou, China) lives and works in Beijing. He is Vice President of Central Academy of Fine Arts and Dean and professor of the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and professor of the School of Intermedia Art at China Academy of Art. Major solo exhibitions include: Mappa Mundi, UCCA, Beijing (2019); Living Writing, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2018), Journey without Arrivals, Van Abbe Musuem, Eindhoven, travelling to Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve and Lunds Konsthall, Sweden (2017-2018). He has contributed to the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); the 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014); the Göteborg Biennial (2013); the 53rd Venice Biennale, Chinese Pavilion (2009); The Real Things: Contemporary 6th Chinese Art, Tate Liverpool (2007); the Gwangju Biennale (2006); the Yokohama Triennale (2005); and the 25th São Paulo Biennial (2002). Qiu also curated the first video art exhibition in China in 1996, and, between 1999 and 2005, a series of exhibitions called Post-sense Sensibility, the purpose of which was to promote the work of young Chinese artists. In 2012 he was the curator of the 9th Shanghai Biennale.