San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Dubai
Born in Xuancheng, An'hui, China in 1972.
1993-1997
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2019
Racing Gravels, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany
2016
Light, Galleria Continua Les Moulins, France
Kan Xuan, IKON, Birmingham, UK
2012
Millet Mounds, UCCA, Beijing, China
2009
Light, Arrow factory, Beijing, China
2008
Kanxuan! Ai!, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Yes, No & Other Options, Yorkshire ArtSpace, Sheffield, England
2006
Kanxuan at Buerofriedrich, Buerofriedrich, Berlin, Germany
Protected by colors, BizArt, Shanghai, China
2002
Video art, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
2001
Or Emptiness, BizArt, Shanghai, China
2023
Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Buddha10: A fragmented display on Buddhist visual evolution, MAO museum, Torino, Italy
M+ Sigg Collection: Another Story, M+museum, Hong Kong
2022
We Borrow Dreams From Others, Like Debt, Made in Museum, Shanghai, China
2021
M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+museum, Hong Kong
Italian Renaissance Drawings: A Dialogue with China, British Museum and M WOODS Museum, Beijing, China
The Artist is Present: The 15 years of Award of Art China, Shenzhen Artron Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Circular Impact, OCAT museum, Shanghai, China
2020
DURATION: Chinese Art in Transfer Motion, MINSHENG Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019
Free Prism Video Wave, Boxes Art Museum, FoShan, China
2018
Arte y China después de 1989: El Teatro del Mundo, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Walk Strangely, Stay Strangely. Sora Kim vs Kan Xuan: A Double One Woman Show, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2017
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2016
Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Cuarteto, Galleria Continua, Habana, Cuba
2015
The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Follia Continua!, Le Centquatre, Paris, France
Jingshen, the Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC -Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
The M+ Sigg Collection: Chinese art from the 1970s to now, The Whitwort, Manchester, UK
China 8, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany
Inventing Ritual, First Edition of PIMO Contemporary Art Festival, Shanghai, China
2014
Asia Triennial Manchester, Manchester, UK
Right Is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg
Collection, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Now You See, White Box, New York City, USA
The 8 of Paths: Art in Beijing, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
The Making of a Museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
Jane - Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, The Kochi- Muziris
Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India
2013
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Garden of Diversion, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Re:emerge - Towards a new cultural cartography, 11th Sharjah
Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Clutch, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsuhe, Germany
2012
Yellow Signal: New Media in China, Centre A – Vancouver
International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada
The Unseen, The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangzhou, China
Rolling Snowball/3 - Redtory Art & Design Factory, Guangzhou,China
Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, Sherman Contemporary Art
Foundation, SCAF, Sydney, Australia
Uninkable, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
2011
Face to Time, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain
Moveing image in China 1988-2011, Mingsheng art museum, Shanghai, China
Poster Exhibition, TaoPu art center, Shanghai, China
2010
10,000 Lives, 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju,Korea
Commit / the 2nd stall keeper show, C5art Space, Beijing, China
China Power Station, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy
NEGOTIATIONS / The second today’s documents, Today art museum, Beijing, China
Out!, Art in Public Spaces, Córdoba, Argentina
The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
The Red Snowball, CEAC (chinese european art center), Xiamen University Art College Xiamen city, China
L'evento immobile, Asolo Art Film Festival XXIX, Asolo, Italy
Personal Frontier, IA32 Space, Beijing, China
DIALOGUE 2010, Dutch Culture Centre, world expo 2010 Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
2009
Video programme, III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
The Sky Within My House, Córdoba, Spain
The State of Things _The Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Everyday Miracles (Extended), Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
Everyday Miracles (Extended), REDCAT, Los Angeles, US
Bourgeoisified proletariat, Songjiang Creative studio, Shanghai, China
China China China, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
G.D. Tecnologie ed arte, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy
Caos, Piazza La Guardiola- Belvedere, Piraino, Italy
El Patio de mi Casa, Arte Contemporaneo en 16 Patios de Còrdoba, Cordoba, Spain
2008
Resilience, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
OUR FUTURE: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, cureted by Jérôme Sans, Guo Xiaoyan, Kate Fowle, UCCA, Beijing, China
L’evento immobile, Incantamenti, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
UNMOVED, Galleria Continua / Beijing, China
China Power Station: Part III, Mudam Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Cina Cina Cina!!!, CCCS – Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Firenze, Italy
Museum Underworld, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Winter Group Show, Universal Studios - Beijing, Beijing, China
L’evento immobile, Incantamenti, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
AGORAZEIN, Antiche Cisterne Romane, Todi, Italy
2007
10° Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
52° Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2006
China Power Station: Part I, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
9th Havana Biennial 2006, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
ALLLOOKSAME? TUTTTUGUALE?, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Its all right!, BizArt, Shanghai, China
The Twelve - Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Chaos City, Universal Studios - Beijing, Beijing, China
Everybody Dance Now, EFA Gallery - The Elizabeth Foundation, New York City, USA
20 Desarreglos - Arte Contemporáneo de Brasil, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
Exploding Television - Satelite of Love, Screening International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Never go out without my DV Cam-Video art from China, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain
A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2005
3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania
Out of sight, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Close Reading, Galerie Julitte Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, GuangDong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Prix de Rome 2005, De Apple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Focus, China Museum of Art, Beijing, China
I Still Believe in Miracles, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Double Happiness, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Unspeakable Happiness, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
A poetics of Place, site-specific work, Utrechtse Voormalige, Gerechtsgebhouw Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004
Cycle Tracks will abound in Utopia, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia
Dial 62761232, BizArt, Shanghai, China
A l'est du sud de l'ouest / A l'ouest du sud de l'est, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Epiphytes, Classic Botanical Garden, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Object System: Doing Nothing, ARCO2004, Madrid, Spain
A Molecular History of Everything, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia
CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
China - Video Generation, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
2003
Panorama Da Art Brasileira 2003, Sao Paulo Modern Art Museum, Brazil
Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
New Zone, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
One Move, Apeldoorn Contemporary Art Museum, The Netherlands
Everyday, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark
Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
C'est pas du cinema, Le Fresony studio national, France
Fan zhengzhu and Fan mingzhu, BizArt, Shanghai, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Fantasia-2, Yuanyang atr Center Beijing, China
2002
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
