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Tong kunniao 童昆鸟
b.1990 Changsha, Hunan Province, China
Tong Kunniao, born in 1990 in Changsha, Hunan Province, received his BFA from No.3 Studio, Department of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. In 2016, he went to graduate school and dropped out in the same year. He currently lives and works in Beijing.
Tong Kunniao works across installation, performance, video, sculpture, and painting. He is adept at using “excess products” generated by the modern world—a perpetual waste-making factory, and “leftovers” that have been found in resale shops, the flea markets or on the streets. He concerns about how the
complex social structure has determined our social status and eaten up our individual identities. By decomposing ready-made objects and reassembling them in tandem or keeping them perfectly in balance, Tong aims to demonstrate the individual consciousness (the free spirit) behind the objects as well as the multiplicity and fragility of the system. In an era when commodity fetishism and symbol consumption are prevalent, and information is overloaded, Tong’s work extends beyond formal boundaries of reconstruction and presents it in a quirky and seemly absurd manner.

Solo Exhibitions
2025
Roundworm Delights in the Landscape, WD Art Space, Shanghai, China
After the Waves and the Dusk, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
Tong Kunniao: Sacred Above Radiant Below, Jinghope Art Center, Sanya, China
2024
Tong Kunniao Solo Exhibition: Machine's Dialogue, LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2023
Tong Kunniao: Wilted Flowers, the Bad Bird and Q, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
Tong Kunniao: Fire walk With Eggs, Caijin Space, Beijing, China
2022
Wiltopia, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
The Myth of Human Nature, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
Double Bring a Mellow Sweetness, HARMAY, Beijing, China
Being Together, SKP - S, Beijing, China
Golden Dystopia on Three Millimeters, Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China
2020
Just Stay in the Cold, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
NIAO x KUN x TONG, Jupiter Museum, Shenzhen, China
2019
I don’t MISS u, XPM, Changsha, China
2018
Birdindefinite, MIFA 1862, Shanghai, China
2017
When Dog’s Mouth Spits Ivory, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dans Le Ventre Du Pigenon, Il Y A Non Seulement Du Caca, Mais Du Pain Aussi, Liusa Wang Gallery, Paris, France
2016
Why Don’t You Eat Stinky Tofu?, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Dreaming a Baton the Floor, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
2015
Tong Kunniao, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2025
Cosmic Alignment: 2025 Jincheng’s Contemporary Visions of Historic Architecture, Urban Experience Center, Jincheng, China
Perpetual Summer, RAY Gallery, Hangzhou, China
Find me if you want me in the garden, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
Fragments of Time and Gestures of Future, Sixi Museum, Nanjing, China
The Rite of Spring, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai, China
Left the Group Chat, Areté Space, Beijing, China
2024
Reconstructing Visions, Shijiazhuang Art Museum & Academy, Shijiazhuang, China
The Age of Human Wisdom: The 3th Jinan International Biennale, Shandong Art Museum & Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China
The Song of the Earth, HUA International, Beijing, China
The Shadow of Reading: Art in the Pages, Hanmo S Gallery, Beijing, China
Exposition d’art France- Chine, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
PDF_2024, Hanmo S Gallery, Beijing, China
An Future Anthropogene, Chongqing Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China
LISTING Ⅱ, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China
Semi-Manual Era: The Dancing Floor of the World, Gravity Art Museum, Beijing, China
Era of Encore, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
the Soil Collection: The Show Must Go On, Simple One, Beijing, China
Groudless Factory & Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing, China
A Constellation of Cities: Contemporary Art and Experiment in Southern China and Beyond, Guangdong Museum of Art (BAIETAN), Guangzhou, China
Presence: WSK Art Support Program and the 6th China Contemporary Young Artists Nomination Exhibition, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China
2024 Dianchi Art Season, Dianchi, China
2023
Magical Modern, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Idea Transfer·The 1st – 2023 3th Qingdao International Art Exhibition, Exit V Art Museum, Qingdao, China
Soul Art Festival, Soul Art Center, Beijing, China
Sailing: Contemporary Echo of Maritime Silk Road, Zhangjiagang Art Museum, Zhangjiagang, China
Cangjie Garden Art Festival, Yanload Cangjie Former Residence Garden, Suzhou, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China Shanghai 2022, Shanghai Doland Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Swirl: The 8th Stars Plan Young Artists Research Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai), Wuhan, China
Seeking the City: 2023 Datong Contemporary Art Season, Datong Ancient City, Taiping Tower South, DongnanYi Historical and Cultural District, Datong,
China
Thinking with the Senses: First Exhibition of the Opening of Dacheng Art Museum, Dacheng Art Museum, Changzhou, China
The Sea of Time: Opening Exhibition of Gravity Art Museum, Gravity Art Museum,Beijing, China
Evolution: Singularity, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai, China
Romancing Dissent, Sixi Museum, Nanjing, China
2022
Emotion and Universe, Harvest Moon Art Centre, Chengdu, China
Artist’s Game, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Sailing: The First TAG New Contemporary Art Exhibition, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China
X Mobile Museum, X Museum, Beijing, China
Alice in Wonderland, 69 Art Campus, Beijing, China
Green Go Home, Hua International, Beijing, China
The Second Public Art Exhibition Nan Hai, Foshan, China
2021
The Exhibition of Annul of Contemporary Art of China Shanghai 2020, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
PDF, TRIUMPH Gallery, Beijing, China
Young Chinese Artist of The Year 2020-2021-SPECTACLES, 021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Topo- Urban-ism, Beigou Village Wa Museum, Beijing, China
I Recognized the World: Born in the 80s and 90s, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
I Am the Nature -on Vulnerability, Survival in A Society at Risk, 26th Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Brandenburg, Germany
The Second K60 Berlin, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Futurism of the Past, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo: STORY, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Home-Coming Isler: Those Visible and Invisible, YUAN Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2020
Wandering along the Sea, LEVANTART, Shanghai, China
Touching Feeling, Hua International, Beijing, China
When Speed Become Form–Live in Your Screen, Wind H, Beijing, China
Those Who See and Know All, Are All and Can Do All., Gallery Weekend Beijing 2020 Up & ComingSector, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
2019
Andy’s Joke, AC gallery, Beijing, China
A Confrontation of Ideals, Anren Biennale, Chendu, China
Made in Illusion, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Progress Every Day, Annual Nomination Exhibition 2019, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China
Summer Art Fair, Beijing Fun, Beijing, China
Re Feng, PBS Art Center, Beijing, China
To Youth, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
2018
Dionysian Super-X, Chi K11 Art Space, Guangzhou, China
The Exhibition of Annul of Contemporary Art of China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Re-Set, Power Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Art Trash, Strawberry Music Festival, Beijing, China
Know How, C Space, Beijing, China
After Sun Set, Liusa Wang Gallery, Paris, France
2017
Today – Wall Force, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
On the Road, Chinese Young Artists Nomination Exhibition, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Very Sustainable – Environmental Revelation, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
Rhapsody in Lines, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Ballade – Animanix Biennale, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
The Overaged, OCT Art Center, Chengdu, China
Outliers – Traversing a Time of Anxiety, White Box Art Center, Beijing, China
Reversal of Ritual, Desa Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2016
Over Pop, Yuz Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Art Auto, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Art Zhengzhou: Global China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhengzhou, China
2015
Relocation Jubilee, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Public Collections
China Cc Foundation, Shanghai
Sixi Museum, Nanjing
X Museum, Beijing
Jupiter Museum, Shenzhen
XPM, Changsha
Publications
2021
Tong Kunniao, Hua International, Beijing, China
2020
Just Stay in the Cold, Hua International, Beijing, China
2017
Dans Le Ventre Du Pigenon, Il Y A Non Seulement Du Caca, Mais Du Pain Aussi, Liusa Wang Gallery, Paris, France
2016
Why Don’t You Eat Stinky Tofu?, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Tong Kunniao, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
| RELATED EXHIBITIONS |

Tong Kunniao Solo Exhibition:
Machine's Dialogue
2024.09.27 - 2024.11.20
