Public Collections

China

Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing

Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

Guardian Art Center, Beijing

Start Museum, Shanghai

Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou

Modern Art Media, Beijing

HSBC Jade Center, Beijing

Fidelity Investments Art Collection

Chenyidan Charity Foundation, Shenzhen

Bridging Hope Charity Foundation, Beijing

USA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca

Fidelity International Art Collection, Luxembourg

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba

Australia Contemporary Chinese Art from the White

Rabbit Collection, New South Wales

Korea

Committee of Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju

Japan

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka

Publications

2022

The Huge Sand Dunes are the Bed of the Sea, CAFAArt Museum-Langfang, Beijing, China

2018

Wu Jianan, China National Photographic Art Publishing House, Beijing, China

2014

Having Floods under Control, Beautiful Asset, Beijing, China

2013

Forward! Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

2008

The Heaven of Nine Levels, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions

2025

500 TRAZOS: UN RETRATO ABSTRACTO DEL PERÚ, Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI, Peru

Wu Jian’an: Beyond Appearance, Shao Foundation, Guangzhou, China

2024

Blue Tiger, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2023

A Bridge Between Two Worlds: Works by Wu Jian’an, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Wu Jian’an: Resonance, Qianhuliu Art Space (Xi’an), Xi’an, China

2022

Wu Jian’an: 500 Brushstrokes, Chambers Fine Art, ArtFarm, New York, USA

2021

Wu Jian’an: Vision, Illusion and Acceptation, 2019-2021, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

Wu Jian’an: The huge sand dunes are the bed of the Sea, CAFA Art Museum-Langfang, Langfang, China

Wu Jian’an: The Rite, ZiWU Beijing, Beijing, China

2020

Divine Inspiration, ZiWU Modern Art Base, Shanghai, China

The Myths of Innovation, Hermès Maison, Shanghai, China

2019

Infinite Labyrinth: New Works by Wu Jian’an, Chambers Fine Art, New York / Salt Point, NewYork, USA

2018

Of the Infinite Mind, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China

2017

Daydream Forests: Wu Jian’an’s Image World, The University of Chicago, Center in Beijing, Beijing, China

2016

Omens: Recent Works by Wu Jian’an, Beijing, China Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

Ten Thousand Things, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

2015

Transformation: A Tale of Contemporary Art and Intangible Culture Heritage, Prince Kung’s Palace Museum, Beijing, China Having Floods under Control, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore Change of Power, ART021 Shanghai,China

Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China

2014

Transformation, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China / New York, USA

Faces, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China

2012

Seven Layered Shell, Chambers Fine Art, NewYork, USA

2011

Seven Layered Shell, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

Mountain Ranges, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China

2008

The Heaven of Nine Levels, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China/ New York, USA

2006

Daydreams, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2005

Searching for Piyingxi (Shadow Play), Oil Painting Department Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2025

100 Years of Chinese Abstraction, ZZW Art Center, Foshan, China

2024

Reconstructing Visions, Shijiazhuang Art Museum & Academy, Shijiazhuang, China

Sailing Home: Zhoushan Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Zhoushan Art Museum, Zhoushan, China

Thresholds, Flaneur, and Whirlpools, Wind H Art Center, Beijing, China

Art Field Nanhai Guangdong 2024, Xiqiao Town & Jiujiang Town, Nanhai, China

Oriental Wisdom: Contemporary Art Themed on Chinesee Traditional Culture, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Folk in Order, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing, China

LISTING Ⅱ, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

Multiply !!!: Power in Numbers in Contemporary Chinese Art, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China

The Shape of Perception, Iris Art Museum, Suzhou, China

Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Stanford University, California, USA

The Age of Human Wisdom: The 3rd Jinan International Biennale, Shandong Art Museum, Shandong, China

Rivers Romance Relaxation: The First Hunan Public Art Season, Hunan Art Museum, Changsha, China

Bvlgari Serpenti Infinite Tales Exhibition, Genesis Art Gallery, Beijing, China

Dian Xi Yi Ben: Shadow Puppetry & Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nan Chi Zi

Museum, Beijing, China

The 14th China Songzhuang Culture and Art Festival, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China

Glass Revolution: An Exhibition of Glass Art, Berengo Studio Shanghai Space, Shanghai, China

From Tradition To Modern: Archives Exhibition Of Shadow Puppets In The New China, Crafts Museum of CAA, Hangzhou, China

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, 2014-2024, One Art Museum, Beijing, China

2023

Magical Modern, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Meta Media Art Festival, Tai Koo Li, Shanghai, China

The 1st “Beijing International Legacy Week”, National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

Sailing: Contemporary Echo of Maritime Silk Road, Zhangjiagang Art Museum, Zhangjiagang, China

Asian Bronze, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

The 2nd Exhibition of GDMoA Annual Artist Nomination, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Thus Spoke the Moment: Inaural Exhibition Season 2, Start Museum, Shanghai, China

Energy of Space: 2023 Capital Public Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

Unknown/ Chronology/ Object, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Oriental Wisdom: Contemporary Art Themed on Chinesee Traditional Culture, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

Picasso Retratado. Picasso Enmascarado, Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes, Shanghai, China

Seeking the City: 2023 Datong Contemporary Art Season, Datong Ancient City, Taiping Tower South, DongnanYi Historical and Cultural District,

Datong, China

Beyond 2003-2023, Ming Contemporary Art Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China

Thinking with the Senses: First Exhibition of the Opening of Dacheng Art Museum, Dacheng Art Museum, Changzhou, China

Echo of Water, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China

Avoid Being Enslaved to Material Things, Chantilly Art Center, Shanghai, China

The Axis: The Evolution of Chinese Paintings Since 2000, Shanxi Contemporary Art Museum, Taiyuan, China

2022

Communication Through Art: Wuhan Biennale 2022, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai / Hankou) /United Art Museum, Wuhan, China

Urban Cosmologies: The 9th edition Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, Shenzhen Yuehai City-Kingway brewery, Shenzhen, China

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China

Post-Tradition: Imagination, Translation, Reconstruction, AC, Hangzhou, China

Art at Qiaoshan: Art Field Nanhai (Guangdong) 2022, Xiqiao, Nanhai, China

One Moment Eternity Art of Absolue, CSSC, Shanghai, China

Learning from the Rainforest: The First Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial Research

Exhibition Series #5, Art Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou, China

Cabinet of Curiosity, ATTN: Gallery, Guangzhou song of Soul, Soul Art, Beijing, China

CHUO: Academic Invitation Exhibition for the 6th Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Ink, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China

The Trace of Civilization: The Great Art of Dunhuang, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

BVLGARI Serpenti Rhapsody, BVLGARI Hotel, Beijing, China

Dialogue: Chambers Fine Art in Locarno, Il Rivellino, Locarno, Switzerland

14th Editionof the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar China Pavilion: Transition / Active Energy, Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Dakar, Senegal Wish in Beijing: Wishin Art Grand Opening, Wishin Art, Beijing, China

From Confucius to Christ, Yeh Art Gallery, New York, USA

Lines of Thought: Gestural Abstraction in the BAMPFA Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, USA

2021

Laminated Time & Space: Kulangsu Center for Contemporary Art Opening Exhibition, Kulangsu Center for Contemporary Art, Xiamen, China

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China Shanghai 2020, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

Listing, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

Chen Yujun, Li Jikai, Wu Jian’an, Wu Junyong, ECHO ARETE, Hangzhou, China

Zeit-geist Co-Evolution: 2021 Chengdu ,China

Biennale, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China

Foresights, Guardian Fine Art Asia, Beijing, China

Towards a New Land: Tales of the Ancient Pavilion-Suzhou Garden Art Festival, Pavilion of Surging Waves/Keyuan/Yiyuan/Yipu, Suzhou, China

Ignescent: Group Exhibition of Xennial Artists, Holly’s Space, Beijing, China

Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China

Glasstress: Window to the Future, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg,Russia

The Shades of Time, LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

Futurism of the Past-Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art, Inaugural Exhibition of the Culture and Art Hub of Beijing

Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

The Logic of Painting, Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China

Art at Fuliang 2021-Held·Discovery, Hanxi Village, Fuliang County, Jingdezhen, China

All of You, Art You, Taiyuan, China

Kaiwu: Art and Design from China, Musée del’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France

Local Individuals: Chinese Contemporary Painting Research Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China

2020

Whole Cloth, SITE131, Dallas, Texas, USA

The Revival of Tradition, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China

7th MoCA Animamix Biennial, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai,China

The New Classic of Mountains and Seas: Contemporary Art on Chinese Original Myths and Legends, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

The Endless Life: The Narrative of the Yellow River, The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China

Clouds Gathering and Unfolding: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art on Paper, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Ichihara, Japan

Union, Objective Space, Shanghai,China

The Logic of Painting, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China

The Curation Workshop Ⅱ, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

2019

Art and Archaeology, Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

Silk Road: from Tradition to Contemporaneity, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Link Heaven and Earth: Sacredness Rule of Time and Space, Art Zone, Beijing, China

A Confrontation of Ideas: 2nd Anren Biennale, OCAT, Anren, China

Conceptual and Disposition, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan, China

Serpenti Form, Chengdu Museum, Chengdu, China

2018

The 7th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Echigo Tsumari, Japan

In the Mythical Forest: Wu Jian’an and Wang Tianwen, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China

“Continuum: Generation by Generation” – Pavillion of China at the 57th Venice Biennale, Times Art Museum, Beijing / Ming Contemporary

Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Where Worlds Waves: Modern Mores and Traditional Miao Values, Today Art Museum, Prince Kung’s Palace Museum, Beijing, China

Three Times: the 4th Triple Parade Biennale for Contemporary Jewelry, How Museum, Shanghai, China

Tradition is an Invention, The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London, UK

2017

Continuum: Generation by Generation, The 57th Venice Biennale China Pavilion, Virgin Garden, Venice

Impuls: Contemporary Chinese Art, Beinal de Curitiba 2017 China / Pais, Homdenageado, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil

Serpenti Form, Art Science Museum, Singapore / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Paper Play: Kindergarten to Contemporary Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA

The Celebration Show of 2017 Chinese LunarNew Year, Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, NewYork, USA

Echo of Civilization: Chinese Craft Art and Contemporary Art, Empirical Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Hands Plus Embrace: 2017 Cheongju International Craft Biennale Qingzhou, Qingzhou, China

The 15th Asia Arts Festival, Ningbo Museum, Ningbo, China

Paper into the Fold, Wanying Art Gallery, Shi Jiazhuang, China

Medium Utopia: Art Jiangxi Academic Invitational Exhibition, Jiangxi Provincial

Exhibition Centre, Nanchang, China

Ya Shan, G&G Creatie Community, Shenzhen, China

2016

Lunar New Year: The Year of the Monkey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

July Festival in China House, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata, Japan

Echo of Civilization: Crossing Dunhuang, Empirical Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Peony Pavilion Contemporary Art, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China

Everlasting Mountain and Water: Chinese Landscape in Multiple Dimensions, Hua Yu Hotel Art Center, Sanya, China

Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China

In Progress-The Annual Exhibition of Teachers in CAFA School of Experimental Art, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China

Magnanimous-Sweet·Era, Immersive Art Party, Macalline, Shanghai, China

Annual of Contemporary Art in China 2015, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

China Now, Gallery@OXO, London, UK

2015

The Carolyn Hsu and René Balcer Collection: Exploring Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

Up-Youth, China Young Artists Exhibition 2015, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China

Hetero-Entity, Myths Narration Imagination, E Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen , China

Annual of Contemporary Art in China 2014, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

2014

Cosmos, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

The First China Print Painting Exhibition, Guanlan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Present-ing Recital Louder Than Paint, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Ten Years in One Inspection, CAFA Achievement Exhibition of Ten-Year-Education on Experimental Art, CAFAArt Museum, Beijing, China

2013

Forward! Contemporary Art & Contemporary City, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

The 6th Chengdu Biennale: Relation, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China

A4 Young Artist Experimental Season, 2nd Round Exhibition, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China

The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Special Exhibition of 2013 CAFA Teaching Staff, CAFAArt Museum, Beijing, China

Time Zone-Creation and Exploration of Cotemporary Young College Teachers, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China

The 2nd Datong International Sculpture Biennale, Heyang Art Museum, Datong

The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Zhongshan Park Project – City Memory: Zhangzhou, Zhangzhou Bihu Exhibition Hall, Zhangzhou, China

2012

The First “CAFAM·Future” Exhibition, Sub- Phenomena: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art Nomination, CAFAArt Museum, Beijing, China

China Young Artists Project, Beijing International Conference and Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

ALLES UNTER DEM HIMMEL GEHORT ALLEN, Chinese Public Art in Kassel,

Kassel,Germany I, Pencil, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

Not only Paper, CAFAArt Museum, Beijing, China

2011

Mind in Landscape, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, USA

1+1: A Cross–Strait Four–Regions Artistic Exchange Project, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Start from the Horizon, Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Since 1978, SiShang Art Museum, Beijing, China

Print, Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2010

Modelling, CAFAArt Museum, Beijing, China

River Flows East-Landscapes of the Imagination, The Collection, Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire, Lincoln, UK

Beyond Mediations- the 2nd Mediations Biennale, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan, Poland

Sharism-Get It Louder 2010, San Li Tun SOHO, Beijing, China

Post Traditions: Enlarge the Carve, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2009

Live and Let Live: Creators of Tomorrow—The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Always—As It Was, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2008

Another Lonely Planet Revisited, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

A+A’2008—The Third A+A, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2007

Net: Reimagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

A+A’2007—The Second A+A, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing / Sichuan University Museum, Sichuan / Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2006

Coming from Daily Life—1st Academy Documentary of Experimental Art, The Main Exhibition hall, Beijing, China

New Folk Movement—The Reconstruct of Commonality Living, U Space, Beijing, China

Painting and Handwork, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2005

Archaeology of the Future: the 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art , Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China