Cao Xiadong was born in 1961. He graduated from the Industry Design College of the Jiangnan University in 1982. Cao Xiadong was a member of “Red·Trip”, an art group in Jiangsu Province during the1985′s. He launched “Art Currents” magazine in 1991. Furthermore he launched “Culture and Art Forum”, a series of books in 1992. Cao Xiadong started painting “Dots” abstract works in 1993 and he began to imitate and copy old figural pictures to oil paintings. Currently he is living in Beijing.
Cao Xiaodong 135 by 135cm
Cao Xiaodong Bruce Lee 128 by 128 cm
Cao Xiaodong Pure Ago 108 by146cm
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Selected exhibions
2010
Sojourning in Songzhuang – A Contemporary Artists Group Exhibition, Beijing
Nature? – LDX Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Ldx Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
EGG Gallery Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing
The Marks – Contemporary Artists Group Exhibitions (artist, group), Times Art Museum, Beijing
Quotations from 7 Xi (artist, group), Ldx Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
2009
Stars of China – Past and Present’, Modern art Museum Jan van der Togt, The Netherlands
Cao Xiaodong Solo Exhibition, EGG Gallery, Beijing
Attitude – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ldx Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
Nothing, Genssun International Art Space, Beijing
Link, Ming Yuan Center Art, Shanghai
Chinese scene-Chongqing station, contemporary art big exhibition, Chongqing
Beijing 798 Biennale 2009, Beijing
2008
Save As, Solo Exhibition, Virginia Miller gallery, Miami
Solo Exhibition, Ode gallery, Singapore
Solo Exhibition,Wellington gallery, Hongkong
Art Binhe, Art Binhe, Beijing
Abstract, Trio Art Exhibition, Beijing
2007
Cao Xiaodong Solo Exhibition, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing
It’s Mean, Beijing
Sunshine, Beijing
Predicament, Shanghai
Solo Exhibition, Beijing
Rotation, Qinghe Museum opening Exhibition, Nanjing
Revolution, ChinaSquare gallery, New York
Rotation – Nonjing, Qinghe Cument Art Center Opening Exhibitionm, Nanjing
2006
Abstract 798, Beijing
Art No Boundary, Beijing
Documental Exhibition of China Mordern Art, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing
2005
Jianghu Art, Beijing
1998
Corrupturism, Beijing
Images Telling Stories-Chinese New Concept Photography Exhibition, Shanghai
1995
Zhou Junwei, Hong Lei and Cao Xiaodong, Trio Art Exhibition, Changzhou
1993
Solo Exhibition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1992
Launched Serial Book “Culture and Art Forum”
1991
Launched “Art Currents” Magazine
1989
China Modern Art Exhibition, Beijing
1987
Red Trip, First Stop Exhibition, Nanjing
1986
Six-Person-Exhibition, Changzhou
Sun-Tanning, Nanjing
1985
Art Exhibition of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing