Huang Rui is one of China’s most highly regarded artists and was one of the main protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups in 1979 China. A leader of the Stars Group (Xing Xing) art exhibition, he was pivotal in the art movement that initiated some of the first free art expressions in the Post-Mao era bringing together like-minded artists such as Wang Keping and Ma Desheng. As a seminal figure of the Dashanzi Factory 798 Art District, Huang Rui has sought to express art’s function as a reflection of society and its strength in addressing contemporary concerns.

Born in 1952, Beijing, China.
Huang Rui is one of China’s most highly regarded artists and one of the pivotal protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups to emerge from China in 1979. The Stars Group (Xing Xing星星), established in the late 70s following the end of the Cultural Revolution, used art to promote social ideologies and initiate some of the first free art expressions in the Post-Mao era.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Summer Show – Painting 2016, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Intersections: Huang Rui and Japanese Art In the 1980s, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery,
Hong Kong
2015
Language Color, Zürcher Gallery, New York, USA
2014
One Country Two Systems, 50 Years Unchanged, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Art Projects, Hong Kong
2014
Space Structure 1983-1986, 10 Chancery Lane
Gallery, Hong Kong
2013
The Wasteland Series,
Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
2012
Language-Colour, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong
Kong
2011
Huang Rui
Exhibition,
604 Gallery, Pusan, Korea
Huang Rui
Exhibition,
Space Hongjee, Seoul, Korea
CZECHINA, Embassy Art Gallery, Embassy of the Czech
Republic, Beijing, China
2010
Book launch of “1989 :
365 Art Days in China and Germany”, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2009
Animal
Time: 1204-2009, Coudenberg Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Comerchina,
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Comerchina,
Chinese Contemporary, Beijing, China
2008
Animal
Time in Chinese History II, Shao Foundation, Beijing, China
Animal Time in
Chinese History, Museo delle Mura, Roma, Italy
2007
Huang Rui - The Stars ‘ Time1977-1984, Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Chai-na/China,
Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, Arles, France
Texts
are the Legacy of Great Thought!, Chinese Contemporary, New York, USA
2006
Chairman Mao 10,000 RMB, Chinese Contemporary,
Beijing, China
One Country Two Systems – Unchanged After 50
Years!, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2000
Non-existent Journey
III, KCAL Kansai Contemporary
Art Laboratory, Amagasaki, Osaka, Japan
Non-existent Journey IV, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Huang Rui Exhibition, Kaze Gallery, Osaka,
Japan (also ’98,97,95,92,90)
1999
Beijing 0:00 (Performance), Wenzi Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
1998
Huang Rui Exhibition, JF Mayer Gallerie,
Marseille, France
1997
Huang Rui Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan
I Ching + Planned Road, Nishetenma Area, Osaka, Japan
Huang Rui Exhibition, Bricollage Gallery,
Osaka, Japan
1996
Gold Fish + Planned road, Nishetenma Area,
Osaka, Japan
1995
Water + Wood + Paper, Ruine der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Huang Rui Exhibition, Gallerie
Bellefroid, Paris, France
Water + Abenosuji, Abenosuji
Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Ergoutou Spirit+ Ruin (Performance), Guan Yuan
area, Beijing, China
1994
Huang Rui Exhibition, Kaibundo
Gallery, Kobe, Japan (also’96)
Water + Fish, Huang Rui Studio, Beijing, China
Water + Bamboo, Huang Rui Studio, Beijing, CHina
1993
Chairman Mao 100’s
Anniversary, Ai Weiwei Studio, Beijing, China
1992
Huang Rui Exhibition,
International Art Museum, Beijing, China (cancelled)
Water + 40 Faces, September Gallery, Beijing, China
(Cancelled and moved to Self Owned studio, Beijing)
1991
Huang Rui Exhibition, Gallery
Ueda, Tokyo, Japan (also’94)
1990
Huang Rui Exhibition, Osaka
Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Huang Rui Exhibition, Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan
(also ’92,’95,’97,’98,’00)
1989
Huang Rui
Exhibition, Tor Road Gallery,Kobe (also 1986, 1985) , Japan
1986
Huang Rui Exhibition, Chinese Modern Art Center, Osaka, Japan (also
’88,’90’,’92)
Huang
Rui Exhibition, Gallery Ueda Warehouse, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Huang
Rui Exhibition, Tor Road Gallery, Kobe, Japan (also ’86,’89)
1984
Huang Rui Exhibition, Central Gallery, Osaka, Japan (also ’94)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Right is Wrong - Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art from the M+ Sigg
Collection, ArtisTree, Hong Kong
Be inspired in Central, Landmark Atrium, Hong Kong
Agitprop! , Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn
Museum, New York, USA
Beyond Action, Kylin Contemporary Center of Art, Beijing, China
9817711: Regional history and Zeitgeist of Northeast Asia, Xi An China
2015
Black
and White Cats, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Art Projects, Hong Kong
2014
Right is Wrong / Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection, Ridmuseet, Umea, Sweden
2012
ArtHK 2012, 10
Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Chai-na/China Signs: Works by Huang Rui & Ko Siu Lam, Slought Foundation and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
2011
Red, 10 Chancery Lane
Gallery Art Projects, Hong Kong
ArtHK 2011, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Blooming in the
Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985, China Institute, New York, USA
LOVE and HOPE, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art,
Beijing, China
Black White, Zero Field Art Center, Beijing, China
Documentation of Chinese Performance Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Mid-Autumn Moon, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Within Emptiness, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Huang Rui and
Dai Guangyu: Recent Works, Galerie Adler, Paris, France
Reshaping
History: Chinese Art from 2001 to 2009, National Convention Center, Beijing,
China
Let’s Do
I-Ching, Czech Republic Pavilion Day, Shanghai World Expo, Shanghai, China
(Canceled by Expo Security Council)
Erotic, Hadrien
de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China
Warm Winter Arts Project, Three Shadows Photography
Art Centre, Beijing, China (Canceled by Chaoyang District Public Security
Bureau)
Kollowitz and
Chinese Artists, Artmia Art Center, Beijing, China
Warm Winter
Arts Project, Zhengyang, 008, and Dongying Art Districts, Beijing, China
2009
Warm Winter Arts Project, Zhengyang Art District, Beijing,
China
Asian Art in Characters, 604 Gallery, Busan, South
Korea
OPEN,
Performance Art Festival, Open Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Berlin Wall Memorial Exhibition, Twentieth
Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Ceremony, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Wall
Memorial Exhibition, Garden, German Embassy, Beijing, China
Images of China: The City Flag, Qujiang
District Art Center and Dayan Pagoda Square, Xi’an, China
International
Performance Show-Ceramic Passion, Expo park, Icheon, Korea
Xian
Qujiang International Contemporary Art Festival, Xian, China Xian Qujiang International Contemporary Art Festival
2008
Christian Dior & Chinese
Artists, UCCA, Beijing, China
Memory of China,
Galerie Zdenek Sklenar, Prague, Czech Republic
Interval of Silence, Redstar Gallery, Beijing,
China
China Avant-Garde,
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Case Studies of Artists in Art History, SZ Art
Center, Beijing, China
2007
China Action,
Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chinese
Performance Art Photography, Inter Gallery, Beijing, China
Made in China -
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
International
Asian Antique and Art Fair Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ShContemporary
07 Art Fair, Shanghai, China
The 4th Annual China
International Gallery Exposition 2006, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Beijing, China
China Now, Reincarnation of Chinese Contemporary
Art Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
2006
The 3rd
Annual China International Gallery Exposition 2006, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery,
Beijing, China
China Now, Reincarnation of Chinese Contemporary,
Art Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Outside Context Problem, 10 Chancery Lane
Gallery, Hong Kong
Wilderness Environmental Art Plan, 10 Chancery
Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Dadao International Performance Festival, 798
Art District, Beijing, China
Transborder Language 4th edition,
DIAF, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Create
History, Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, Shenzhen Art
Museum, China
Soldiers at Gate, DIAF, 706 Space, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2005
2nd Dashanzi International Art Festival: Language/Fable, Beijing, China
Convergence Art exhibition,
Dashanzi Art District, Beijing,
China
Transparent Box, Jianwai Soho, Beijing, China
Cubism Painting in Asia, National Museum of Modern
Art of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Forge The Fable, Zero Factory,
Beijing, China
2004
1st Dashanzi International Art Festival: Radiance and Resonance / Signals of Time, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
Transborder Language 2nd edition, DIAF, 798 Art
District, Beijing, China
Multiple
Definition Imaginary Community, Crystal City, Tianjin, China
2003
Transborder Language: Live Poetry/Performance Art, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
Blue Sky
Exposure – Anti SARS Exhibition, Dashanzi Art District and Yi Zhuang, Beijing,
China
Left
Hand, Right Hand, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
Reconstruct 798-798 Art District United
Activity, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2002
Beijing Afloat, Beijing Tokyo Art Project Opening Exhibition, Beijing,
China
The 1st
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum, Guangzhou, China
CIPAF 02, Banpe Museum, Xi’an, China
1st International
Contemporary Photograph Exhibition, Ping Yao, China
Theater of Our Lives, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of
Art, Kobe, Japan Dream 2001, Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Red Mansion
Foundation, London, UK
2001
Promenade in Asia “AFTER KITCH”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000
The Xing Xing 20 years, Tokyo
Gallery, Japan
Documentation of Chinese Avant-Garde Art in 90s,
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Choi Suk Ho and Huang Rui, Gallery Gu, Seo-Cho
Visual Art Institut, Seoul, Korea
Battle to a 2001, Gozo Yoshimasu and Huang Rui,
Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
Theater of Our Lives, Hyogo
Prefecture Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
1999
Memories of 100 Years, Huang
Rui Studio, Osaka, Japan
True, Hirano, Osaka, Japan
New I-Ching, 64 Divination of 6.4,
Central Park, Hong Kong
1998
NIPAF ’98 Nippon Performance
Art Festival, Nagano etc., Japan (also ’99)
Huang Rui Exhibition, JF Mayer Gallerie, Marseille,
France
L’Art Degenere, Gallerie Municipale de
Sextius, Aix en Provence, France
NIPAF a Paris, Ambassade du Japon en France, Paris,
France
Art Performance, Art Action, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
/ Tribo, Macao
Today 20 Years; Japan China International Art
Festival, Hamarikyu Aashi Multipurpose Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Chinese Abstraction and
Beyond, Hong Kong Arts center, Hong Kong
Modern de Hirano, Kumata Shino Shrine, Osaka, Japan
(also ‘98)
The 4th Rokko Island Water Front Open
Air Play, Marine Park, Kobe, Japan (also ‘98, ‘99, ’00)
Imaginery trip, Eiji Okubo, Huang Rui, two- person
Exhibition, Huang Rui Studio, Osaka
1996
Chinese Modern Arts, Gallery
Asur, Oslo, Norway
From East of Eurasia, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Origin and Myths of Fine New Art from Japan, China
and Korea, The Museum of modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1995
New Painting of Chinese
Artists, Alisan Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
1994
The
Xing Xing – China Modern Art & Cultural, Kunsterhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt,
Germany
Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary
Art, Japan
1993
The Xing Xing, 15 years, Tokyo
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Asian Wave, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan
Art Now, ’92; Twelve Artists: New Horizon in the 90’s,
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
1990
Ma
Desheng, Huang Rui, Wang Keping three-person exhibition, Han Art Gallery,
Taipei, Taiwan
Huang Rui and Wang Keping two-person exhibition,
Monte Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Xing Xing 10 years, Salpetriere Church, Paris,
France
1989
The
Xing Xing 10 Years, Han-Art Gallery, Hong Kong / Han-Art Gallery, Taipei,
Taiwan
1987
Xing Xing exhibition by 6 artists, Art Wave Gallery, New York, USA
Documentation of Xing Xing Exhibition, Harvest
University Cultural Center, Boston, USA
1985
Ma
Desheng and Huang Rui exhibition, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
1983
Ma
Desheng, Huang Rui, Wang Keping Exhibition, Beijing Elementary School, Beijing,
China
1981
China Contemporary Art
Exhibition, New York, Boston, USA
1980
The 2nd Xing Xing Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
1979
The 1st Xing Xing Exhibition, outside of the China Art Museum
and Hua Fang Zhai Gallery, Beijing, China
PUBLICATIONS
2009
1989 – 365 Art Days in China and Germany, Thinking
Hands
2008
798
in Beijing, new edition, Thinking Hands
2006
Beijing/Background,
Timezone 8 + Thinking Hands
2005
Language/Fable,
Timezone 8 + Thinking Hands
2004
798 in Beijing, Timezone 8 +
Thinking Hands