1960 Born in Jining, Inner Mongolia
1977-79 Army Service
1983 Graduated from Tianjin Institute of Fine Arts, majoring in Painting and Printmaking Instruction, Painting Department, Inner Mongolia Teachers College,Dept. of Fine Arts
1989 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, Masters Degree in Printmaking
1998 Freeman Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, USA
1999 Workshops at Elam School of Fine Arts; Wanganui Polytechnic; Dunedin Polytechnic School
of Fine Arts;School of Art Lithography and
Lectured at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Present: Deputy Professor, Deputy Head of Dept. of Printmaking, CAFA
Solo Exhibitions
1990 Su Xinping at Gallery 13, Hong Kong
1991 Su Xinping Lithographs, Shanghai Art Museum
1992 Su Xinping, National Art Museum of China (NAMC), Beijing Su Xinping, Red Gate Gallery
1993 Fire Station Gallery, Sydney Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Su Xinping, Red Gate Gallery Su Xinping, Yellow River Gallery, New York
1994 Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA
1995 Recent Lithographs by Su Xinping, Red Gate Gallery LKF - the Gallery,
Hong Kong Fire Station Gallery Kiang Gallery, Atlanta
1996 Su Xinping—A Decade of Printmaking, Red Gate Gallery
1997 Sea of Desires, Red Gate Gallery
Su Xinping, Chinese Contemporary, London Mamalieres, Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris
1998 Su Xinping Comrade Series, Red Gate Gallery
Recent Lithographs, Exhibition, Workshop and Lecture, LASALLE-SIA
College of the Arts, Singapore Mongolia in Transition, White Lotus Gallery, Eugene, Oregon, USA
1999 Untitled, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon, New Zealand Exhibition of Lithographs, Dunedin Community Art Gallery,
New Zealand Hope: Recent Paintings by Su Xinping, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2000 Outer Appearance and the Inner Mindscape, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore Inner Spirit, Red Gate Gallery
2001 Su Xinping, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery Ling Nan Museum, Guangzhou
Su Xinping Exhibition, Portland Art Gallery, Cleveland, USA
2005 Su Xinping Portrait Works, NAMC Su Xinping, Red Gate Gallery Group Exhibitions
1989 China Avant-Garde, NAGC Modern Chinese Prints, Shanghai Art Gallery
1990 New Works by New Chinese Artists, NAGC Prints from Four Asian Countries, Chiba Art Gallery, Japan
1991 Sapporo International Print Biennial Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan
World Triennial of Small Prints, Museum of Modern Art, France Osaka International Prints Triennial Exhibition, Osaka, Japan
1992 Modern Chinese Prints, Rome
1993 The Painter's Den, International Art Palace Gallery, Beijing The 6th International Biennial
of Prints and Drawing in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan International Invitational Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan
1995 Chinese Avant-Garde, Art Museum of Gothenburg, Sweden
Chinese Contemporary Art, Meridian Gallery, Australia
1996 The People's Progress - 20th Century Chinese Woodcuts, The Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Australia Contemporary Chinese Prints, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Asia Print Art Festival, Pusan Cultural Centre, Korea
1997 Three Printmakers from CAFA, Red Gate Gallery
World Prints Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Oregon In & Out - Contemporary Chinese Art of the Mainland & Diaspora, Australia
Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague New Art from China, Flanders Gallery, San Francisco
New Art from China, Marco Polo Gallery, USA World Triennial of Prints, Paris 4th Triennale Mondiale d'Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, Auvergne France 8th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
In & Out Contemporary Chinese Art from China and Australia, RMIT Gallery,
Melbourne; Sydney College of the Arts
1998 In & Out Contemporary Chinese Art from China and Australia, Plimsoll Gallery,
Tasmania School of the Arts, Hobart Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom,
Galerie Otso, Espoo, Finland Eastern Approaches, Brunel University,UK
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York Retake:A Selected Exhibition
Reviewing Red Gate Artists' Signature Works curated by Carolyn Fitzpatrick,Red Gate Gallery
Political Pop Art Works from China, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
The First Exhibition of Square Studio, International Art Palace Gallery, Beijing
Chinese in Verduno City, Art Inside the Castle, Italy
1999 Urban Yearnings: Portraits of Contemporary China by Liu Qinghe, Su
Xinping and Zhang Yajie, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
China 1999, Limn Gallery, San Francisco Square Studio, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Center,
Bonn, Germany Square Studio, Shenzhen Art Museum The Tree of Life, Qingping Gallery, Boston
2000 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, HK Museum
2001 China Art Now!, Singapore Art Museum Clues to the Future - Red Gate Gallery's
10th Anniversary, Beijing 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum
2002 Guangzhou Chinese Artists Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum
2003 New Generation and Post - Revolution, China Blue Gallery, Beijing An Opening Era - 40th Anniversary of the Founding of CAFA, CAFA
Chinese Art Today, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing First Beijing International Art Biennale, NAGC Beijing
2004 Cinesi-artisti Fra tradizione e presente, Italy
2005 11th India International Triennial, India
Wall - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing Millennium Art Museum; UB Anderson Gallery, New York; Albright-Knox ArtGallery
Reference Material
1986 Su Xinping's Prints, Art Magazine, (Beijing), Feb
1987 Lithographs of Su Xinping, Art Magazine (Beijing), Sept 15
1989 Vast Grasslands Inspire Artist, China Daily, Sept Motif and Space, Art Magazine, (Beijing), Nov
1990 My Creative and Artistic Goals, Printmaking Art, (Shanghai), Sept
1991 Gao Minglu, Far-Leading Silence and Tranquillity: The Prints of Su Xinping,Catalogue, March
1992 Entering the Grasslands: The Art of Su Xinping's Lithographs, People Daily, (Overseas Edition), Dec
1993 Silence Leads to a Deeper View: An Exhibit of Su Xinping's Prints at the Fire
Station Gallery, The Chinese Herald, (Sydney), July
Jacquetta Hayes, Taking Mongolian Art to the Rest of the World, Window (Hong Kong), Sept 3
Jerry Cullum, Su Xinping's Shadowy Images Clearly Evoke New China, The Atlanta Journal, Oct 29
1994 Mongolian Artist Exhibit to be Displayed at Seton Hall, Irvington Herald (New Jersey), Jan 13
Peggy McGlune, Chinese Rural Life Unfolds in Lithographs, The Star-Ledger (US), Jan An Exhibition of
Su Xinpin's Prints: The Sudden Emergence of a Mongolian Style, World Daily (Chinese Edition), Feb 16
1995 David M. Raddock, Regarding China's New Avant-garde Artists, The New Art Examiner, (US), Feb
John McDonald, Mysteries and Majesty, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 18
Susan Dewar, Report from Beijing, Orientations, (Hong Kong), May
Jon Spade, Cultural Revolution - China's Contemporary Artists Show the
Country's Real Face, American Express Departures Magazine, Sep/Oct
1996 Susan Dewar, Beijing Report: China, ARTAsiaPacific, (Australia), Vol. 3, No 1
Shao Yiyang, Out of the Grasslands, ARTAsiaPacific, (Australia), Vol. 3, No 2
Randy Crag, Prints for the Downtrodden, The Oregonian, (US), May
Su Xinping & Song Xiaoxia, Facing Chinese Reality: A Dialogue about Su Xinping's
Change of Recent Work, Art Research, (Beijing), Vol 4, No 21 Zhang Xiaojun, Horse Taking
Back, Fine Arts Literature - Chinese Printmaking (Beijing), Vol 1 No 13
Sasha Grishin, Burst of Energy on the Chinese Scene, Canberra Times, Dec 10
1997 John Clark, Progress in Prints, Asian Art News, (Hong Kong), Jan/Feb
Su Xinping Lithograph - Supplement au No. 203, Art et Metiers du Livre, (Paris), May/June
Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Art Galleries Expand: Fresh Talent From Here and Abroad, Star Tribune, (US), Sept 5
Doug Hanson, Chinese Revelations, Minneapolis Star Tribune, (US), Sept 20
John Baichtal, Crossing the Border, Minneapolis Daily News, Sept 25
Robyn McKenzie, Creative Views of China from the Inside & Out, The Age (Melbourne), August
Song Xiaoxia, Visual Art in Consuming Times: From the Horse Walking to the
Distant Place to the Sea of Desire, 21st Century Magazine, Chinese University of HK, Institute of Chinese Studies, Dec
1998 Karen Smith, Su Xinping at Red Gate Gallery, Asian Art News, Jan/Feb
Steven Mufson, The New Cultural Revolution: Chinese Artists Paint Loneliness of Modern Society, Washington Post, March
Square Studio: A Semi-Sociologist with the Methodology of an Alchemist, Artlife (China), May/June
Karen Smith, Square Studio at Beijing International Art Palace, Asian Art News, July/Aug
Gao Ling, To Examine Social Issues, Artlife, July/August
Holland Cotter, A Great Chinese Leap Into a New Sort of Cultural Revolution, New York Times, Sept 18
Britta Erickson, Made in China, LIMN: Magazine of International Design, (US), Issue 2
Bob Keefer, Mongolia Meets the Millenium, The Register-Guard, Oregon (US), Nov
1999 Julian Scarff, Down to the Sea, Asian Art News, Jan/Feb
City Lights, San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Datebook, 7 Feb
Bruce Munro, Chinese Prints to be Exhibited, The Star, (New Zealand), March
Tracie Barrett, Mongolian Artist's Exhibition Opens, Otago Daily Times, (New Zealand), March
Chinese Artist Showing, Otago Daily Times, (New Zealand), March
New Artist Opens Window on Modern China, Festival of Asia, March
Far From Home, Arts/Entertainment Impressions, Otago Daily News, April 13 Artists Seek to
Influence Society, Asia 2000, May/June Bridie Lonie, Dunedin, Art New Zealand, No. 91, Winter
Awards
1989 Grand Prize, Young Printmakers from the Mainland, San Yuan Se Art Center,Taipei Bronze Medal, The 7th National Art Exhibition of China, NAGC
1989 Excellence Prize, National Exhibition of Prints by Young Artists, Shanghai Art Gallery
1991 Outstanding Prize, Beijing-Taipei Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, CAFA Excellence Prize, World Triennial of Small Prints, Museum of Modern Art, France
1992 Excellence Prize, Twentieth Century-China Exhibition, NAGC Bronze Medal, Eleventh National Exhibition of Prints, Chen Lie Hall, CAFA
1993 Nominated as candidate for UNESCO Award for the Promotion of the Arts
1994 Excellence Prize, China Art Expo, Guangzhou Excellence Prize, Shenzhen Art Expo Silver Medal, 12th National Exhibition of Prints, Guangzhou
1998 Scholarship for Vermont Artists-In-Residency, USA
2005 Singapore Tyler Print Institute - Visiting Artists Program
Collections
Asia Pacific Museum, USA The British Museum, England Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia National Gallery of Australia, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Portland Art Museum, USA Shanghai Art Museum NAMC Seton Hall University, USA Yokohama Art Gallery, Japan Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan Ludwig Museum, Germany Gallerie Otso, Finland San Francisco Museum, USA Jundt Art Museum, USA Private collections around the world.