Cao Hui is best known for his oversized and shockingly realistic sculptures of half-flayed animals. His primary aim, he says, is to “trigger the viewer’s emotions: surprise, sorrow, anger, sadness or laughter”, and in the series of which Urinals (2001) is part, he goes for laughs. The fibreglass sculptures are intended simply “to make fun of everyday objects,” he says. But he is well aware that many viewers will associate his urinals (the bodies, he says, are male) with Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Fountain—itself a grand artistic joke.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Cao Hui Solo Exhibition, PIFO New Art Studios, Beijing
2009
Visual Temperature:Cao Hui’s Solo Exhibition, PIFO New ArtGallery,Beijing,China
2008
A Civilized Banquet:The Scupture Solo Exhibition of Cao Hui,My HumbleHouse Art Gallery,Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
LATENT REALITY－Yang Mao-Lin, Cao Hui, Qu Guangci, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan The Evolving Art,The Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,Beijing, China
Endless Variations, Red Star Gallery, Beijing
Lin & Lin, Taipei, Beijing@SH Contemporary, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Momentum, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
Trace & Qualitative Leap Beijing Film Academy’s 60th Anniversary Exhibition The Second Beijing Film Academy NEW MEDIA ART Triennial, MUSEUM of BFA, Beijing,China Negotiations－The 2nd Today’s Documents
2010
Today Art Museum, Beijing,China Reshaping History－Chinart From 2000 To 2009
Beijing,China
2009
The Home Court －An Exhibition Of Contemporary Art,White Box Museum Of Art,Beijing, China Zhī Hū Zhě Yě－ContemporaryArt Rhetoric,Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China Time Lag,Linda Gallery,Beijing,China Source,MANO Art Gallery,Beijing,China Discovery,Found Museum, Beijing, China Spectacle－to each his own,MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
2009
Chinese Fantasies,Found Museum Opening Exhibition,Found Museum, Beijing, China My Bone, flesh, and skin－A special Exhibition of ACAF NY, ACAF,New York,USA Art Unforbidden－Art Beijing
2008
Thematic Exhibition,National Agricultural Exhibition, Beijing, China The Sixth Shen Zhen Contemporary Sculpture Review Exhibition in ChengDu,Cheng Du OCT Contemporary Art Center, ChengDu, China Hypallage－The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art,The OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China Inward, PIFO New Art Studios, Beijing, China Face off, Qinghe Contemporary Arts Museum, Nanjing, China Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space,Beijing, China
2007
Perspective Views－The Sixth Session of Contemporary SculptureExhibition,He Xiang Ning Arts Museum／OCT Contemporary Arts Center,Shenzhen, China Calling AStag AHorse, San Shang Art,Beijing,China The Revelling Waves, Duo LunContemporary Arts Museum, Shanghai, China Harmony－international Contemporary Arts Exhibition, A-Space, Beijing, ChinaExhibition of Arts Works, Changchun Arts Museum, Changchun, China Group Exhibition of China Sculptors, Geshan Gallery, Taipei Taiwan19948th National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2006
Double-Kick Firecracker, China Contemporary Arts Exhibition, TangrenGallery, Beijing, China
2005
Luxurious Times’Sculpture Arts Parables－Group Exhibition of ChinaContemporary Sculptor, HaiYi Chang Zhou, Tianjing, China
2003
Veer－The first Session of Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists,Chongqing Arts Museum, Chongqing, China
2001
Shanghai Youth Arts Exhibition, Shanghai Arts Museum, Shanghai, China West Lake International Sculpture International Exhibition,West Lake Arts Museum,Hangzhou, China
2000
Several Standard Sculptures of Contemporary China Exhibition, Shanghai Arts Museum, Shanghai, China The Second Session of Young Sculptors Invitational Exhibition,West Lake ArtsMuseum, Hangzhou, China
1995The Tryout of Graduation Works From China Arts Academy, Qingdao Sculpture Stadium, Qingdao,China International Invitational
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