1956 : Born in Chongqing, Sichuan, China
1982 : Graduated from the Yunnan Art Academy, Yunnan, China
2001 : Teaching in the art department at Yunnan University

Selected Exhibitions

2009 Trascending new concreteness, Gallery artside, Beijing

2008 Trascending new concreteness, Gallery artside, Seoul

Red, Mao Xuhui’s drawing course, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai

2007 Mao Xuhui: 30 years as an artist, Hong Kong arts centre, Hong Kong

2007 ’85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2005 “Scissors--Mao Xuhui”, Nordica Gallery, Kunming, China

Vocabulary for power! Retrospective of Mao Xuhui’s 20 years as an artist, Xindong Cheng space for contemporary art, Beijing
2004 - “Mao Xuhui: Scissors”, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

1999 Scissors, Mao Xuhui”, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

1997 “Dream of the Red Earth, Mao Xuhui”, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore

Group Exhibitions

2010 Reshaping History, Beijing

Opening of Minsheng art museum, Shanghai

2009 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice

First contact: Contemporary art exhibition from Taipei, Kunming, Hong Kong, 99 art space, Kunming

Mao Xuhui, Tang ZhigangNominate Yunnan Young artist art show, 598 art space, Kunning

Annexe/Infix, SZ art centre, Beijing

2008 New interface 4, Here comes spring, Red Bridge gallery, Shanghai

Case studies of artists in art history, SZ art centre, Beijing

Intimate trend painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Guandu museum of fine arts, Taiwan

Beijing-Athens, Technopolis of the city of Athens, Athens

Back to Guishan: The 63rd year anniversary of UN day, UN development programme China, Beijing

2007 Back to the Gui Mountains, Soobin art gallery, Singapore

New interface 3: searching the future, Red bridge gallery, Shanghai

85’ new wave, UCCA, Beijing

Awakening from a ten year long sleep, HJY art center, Beijing

The trend of art thought in 85 and post 89 art, Espol-Sources gallery, Beijing

Viewung from Afar, Oriental vista art art collections gallery, Beijing

2006 Academic state chinese contemporary artists invitational exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing

Creating History chinese contemporary art from the 80’s, OCT contemporary art terminal, Shenzhen

Invitational exhibition of Yunna contemporary art 2006, Square gallery, Nanjing

2005 - 2005 “Air of Destiny”, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
- “Contrasts and Contradictions”, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
- “In Honor of 85”, Shanghai Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- “Awakening: La France Mandarine—The French Influence on Chinese Art”, Shanghai Urban Planning Center, National Art Museum of China
- "Yunnan Contemporary Art Exhibition" Museum of California State University, California, USA.

1st Kunming international sculpture festival, Daguan Park, Kunming

2004 celebrating 20 years of HanArt TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Unrelated to reality!, Liu Haisu art museum, Shanghai

Yunnan art exhibition, Kunming
2003 - "From China with Art" Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta,Indonesia
- “Embracing The New Century--The Third Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- Guiyang Biennial of Oil Painting, Guiyang, China
2002 - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
- China--Korea Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2001 - “Dream 2001 Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, The Red Mansion Ltd, London, England
- “Made by China”, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
2000 - “Tale of Two Cities-Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition”, London, UK
1999 - “1999 Chinese Art Exhibition”, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998 - “Inside Out: New Chinese Art”, Asia Society and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Museum of Modern Art and Asia Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
- China's New Art Exhibition at the Observation de Montreal, Artist-Run Exhibition Center Montreal, Canada
- The First Collection Exhibition of Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
1997 - “Quotation Marks”: Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- “Red and Grey, Eight Avant-Garde Chinese Artists”, Soobin Art Gallery and Tresors International Fine Art Fair For Asia, Singapore
1996 - “Shared Dreams”, Jamaica Center, New York, USA
1993 - “China's New Art, Post-1989”, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
- “Mao Goes Pop”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.