Cai Guo-Qiang: My Stories of Painting, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Peasant da Vincis, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy

Penglai / Horai, Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan

There and Back Again, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

Unmanned Nature, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Impromptu, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Ninth Wave, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Moving Ghost Town, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA

Falling Back to Earth, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Da Vincis do Povo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and Museu dos Correios, Brasilia; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and Museu dos Correios, São Paulo, Brazil

Spring, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

Sky Ladder, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

A Clan of Boats, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

Beijing Games: Sketches and Video, the Greenhouse, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

Move Along, Nothing to See Here, Cohen Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA

1040M Underground, IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine

Saraab, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar

Sunshine and Solitude, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Odyssey, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, permanent gunpowder drawing installation in the Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery

Head On, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore

Travels in the Mediterranean, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice, France

Peasant da Vincis, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Fallen Blossoms, Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA

Hanging Out in the Museum, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, Guggenheim Bilbao (organised in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York), Spain

The 7th Hiroshima Prize: Cai Guo-Qiang, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (organized in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York), China

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Light Passage: Cai Guo-Qiang & Shiseido, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune: Stage One, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

Inopportune, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Stage, special project, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Transparent Monument, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Education Panel, Yan’an, China (curator)

Long Scroll, National Gallery of Canada, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada

DMoCA 3, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan (curator)

Head On, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Searching for Dreams in the Canals, Suzhou Museum, China

On Black Fireworks, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Black Rainbow, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Virgin Garden: Emersion, China Pavilion, 51st Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy (curator)

Paradise, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Life Beneath the Shadow, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

Aeolian Garden, Arte all’Arte, Arte Continua, UMoCA exhibition by Jennifer Wen Ma (curator), Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy 

Tornado: Explosion, Project for the Festival of China, John F, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, USA

Traveler, Freer & Sackler Gallery and Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

Inopportune, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA

Pause: DMoCA Inaugural Exhibition with Kiki Smith, Niigata, Japan (curator)

For Your Pleasure Matrix 204, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

 An Arbitrary History, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium

Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK

Explosion Event: Light Cycle Over Central Park, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA

Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, Creative Time, New York, USA

Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky: Kite Project for Siwa, Egypt, Siwa, Egypt

Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Cai Guo-Qiang’s CHADO Pavilion—Homage to Tenshin Okakura, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan

Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

Ethereal Flowers, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy

Impression Oil Drawings, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Performing Chinese Ink Painting, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

UMoCA and inaugural exhibition by Ni Tsai-chin Who Is the Happiest?, Arte all’ Arte, Arte Continua, Colla di Val d’Elsa, Italy (curator)

An Arbitrary History, Musee d’art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France Artistic Direction for APEC Cityscape Fireworks, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, China

Project for Projects, Fondation Cartier pour l’ art Contemporain, Paris, France

Ascending a Staircase. 69th Regiment Armory, New York, USA

I Am the Y2K Bug, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Daydreaming, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Daydreaming, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

No Construction, No Destruction: Bombing the Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan

Flying Dragon in the Heavens, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark

Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

The Century with Mushroom Clouds - Projects for the 20th Century, Nevada, Nuclear Test Site, Salt Lake, New York, USA

Calendar of Life, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan

From the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan

The Horizon from the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan

Concerning Flame, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Chaos, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Long Mai (The Dragon Meridian), P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan

Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, Jiayuguan City, China

Wailing Wall–From the Engine of Four Hundred Cars, IBM Kawasaki, City Galley, Kawasaki, Japan

Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects, P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan

Works 1988/89, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

Culture City of East Asia 2016, Todaiji Temple, Nara, Japan

The Great Animal Orchestra, Fondation Catier pourtour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2015, Tsunan Mountain Park, NiigataPrefecture, Japan

Harmony and Transition, Marta Herford, Herfod, Germany

Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851, Triennale de Milano, Milan, Italy

Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY

Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

China’s Changing Landscape: Contemporary Chinese Ink, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skârhamn, Sweden

Solaris Chronicles, Atelier de la Mécanique, Campus LUMA, Arles, France

Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from YAGEO Foundation, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Vivid Memories, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France

I Look At Things..., Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ravaged, M-Museum Leuven, Belgium

White Light/White Heat, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Italy

Mamac 20 ans d'art contemporain, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France

Portrait of the Times – 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States

Dialogues with Contemporary Art from Museum Collection, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Tsunan Mountain Park, NiigataPrefecture, Japan

Extra-Large, Forum Grimaldi Monaco, Monaco

Longing for Perfection, 21 Years of Collecting by the Kröller-Müller Museum, Kröller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Heaven and Hell. From Magic Carpets to Drones, Boghossian Foundation, Brussel, Belgium

Windflower, Perceptions of Nature, Kröller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman Daisuke Miyatsu, Agora Art Project x Space, Taipei, Taiwan

RegressProgress, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Water, Fire and the Earth, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

Nuit Electriques, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Collector’s Choice / Collector’s Voice, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

Berliner Bilder, Koidl Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany

Post Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara Arts and Cities, Aichi Triennale 2010

Alpha Omega, DESTE Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

The Sky within My House: Contemporary Art in 16 Patios of Cordoba, Municipal Archive of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

Bike Rides, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA

The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan

Stages, (organized by the Artstrong Foundation), Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

Meeting Point, 10th Havana Bienal, Cuba

El Patio de mi Casa, Arte Contemporaneo en 16 Patios de Còrdoba, Cordoba, Spain

ACADEMIA Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris

Prospect .1, New Orleans for creative arts, New Orleans, USA

New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond. Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue Exhibition Series II, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, Honolulu Academy of Arts (organized in collaboration with the China Institute Gallery), New York, USA

God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Cordoipo, Italy

Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Gallery, London, UK

Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

6 Billion Perps Held Hostage! Artists Address Global Warming, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA

Of Nature and Friendship: Modern Chinese Paintings from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA

Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Searching for Dreams in the Canals, Suzhou Museum, China

Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA; Traveled to Seattle Asian Art Museum, USA

Out of Time: A Contemporary View, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Tsunan Mountain Park, NiigataPrefecture, Japan

Min Tai Yuan Museum Collection, Min Tai Yuan Museum, Quanzhou, China

Eldorado, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Chinese Relativity: Part 1, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA

Dreaming Now, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Trading Place, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Licht and Schatten, Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg, Germany

[My private] Heroes, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

Can Buildings Curate, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA

Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Quantum Grids, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Wall, Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York

Made for This World, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

International Film Festival Rotterdam: Exposing Cinema, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Snow Show, Rovaniemi, Finland

All Under Heaven, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

26th Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Miramar Air Show, San Diego Museum of Art and Marine Corps Air Station, San Diego, USA

Past in Reverse, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA

Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

Pulse, Art, Healing, and Transformation, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

Alore, Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA

Drawing Show, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA

Painting without Painting, Museum für bildende Künste, Leipzig, Germany

Necessity of Relationship, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

Art That Heals, Apexart Gallery, New York, USA

M Meeting, Zhejiang Library, Hangzhou, China

ev+ a 2002, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland

Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

The Power of Art—The 2nd Inaugural Show of the Prefectural Museum of Art, The Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Kobe, Japan

Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Demeter, Obihiro, Japan

Magnet: Foreign Artists in Tuscany, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Pistoia, Itala

The Galleries Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

3rd Biennale de Montréal-2002, Montréal, Canada

The First Guangzhou Triennial Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Ce Qui Arrive, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France

Visual environment for Asunder, Yin Mei Dance, Danspace, St. Mark’s Church, New York, USA

Gift, Palazzo Papesse, Siena, Italy; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, USA

Locus/Focus, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Project Refreshing, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Valencia de Bienale, Valencia, Spain

Mega Wave, Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan

Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

Gratitude, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan

Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Gratitude, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan

Wall, National Museum of History, Taiwan

Outbound, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA

2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Over the Edges, SMAK, Gent, Belgium

Biennale of Sydney 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

The Act of Resistance, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sabastian, Spain

Art/Unlimited/Basel/2000, Art/31/Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sharing Exoticism, 5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

The Quite in the Land, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

Echigo-Tasumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan

media_city_seoul, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Open End—MoMA 2000, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Shanghai Spirit, Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Museum of Art, China

Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands

Opening S.M.A.K, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium

Looking for a Place, The Third International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, USA

International Currents in Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

Hiriya in the Museum: Artists’ and Architects’ Proposals for Rehabilitation of the Site, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Aperto over All, 48th Venice Biennial, Italy

Beyond The Future, The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia

Kunstwegen, Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany

Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

La Ville, le Jardin, la memoire: 1998, 2000, 1999, Academie de France a Rome, Rome, Italy

Where Heaven and Earth Meet, Art Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, USA

Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Global Vision: New Art from the 90's part II, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA; MARCO, Monterey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Issey Miyake Making Things, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France; ACE Gallery, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Remanence, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Promenade in Asia II, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, U.S.A.; SITE, Santa Fe, USA

Future, Past, Present, 47th Venice Biennial, Italy

On Life, Beauty, Translation, and Other Difficulties, 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; P.S.1, New York, USA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark, Hayward Gallery London, UK; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

In the Ruins of Twentieth Century, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA

Between Heavens and Earth - Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art II, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

Asian-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

Universalis, 23rd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Origins and Myths of Fire - New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

The Red Gate, Museum van Hedendaagse kunst, Gent, Belgium

The Hugo Boss Prize 1996, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, USA

The 51st Scripps Ceramics Annual, Ruth Handler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, USA

The 1st Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa

Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Transculture, 46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

Across the Water, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Promenade in Asia, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Making New Kyoto '94, Kyoto, Japan

Open System, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan

Well Spring, Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath, UK

Creativity in Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan

Heart of Darkness, Rijksmuseum Kruller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands 

Outdoor Workshop ‘93, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan

Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

The 7th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Okayama, Japan

Exceptional Passages, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan

Looking for Tree of Life, the Museum of Modern art, Saitama, Japan

Das Kunstwerk in Zeitaleer Seiner Telekommunizerbarkeit, Vienna, Austria

Encountering the Others, The Kassel International Art Exhibition, Hann Munden, Germany

Exceptional Passages, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan

Museum City Tenjin ‘90, Fukuoka, Japan

Chine Demain pour hier, Pourrieres, Aix-en-Provence, France

The 7th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Okayama, Japan

'89 Tama River Fussa Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Wuyi-Shan Open Air Exhibition, Fujian, China

The Shanghai and Fujian Youth Modern Art Joint Exhibition, Fuzhou City Museum, Fujian, China