HAN LEI

BIOGRAPHY

1967  Born in Kaifeng, China
1989  Graduated from Central Academy of Craft and Design, Beijing, China.         
Currently works and lives in Beijing, China


Solo exhibitions:

2007 Renaissance of photography, Han Lei’s solo Exhibition, Gallery J Chen, Taiwan
Photography by Han Lei, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong kong
2006 Where is China? Han Lei Photography, Art Now Gallery,Beijing, China
2005  Portraits, galerie polaris, Paris, France
2005  Pagodas, galerie LOFT, Paris, France
2005 Han Lei Photography, Galerie Leda Fletcher,Geneva, Switzerland
Killing legend, 798 photo Gallery, Beijing, China
2004  Han Lei photographs, art scene china, Shanghai, China
2003  Strange, aura gallery, Shanghai, China
2001  Fictional landscape, Beijing, China
1997  Alienation, Hippolyte gallery, Helsinki, Finland;
Podewill gallery, Berlin, Germany; China art archives & warehouse, Beijing, China


Selective group exhibitions:

2007 Distance estimated by eyes photography of eight Chinese,Guan shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Sensitivity:Memories of twelve artists’s works, Dimensions Art Center, Taiwan_Beijing
Chinese contemporary art exhibition: the new wind from China, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea

2006  Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
2006  Chinese Avantguard Photography Since 1990, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
2006  Chinese Contemporary Photography for 20 years, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art , Nanjing, China
2006 Han Tsungwoo, Han Lei, Hong Lei Photography Exhibition, C5ART, Beijing, China
2005  Viewing the city, Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2005  City Skin-Images of the Contemporary Metropolis,Galeria Tap Seac Gallery,Macao
2004  Forbidden City international photography exhibition, Beijing, China
    Intersection: contemporary oil painting and photography, chambers fine
    art, New York, U.S.A.
2003  From China: contemporary Chinese photography, gallery image, Denmark
    A strange heaven: contemporary Chinese photography, the national art
    museum,Prague, Czech Republic
    Tempo di donne, sala gatti, Viterbo, Italy
    Rome photography festival, Rome, Italy
2002  Dialogue: beautiful and tragic, two Spanish photographers and two
    Chinese photographers, capital museum, Beijing, China
    Golden harvest: Chinese contemporary art, Croatia national museum,
    CroatiaFacing reality:Photographs of Han Lei, Wang Shilong and Zhang
    Hai’ er,China art archives & warehouse, Beijing, China
2001  1:1 The 3rd Ping Yao international photography festival, Ping Yao, China
    Disorientation: photography and video in China today, chambers fine art,
    New York, U.S.A.
2000  Cities of the 21st century: Siemens cultural program, Frankfurt,
    Germany;New York, U.S.A.
1999  A visible spirit: contemporary photography from the People’s Republic of
    China,
    Cypress college photography galleries, California, U.S.A.
1998  Railways and people: the 1998 Mother Jones international fund for
    documentary photography awards, art center and studio gallery, San
    Francisco, U.S.A.
1996  China: aktuelles aus 15 ateliers, Reithalle, Munich, Germany
1995  International art festival of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
1994  Contemporary photography from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong,HongKong arts centre