CHENG Ran

♂ *1981 / China

Solo exhibitions

Always I Distrust

Gazelli Art House, London (GB)
2 Jun 2023 – 8 Jul 2023
Diary of a Madman: Trilogy

The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
19 Jan 2018 – 17 Mar 2018
IN COURSE OF THE MIRACULOUS

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
26 Oct 2017 – 31 Oct 2017
Diary of a Madman

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing (CN)
9 Sep 2017 – 22 Oct 2017
Selected Films

Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern (CH)
17 Feb 2017 – 9 Apr 2017
Diary of a Madman

New Museum, New York (US)
19 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017
ILLUSION

Night Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
1 Jul 2016 – 30 Jul 2016
A Film in Progress

Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern (CH)
18 Sep 2015 – 24 Oct 2015
The Last Generation

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing (CN)
11 May 2013 – 7 Jul 2013
The cinema of silence

Arario Gallery Seoul, Seoul (KR)
10 Jul 2012 – 12 Aug 2012
What Why How?

LEO XU PROJECTS, Shanghai (CN)
22 Apr 2012 – 27 May 2012

Group

The Pet Show

Fotografiska CN, Shanghai (CN)
7 Dec 2024 – 9 Mar 2025

with Hironori Akutagawa, Winnie Au, Carli Davidson, Tim Flach, Masahisa Fukase, Sophie Gamand, Gerrard Gethings, Wang Hanlin, Leila Jeffreys, Yoshinori Mizutani, Antoine Schneck, Robin Schwartz …
Between Performance and Documentation

Contemporary Photography and Video from China

Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (US)
26 Aug 2023 – 17 Dec 2023

with LIU Bolin, XING Danwen, SONG Dong, Tao Hui, HONG Lei, Pixy Liao , Ma Qiusha, RONG Rong, LIN Yilin, Miao Ying, JIANG Zhi, QIU Zhijie
A New Ballardian Vision

Chapter 2: Leo Xu Projects

Metro Pictures, New York (US)
29 Jun 2017 – 4 Aug 2017

with Pixy Liao , Liu Shiyuan, CHEN Wei
14th International Istanbul Biennial

SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
5 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015

with Haig Aivazian, Francis Alys, Song-Ming Ang, Ed Atkins, Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Sonia Balassanian, Lynda Benglis, Karl Blossfeldt, Janet Cardiff, Edgar Cleijne, Tacita Dean, LIU Ding …
ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice

Ullens Center Contemporary Art, Beijing (CN)
13 Jan 2013 – 14 Apr 2013

with Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), JIANG Pengyi, CHEN Wei, ZHAO Zhao
Unfinished Country: New Video from China

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)
2 Nov 2012 – 17 Feb 2013

with YANG Fudong, LI Ming, Wang Qingsong, CHEN Qiulin, JIN Shan, Sun Xun, CHEN Zhou
The Other Wave

Chen Wei, Cheng Ran, Jiang Pengyi and Ye Linghan.

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (GB)
7 Dec 2011 – 29 Jan 2012

with JIANG Pengyi, CHEN Wei
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Moving Image in China (1988-2011)

Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
9 Sep 2011 – 27 Nov 2011

with Bao AiLun, Qiu Anxiong, CHEN Chieh-Jen, Zhang Ding, SONG Dong, CAO Fei, YANG Fudong, YUAN Goang-Ming, WANG Gongxin, Ran Huang, PENG Hung-Chih, ZHU Jia …
Catch the Moon in the Water: Emerging Chinese Artists

NORR COHAN, New York (US)
16 Jun 2011 – 29 Jul 2011

with CHEN Wei, HU Xiangqian, Sun Xun, ZHAO Zhao
INTERMISSION

James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai (CN)
19 Feb 2011 – 9 Mar 2011

with Lucas and Jason Ajemian, Maya Deren, Amy Granat, Jesper Just, Alex Prager, Yinka Shonibare MBE
The Tell-tale Heart

James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai (CN)
27 Feb 2010 – 11 Apr 2010

with Martha Colburn, Zhang Ding, Amy Granat, Feng Mengbo, LI Ming, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists

Arario Shanghai, Beijing (CN)
1 Dec 2007 – 20 Jan 2008

with WANG Ake, WANG Dan, WANG Guangle, ZHANG Lehua, CHI Peng, Ma Qiusha, JIN Shan, CHEN Wei, DU Yan, TANG Yi, LIU Yiqing, Lin Zhipeng - 223
Chinese Video: Chord Changes in the Megalopolis

Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
13 Sep 2007 – 17 Nov 2007

with CHEN Chieh-Jen, WANG Jianwei, Dong Jun, WANG Wei , Ai Weiwei, LIN Yilin, Liang ZHAO, XU Zhen, YANG Zhenzhong, JIANG Zhi
Shouting truth

Platform China Contemporary Art Institut, Beijing (CN)
10 Mar 2007 – 15 Apr 2007

with CHEN Wei

Events

FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

114 Artists. 28 Exhibitions

Front International, Cleveland (US)
14 Jul 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Eric Baudelaire, Walead Beshty, Dawoud Bey, Barbara Bloom, Candice Breitz, Gerard Byrne, Willie Doherty, Paul Druecke, Paul Druecke, Harrell Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher …
KINO DER KUNST

KINO DER KUNST, München (DE)
19 Apr 2017 – 23 Apr 2017

with AES+F, Halil Altindere, Shoja Azari, Clement Cogitore, Sue de Beer, Víctor Erice, Dionis Escorsa, Omer Fast, Simon Fujiwara, Johan Grimonprez, Noa Gur, Michal Helfman …