Mu Yu Ming

Mu Yu Ming

木玉明

Born 1971, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Based: Kunming, China

Naxi — Descendant of the Mu Royal Family of Lijiang

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Education & International Residencies

2015

MACL Contemporary Art Museum, Quebec, Canada — Artist-in-Residence

2005–2007

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam — Artist-in-Residence · Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Rijksakademie Joint Scholarship

1996–2000

Norwegian Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo — BFA, Department of Experimental Art

1993–1994

Central Academy of Art & Design, Beijing — Artist-in-Residence

Selected Projects

2025

She Nian Fo — Pa Pae Meditation Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2023 —

My Flesh (role performance art) — ongoing

2023 —

OUR CHILDREN — Chiang Mai, Thailand

2022 —

Five Hundred Arhats — global online premiere

2017–2019

ChuangTzu Project — Bajie, Anning, Yunnan

2013–2022

Ten Years of Silence — life performance work

2011 —

Life as Game — lifelong art project (ongoing)

2010

Give Myself Away for a Year — performance

2009

Genealogy — New Zealand Government collaboration

2008 —

Farmer Station — Experimental Rural Bauhaus

2004

Himalaya — French Government collaboration

2003 —

Lijiang Studio — non-profit international artist residency (with Jay Brown)

2003

20 Days — 20 Days, 20 Countries, Kunming Creative Warehouse

2000

Killing — experimental film, Asian Experimental Art Film Festival

Solo Exhibitions

2006

Family Portrait, Haidong Studio, Lijiang, China

2005

The Period of the Great Revolution, Marseille, France & Lijiang, China

2005

An Illusory Character Made in China, Argentur, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2005

Solo Exhibition, L'Estran, Binic, France

2004

Solo Exhibition, Hoseman, Oslo, Norway

2003

Solo Exhibition, Loft, Kunming, China

Group Exhibitions

2014

Bridge (installation), COART Asia Youth Art Festival, Shuhe, Lijiang, China

2013

On-site works (collected), 23rd Hungary MEDIAWAVE Light & Shadow Music Festival, Hungary

2006

Group Exhibition, Hiscox Art Award, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2006

Parts, Group Exhibition, Xiamen, China

Government Collaborations

2009

Genealogy — Official collaboration with the New Zealand Government

2004

Himalaya — Official collaboration with the French Government

Institutional Collections & Records

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten — official artist-in-residence archive (Mu Yuming / Farmer Mu)

Norwegian Royal Academy of Fine Arts — alumni archive, experimental film Killing

IberLibro international art book platform — Lijiang China Studio/Residence (2004)

23rd Hungary MEDIAWAVE Festival — on-site works collected

Cultural departments of France, New Zealand, Canada, Hungary, Norway, Netherlands — cooperative project archives

Selected Press & Media

中国文旅头条 — ChuangTzu Project and Lijiang Studio

云南网 (Yunnan Net) — ChuangTzu Project

春城晚报 (Chuncheng Evening News) — ChuangTzu Project

Contact

muyuming.com

WeChat: 老木参游