1985

Born Shanghai, China

2011 MFA, Sculpture Department, Fine Art College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Protrude, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London

2023

We the singular in multiple ghosts. I the multiple as parts of whole., ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, NYU, Shanghai, China  
Yu Ji: A Guest, A Host, A Ghost
, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa CA, USA
Yu Ji: Miss Shell, Delta, and Two Noughts, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Germany

2022

Against Shadows /  无视阴影, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England

2021

Unseen Gesture, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria

Wasted Mud, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England

Spontaneous Decisions II, Gallery 0, Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China

2020

Forager, Edouard Malingue off-site: Avenue Apartments, Room 314, Shanghai, China

Stones in Her Pocket, Yu Ji | am, Positive Art Research Centre, Project Terrace, Shanghai, China

2016

Black Mountain, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

Dairy of Sulfur Mining – Pataauw, Mind Set art Center, Taipei, China

2014 Never Left Behind, C-Space, Beijing, China
2013 In the Skin, Mind Set art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2012

Not Moss, Artists Special Project, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

Moss, Visual Point Space, Shanghai, China

2011

I Stand Alone, C-Space, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2023 

Bodily Reaction: Vitalizing the Bare Life, TAIKANG SPACE, Beijing, China 
Column-Untitled No.3
,
commissioned by Friends of the High Line, New York NY, USA, curated by Cecilia Alemani (commission)
Sigg Prize 2023
, M+, Hong Kong, China

2021

Ulisse Lineare, Galleria ZERO…, Milan, Italy

ATP The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

New Museum Triennial 2021: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York NY, USA

Traveling toward a Perpetual Present, curated by Wang Yu, Shanghai Gallery of Art at Three on the Bund, Shanghai, China 

INCORPOREA 03, Basement Roma, Rome, Italy

2020

Interrupted Meals, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China

And Life Goes On: The special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

For the Children, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China

2019

May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Entropy, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China (touring)

2018

After Nature, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China

Entropy, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China (touring)

Soon enough: Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2017 HUGO BOSS ASIA ART: Award for Emerging Asian Artists, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Zhongguo 2185, Sadie Coles HQ | Kingly Street, London, England

A Most Filial Imprint, AIKE DELLARCO, Shanghai, China

[Prec(ar)ious Collectives], organised by Palais de Tokyo, Pavillon Neuflize OBC and Foundation Fluxum/Flux Laboratory for documenta 14, Athens, Greece

2016

Why not Ask Again? Maneuvers, Disputations & Stories, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

Snacks, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

2015 Nocturnal Friendships, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong

CAFAM Future / Observer-Creator, CAFA The Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing, China

2014 Inside China -L’Intérieur du Géant, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Myth/ History, YUZM Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China

You Can Only Think about Something, if You Think about Something Else, Time Museum, Guangzhou, China

Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong

2013 Settling, Earl Lu Gallery in LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Deep In the Cloud, am art space, Shanghai, China

Some Like It Hot, SGA Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Talks

2021

Yu Ji: Learning on Location. In Conversation with Jo-ey Tang, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England 

Public Collections

 

De Ying Foundation, Shanghai China
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark

M+, Hong Kong, China