Sun Yuan & Peng Yu

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Sun Yuan (born 1972) and Peng Yu (born 1974) are artists living and working collaboratively in Beijing.

Sun was born in Beijing and Peng in Heilongjiang. Sun and Peng are contemporary conceptual artists^[1] whose work has a reputation for being confrontational – they have previously used live animals in their installations.^[2]

As their contribution to the 2005 Venice Biennale, the duo invited Chinese farmer Du Wenda to present his home-made UFO at the Chinese Pavillion.^[3] They won the Contemporary Chinese Art Award in 2001.^[4]

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

2006

Liverpool Biennial, Tang Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK

2005

Venice Biennale

Mahjong: Chinese Contemporary Art from Uli Sigg Collection, Art Museum Bern, Switzerland

2004

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle

Australia: Asia Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre

The Virtue and the Vice: le Moine et le Demon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

All Under Heaven: Ancient and Contemporary Chinese Art, The Collection of the Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

2003

Second Hand Reality: Post Reality, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2001

Get Out of Control, Berlin, Germany

Yokohama 2001 International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan