Xu Bing (徐冰) is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990. He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations pieces, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world.
In 2003 he exhibited at the then new Chinese Arts centre in Manchester, and in 2004 he won the inaugural “Artes Mundi” prize in Wales for Where does the dust collect itself?, an installation using dust he collected in New York on the day after the destruction of the World Trade Center. He won also a half year of free work and study at the American Academy in Berlin 2004.
Xu Bing was appointed the new vice president of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, March 2008.