• China Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 1989

  • Les Magiciens de la terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1989

  • Chine demain pour hier, Pourrières, France, 1990

  • Silent Energy, Modern Art Oxford, 1993

  • Shenzhen International Ink Biennial, Shenzhen, PR China, 1998, 2000, 2002

  • Pause Gwangju Biennale, Korea, 2002

  • Zone of Urgency, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2003

  • La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France, 2004

  • Le moine et le démon, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2004

  • All Under Heaven, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium, 2004

  • Beyond, Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guanzhou, PR China, 2005

  • Layered Landscapes, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA, 2005

  • Biennial of Emergency, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2005

  • Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, 2006

  • Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La Force de l’Art - 1st Paris Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, 2006

  • Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni, Rome, 2006

  • Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2007

  • Metamorphosis - The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2007

  • New Wave ’85 UCCA, Beijing, PR China, 2007

  • Onda Anomala – Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy, 2008

  • Against Exclusion, Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Garage, Moscow, 2009

  • Lyon Biennial, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, 2009

  • Qui a peur des artistes ? Une sélection d’œuvres de la Fondation François Pinault, Musée de Dinard, France, 2009

  • Hareng Saur : Ensor et l’art contemporain, MSK and S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2010

  • Le Jardin Emprunté, Jardin du Palais-Royal, Paris, 2010

  • The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Fondation F. Pinault, Venice, 2011

  • Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011

  • Reactivation, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, PR China, 2012

  • Sehnsucht, Gaasbeek Castle, Belgium, 2012

  • Clouds, Museum of Sketches for Public Art, Lund, Sweden, 2012

  • Zizhiqu/ Autonomous Regions, Times Museum Guangzhou, PR China, 2013

  • Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013

  • China's Changing Landscape, Nordic Watercolour Museum, Sweden, 2014

  • La Chine ardente. Sculptures monumentales contemporaines, Mons - European Capital of Culture, Belgium, 2015

  • Harmony and Transition. Chinese Landscapes in Contemporary Art, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany, 2015

  • Fragmentary Narratives, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA, 2016

  • Carambolages, Grand Palais, Paris, 2016

  • Carte Blanche à Yang Jiechang, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2022