Artist Monograph

Xu Bing, Chinese

Chinese, born 1955

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Woodcut	12	80%
Lithography	1	6.7%
Printmaking	1	6.7%
Sculpture	1	6.7%

Production by Decade

11

1980s

3

1990s

1

2020s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	12	92.3%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	7.7%

Range: 38.1 cm → 396.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
2005	1
2010	12
2013	1
2022	1

Chinese Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 15 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
A Big River from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.5	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 20 13/16 x 29" (52.8 x 73.7 cm); sheet: 26 1/8 x 35 11/16" (66.4 x 90.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
A Mountain Place from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.6	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 20 13/16 x 28 13/16" (52.8 x 73.2 cm); sheet: 26 1/4 x 33 9/16" (66.7 x 85.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Black Pond from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.7	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 19 7/8 x 27 3/4" (50.5 x 70.5 cm); sheet: 25 1/2 x 34 15/16" (64.8 x 88.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Cropland from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.9	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 21 3/4 x 28 9/16" (55.2 x 72.6 cm); sheet: 26 5/16 x 35 5/8" (66.8 x 90.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Dry Pond from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.10	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 21 9/16 x 28 11/16" (54.8 x 72.8 cm); sheet: 26 3/16 x 35 5/8" (66.5 x 90.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Field from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.8	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 21 9/16 x 29 1/16" (54.8 x 73.8 cm); sheet: 26 5/16 x 35 13/16" (66.8 x 91 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Life Pond from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.4	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 19 7/8 x 26 15/16" (50.5 x 68.5 cm); sheet: 26 1/4 x 35 5/8" (66.7 x 90.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Moving Cloud from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.3	1987	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 20 1/2 x 28 1/4" (52 x 71.8 cm); sheet: 26 x 35 13/16" (66 x 91 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.1-10	1987–88	Series of ten woodcuts	sheet: (see child records) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Black Tadpoles from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.1	1988	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 21 9/16 x 29 1/2" (54.8 x 75 cm); sheet: 26 5/16 x 35 13/16" (66.9 x 91 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Haystack from Series of Repetitions Print Acc. 445.2010.2	1988	One from a series of ten woodcuts	composition: 18 11/16 x 28 3/16" (47.5 x 71.6 cm); sheet: 26 3/16 x 35 5/8" (66.5 x 90.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
The Post Testament Connoting Today's Standard Version Illustrated Book Acc. 856.2013	1993	Artist's book, letterpress printed	overall (closed): 13 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 2 1/8" (34 x 26 x 5.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	General Print Fund
An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy Illustrated Book Acc. 446.2010	1994-96	Accordion-bound illustrated book of woodblock prints in wooden box	Case: 16 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 2" (41.9 × 26 × 5.1 cm) Book: 15 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 2" (39.4 × 23.2 × 5.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund
Holding the Brush Print Acc. 916.2005	1995	Woodcut	composition (irreg.): 22 1/8 x 156" (56.2 x 396.2 cm); sheet (unrolled): 28 9/16 x 176 1/2" (72.5 x 448.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Edgar Wachenheim III Fund
Art for the People for The Met from the portfolio The Met 150 Print Acc. 386.2022.12	2020, published 2021	Lithograph with relief print	15 × 15" (38.1 × 38.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jack Shear