Personal
1967 Born in Kaifeng, Henan Province, China
1986 Began to work on photograph
1989 Graduated from Central Academy of Craft and Design, Beijing
Currently works and lives in Beijing, China
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Sensibility: Memories of Twelve Artists’ Works, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China & Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Renaissance of photography, Han Lei photography exhibition, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
2007 Photography by Han Lei, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
2007 Distance Estimated by Eys Photography of Eight Chinese”, Guan Shanyue Art museum, Shenzhen, China
2007 Memories of Twelve Artists’ Works, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China & Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Chinese contemporary art exhibition: the new wind from China, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea
2006 Pagoda, Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2006 Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
2006 Chinese Avant-garde Photography since 1990, Asia Art Centre, Beijing, China
2006 Where is China? - Han Lei Photography, Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
2005 Portraits, Gallery Polaris, Paris, France (solo)
2005 Viewing the City - Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2005 City Skin - Images of the Contemporary Metropolis, Gallery Tap Seac Gallery, Macao
2005 Galerie Leda Fletcher, Geneve, Switzerland (solo)
2005 Killing legend, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
2004 Art Scene, Shanghai
2004 Forbidden City International Photography Exhibition, Beijing, China
2004 Intersection - Contemporary Oil Painting and Photography, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2004 The 5th international San Francisco photographic art exposition, Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center San Francis
2004 The 1st China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing
2004 Traveling in spring, aura gallery, Shanghai
2004 If you are a collector, aura gallery, Shanghai
2004 Illusion, aura gallery, Shanghai
2003 strange heaven, the contemporary Chinese photography, rudolfinum the national art museum
2003 1:1 the 3rd pingyao international photography festival, pingyao shanxi
2003 shan shui, aura gallery
2003 Rome photography festival Rome, Italy
2003 tempi di donnesala gatti, viterbo, Italy
2003 strange, aura gallery Shanghai (solo)
2002 dialogue: beautiful and tragic, capital museum, Beijing
2002 golden harvest China contemporary art croatia national museum
2002 facing reality photograph works of wang shi long, han lei, zhang hai'er China art archives & warehouse, Beijing,China
2001 disorientation photography & video in China today, chambers fine art, NY, USA
2001 fictional Chinese landscape Beijing (solo)
2000 cities of the 21st century siemens cultur program frankfurt, Germany/NY, USA
1999 a visible spirit contemporary photography from the people's republic of China cypress gallery/bc space gallery, USA
1998 railways and people: the 1998 mother Jones international fund for documentary photography awards studio gallery, san francisco,USA
1997 Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Podwell Gallery, Berlin, Germnay
1996 alienation Beijing, Berlin and Helsinki (solo)
