Cao Kai was born in 1969 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China and graduated in 1992 from Nanjing Art Academy. He has exhibited widely including “Beyond Experience: New China”, (Arario, Beijing, China, 2006), “Microcosmo” (Museum de Arte de Macau, Macau, 2006), “In the Deep of Reality: A Case of Chinese Contemporary Art” (Visual Culture Center, China Academy of Art, Zhejiang, China, 2005), “OK. Video SUB/VERSION” (Jakarta Video Festival, Indonesia National Museum of Art, Indonesia, 2005), “Archaeology of the Future: The Second Triennial of Chinese Art” (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 2005), “D FOTO” (San Sebastian, Spain, 2006), “Out the Window” (The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, 2004), “Chinese Maximalism” (The China Millennium Monument, Beijing and the University of Buffalo Art Gallery, New York, 2003) and “Time of Reviving” (Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, 2000).