Xie Xiaoze

BIOGRAPHY

1966  Born in Guangdong, China

1988 Bachelor of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

1991 Master of Arts, Central Academy of Arts and Design, Beijing, China

1991-1992  Assistant Professor, Shantou University, Guangdong, China

1996  Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

1996-1997  Visiting Artist, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA

1999-2005  Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

2002   Commissioned by U.S. General Services Administration's Art-in-Architecture Program, Federal Building and U. S. Courthouse, Davenport, Iowa, USA

2004-2006  Co-curator of Misleading Trails travelled to six universities around USA

Co-curator of Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US travelled to nine  universities around USA

2006-2009  Associate Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

2007-2009  Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

2009-  Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, California, USA

Present  Lives and works in Palo Alto, California and Beijing, China

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Amber of History: Reimagining the Library Cave at Dunhuang, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China (until 5 May)
• Enduring Stories: Sculptures by Xie Xiaoze, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA 
• Xie Xiaoze: The Archaeology of Knowledge, Alisan Atelier, Hong Kong
• Ashes of Memory, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 
• Amber of History: Reimagining the Library Cave at Dunhuang, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

• Flammable Ideas, Fragile Objects, East Asia Library, Stanford University,  Stanford, California, USA
• Heretical Knowledge, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
• Panorama of Eternal Night, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
• Library Paintings, Art Basel Online Viewing Room, USA

• New Paintings from the Library Series, online exhibition, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• Out of the Dark, online exhibition, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

• Objects of Evidence, Asia Society, New York, USA

• Confrontation and Disruption, Stanford in Washington Art Gallery, Washington DC, USA

• Eyes On, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Nocturnes, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA 

• Xiaoze Xie: Albums, Prints and Photographs, Stanford Art Gallery, California, USA

• Subtexts, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Libraries, Moatti Masters/Contemporary, London, UK

• Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
• Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• Resistant Archeology, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
• Transient Memories, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA  
• Theatre of Power, Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

• Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, USA

• Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Rhythm of Time, Corridor of Memory: A Site-specific Installation by Xie Xiaoze, Mada s.p.a.m. Architectural Studio Office, Shanghai, China
• Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA

• Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• Quotidian Truths, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Both Sides Now, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

• Xiaoze Xie: Photographs, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA
• Disposable Views, Waterworks Visual Arts Centre, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
• Legacy, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Transient Memories: Works on Paper by Xie Xiaoze, dARTex, Danish Cultural Centre, Beijing, China
• Xiaoze Xie: Works on Paper, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

• The MoMA Library, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA

• Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• History: A Microscopic View, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
• Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington, USA

• Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA

• Order: An Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

• Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

• Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington, USA

• Puppet, New Talent Gallery, Irving Arts Centre, Irving, Texas, USA
• The Library Paintings, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

• Mosaics Series, Dallas Visual Art Centre, Dallas, Texas, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Staging Dunhuang, Dunhuang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China (until 31 May)

Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

• A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang, British Library, London, UK
• Village Retreat :Philosophical Thoughts and Expression, After Hill Art Centre, Guangzhou, China
• ART SG, Alisan Fine Arts, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

• Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan Art Museum; Qintai Art Museum; He Art Museum Wuhan, China
• After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA

• Future History 2020, Art Museum of School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

• Art Monthly 45th Anniversary Cover Project Exhibition, Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China
• Where the Heart Is: Contemporary Art by Immigrant Artists, Palo Alto Art Centre, Palo Alto, California, USA

• Aliens: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in The San Francisco Bay Area, Gallery Elite, Carmel, California, USA
• 2nd Sculpture Projects Ping Yao, Ping Yao, China

• Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, China
• Global Conversations: Contemporary World in Dialogue, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
• Ink at Current: 10th International Ink Art Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute; OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
• On Paper: Collaborations in Print and Pulp from Wildwood Press, Walton Arts Centre, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
• IN INK: Current Trends of Ink Art, Nan Hai Gallery, Millbrae, California, USA
• Napoleon Special Exhibition, Dialogue between Contemporary and Tradition, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• Future Progress: Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, 6th Guangzhou Triennial, Zini Town of Art, Guangzhou, China                    
• Framework: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, the College of Art, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

• Industry 4.0: Power of Transformation, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
• Chen Jing: Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, No. 1 Wanjiang Art Museum, Dongguan, Guangdong, China
• Visual Anthology: Artworks & the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

• Vision and Voice, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, California, USA
• Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China

• Fragmentary Narratives, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
• Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA
• Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, USA

• Liberating the Past from the Present: Contemporary Art in China, Shengzhi Space, Beijing, China; Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 
• What can California art be?, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA
• Fragmentary Narratives, Changsha City Museum, Changsha, China 
• A Record of Architectural Transformation, 9th Songzhuang Culture and Art Festival 2015 Theme Exhibition, G-Dot Art Space, Beijing, China

• 1st China Xinjiang International Arts Biennale, Urumqi International Exhibition Centre, Urumqi, China
• Beyond Architecture, Long Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Cultural Complex Art Centre, Guangzhou, China
• Now Read This: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Idaho Centre for the Bok, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA
• Deep Reading, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, USA
• Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, USA
• Chroma, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Yuan Unfu & Tsinghua Fine Art Group, East Exhibition Hall, National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing, China
• CVAD Alumni Showcase, UNT ArtSpace Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

• Zero State: 2013, 1st Biennale of Installation Art in China, Museum of Contemporary Art; Xiangshan Art Museum, Beijing, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China
• The Awakening of Intuition, 13th China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
• Living Legacies: The JSMA@80, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
• Mark My Word, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA          
• ac·qui·si·tions: A Selection from the Past Decade, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas, USA 
• We: 1994-2013 The 20th Anniversary Collective Exhibition of Chinese Song Zhuang  Artists, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
• Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA          
• War & Healing, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, USA
• The Moment for Ink: Documenting the History of Ink Painting in America, Asian Art  Museum of San Francisco; Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco; San Francisco State University; Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, California, USA

• Aspects of a New Realism, Roger Arthur Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

• Across the Divide, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Courtyard Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, USA
• Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

• Book-ish, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA
• I Believe – Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Song Zhuang Art Center; Shang Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China

• Re-Present: Pat Boas, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA 
• Memory, Well Art, Shanghai, China
• The Message and the Medium: The Library Turns 10, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA

• Something Geographical, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago; South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Illinois, USA

• 1st Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists, Chongqing International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Chongqing, China
• China Urban: Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Chinese City, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA

• Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA

• Just Words, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
• What We Keep: An Exhibition on Books and Memory, Sun Valley Center for Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
• Between Reality and Illusion, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA

• Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, Curated by Wu Hung, China Institute Gallery, New York; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle; Honolulu Academy of  Arts, Honolulu, USA

• What War?, White Box, New York, USA
• Why Lee Shot C: Buzz, she left 'em Vernon!, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

• The Daily News, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, USA

• Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China; NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem; Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
• Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University,  Providence; Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles; University of California San Diego Art Gallery, San Diego; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, USA

• Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA

• The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Cross the Divide, Max L. Gatov and Werby Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA

• Sally Packard and Xiaoze Xie, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA

• Exhibition of Guangdong Contemporary Oil Paintings, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
• Recipients of 1999 Arizona Artists Materials Fund Grants, Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA
• Rosalyn Richards & Xiaoze Xie, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

• West Looks East, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

• Building for the Millennium: Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

• George Segal and Xiaoze Xie, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA

• 1st Texas Annual, Contemporary Art Centre of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

• Scott Barber and Xiaoze Xie, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
• McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA

• Unity and Diversity, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

• Centre for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, USA

• Four Young Artists, Shantou Painting Institute, Guangdong, China

SELECTED AWARDS

2022  Asia Game Changer West Award, Asia Society Northern California, USA

2016  Academic Award in Painting, 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China

2013  Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, USA

2008  The National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Humanities, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (three-year appointment), USA

Interpreting Brooklyn Project Grant, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2003  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA

2001  Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Grant, Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1995  First Place, Voertman Art Exhibition, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas, USA

1994  First Place, Greater Denton Arts Council Award, 26th Annual Juried Fine Arts Awards Exhibit of North Texas Area Art League, Centre for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, USA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, USA

Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA

Bucknell University Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas, USA

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA

 Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California, USA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA

The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, USA

The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas, USA