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Biography of Xia Xiaowan
Xia Xiaowan was born in Beijing in 1959. He graduated from the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982. In 1983 and 1984 Xia Xiaowan worked as an art Editor in China Machinery Publishing.
He currently lives in Beijing and works as a professor of Stagecraft Department of the Central Academy of Drama.
Chinese Artist Xia Xiaowan paints on multiple sheets of glass to create ethereal three-dimensional paintings. Xia Xiaowan surpasses the boundaries of painting and establishes a new way of "looking" at paintings.
He draws his inspiration and method from X-ray photographs, giving two-dimensional painting a three-dimensional effect.
He combines material, technology and painting, thus maintaining the hand-made qualities of painting while adding elements of installation and sculptural art and displaying the cold, absurd and strange qualities of realism.
Exhibitions of Xia Xiaowan
Solo Exhibitions:
2006
- Painting From The Inside, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2004
- Art of Xiaxiaowan, Time Gallery, Qingdao, China
2003
- How do you see with your mind & body? Xia Xiaowan's works on paper, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1998
- Looking Up, SCHOENI Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Group Exhibitions:
2008
- China's Revision, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
- Early Spring: New Work by Xia Xiawan, Today Art Museum; aye gallery, Beijing, China
- XIA XIAOWAN: Landscapes with Soul, Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- The Power Of The Universe-Exhibition of Frontier Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
- Chinese Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Yonghe Museum, Wall Museum, Beijing, China
- Martell Artists of the Year 2008 Shanghai Art Museum Shanghan, Guangdong Museum of Art Guangdong, China
2007
- Ecole de Beaux-Arts de la Réunion, Paris, France
- The Portrait of Zero Degree-Oil Painting by Xia Xiaowan and Mao Yan, aye gallery, Beijing, China
- Living in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
- First Today's Documents 2007, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
- '85 New Wave-The Birth Of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- VANGUARDIAS CHINAS, Dolores de Sierra Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006
- Hyper Design - the 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- 2006 New York Asia Art Fair, New York, USA
- The 2nd Biennale of Austria 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria
- Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2005
- Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
- Yellow River - A Review of New Chinese Oil Painting, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
- Hand in Hand with the New Century - The Third Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
- 2005 - Pingyao International Photography Art Exhibition, Pingyao, China
- Posers - Group Exhibition of Courtyard Gallery Artists, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing China
2004
- 2004 Asia contemporary Art Exhibition, Gwangju, Korea
2003
- The International Sketch Art, China, England, Australia
2002
- Vigor of the Century - Contemporary Art of Chinese 50 Artists, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
2001
- Anxiety: the drawn figure, The University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, New South Wales, Australia
- Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2000
- 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Beijing, China
1998
- The Mediawave festival, Hungary
1996
- The Repetition of Beginning, China
- Chinese Oil Painting Annual Exhibition, Beijing Museum of Art, China
- Group Exhibition in Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995
- The April Exhibition, the Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts,China
1994
- The Annual Exhibition of Works of the artists Nominated by Art Critics, Beijing Museum of Art, Beijing, China.
1991
- 91 March Exhibition, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
- Chinese New Art Post 1989, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong. Marlborough Gallery, England and Australia
1989
- Modern Art from China, Beijing Museum of Art, Beijing, China
1988
- An exhibition of modern Art Chinese Art, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
1987
- Towards the Future, Beijing Museum of Art, China
1985
- The November Exhibition, the Palace Museum, Beijing, China
