Xiaoze Xie (Guangdong, China, 1966) is the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University. Previously, he taught at Bucknell University from 1999-2007. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing (1988) and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Central Academy of Arts and Design, Beijing (1991) and the University of North Texas (1996). He currently divides his time between Palo Alto, California and Beijing.

Xiaoze is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2013) and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2003). He exhibited in several solo exhibitions, including the Asia Society Museum, New York (2019-20); Denver Art Museum (2017); The Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent (2007); and China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing (2003). In 2010, the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA organized a mid-career survey, Amplified Moments, which traveled to the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon; and Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME. Among the numerous group exhibitions he has participated in are the Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China (2017); Liberating the Past from the Present: Contemporary Art in China at Shengzhi Space, Beijing and Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2015) and Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art at the China Institute Gallery, NY; Seattle Asian Art Museum; and Honolulu Academy of Arts (2006-08).

His work can be found in a growing number of private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Denver Art Museum, CO; Boise Art Museum, ID; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; and Oakland Museum of California, CA.

Xiaoze is represented by Chambers Fine Art, New York and Beijing; Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas; Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco; and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.

Works Cited:

Memarian, Omar, “Confrontation and Disruption in a New Exhibition by Chinese-American Artist Xiaoze Xie,” Global Voices, 11 April 2018. http://www.chambersfineart.com/attachment/en/584f165387aa2cda4ccff03e/News/5ae49e5af5c038e03fd51379

Mills, Dan, Britta Erickson, and Karen Smith, Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Lewisburg, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, 2010, pp. 10, repr.

Smith, Roberta, “When Newspaper Photographs are Worth a Thousand Paintings,” The New York Times, 5 November 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06chan.html

Vaughn, Katine, “Speaking Volumes,” The Quad City Times, 11 February 2007. https://qctimes.com/lifestyles/leisure/speaking-volumes/article_92e9cd74-1206-52a2-b31b-a26c20fc66ac.html

Stanford University symposium announcement: “Social Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Painting,” January 22, 2016. https://art.stanford.edu/events/symposium-%E2%80%9Csocial-narratives-contemporary-chinese-painting%E2%80%9D

Stanford University Faculty Page https://art.stanford.edu/people/xiaoze-xie

Chambers Fine Art http://www.chambersfineart.com/artists/xiaoze-xie

Nicholas Metivier Gallery https://metiviergallery.com/artists/64-xiaoze-xie/overview/

Talley Dunn Gallery https://talleydunn.com/project/xiaoze-xie/

Asia Society Museum, Objects of Evidence Exhibition (with overview, interview, and audio guide), 2019-2020. https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/xiaoze-xie-objects-evidence

2019 Artist talk at Talley Dunn (focuses on banned books series- probably not super helpful for this work, but it was nice to listen to a few minutes of how he talks about his work) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEq4xhQY6ho

Selected Public Collections:

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

Bates College Museum of Art

Bucknell University Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas

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

The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York

Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California

The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona

Seattle University, Seattle, Washington