XIAO XU
Artist Biography
Xiao Yu (b. 1965, Inner Mongolia) examines symbols associated with Chinese identity, as well as the ecology of the art world, through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and installation.
He has participated in international exhibitions including La Biennale di Venezia, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Biennale, the Offsite Project of the Guangzhou Triennial at the Royal College of Art, London, and the 15th Istanbul Biennial. In 2000, he was awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Award. He is a founding member of the art group Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (PSFO), which takes a collective, humorous, and critical approach to contemporary Chinese culture. Xiao Yu has exhibited in group and monographic exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including Bern Art Museum, Switzerland; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Guangdong Art Museum; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; the National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Seoul Art Museum; The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Shanghai Art Museum; and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, among others.
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York, US
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
M+ Museum, Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Taikang Space, Beijing, China
White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Xiao Yu solo exhibition, Illuminati Fine Art, Hong Kong BB, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2017
Reciprocal Reconstruction – 6th Art Changsha: Xiao Yu, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China
2016
Xiao Yu: Cement Floor, Pace Beijing, China
Clues 3- Xiao Yu, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
Xiao Yu: Oblivion, Pace Beijing, China
2014
Xiao Yu: Ground, Pace Beijing, China
2013
Xiao Yu: Spur, Feizi Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Xiao Yu: Kung Fu, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2011
Xiao Yu: Scenery, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China
2010
Xiao Yu: Turn Around, Beijing Commune, China
2008
Xiao Yu: Who Cares Whose Seed It Is! It’s My Pregnancy, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China
2007
Xiao Yu: A Drama of Materialistic Objects: One World, Cold or Warm, Arario Beijing, China
Xiao Yu: Newly Narrates, dARTex The Danish Art Exchange, Beijing, China
2006
Xiao Yu: Changes in Secret, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
1994
Xiao Yu: Search for a Spouse: One of Xiao Yu's Performances in 1994, Beijing TV Station, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Heteroglossia, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Bamboo for Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
2017
Listening to Transparency, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 15th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2015
Beyond Control, Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing, China
Chewing Gum, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Individualized Together, Polit-Sheer-Form in Taipei, Modern of Contemporary Art, Tapei, Taiwan The System of Objects, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2014
Polit-Sheer-Form: Fitness for All, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015
Polit Sheer Form!: Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, Leng Lin, Queens Museum, New York, USA
2013
Confronting Anitya - Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art - 55th Venice Biennial, Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy
Duchamp and/or/in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2012
A Return Oriented Towards the Future: 2012 Shanghai Gallery Alliance Exhibition, Shanghai Gallery Alliance, Shanghai, China
China - The 1st Xingjiang Biennale, Xinjiang Art Center, Urumuqi, China
Environment, Spirit: 2012 Western China International Art Biennale, Tianye Art Museum, Yinchuan, China
The Unseen – Offsite Project of the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Royal College of Art, London, UK
The Unseen: The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2011
Guanxi - Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
We Are Polit-Sheer-Form, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2010
Great Performances, The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
2009
Chinetik, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
The Tale of Angels: Group Show at The Red Mansion Foundation, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture: Polit-Sheer-Form, Shenzhen Civic Square, Shenzhenwan Avenue and Yitian Holiday Plaza, China
Tofu, Kungfu, Polit-Sheer-Form, Beijing Commune, China
2008
Art and Capital: Spiritual Odyssey, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
New World Order: Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China, Groninger Museum,Groningen, The Netherlands
Life - Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2005
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2006
Traveled to: Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2008
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, US
City Skin – Images of the Contemporary Metropolis, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao Travels to: Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
Only One Wall, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Traveled to: Art Space, Sydney, Australia
Polit-Sheer-Form: Library, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2007
Polit-Sheer-Form Office in Shanghai, BizArt Art Center, China
2004
Undercurrents - Contemporary Video Art from China, Zehdenicker Strasse 12A, Berlin, Germany
2003
Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
City_Net Asia 2003, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Inside and Between. Communication and Identification in Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
2001
49th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: Plateau of Humankind, Venice, Italy Weightlessness, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
2000
The 5th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Halle Tony Carnier, Lyon, France
Documentation of Chinese Avant-Garde Artists in 90s, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
