Geng Xue
Born 1983 in Jilin, China. Lives and works in Beijing
EDUCATION
2014
M.F.A., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2007
B.F.A., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Geng Xue: The Venice Biennale, Vermilion Art, Sydney
2022
Geng Xue - Spirituality · Being · Caves, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou,China
2019
The Lightness of Being - Geng Xue Solo Exhibition, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing
2018
Geng Xue: The Second IAPA Invitational Exhibition, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
Geng Xue: Sound Project “Heaven Sounds”, TaoXiChuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China
2017
Geng Xue: Mount Sumeru, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2016
Poetics of the Body - The Sculpture & Video Art of Geng Xue, Fengmian Art Space, Guangzhou, China
Geng Xue: In search of sound, Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing
2015
Geng Xue, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Geng Xue: Borrowing an Easterly Wind, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2014
Mr. Sea - Geng Xue, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Mr. Sea - Geng Xue, ZERO Art Center, Beijing
2010
Geng Xue, H.T. Gallery, Beijing
2009
The Other Side - Geng Xue, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Going Out! Female Identity in Chinese Contemporary Art, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway [itinerary: Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria]
CEL: The Artist as Animator, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
From Clay to Words: Ceramics as Media, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
BING! BING! 砰砰！, Contemporary Ceramics, ICICLE Culture Space, Paris, France
The Tides of the Century-2020 Ocean Flower Island International Art Exhibition, Ocean Flower Island Museum, Hainan, China
Persistent objects, Yuan Museum, Beijing, China
2021
From Clay to Words: Ceramics as Media, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai
Wu Jie III, Gaota Art Plaza, Beijing
Animation and Contemporary Art, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
2020
Human After All: Ceramic Reflections in Contemporary Art, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Nude - Arising From the Ground, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
When Speed Become Form - Live in Your Screen, Wind H Art Center, Beijing
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen
Turing's Lover, Jinan Art Museum, Shan Dong, China
Empathy And Connection, Time Art Museum, Beijing
The New Classic of Mountains and Seas: Contemporary Art on Chinese Original Myths and Legends, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
From Treatise on Superfluous Things, Jinjihu Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2019
Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Symbiosis: The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry, Shenzhen OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Because of Painting, Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou, China
58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Re-Rui, China Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2018
NOW - A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, United Kingdom
To Ideal Land of Ceramics: Exhibition of International Contemporary Ceramic Works, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing
In Motion: Ceramic Reflections in Contemporary Art, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Tradition is the Power For Invention, The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London
The 1st Biennale of Sydney - SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Carriageworks, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Opera House, and 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Empathy, Song Art Museum, Beijing
Pingyao International Sculpture Festival, Pingyao, China
2017
Reciprocal Enlightenment, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Conservation in Action: Demons and Demon Quellers, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Progress Everyday: The Artists Nominated by the Masters Invited by Zhuzhong Art Museum 2017, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing
BALLADE - Animamix Contemporary Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macau
The 4th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale - Ways of Clays: Perspectives Toward the Future, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
In the Mood for Love - An Exhibition Featuring Chinese and Canadian Female Artists, Poly Culture Art Center, Vancouver
Amassing Force - 2017 Wang Shikuo Award: Today Art Museum Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Art Jog 10, Changing Perspective, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Chine, Art en Mouvement, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Musée-Château d’Annecy, Annecy, France
Flow - Arte Contemporanea Italiana e Cinese in Dialogo, Basilica Palladiana, Venice, Italy
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, France
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Memory and Contemporaneity - China Art Today, Collateral Event of 57th Venice Biennale, Giardini Arsenale, Italy
The 10th Cheongju Craft Biennale Main Exhibition, The Old Cheongju Tobacco Processing Plant, Cheongju, South Korea
2016
Luo Zhongli Scholarship 10th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
International Youth Animation Biennale, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
100 Years of Chinese Animation: document Exhibition of Wan Laiming, Screening Unit-CIAFF Special Screening, Art Academy of Arts and Films, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China
Fire Within: A New Generation of Chinese Women, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Unspoken Understanding, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
The First Young Contemporary Ceramic Art Biennial, Zhu Zhong Art Museum, Beijing
ME - The Second Session of United 6, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
First Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China
From Painting to Animation, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
The 4th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Wall Power, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Animaux Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
From the Peony Pavilion, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Stories of the Life: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, China Culture Centre, Adelaide Festival Centre, and Artspace Gallery, Sydney
Peoples in Resistance, Museo De Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Cross-Culture Dialogue: Sino-American Young Artists Exhibition, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York
Heavy Artillery, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney
Prix Yishu 8 Chine 2016 - Exposition des finalists, Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing
Fest Anca, International Animation Film Festival, Žilina, Slovakia
China Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ecuador Cultural Center of the Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador
Expanding Animation, Holland Animation Film Festival, Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht, Netherlands
Art in Progress - Xu Bing’s Postgraduate and Doctoral Students Exhibition, Art for All society, Macao
2015
Moving in time: B3 + Beijing Moving Image Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
CAFAM Future: Observer-Creator - The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Imagined Porcelain - The Shock of the New Century, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
China 8 - Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Biennial of the Moving Image, Museum of Applied Art , Frankfurt, Germany
Dimensions of Civilization, Museum of Contemporary Arts Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
Tradition and Innovation: The Human Figure in Contemporary Chinese Art, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Up-Youth-China: Young Artist Exhibition, Times Art Museum, Beijing
Shuitu-Water and Clay around the World - The First International Ceramics Exhibition, Qingdao Sculpture Gallery, Qingdao, China
Taiyuan International Sculpture Biennial Exhibition, Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan, China
11th 25 FPS Festival, Studenski Center, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Here Out There, Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, Finland
The Cabinet of Wonder, Heiqiao Art District, Beijing
2014
The Start of a Long Journey, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Today Art and Fashion Award and Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Going, Going, Until I Meet the Tide - 2014 Busan Biennale Special Curating Exhibition, Busan Museum of Art, Busan Cultural Center, Kiswire Sooyoung Factory, Busan, South Korea
Caissa Rising Arting, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Sejong Art Museum, Seoul
St.Art International Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Looking Back 100 Years: Paying a Tribute to Traditional Chinese Painting Art, ART SANYA Art Festival, Sanya, China
No Boundary Codes, LANNG Art Center, Beijing
Landscape of Mind, Art Mia Foundation, Beijing
Meet Again, C5 Art, Beijing; 2/1 Art Space, Shanghai
2013
I A Call-Girls Attack, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
Minds, Eslite Gallery, Taipei; Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Exhibition of Invited Artists, Seto International Ceramic & Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan
2012
CAFAM Future, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2010
Gathered World, Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales, United Kingdom
2009
Ceramic Exhibition, Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taipei
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
2008
RED Aside - Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
The Metamorphosing Female - Female Artists Exhibition, Osage Gallery, Shanghai
2007
2007 Graduate Show Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon Cultural & Arts Center, Incheon, South Korea
After - Contemporary Art Group Exhibition, Gao Brothers Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2016
Prix YISHU 8, YISHU 8 Gallery, Beijing; Paris
Kunst Gemeinsam Gestalten!, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesischen Kulturellen Austausch e.V., Berlin
2015
Millers Falls Art Bridge, Millers Falls, Massachusetts
2014
China/Europe Exchange Residency, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland
2012
Seto International Ceramic & Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan
2009
FireWorks Studio, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2007
Ujiae Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea
SELECTED AWARDS
2018
Wu Zuoren Art Prize - Youth Artist Award
2017
Wang Shikuo Award and Today Art Museum Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artist, Beijing
Blanc De Chine, International Ceramic Art Award
2016
Prize Yishu 8 Gallery: China Finalist Exhibition, Beijing
Wallpost Artist Outstanding Award, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2014
The Best Production Award at the Caissa Rising Artling, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Outstanding Graduate Award, Graduate Show of Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing
E.LAND Scholarship, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing
2013
Silver Prize 1895 China Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Nantong, China
2007
Graduate Show of Central Academy of Fine Arts 2007, Beijing
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Seto City Art Museum, Seto, Japan
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea
Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands