Geng Xue (b.1983, Jilin, China) was trained at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and received her MFA in 2014. Her artistic practice is centred around establishing a balance between traditional techniques and contemporary sensibilities. Drawing on the rich tradition of Chinese ceramics, Geng exploits the unique material qualities and meanings associated with the art form, particularly those linked to porcelain. White, translucent and delicate, porcelain possesses a vast symbolic language upon which Geng bases her work, rethinking and revitalising age-old traditions.
Geng was shortlisted for the Young Artist of the Year recognition by China’s most prestigious contemporary art prize, the 11th Award of Art China (AAC) in 2017, and participated in Sydney Biennale 2018 and the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. Selected public collections, including M+ Museum, Hong Kong; The National Museum of Wales, UK; The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Netherlands; The White Rabbit Gallery, Australia and Seto City Art Museum, Japan. She is currently teaching at CAFA, Department of Sculpture in Beijing.
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| 1983 | Born in Jilin, China. Lives and works in Beijing, China |
| 2014 | MFA The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, International exchange student, Germany (2013) |
| 2007 | BFA The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| 2020 | “The Lightness of Being”, Geng Xue Solo Exhibition, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | “Geng Xue: Sound Project ‘Heaven Sounds ’”, TaoXiChuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China |
| “Pareidolia: Geng Xue & Sun Ziyao”, Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2017 | “Mount Sumeru”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2016 | “Poetics of the Body – The Sculpture & Video Art of Geng Xue”, Fengmian Art Space, Guangzhou, China |
| “In search of sound”, Yishu 8 Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| 2015 | “Borrowing an Easterly Wind”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY |
| “Geng Xue”, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2014 | “Mr. Sea – Geng Xue”, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China |
| “Mr. Sea – Geng Xue”, ZERO Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2010 | “Geng Xue”, H.T. Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | “The Other Side – Geng Xue”, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK |
| 2022 | “Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art”, Lillehammer Art Museum/Foundation Lillehammer Museum, Norway & Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| “Porcelain: Material and Storytelling”, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, US | |
| StopTrik International Film Festival, Slovenian-Polish festival of stop motion animation, Slovenija and Poland | |
| EKA Gallery (Eesti Kunstakadeemia), Tallinn, Estonia | |
| “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 | |
| 2020 | “Empathy And Connection”, Contemporary art exhibition, Time Art Museum, Beijing |
| “TURING’S LOVER: Human Emotion and Machine Emotion”, The First Jinan international Benniale Youth Project, Jinan Art Museum, Shandong, China | |
| “Human After All”（返璞归真）, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Holland | |
| “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 | 58th Venice Biennale “May you live in interesting times”, China Pavilion, Venetian Arsenal, Venice, Italy |
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“Beyond Boundaries – An interaction between the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London”, Somerset House, London, UK
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| 2018 | “Tradition is an invention – CAFA Centennial works of teacher exhibition”, The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London, UK |
| “Lyrik·Film 2018: Der Zauber des Alltaglichen”, Nanjing TMP (The purple mountain) Drama Space, Nanjing, China | |
| “EMPATHY”, Song Art, Beijing, China | |
| “Sculpture Projects PingYao”, the ancient city of Pingyao, ShanXi, China | |
| “To Ideal Land of Ceramics – Exhibition of international contemporary ceramic works”, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
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“International Puppet Animation Short Films”, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada
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| 21st Biennale of Sydney “SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement”, Sydney, Australia. | |
| “NOW: A Dialogue on Female Chinese Contemporary Artists”, CFCCA (Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art), Manchester, UK | |
| 2017 | “In motion”, 100th anniversary Exhibition, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics，Holland |
| “Ritual Spirit” , White Rabbit Collection, Australia | |
| “Conservation in Action: Demons and Demon Quellers” Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | |
| “Amassing Force – 2017 Wang Shikuo Award: Today Art Museum Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artists,” Today Art | |
| Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “Reciprocal Enlightenment,’ CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China”Flow, Arte Contemporanea Italiana e Cinese in Dialogo,” Basilica | |
| Palladiana, Venice, Italy | |
| “Holland Animation Film Festival”, Netherlands | |
| “Memory and Contemporaneity. China Art Today,” Collateral Event of 57th Venice Biennale, Giardini Arsenale, Italy | |
| 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 | |
| “BALLADA – Animamix Contemporary Art,” Macao Museum of Art, Macau, China | |
| The 10th Cheongju Craft Biennale MAIN EXHIBITION, The Old Cheongju Tobacco Processing Plant, Cheongju City, South | |
| Korea | |
| “Conservation in Action: Demons and Demon Quellers,” Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA | |
| “In Motion: Ceramic Reflections in Contemporary Art,” Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands | |
| “FLOW – Italian and Chinese contemporary art in dialog”, YARC – Yvonneartecontemporanea in cooperation with Vicenza | |
| Municipality, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy. | |
| 2016 | “The First Young Contemporary Ceramic Art Biennial,” Zhu Zhong Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| “’Mr. Sea’ A Porcelain film by Geng Xue,” China Exchange, London, UK | |
| “Unspoken Understanding,” Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| “ME, The Second Session of United 6,” United Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| “Stories of the Life: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition,” Adelaide Festival Centre/China Culture Centre, Artspace Gallery, | |
| Sydney, Australia | |
| “Peoples in Resistance,” Museo De Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela | |
| “Fire Within: A New Generation of Chinese Women,” Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East | |
| Lansing, MI | |
| “Animaux Biennale,” Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China | |
| “Luo Zhongli Scholarship 10th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition,” CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “Wall Power,” Today Art Museum, Beijing China | |
| “Cross-Culture Dialogue: Sino-American Young Artists Exhibition,” Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY | |
| “Heavy Artillery,” White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale, Australia | |
| “Prix YISHU 8 Chine 2016 – Exposition des finalists,” YISHU 8 Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| “From the Peony Pavilion,” Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| Fest Anca, International Animation Film Festival, Žilina, Slovakia | |
| “China contemporary ceramic art exhibition,” Ecuador cultural center of the Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador | |
| “100 Years of Chinese Animation: document Exhibition of Wan LaiMing, Screening Unit- CIAFF Special Screening,” Art | |
| Academy of Arts and Films, Chengdu University, China | |
| “Expanding Animation,” Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF), Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| First Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China | |
| “From Painting to Animation,” Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| International Youth Animation Biennale, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China | |
| 4th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia, Indonesia | |
| 2015 | “Imagined Porcelain – The Shock of the New Century” New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Biennial of the Moving Image, Museum of Applid Art , Frankfurt, Germany | |
| “Dimensions of Civilization,” MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China | |
| “SHUITU-Water and Clay around the World- The First International Ceramics Exhibition,” Qingdao Sculpture Gallery, | |
| Qingdao, China | |
| “Tai Yuan International Sculpture Biennial Exhibition,” Tai Yuan Art Museum, Tai Yuan, China | |
| 11th 25 FPS Festival, Studenski Center, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia | |
| “Here Out There,” Helsinki Festival, Finland | |
| “Up-Youth-China: Young Artist Exhibition,” Times Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “Moving in time: B3 + Beijing Moving Image Exhibition,” CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “China 8 – Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr,” Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany | |
| “CAFAM Future: Observer-Creator The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art,” K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; CAFA | |
| Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “Tradition and Innovation: The Human Figure in Contemporary Chinese Art,” Chazen Museum of Art, University of | |
| Wisconsin, Madison, WI | |
| Chicago Expo (Art Fair)—CAFA Art Museum Special Exhibition, Chicago, IL | |
| Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| 2014 | “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, China | |
| “Today Art and Fashion Award and Exhibition (TAFA),”Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “Going, Going, until I Meet the Tide,” Busan Biennale, South Korea | |
| “Landscape of Mind,” ArtMia Foundation, Beijing, China | |
| “Caissa Rising Arting,” Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “GwangHwaMun International Art Festival,” Sejong Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea | |
| “The Start of a Long Journey,” CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “Graduate Show of The Central Academy of Fine Arts,” CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| “ST.ART International Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art,” Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2013 “I A Call-Girls Attack,” Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| “Minds: curated by Xu Bing,” ChengPin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| “Exhibition of Invited Artists,” Seto International Ceramic & Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan | |
| 2012 | “CAFAM Future,” CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | “Gathered World,” Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales, UK |
| 2009 | “Ceramic Exhibition,” Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| “Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection,” University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific | |
| Film Archive, CA | |
| 2008 | “RED Aside – Chinese Contemporary Art of the Sigg Collection,” Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2007 | “International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale,” Incheon Cultural & Arts Center, South Korea |
| “Graduate Show Exhibition,” Graduate Show of The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Wu Zuoren Young Artist Award, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
| 2017 | The 11th Award for Art China (AAC) – Finalist |
| Wang Shikuo Award and Today Art Museum Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artist – Finalist | |
| 2016 | Prize Yishu 8: China Finalist Exhibition, Beijing, China |
| Wall Power –“Wallpost Artist Outstanding Award,” Beijing, China | |
| 2014 | ’Mr. Sea’ is granted The Best Production Award at the Caissa Rising Artling, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| Outstanding Graduate Award, Graduate Show of CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| E.LAND Scholarship, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Art Sanya—Huayu Youth Award, Sanya, China | |
| 2013 | Silver Prize 1895 China Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Nantong, China |
| 2008 | Asian Artist Travel Grant, Malaysia |
| 2007 | The Banquet of Han Xizai’ is awarded First Prize in “Graduate Show of Central Academy of Fine Arts 2007,” Beijing, China |
| 2016-17 | Prix YISHU 8, YISHU 8 Gallery, Beijing, China; Paris, France |
| 2016 | Kunst Gemeinsam Gestalten !, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesischen Kulturellen Austausch e.V., Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | Millers Falls Art Bridge, Millers Falls, MA |
| 2014 | China/Europe Exchange Residency, The National Sculpture Factory (NSF), Cork, Ireland |
| 2012 | Seto International Ceramic & Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan |
| 2009 | Fire Works Studio, Cardiff, UK |
| 2007 | Ujiae Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea |
| 2018 | TaoXiChuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China |
| 2016 | HeNan Museum,China |
| Hebei University Of Economics and Business | |
| 2015 | The Central Academy of Fine Arts. Beijing,China |
| 2014 | Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (AMNUA), Nanjing, China |
| 2012 | Seto city Art museum（cultural center) Japan |
| 2009 | University of Wales Institute (UWIC), Cardiff, UK |
| University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK | |
| 2008 | Miro Museum (Fundacio Joan Miro) , Barcelona, Spain |
| Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China |
White Rabbit Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Seto City Art Museum, Seto, Japan
M+ Museum (+Uli Sigg collection), HongKong
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea
Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
ZhuZhong Art Museum, Beijing, China
Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Holland
Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Oriental Art Museum, Shenyang, China
