Geng Xue
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
Solo Exhibitions
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 "Sydney Contemporary 2018", Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
"Sworn Sisters", Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia
"21st Biennale of Sydney- SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement" Sydney, Australia
"Pareidolia", Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia
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
Awards
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
Artist in Residency
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
Lectures
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
2009 University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
2008 Miro Museum (Fundacio Joan Miro) , Barcelona, Spain
2008 Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China
Filmography
2015 The Poetry of Michelangelo, Film 19’09, B&W, sound
2014 Mr.Sea, film, Produced by porcelain sculptures. 13’15’’, color, sound
2012 Two Mounds, Short film-Animation 01’06’’ , B&W
Selected Public Collections
White Rabbit Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
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
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
Solo Exhibitions
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 "Sydney Contemporary 2018", Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
"Sworn Sisters", Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia
"21st Biennale of Sydney- SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement" Sydney, Australia
"Pareidolia", Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia
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
Awards
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
Artist in Residency
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
Lectures
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
2009 University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
2008 Miro Museum (Fundacio Joan Miro) , Barcelona, Spain
2008 Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China
Filmography
2015 The Poetry of Michelangelo, Film 19’09, B&W, sound
2014 Mr.Sea, film, Produced by porcelain sculptures. 13’15’’, color, sound
2012 Two Mounds, Short film-Animation 01’06’’ , B&W
Selected Public Collections
White Rabbit Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
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
