CHEN Xiao-Yi
陳蕭伊
Xiaoyi Chen was born in Sichuan, China in 1992. She received an MA Photography from London College of Communication in 2014, currently lives and works in Chengdu. Her work based on photography but not confined to specific media, focusing on the subtle perceptions of human beings by producing images. And constantly challenge the established logic, perception and imagination to explore the existence itself. Xiaoyi Chen has exhibited internationally; she was awarded the Three Shadows Photography Award in 2015, China’s most prestigious photography prize, and named one of Asia’s 30 Artist under 30 by Forbes magazine 2017.
In the projects that have been progressing in recent years, she has focused on the Western China as a resource area in history, focusing on the mines and mining relics in the Hengduan Mountains region as cuts, and continuously salvaging those lost time, the mystery of nature and the land. From the mining industry in the past to the mountain habitat today, she worked on the relationship between the temporal and spatial stacking of mountains and the land, and tried to scan the western mountains in China through the broader narrative.
Chronology
2014 - University of the Arts London - London College of Communication / MA Photography
2013 - International Gemological Institute / Polished Diamond Grader P.D.G
2010-2013 - University of Leeds Met / BSc (HONS) Photographic Journalism
2013 - International Gemological Institute / Polished Diamond Grader P.D.G
2010-2013 - University of Leeds Met / BSc (HONS) Photographic Journalism
Publications
2024 - Paperbush/梦花, P for Pinecone, China
2017 - KOAN 2nd, Jiazazhi Press, China
2014 - KOAN, Published by PJB Editions, London, UK
2017 - KOAN 2nd, Jiazazhi Press, China
2014 - KOAN, Published by PJB Editions, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 - Spoken Leaves, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
2023 - The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains: The Nameless Lands, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
2022 - The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains: I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea..., JIMEI X ARLES Discovery Award, Xiamen, China
2022 - The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains: I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea..., A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2020 - Streit, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
2018 - The stranger:…and while I blossomed all alone, the world slumbered…, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2018 - The stranger:…and while I blossomed all alone, the world slumbered…, Theatre Crochetan, Monthey, Switzerland
2017 - One Giant Leap, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
2017 - “Never！”1000+ project, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2016 - The Inadequacy of Lauguage, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
2023 - The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains: The Nameless Lands, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
2022 - The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains: I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea..., JIMEI X ARLES Discovery Award, Xiamen, China
2022 - The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains: I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea..., A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2020 - Streit, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
2018 - The stranger:…and while I blossomed all alone, the world slumbered…, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2018 - The stranger:…and while I blossomed all alone, the world slumbered…, Theatre Crochetan, Monthey, Switzerland
2017 - One Giant Leap, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
2017 - “Never！”1000+ project, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2016 - The Inadequacy of Lauguage, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - Scales In Flames, Shanghai Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
2024 - From Cave Paintings to Mono-Ha: The Art History of Stones, Orange Caves, China
2023 - Seaward, The 2nd TAG - New Contemporary, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China
2023 - “Friends in the Arts”- Exhibition of Chinese Collectors, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2023 - Mercury’s Tail, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2023 - Thousand Plateaus Project, Art Collaboration Kyoto(ACK), Kyoto, Japan
2023 - Aranya Plein Air Art Project, Aranya Jin Shan ling, China
2023 - Time Gravity: Constellations, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2023 - Siheyuan Art Museum Project: Diffusion, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2023 - Fluidscape – Parallel Exhibition of 2023 Chengdu Biennale, Unique Art Center, Chengdu, China
2023 - G12 Sparkling Sand, Allab Art Center, Chengdu, China
2023 - Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2023 - Walking China: Stories yet to be told, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, China
2023 - Interface, ARTiX³ Cube, Tokyo, Japan
2023 - A Thousand Plateaus, Photofairs Shanghai, China
2023 - Film Section, Art Basel HK, China
2022 - In Translation – The Contents of Nature, Sea World Culture & Art Center, Shenzhen, China
2022 - Spaziotraccia, Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome, Italy
2022 - DREAM video, WESTBUND art fair, shanghai, China
2022 - Think Through Ocean: The reflection of the moon is the spine of the sea, TCCA-TopRed Center for Contemporary Art, Xiamen, China
2022 - Born in 1992 – Exhibition of young artists from China and South Korea, The Korean Culture and Information Service/ Korean culture Center, Shanghai, China
2022 - River Pluses, Border Flows, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2022 - Celestial Bodies, La Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
2022 - Unnamed River, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing/ ZiWU, Shanghai, China
2022 - Renew-A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2021 - Compounded Performance, Up Art Space, Guiyang, China
2021 - Man-Made Landscape_Hotel Asia Project, Special Project: The Happiest Place on Earth/Post-card Project, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2021 - Quartet - Polyphonic Narration of Contemporary Art, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2021 - Parallel Universes - Parafacts and Parafictions, Design Republic, Shanghai, China
2021 - Main Section - Artissima Art Fair 2021, Turin, Italy
2021 - Siheyuan Art Museum Project: From Media - Illusion - Field, Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu, China
2021 - Equatorial Zone, Hug Store, Chengdu, China
2020 - Artissima online catalogue, Artissima art fair, Torino, Italy
2020 - 1000 Plateaus, Asia Now online viewing room, Paris
2020 - Six days- 1000 Plateaus, 2020 Beijing Contemporary, China
2020 - Body & Stone – Available Space, LA NUU photo festival, Rubi, Spain
2020 - Home-coming Islet, YUAN Museum, Chongqing, China
2019, The Gala, VT Art Salon & A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan (China)(upcoming)
2019 - The Dark and Bright Room of CAMERAer, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2019 - Artissima Telephone, Artissima, OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy
2019 - Sunset on a Dead End – The Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence (Emerging curators project), Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2019 - The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 - The Drawing Hand, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 - Where we met? - Nomination exhibition of contemporary image from post 90s generation, Art Beijing Theme Exhibition, Beijing, China
2018 - Emerging Talents Festival, MATTATOIO, Roma, Italy 2018, The wind of Time, Lianzhou Foto 2018, Lianzhou, China
2018 - Extravaganza, Festival Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
2018 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2018 - 40 Years of Chinese contemporary photography, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2018 - Dialogue #1: 3 years of Matèria, Frontiera Studio, Palermo, Italy
2018 - Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary exhibition of the Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2018 - Athens Photo Festival: Main- Embedded in Nature, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2017 - Loop—Photography and Video Experiments in Southwestern China since 2000, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2017 - A Thousand Plateaus Exhibition for the Tenth Anniversary, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2017 - Calling/re-Calling-Culture city of east Asia 2017, Kyoto Asia Corridor Art Exhibition, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
2017 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2017 - 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017) – Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition，Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2016 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
2016 - Chinese Photobooks, Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2016 - Stretching Conceptual Space – state and method, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, China
2016 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2016 - Elemental Landscape, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 - Winter Discovery, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu China
2016 - Zong Mu Photography Biennial Exhibition, Fangsuo Commune, Chengdu, China
2016 - The Park, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space at The Temple House, Chengdu, China
2015 - Organic Iconography, Go East Project x Aotu Studio, Beijing, China
2015 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space – People’s Park Project, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2015 - The 3rd China Photography Billboard, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2015 - Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2015 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2015 - Photo Shanghai, LEAP Pavilion: A reading rom for Chinese independent photobooks, Shanghai, China.
2015 - The Elephant in the room, V art center, Shanghai, China
2015 - Asia new-talent photographers, Dali International photography festival, China
2015 - New Chinese Photographer - The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Tokamachi, Japan
2015 - The 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2015 - Photobook Show, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2015 - Celebrating Asian photobooks, Kassel Photobook Festival, Germany
2015 - Off Print London, Tate Modern (Turbine Hall), London, UK
2015 - China 8: Work in Progress, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2015 - Three Shadows Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photo Center, Beijing, China
2015 - On Landscape#2, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
2015 - 5o Contemporary Chinese Photobooks 2009 －
2014 - Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
2014 - MA Photography Final Show, London College of Communication, London, UK
2014 - "Exhibition Evenings #7", House Gallery, London, UK
2014 - Interim Show, London College of Communication, London, UK
2024 - From Cave Paintings to Mono-Ha: The Art History of Stones, Orange Caves, China
2023 - Seaward, The 2nd TAG - New Contemporary, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China
2023 - “Friends in the Arts”- Exhibition of Chinese Collectors, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2023 - Mercury’s Tail, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2023 - Thousand Plateaus Project, Art Collaboration Kyoto(ACK), Kyoto, Japan
2023 - Aranya Plein Air Art Project, Aranya Jin Shan ling, China
2023 - Time Gravity: Constellations, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2023 - Siheyuan Art Museum Project: Diffusion, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2023 - Fluidscape – Parallel Exhibition of 2023 Chengdu Biennale, Unique Art Center, Chengdu, China
2023 - G12 Sparkling Sand, Allab Art Center, Chengdu, China
2023 - Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2023 - Walking China: Stories yet to be told, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, China
2023 - Interface, ARTiX³ Cube, Tokyo, Japan
2023 - A Thousand Plateaus, Photofairs Shanghai, China
2023 - Film Section, Art Basel HK, China
2022 - In Translation – The Contents of Nature, Sea World Culture & Art Center, Shenzhen, China
2022 - Spaziotraccia, Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome, Italy
2022 - DREAM video, WESTBUND art fair, shanghai, China
2022 - Think Through Ocean: The reflection of the moon is the spine of the sea, TCCA-TopRed Center for Contemporary Art, Xiamen, China
2022 - Born in 1992 – Exhibition of young artists from China and South Korea, The Korean Culture and Information Service/ Korean culture Center, Shanghai, China
2022 - River Pluses, Border Flows, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2022 - Celestial Bodies, La Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
2022 - Unnamed River, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing/ ZiWU, Shanghai, China
2022 - Renew-A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2021 - Compounded Performance, Up Art Space, Guiyang, China
2021 - Man-Made Landscape_Hotel Asia Project, Special Project: The Happiest Place on Earth/Post-card Project, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2021 - Quartet - Polyphonic Narration of Contemporary Art, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2021 - Parallel Universes - Parafacts and Parafictions, Design Republic, Shanghai, China
2021 - Main Section - Artissima Art Fair 2021, Turin, Italy
2021 - Siheyuan Art Museum Project: From Media - Illusion - Field, Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu, China
2021 - Equatorial Zone, Hug Store, Chengdu, China
2020 - Artissima online catalogue, Artissima art fair, Torino, Italy
2020 - 1000 Plateaus, Asia Now online viewing room, Paris
2020 - Six days- 1000 Plateaus, 2020 Beijing Contemporary, China
2020 - Body & Stone – Available Space, LA NUU photo festival, Rubi, Spain
2020 - Home-coming Islet, YUAN Museum, Chongqing, China
2019, The Gala, VT Art Salon & A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan (China)(upcoming)
2019 - The Dark and Bright Room of CAMERAer, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2019 - Artissima Telephone, Artissima, OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy
2019 - Sunset on a Dead End – The Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence (Emerging curators project), Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2019 - The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 - The Drawing Hand, Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 - Where we met? - Nomination exhibition of contemporary image from post 90s generation, Art Beijing Theme Exhibition, Beijing, China
2018 - Emerging Talents Festival, MATTATOIO, Roma, Italy 2018, The wind of Time, Lianzhou Foto 2018, Lianzhou, China
2018 - Extravaganza, Festival Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
2018 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2018 - 40 Years of Chinese contemporary photography, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2018 - Dialogue #1: 3 years of Matèria, Frontiera Studio, Palermo, Italy
2018 - Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary exhibition of the Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2018 - Athens Photo Festival: Main- Embedded in Nature, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2017 - Loop—Photography and Video Experiments in Southwestern China since 2000, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2017 - A Thousand Plateaus Exhibition for the Tenth Anniversary, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2017 - Calling/re-Calling-Culture city of east Asia 2017, Kyoto Asia Corridor Art Exhibition, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
2017 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2017 - 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1976-2017) – Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition，Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2016 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
2016 - Chinese Photobooks, Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2016 - Stretching Conceptual Space – state and method, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, China
2016 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2016 - Elemental Landscape, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 - Winter Discovery, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu China
2016 - Zong Mu Photography Biennial Exhibition, Fangsuo Commune, Chengdu, China
2016 - The Park, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space at The Temple House, Chengdu, China
2015 - Organic Iconography, Go East Project x Aotu Studio, Beijing, China
2015 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space – People’s Park Project, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2015 - The 3rd China Photography Billboard, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2015 - Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2015 - A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2015 - Photo Shanghai, LEAP Pavilion: A reading rom for Chinese independent photobooks, Shanghai, China.
2015 - The Elephant in the room, V art center, Shanghai, China
2015 - Asia new-talent photographers, Dali International photography festival, China
2015 - New Chinese Photographer - The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Tokamachi, Japan
2015 - The 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2015 - Photobook Show, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2015 - Celebrating Asian photobooks, Kassel Photobook Festival, Germany
2015 - Off Print London, Tate Modern (Turbine Hall), London, UK
2015 - China 8: Work in Progress, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2015 - Three Shadows Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photo Center, Beijing, China
2015 - On Landscape#2, Matèria Gallery, Roma, Italy
2015 - 5o Contemporary Chinese Photobooks 2009 －
2014 - Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
2014 - MA Photography Final Show, London College of Communication, London, UK
2014 - "Exhibition Evenings #7", House Gallery, London, UK
2014 - Interim Show, London College of Communication, London, UK
Awards
2023 - Finalists of “The 2nd TAG-New Contemporary ”
2022 - Finalists of Premio Generazione Contemporanea 2022
2022 - Nominated for JIMEI x ARLES Discovery Award 2022
2020 - Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2020
2019 - Nomination, The 2020 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2019 - Nomination, Huayu Youth Award
2017 - Forbes "30 UNDER 30 Asia" - The Arts
2017 - Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2017
2016 - Finalist of 10th AAC ART CHINA, Young Artist Award
2015 - The 3rd China Photography Billboard
2015 - Finalist Barcelona International photography Awards
2015 - Winner of Seventh Three Shadows Photography Award
2015 - Shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition
2014 - Winner of The Photofusion Prize 2014
2022 - Finalists of Premio Generazione Contemporanea 2022
2022 - Nominated for JIMEI x ARLES Discovery Award 2022
2020 - Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2020
2019 - Nomination, The 2020 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2019 - Nomination, Huayu Youth Award
2017 - Forbes "30 UNDER 30 Asia" - The Arts
2017 - Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2017
2016 - Finalist of 10th AAC ART CHINA, Young Artist Award
2015 - The 3rd China Photography Billboard
2015 - Finalist Barcelona International photography Awards
2015 - Winner of Seventh Three Shadows Photography Award
2015 - Shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition
2014 - Winner of The Photofusion Prize 2014
Collections
A4 Art Museum, China
CAFA Art Museum, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China
Lishui Photography Museum, China
CAFA Art Museum, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China
Lishui Photography Museum, China
