XIAOZE XIE
Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art
Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
Mailing Address: Telephone: 650.723.6282
864 Cedro Way, Email: xzxie@stanford.edu
Stanford, CA 94305
Born 1966, Guangdong, China. Lives and works in Stanford, California and Beijing China.
EDUCATION
1996 Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, Denton,
Texas
1991 Master of Arts, Central Academy of Arts and Design, Beijing, China
1988 Bachelor of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
GRANTS, AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2016 Academic Award in Painting, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing,
P. R. China
2013 Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York
2008 The National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Humanities, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Interpreting Brooklyn Project Grant, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, New York
2003 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, New York
2002 U.S. General Services Administration's Art-in-Architecture Program commission for the Federal Building and U. S. Courthouse, Davenport, Iowa (catalog of project published in 2007 by GSA)
2001 Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Grant, Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 Arizona Artists Materials Fund Grants, Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1996 Awards to Artist, The Kimbrough Fund Award, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1995 First Place, Voertman Art Exhibition, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
1994 First Place, Greater Denton Arts Council Award, 26th Annual Juried Fine Arts Awards Exhibit of North Texas Area Art League, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas
TEACHING
2009-Present Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art, Department of Art & Art History,
Stanford University, California.
2008-2010 Guest Professor, Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin, China
2007-2009 Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
2006-2009 Associate Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
1996-1997 Visiting Artist, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
1991-1992 Assistant Professor, Shantou University, Guangdong, China.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019-20 Xiaoze Xie: Objects of Evidence, Asia Society Museum, New York
THE ART SHOW 2019, Chamber Fine Art, Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA),
New York
Forbidden Stories: Installation and Photographs by Xiaoze Xie, Skillman library, Lafayette
College, Pennsylvania
Xiaoze Xie: New Paintings and Photographs, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2018 Forbidden Memories, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Zoom In: Recent Paintings by Xiaoze Xie, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
2017-18 Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Nocturnes: New Work by Xiaoze Xie, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco,
California
Xiaoze Xie: Confrontation and Disruption, Stanford in Washington Art Gallery,
Washington DC (catalogue)
2017 Traces: Works by Xie Xiaoze, Shantou University Art Gallery, Guangdong, China
Empty Field: Xie Xiaoze Solo Exhibition, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
Endurance: New Work by Xiaoze Xie, Chambers fine Art, New York
2016 Xiaoze Xie: Albums, Prints and photographs, East Asia Library, Stanford University
2015 Xiaoze Xie: Subtexts, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Xiaoze Xie: Excerpts, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Xie Xiaoze: Libraries, Moatti Masters/Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
2014 Multiple Perspectives: New Work by Xie Xiaoze, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2013 Multiple Perspectives: New Work by Xie Xiaoze, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing,
China (catalog)
Transience, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2012 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Xiaoze Xie: War, Shasta College Art Gallery, California
2011 Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of
California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
Transience Memories, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Layers: Recent Work by Xiaoze Xie, Chambers Fine Art, New York, New York; Bing
Stanford in Washington, Washington D.C.
Xiaoze Xie: Theatre of Power, Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
West Virginia
2010-12 Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Touring through 2012: Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville,
Tennessee; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Bates
College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine. (catalog)
2010 Layers: Recent Work by Xiaoze Xie, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China (catalog)
Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Rhythm of Time, Corridor of Memory: A Site-specific Installation by Xie Xiaoze,
MADA.p.a.m. Architectural Studio Office at Red Star Kindergarten, Shanghai
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2009 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Acts and Scenes 2001-2007, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Quotidian Truths: Paintings by Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Both Sides Now, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007 The Museum Libraries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
Xiaoze Xie: Photographs, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Disposable Views, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
Legacy, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea (catalog)
Transient Memories: Works on Paper by Xie Xiaoze, dARTex, The Danish Cultural Center,
Beijing, China (catalog)
Xiaoze Xie: Works on Paper, The Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium (catalog)
2006 The MoMA Library, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York (catalog)
2005 Nicholas Metiver Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 2001-2003 Fragmentary Views, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York (catalog)
2003 History: A Microscopic View, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
2002 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Order: An Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
1998 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997 The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Davidson Galleries, Seattle,
Washington
1996 Puppet/Recent Work by Xiaoze Xie, New Talent Gallery, Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas
Xiaoze Xie: The Library Paintings, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
1995 Mosaics Series: Xiaoze Xie, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Where the Heart Is: Contemporary Art by Immigrant Artists, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
2019-20 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
Global Conversations: Contemporary World in Dialogue, Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, Ohio
Aliens: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in The San Francisco Bay Area,
Gallery Elite, Carmel, CA
2nd Sculpture Projects Ping Yao 2019, Ping Yao, China
Swimming in the World of Images, We Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 Ink at Current: 10th International Ink Art Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fine Art
Institute, OCAT Shenzhen, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
IN INK: Current Trends of Ink Art, Nan Hai Gallery, Millbrae, CA
On Paper: Collaborations in Print and Pulp from Wildwood Press,
Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2018-19 Future Progress: Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, ZiniTown of
Art; Framework: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, the College of Art
at South China Agricultural University; both in Guangzhou. Part of the 6th
Guangzhou Triennial organized by the Guangdong Museum of Art.
Napoleon Special Exhibition, Dialogue between Contemporary and Tradition,
Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai
2018 Industry 4.0: Power of Transformation, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Chen Jing: Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, No. 1 Wanjiang Art Museum,
Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Visual Anthology: Artworks & the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California
2017 Anren Biennale: Today’s Yesterday, Anren, Sichuan, China
The Unknown Future: Hebei International Visual Art Experimental Exhibition, NIU
Art Space, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
Vision and Voice: Reflections of Immigrant Artists in California, ART ARK Gallery,
San Jose, California
Words in Characters: Books as Vehicles, Stanford University East Asia Library,
Stanford, California
The Art of Asian Languages, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma
2016 HISTORICODE: Scarcity & Supply/The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival,
Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing
Printmaking – A Fine Art: 20 Years of Wildwood Press, St. Louis, Mitchell, Museum,
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
All Hands on Deck, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
2015-16 Fragmentary Narratives: Fang Lijun, Xie Xiaoze, Yang Jiechang and Yang
Shaobin, parallel exhibition of the 5th Art Changsha Biennial, the Changsha City
Museum, Hunan, China;
Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, California
2015 Liberating the Past from the Present: Contemporary Art in China, Shengzhi Space, Beijing;
Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
What can California art be? Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Fragmentary Narratives: Fang Lijun, Xie Xiaoze, Yang Jiechang and Yang
Shaobin, Changsha City Museum, Changsha, China
A Record of Architectural Transformation, The Ninth Songzhuang Culture and Art
Festival 2015 Theme Exhibition, G-Dot Art Space, Beijing, China
“Retrospective” Paule Anglim (1923-2015) A memorial exhibition commemorating
50 years of support and collaboration, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2014 The 1st China Xinjiang International Arts Biennale, Urumqi International Exhibition
Center, Urumqi, China
Beyond Architecture, Long Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Cultural Complex Art
Center, Guangzhou, China
Now Read This: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael
Zirinsky, Idaho Center for the Book, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Deep Reading, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California
Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits, Art Museum of
Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Chroma, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Yuan Yunfu & Tsinghua Fine Art Group, East Exhibition Hall, National Center for
the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
Alumni Showcase: Rachel Cox, Elliot Johnson, Xiaoze Xie, UNT ArtSpace, Dallas, Texas
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Collection, San Jose Museum of Art
2013-14 2012-2013 Chambers Review: Cai Jin, Feng Mengbo, Guo Hongwei, Song
Hongquan, Taca Sui, Wu Jian'an, Xie Xiaoze, Zhang Dun. Chambers Fine Art,
Beijing
2013 Zero State: 2013 The First Biennale of Installation Art in China, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Beijing, Xiangshan Art Museum, Beijing, Tianjin Art Museum,
Tianjin, China
The Awakening of Intuition, The 13th China Pingyao International Photography
Festival, multiple venues, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
Living Legacies: The JSMA@80, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of
Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Mark My Word, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
ac·qui·si·tions: A Selection from the Past Decade, The Old Jail Art Center,
Albany, Texas
We: 1994-2013 The 20th Anniversary Collective Exhibition of Chinese Song
Zhuang Artists, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
Ex Libris, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art, University Art
Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana (catalog)
War & Healing, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California
The Moment for Ink: Documenting the History of Ink Painting in America, Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco
State University and the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, California (catalog)
Bibliographilia, Palo Alto Art Center, CA
2012 Aspects of a New Realism, Roger Arthur Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
(curated by Michael Klein)
Observations: Works by Xiaoze Xie, Shi Jing, Guo Hongwei and Zhang Dun,
Chambers Fine Art, ARTFARM, Saly Point, New York
2011-12 Across the Divide, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater;
Courtyard Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin (catalog)
Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut (curated by Rachel Gugelberger)
2011 Book-ish, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
I Believe – Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Song Zhuang Art
Center, Beijing (catalog), Shang Shang Art Museum, Beijing
New Variations, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 Re-Present: Pat Boas, Adam Chapman, Isaac Layman, Joe Park, Xiaoze Xie,
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Memory, Well Art, Shanghai
The Message and the Medium: The Library Turns 10, Sonoma State University,
Rohnert Park, California
2009-10 Something Geographical: Vernon Fisher, Buzz Spector and Xiaoze Xie, Zolla/Lieberman
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Illinois
Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek & Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum,
Bellingham, Washington
2009 First Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists, Chongqing International Convention and
Exhibition Center, Chongqing, China (catalog)
China Urban: Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Chinese City, Douglas F. Cooley
Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (catalog)
2008-09 Texas Collects Asia: Contemporary Art, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas.
2008 Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of
California Riverside, Riverside, California (catalog)
2007 Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao, and Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West: Hung Liu and Xiaoze Xie,
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho (catalog)
What We Keep: An Exhibition on Books and Memory (Xiaoze Xie, Michele Oka Doner and \
Nina Katchadourian), Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho
Between Reality and Illusion, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Curated by George \
Morton and Karol Howard (catalog)
2006-08 Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York,
New York; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Honolulu Academy of Arts,
Honolulu, HI. Curated by Wu Hung (catalog)
2006 What War? White Box, New York, New York. Curated by Eleanor Heartney, Larry Litt,
and Juan Puntes
Why Lee Shot C: Buzz, she left 'em Vernon! (William T. Wiley, Xiaoze Xie, Buzz Spector,
Vernon Fisher) Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Everyday, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, PA
2004-06 Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China; NIU Art Museum,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, lL; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton,
TX; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Vanderbilt
University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St.
Mary’s City, MD; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. (catalog)
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery,
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University,
Providence, RI; Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Ben Maltz
Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA; University of California San
Diego Art Gallery, San Diego, CA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ;
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Ewing Gallery, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA (catalog)
2005-06 The Daily News, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming;
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (catalog)
2004 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas (catalog)
2003 The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Cross the Divide, Max L. Gatov and Werby Art Galleries at California State University,
Long Beach, California (catalog)
2001 Sally Packard and Xiaoze Xie, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
2000 2000 Exhibition of Guangdong Contemporary Oil Paintings, Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China
Recipients of 1999 Arizona Artists Materials Fund Grants, Contemporary Forum, Phoenix
Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Rosalyn Richards & Xiaoze Xie, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1999 West Looks East: Jae Hahn, Katherine Chang Liu, Chiaki Shuji, Hung Liu, Yung Ja Lee,
Younghee Cho Martin, Xiaoze Xie, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Building for the Millennium: Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
Scottsdale, Arizona
1997 George Segal and Xiaoze Xie, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,
Edinboro, Pennsylvania
1996 First Texas Annual, grand opening group show, The Contemporary Art Center of Fort
Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
1995 Scott Barber and Xiaoze Xie, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1994 Unity and Diversity, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
1993 Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas
1991 Four Young Artists, Shantou Painting Institute, Guangdong, China
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bates College Museum of Art
Bucknell University Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
U. S. Department of State, Art in Embassies
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009 Catalog Essayist. Deng Guoyuan and Rosalyn Richards, Tianjin Academy of
Fine Arts Museum, Tianjin, China and Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
2007 Catalog Essayist. Between Reality and Illusion, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004-06 Co-curator, catalog essayist and editor. Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China; NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, lL; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Co-curator, catalog contributor. Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA; University of California San Diego Art Gallery, San Diego, CA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA.
1994 Curator. X-tracted, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS & TALKS
2019 “Forbidden Stories: Installation and Photographs by Xiaoze Xie,” Skillman Library, Lafayette
College, PA
“Xiaoze Xie: New Paintings and Photographs," Artist Talk, Talley Dunn Gallery, Nov.15,
2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEq4xhQY6ho&feature=emb_title
“Artist Talk: Xiaoze Xie on ‘Amber of History’: Reinventing the Library Cave in Dunhuang,”
moderated by Anne Feng, Asia Society Texas Center, Nov. 5, 2019
“A Conversation with Xiaoze Xie,” interviewed by curator Michele Yun, Asia Society Museum,
New York. Sep. 9, 2019, https://asiasociety.org/video/conversation-xiaoze-xie-complete
“Forbidden Tale: Censorship and Society,” penal discussion, Asia Society Museum, New York,
https://asiasociety.org/video/forbidden-tales-censorship-and-society-complete
有話要說, 謝曉澤談中美當代藝術, KTSF Channel 26, Nov. 27, 2019,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=0w_EkzZFSmw&from=timeline&isappinstalled=0&app=desktop
2018 “Tracing Forbidden Memories,” Documentary Film Screening and Lecture, Asia Society
Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong, Sep. 7, 2018,
https://asiasociety.org/hong-hong/events/tracing-forbidden-memories
“Amber of History: Re-invention of the Library Caving in Dunhuang,” TAM Lecture, Tsinghua
University Museum of Art, Sep. 5, 2018
“Contemporary Art from Perspective of Cross-cultural communication,” National
Research Center for Cultural Innovation at Fudan University, June 27, 2018, FuDan University,
China
“Casting the Void: Re-inventing the Library Cave in Dunhuang,” Lecture and Panel
Discussion, Stanford University, Jan. 24, 2018
对话斯坦福大学终身教授谢晓泽：从清华大学建筑系毕业却转学绘画专业，一切源于对自
由表达的渴望, 悦海传媒SVTIMES, July 3, 2018,
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/S0Wa5AI3h5FfdLKyRNJduQ
2017 “Traveling to Dunhuang: An Evening with Xie Xiaoze,” Asia Art Archive, Oct. 27, 2017.
http://www.aaa-a.org/programs/traveling-to-dunhuang-an-evening-with-xie-xiaoze/
“Xieze Xie,” Art Practice Talk, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Jan. 19, 2017
2014 Artist Talk, “Mirrored and Obscured,” Art Museum of Southeast Texas, TX
2012 Artist Talk, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
2011 Artist Lecture, “Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology,” Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Oct. 12, 2011
Artist Lecture, “Xiaoze Xie: Theater of Power,” Mesaros Galleries, Jan. 20, 2011
Artist Talk, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Artist Talk, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
2010 Artist Talk, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
2000 Gallery Talk, “Order: An Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie,” Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art, Arizona, June 29, 2000
2009 Artist Talk, China Urban: Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Chinese City, Douglas F.
Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, Apr. 16, 2009
2007 Artist Lecture, “What We Keep: An Exhibition on Books and Memory,” Sun Valley Center for the
Arts, Aug. 3, 2007
Artist Talk, “On Time: The Works of Xiaoze Xie,” Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Nov. 6,
2007
2006 Artist Lecture, “Everyday,” Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Jan. 6, 2006
2005 Artist Lecture, “Misleading Trails,” NIU Art Museum, South Galleries, Altgeld Hall, Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Jan. 27, 2005
2003 Artist Talk & Symposium, “Across the Divide,” Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-
Whitewater; Courtyard Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Sep. 26, 2003
1997 Artist Talk, “George Segal and Xiaoze Xie,” Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,
Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Jan. 29, 1997
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Jessica Holmes. “Challenging Censorship, One Meticulous Artwork at a Time,” Hyperallergic,
November 21, 2019, https://hyperallergic.com/529682/challenging-censorship-one-meticulous-artwork-at-a-time/
Barbara Pollack. “Xiaoze Xie: Objects of Evidence at Asia Society New York,”COBO, October
17, 2019, https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/xiaoze-xie-objects-of-evidence-at-asia-society- new-york/
2018 Kealey Boyd. “How Books Get Banned.” Hyperallergic, February 15, 2018,
https://hyperallergic.com/422929/how-books-get-banned/
2018 Boyle, Kathleen. “Xiaoze Xie: Read All About It, Enduring Ephemera.” Nashville Arts
Magazine, March 2018. pp. 39-41
2017 “A Conversation with Mimi Gardner Gates and Xiaoze Xie,” Samsung Hall, Asian Art Museum,
Nov. 10, 2017
2015 Li, Na. “Exhibit shows transient nature of news and life.” China Daily (Canada), June 5, 2015 2014 Tancock, John. "Multiple Perspectives." Master’s Profile, The Fine Arts World,
March/April 2014, pp. 38-49
2013 Råcker, Barbara. “Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art.” Catalogue easy,
University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, February 22 – March 22, 2013
Wei, Lilly. "Xie Xiaoze at Chambers Fine Art." ARTnews December 2013, p. 107
Baker, Kenneth. “Wilson-Ryckman and Xie.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 2013, p. E-2
New American Painting/Juried Exhibition-in-Print, No. 103, Pacific Coast, Volume 17, Issue 6,
December/January 2013, pp. 150-153
2012 Baker, Kenneth. “Xie at Anglim.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2012. p. E2
Little, Carl. “Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008).” Art New England, March/April 2012
Konau, Britta. “’Ampllified Moments’ of power and knowledge.” The Portland Phoenix,
February 15, 2012
saacson, Philip. “In the Arts: ‘The Inspired Hand,’ other shows offer a splendid creative
diversion.” The Portland Press Herald, February 13, 2012
Keyes, Bob. “Winter Wonderscape.” Audience, January 22, 2012
2011 Morse, Trent. “Xiaoze Xie at Chambers Fine Art.” ARTnews June 2011, p. 109
Keefer, Bob. “Photo-Like.” The Register-Guard, October 20, 2011
“Amplified Moments”: Bates College will show works by famed Chinese artist Xiaoze Xie.”
Sun Journal, December 27, 2011
Spica, Heather Joyner. “Chinese-American Artist Xiaoze Xie Captures Moments Amplified
and Unplugged.” Metro Pulse, March 23, 2011
McRary, Amy. “New media: arists uses printed matter to create studies of history.”
Knoxville News Sentinel, March 6, 2011
2010 Baker, Kenneth. “Library Still Lifes Exude Elegiac Air.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 9,
2010. p. E3
Kelley, Jeff. “The Archivist.” Catalogue essay, Layers: Recent Works by Xiaoze Xie,
Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China.
Bowie, Chas. “Quite a Group at Leach.” The Oregonian, February 26, 2010.
2009 Dault, Gary Michael. “To Paint Book Is to Save Them.” The Globe and Mail, September 12, 2009.
Claypool, Lisa. “China Urban: An Interview with Xie Xiaoze.” Yishu: Journal of
Contemporary Chinese Art, July/August 2009, Volume 8, Number 4. pp. 41-50
Reproductions in Harvard Review. Number 37. pp. 140-141
2008 Caine, William. “The Spirit of Law/Iowa Reports” in GSA Art in Architecture Selected Artworks
19997-2008, introduction by Eleanor Heartney. U.S. General Services Administration, 2008,
pp.100-103 (book)
Brumer, Andy, "Previews of Exhibitions: Xie Xiaoze." ArtScene, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 15-16
Smith, Roberta. "When Newspaper Photographs Are Worth a Thousand Paintings." The New York
Times, November 6, 2008. p. C1, C5
Reproduction in Harper’s Magazine. August 2008. p. 73
Artner, Alan G. Chicago Tribune, May 7, 2008
Nance, Kevin. "For Xie, papers are all the news that's fit to paint Print friendly." Chicago Sun-
Times, April 18, 2008
2007 Wei, Lilly. "On Time: The Works of Xiaoze Xie." Brochure essay, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State
University of New York Cortland, Cortland, New York
Reproductions in BOL Journal. Winter 2007. pp. 143-154
Zhang, Ting. "Transient Memories." Phoenix Weekly, Issue No. 264, August 2007, pp. 60-63
Li, Yanling. "Transient Memories: Works on Paper by Xie Xiaoze." Shanghai Stock News,
Saturday, July 21, 2007. p. 15
Xia, Kejun. "Transient Memories and the Responsibility of Reading." Catalog essay, Transient
Memories: Works on Paper by Xie Xiaoze, The Danish Art Exchange, Beijing, China
Doom, R. "Wanneer de dappere winterpruimen in de sneeuw bloesemen..." catalog essay, Xiaoze
Xie: Werken op papier, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Vaughn, Katie. "Speaking Volumes, Paintings of Books Honor Legal System in U.S., Iowa."
Quad-City Times, February 11, 2007, Section H, p. 1, 7
2006 McGee, Carrie. “Misleading Trails.” Number: An Independent Arts Journal, Spring/Summer
2006. pp. 20-21
Schnoor, Christopher. “The News in Art at Boise Art Museum.” Boise Weekly, February 22-28,
2006, pp. 11-13
2005 Higgins, Shaun O’L. and Striegel, Collen. Press Gallery: The Newspaper in Modern and
Contemporary Art. New Media Ventures, Inc. 2005. pp. 190-191 (book)
Maddox, David. “Trans-Pacific Conversation: American and Chinese Artists Confront the
Realities of Globalization in Distinctly Different Ways.” Nashville Scene, November 24, 2005
Ridolfi, Mark. “Inspiration Arrives Today in Davenport Courthouse.” Quad-City Times, October
10, 2005, p. A11(The Editorial Page)
Edwards, Jim. “All the news that fits, and then some.” Catalog essay, The Daily News, Salt Lake
Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Hackett, Regina. “Messing With the Message: Art as News.’ catalog essay, The Daily News, Salt
Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Old Meets Bold." Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2005
2004 Laster, Paul. “Xiaoze Xie: 2001-2003 Fragmentary Views.” Art Asia Pacific, No. 43 (Winter 2004):
p. 84
Coleman, Rufus. “Painting the News.” The North Texan, Winter 2004. pp. 34-35
Heartney, Eleanor. “A War and Its Images.” Art in America, Vol. 92, No. 9 (October 2004): p. 55
Nichols, Matthew Guy. “Xiaoze Xie at Charles Cowles.” Art in America, Vol. 92, No. 6
(June/July 2004): p. 181
Wu, Penghui. “The Possibilities of Implication, Misleading Trails.” Art World, Issue No. 172
(September 2004): p. 16
Suh, Sangsuk. “Painted History through Slices of Newspapers.” Wolganmisool (Monthly Art,
Korean), June 2004, pp. 111-115
Goodbody, Bridget L. “Xiaoze Xie, ‘2001-2003 Fragmentary Views." Time Out New York, Issue
No. 445 (April 8-15, 2004): p. 53
Reproduction and review in The New Yorker, April 5, 2004. p.14, 18
Loos, Ted. “Fish Wrap, Bird Cage Liner, Still Life.” The New York Times, Sunday, March 21,
2004, p. 32
Heartney, Eleanor. “The Certainty of Uncertainty: History and Memory in the Work of Xiaoze
Xie.” Catalogue essay for Xiaoze Xie: 2001-2003 Fragmentary Views, Charles Cowles Gallery,
New York City
Li, Xianting. “The Regeneration of Three Traditions.” catalogue essay for Regeneration:
Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. p. 16
2003 Mak, Gerry. “Disposable History, Xie’s solo exhibit at CAAW reminds us that history is
malleable.” That’s Beijing, October 2003, p. 38
Leanza, Beatrice. “Double-Code Reality: Slow Motion and Still Cropping from the Age of
Symbiosis.” curator’s essay, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
New American Paintings/Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Number 44. Boston: The Open Studios
Press. pp. 158-161
2000 Josslin, Victoria. “Loss, Disintegration and Nostalgia at the Davidson Galleries.” Seattle Post
intelligencer, November 11, 2000
Hopkins, Debra L. “Order: An Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie.” curator’s essay,
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
1999 Updike, Robin. “Show Wrestles with Reality, Books Dominate Xie’s Haunting, Ambiguous
Work.” Seattle Times, February 25, 1999
Fugami, Tracey. “A Bookworm’s View.” International Examiner (Asian American Journal of the
Northwest), Vol. 26, No. 4, Feb. 17 - March 3, 1999, p. 11
1997 Newman, David. “Between Painting and Photography: Four Works by Xiaoze Xie.” Curator’s
Essay, Brookhaven College Center for the Arts, Texas, February 1997
1996 Shang, Chong. “On Xie Xiaoze’s Art.” Jiangsu Art Monthly, Issue No. 191 (November 1996):
pp. 31-35
Wilson, Wade. “Illiteracy on Canvas.” Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, April 28, 1996, Section F, p. 2
Swift, Wes. “An Artistic History of Protest.” The Battalion, March 20, 1996, p. 3
Bever, Jennifer. “Searching for Artistic Freedom, Chinese Painter’s Work Open to Many
Interpretations.” Bryan-College Station Eagle, March 17, 1996, p. D9
1995 Wilson, Wade. “A Moving Mix of Classical Style, Powerful Statement.” Fort-Worth Star
Telegram, November 26, 1995, Section F, p. 4
Wilson, Wade. “‘Mosaics’ Puts Together Pieces of Chinese Culture.” Fort-Worth Star-
Telegram, June 11, 1995, Section F, p. 4