Xu Hongxiang
Xu Hongxiang was born in 1984 in Changsha, Hunan, China. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a bachelor´s degree, graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 with a master's degree, and now lives and works in Beijing.
Xu Hongxiang’s artistic practice often revolves around painting. Project-based painting series with narrative contents and oil paintings centered on landscapes are the two parallel creative approaches that punctuate his career. "Image", "body", and "the relationship between painting and reality" are the overarching themes he has been trying to explore in his multi-media painting projects throughout the years. The traits of his highly stylized painting, which included a signature saturated palette, are the fragments that reflect such themes.
Xu Hongxiang’s solo exhibitions includes: "Xu Hongxiang: Wander" (Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2024), "Xu Hongxiang: Ancient Posts" (Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, 2023), "Xu Hongxiang: Displaced Images" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, 2022), "Xu Hongxiang: An Exuberant View" (Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, 2021), "Xu Hongxiang: One Night While Hunting for Faeries" (Loft8 Galerie, Vienna, 2019), "Not Dark Yet - Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, 2018), "Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (SZ Art Center, Beijing, 2014). His solo project includes: "Cultivating in solitude - Xu Hongxiang's Residency Program in Australia" ( LalLal Art Museum, Melbourne, 2023), "Artists Residency Program: The JAEGER EXPERIEMENT" ( JINGHOPE Art Center, Sanya, 2021), "Shuffle Parallel Vienna 2018" (Vienna, 2018), "Li Qiang" (Changsha, 2016), "In the Field" (Changsha, 2016) . Selected group exhibitions includes: "Web of Being: The Living Network" (Tang Contemporary Art, Singapore, 2025), "The season has not arrived" (Atmosphere Space, Nanjing, 2024), "DIALOGUE: Art Museum Tour by Art Gallery Association Beijing" (Art Museum of SCFAI, Chongqing, 2024), "Symphony of Coexistence - Chinese and Southeast Asian Art Invitational Exhibition" (Art Museum of SCFAI, Chongqing, 2024), "Follow the Rabbit - Talking stock of a collection and its reception through contemporary Chinese art" (Museum Liaunig, Austria, 2023).
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