Xiaoze Xie

Xiaoze Xie earned his BA in architecture in 1988 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, his MFA in 1991 from the Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, and another MFA in 1996 from the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 1999, Xie has taught in the Department of Art and Art history at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Xie’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, and the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, among others. Individual exhibitions of Xie’s work include Transient Memories: Works on Paper by Xiaoze Xie (2007) at the Danish Cultural Center in Beijing; Xiaoze Xie: Works on Paper (2007) at the Modern Chinese Art Foundation in Ghent, Belgium; and Order: Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie (2000) at the Scottsdale Museum of contemporary Art. Among the group exhibitions that have featured Xie’s work are Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art (2006–07) at the Chinese Institute Gallery in New York and the Seattle Asian Art Museum; The Daily News (2005–06) at the Salt Lake Art center in Utah, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, and the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming; and Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S. (2004–06) organized by the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, which also traveled to seven other university art galleries.