1959
born in Beijing, China
lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibition
2010
"Three Dimensional", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2008
"Landscapes with Soul", Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Madrid, Spain
"Early Spring – Xia Xiaowan’s New Art", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Ming" Installation Project, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
2006
"Painting From the Inside", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2004
"Art of Xiaowan", Time Gallery, Qingdao, China
2003
"How do you see with your mind & body? Xia Xiaowan’s works on paper", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
1998
"Looking Up", Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Selected Group Exhibition
2009
"Body", Center of Contemporary Art Shangdong, Nanjing, China
"The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing", BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2008
"The Origin", The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival, Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"Hypallage – the Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art", the OCT & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
"The Power of the Universe – the Exbition of Frontier Contemporary Chinese Art", Asia Art Centre, Beijing, China
"2007 Chinese Contemporary Art Document Exhibition", Yonghe Museum; The Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Martell Artists of the Year 2008", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"2D-3D – Negotiating Visual Languages", PKM Gallery, Beijing China
"China’s Revision", Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
"Pursuing Source and Doctrine – Oil Painting Research Exhibition", The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2007
"Imagination Becomes Reality", ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
"85 New Wave – The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"Living in Songzhuang", Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
"The First Today’s Documents 2007", The Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"The Portrait of Zero Degree", Aye Gallery, Beijing, China
"Art Breakthrough – Art Beijing 2007", Beijing, China
"Vanguardias Chinas", Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2006
"Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"Hyper Design – the 6th Shanghai Biennale", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"The 2nd Biennale of Austria 2006", Klagenfurt, Austria
"Brush Hour 2", Space ieum, Beijing, China; Korea
"Art Breakthrough – Art Beijing 2006", Beijing, China
2005   
"Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
"Yellow River – A Review of New Chinese Oil Painting", National Museum of China, Beijing, China
"Hand in Hand with the New Century – The Third Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting", National Museum of China, Beijing, China
"2005 – Pingyao International Photography Art Exhibition", Pingyao, China
2004
"Posers – Group Exhibition of Courtyard Gallery Artists", Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
"2004 Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition", Gwangju, Korea
"Appropriation and Pastiche – Pittura, fotografia e video dalla Cina. Special Project in Gotha VII", Parma, Italy
2003
"The International Sketch Art", China, England, Australia
2002
"Vigor of the Century – Contemporary Art of Chinese 50 Artists", China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
2001
"Anxiety: The Drawn Figure", The University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, New South Wales, Australia Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2000
"20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition", National Museum of Art, Beijing, China
1998
The Mediawave Festival, Györ, Hungary
1996
"Restarting", The Palace Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Oil Painting Annual Exhibition, Beijing Museum of Art, Beijing, China
"Group Exhibition in Düsseldorf", Düsseldorf, Germany
1995
"The April Exhibition", The Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1994
"The Annual Exhibition of Works of the artists Nominated by Art Critics", Beijing Museum of Art, Beijing, China
1992
"Chinese New Art Post 1989", London, UK; Marlborough Gallery, Sydney, Australia
England and Australia
1991
"91 March Exhibition", the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
"Chinese New Art Post 1989", Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China; Marlborough Gallery, England and Australia
1989
"Modern Art from China", Beijing Museum of Art, Beijing, China
1988
"An Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art", National Museum of China, Beijing, China
1987
"Towards the Future", Beijing Museum of Art, Beijing, China
1985 "
The November Exhibtion", the Palace Museum, Beijing, China

Publications
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne-Beijing (2006). Xia Xiaowan - Painting From The Inside. Beijing.
Y. Q. K. Art Center (2003). Xia Xiaowan - Works On Paper.Beijing.
Hebei Education Press (2001). Drawings of Xia Xiaowan. Hebei, China.
Schoeni Art Gallery (1998). Looking Up. Hong Kong, China.

Texts and Articles
Colonnello, N., Xia, X. (2006). Painting From The Inside - Interview with Xia Xiaowan. Beijing Lucerne: Galerie Urs Meile. pp. 6-11.
Xia, X. ( 2006). Some Thoughts about Space Paintings. The illustrated Magazine for World Knowledge, World Knowledge Publishing House, 292, pp. 6-17.
Kai, E., Liu, Y. (2005). Artist Who Draw Anamorphic Person on Glass. Prestige Magazine, 11, pp. 139-141.
Xia, X. (2004). Capriccio of My Composition. Chinese Art, China Fine Art Central Publishing House, 3, pp. 54-57.
Han, W. (2004). Interpreting Experiences and Models of Thought - Notes About An Interview with Xia Xiaowan. Gallery Magazine Publishing House, 1, pp. 115-125.
Song, X. (2004). What Is The Way You See?. Chinese Art, China Fine Art Central Publishing House, 3, pp. 51-53.
Xia, X. (2003). I Saw It So. Contemporary Artist Publishing House, 29, pp. 60-61.
Song, X. (2003). Xia Xiaowan’s Works On Paper. Reader Digest, Gansu People's Publishing House, 11, pp. 66-67.
Xia, X. (2003). I Saw It So. Understanding the Art of Sketch - Report on The Studios of Oil Painters, Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House, pp. 57-59.
Song, X. (2003). How Do You See With Your Mind & Body? Oriental Art, Oriental Art Publishing House, 67, pp. 158-171.
Ma, L. (2000). Flying Next to The People to Watch Them. Art Today, Hebei Education Press, 1, pp. 44-45.
Jia, X. (1998). Contemplations and Transcendentalism on The Minds Roads – The Contemporary Arts in China and Xia Xiaowan’s Paintings. Hong Kong: Schoeni Art Gallery, pp. 8-10.
Xia, X. (1996). Resettlement. Fine Art Research Publishing House, 4, p. 16.
Li, X. (1994). Xia Xiaowan – A Romantic Modern Sleepwalker. The Annual Exhibition of Works of The Artists Nominated by Art Critics (Oil Paintings 1994). Beijing: National Museum of China. p. 162.
Lü, P., Yi, D. (1989). The November Exhibition and Step to The Future. A History of Chinese Modern Art 1979-1989. Changsha China: Hunan Fine Art Publishing House. pp. 259-262.