1965   
Born in Inner Mongolia
1989   
Graduated from the Department of Fresco of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.Now living and working in Beijing.

Award
2000     
Won CCAA Award (Overall Prize Winner), Beijing

Solo Exhibitions
2011    
“Scenery-Xiao Yu Solo Exhibition”, aye gallery, Beijing
2010    
“Solo exhibition of Xiao Yu - Turn Around”, Beijing Commune, Beijing
2008    
“Who cares whose seed it is! It’s my pregnancy.” aye gallery, Beijing
2007    
“A Drama of Materialistic Objects —— One World, Cold or Warm”, ARARIO BEIJING, Beijing
“Newly narrative”, dARTex, Beijing
2006    
“Changes in Secret”, YIBO Gallery, Shanghai
1994     
“One of Xiao Yu's Performances in1994: Search for a Spouse”, Beijing TV Station, Beijing

Solo Exhibitions of POLIT-SHEER-FORM
2011    
“We are Polit-Sheer-Form”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2009    
“TUFU、KONGFU、POLIT-SHEER-FORM”, Beijing Commune，Beijing
2008    
“Library”, Beijing Commune, Beijing
2007    
“Polit-Sheer-Form Office in Shanghai”, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
2006    
“Polit-Sheer-Form”, Beijing Commune, Beijing
“Only One Wall”, ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia
2005    
“Only One Wall”, Beijing Commune, Beijing

Group Exhibitions
2011    
“Guanxi: Contemporary Chinese Art”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2010    
“Convection ·2010 Dafen International Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen        
“Jungle”, A Close-up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing        
“Great Performances”, Pace Beijing, Beijing
2009    
“Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture”, Shenzhen
“Body”, Center of Contemporary art Shang Dong, Nanjing
“The Tale of Angels”, the Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
“Chinetik—A collaboration between Museum Tinguely and Littmann Kulturprojekte”, Basel, Switzerland
2008    
“Art and Capital: Spiritual Odyssey”, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea        
“Consumption of History”, EAST ASIA CONTEMPORARY, Shanghai
“NEW WORLD ORDER”, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
“Catharsis Themed Art Exhibition”, LongDeXuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
“Life- Biomorphic Forms in Sculptures”, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
“Subtlety”, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute (Platform China), Beijing, China
2007      
“Emotion Aesthetics”, dARTex, Beijing
“7 8 9 10—LuHao, WangYin, XiaoYu, Yang Maoyuan”, YIBO Gallery, Shanghai
“The Arrogant and the romantic--- Ordos Art Museum Begins Unfolds”, Ordos Art Museum, Inner Mongolia
2006   
“Size Decides Attitude ---- First 5×7 Picture-Taking Biennale Exhibition”, Pingyao, Shanxi; TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing”In Person”, Songzhuang, Beijing
2005   
“Always to the Front ― China Contemporary Art”, kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China
“Banana Surfer”, Korean ieum Gallery, Beijing
“Mayfly”, Beijing Commune, Beijing
“Mahjong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection”, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
“New, Boundless”, Zhaoweihuadeng Plaza, Beijing
“Clues—Fang Lijun, Wang Yin, Xiao Yu, Yang Maoyuan”, White Space Beijing, Beijing
“City Skin---Images of the Contemporary Metropolis”, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao; Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen
“Conspire---the 1st Exhibition of TS1 Contemporary Art Center”, TS1 Contemporary Art Center Beijing
2004   
“Is It Art--an exhibition of contemporary art”, Xi’an”Undercurrents--Contemporary Video Art From China”, Zehdenicker Strasse 12A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
“2004 Shanghai Biennale Techniques of the Visible”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
“18VS1——Community in the imagination”, Crystal Town, Tianjin
2003  
“Junction --- Architectural Experiment of Chinese Contemporary Art”, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai
“Alors, La Chine?”, Centre Pompidou, Paris”Distance --- A Collection of the Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou,
“Second Hand Reality”, Today Art Museum, Beijing
“Left Hand, Right Hand --- A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, 798 Art Space, Beijing
“Villa Museum”, Huigugenyuan, Beijing
“City Net Asia”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2002  
“W.X.Y.”, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing
“Run Jump Crawl Walk”, the East Modern Art Center, Beijing
“Too much flavor”, 3H art center, Shanghai   ”Transformation”, One world art center, Beijing
“Attitude”, Theme Factory, Beijing
“Inside and Between, Communication and Identification in Contemporary Art”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts Ministry of Culture of Russia, Kaliningrad Branch, Russia
“When It Rains It Pours”, ddmwarehouse, Shanghai
2001 
“ La Biennale di Venezia 49“, Venice, Italy
“Weightlessness“, Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin“New starting point“, Artist Warehouse, Beijing
2000   
“Contemporary Art Exhibition: A Hurtful Infatuation”, Beijing
“The Ache: Wang Yin, Xiao Yu, Yang Maoyuan Works Exhibition”, Beijing Museum of Design, Beijing
“Lyon Biennial”, Lyon, France
“Chinese Avant-Garde Artists Documents”, Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan
FUCK OFF, Xi Suzhoulu 1133, Shanghai
“About Me --- Chinese Experimental Photography”, Organized and Presented by Other Shore Art Inc., sanya Photography Gallery, Shanghai; the Museum of Yunnan Arts Institute, Kunming, China
“ARTFILE 2001- A”, Other Shore Arts Inc. Kunming Studio, Yunan
1999   
“Singularity and Delusion: Post-Perceptual Art Exhibition”, Beijing”Chinese Contemporary Arts by Four Artists”, Odden Ladegaard, Denmark
1998   
“Self-Reflexive -- Self and Environment Art Exhibition”, Beijing
1996   
“Alliance, Art Exhibition of the Graduates in the 80s-90s from the Central Academy of Fine Arts”, China National Art Gallery, Beijing
1987   
“Walking Towards the Future Painting Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing