1970
born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu, China
 
Solo Exhibitions
2010    
"STEPFATHER HAS AN IDEA!", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
"STEPFATHER HAS AN IDEA!", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2008
"BIG SHOW – XIE NANXING", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
2005
"Xie Nanxing Paintings", Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
"Xie Nanxing", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2003
"Paintings 1999-2002", Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2000
"Xie Nanxing", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
1998
"Xie Nanxing", Pulitzer Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997
"Ten Drops of Tears & Ten Self-Disguised Portraits – The Association Exhibition of Art Personality in Metropolis", Xie Nanxing studio, Chengdu, China
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010     
"The Official Opening of Minsheng Art Museum – Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009", Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"The Richter Scale. About the disappearance of the image – Gerhard Richter and his impact on today’s art", Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Palazzo Strozzi, FLorence, Italy
2009    
"Textbook: An Exhibition Of Chinese Lively Paintings", Li-Space, Beijing, China
2008
"Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection", The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
"Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
"City-net Asia 2007", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
"The Supplemental History – Contemporary Art from Collection of GDMoA", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"Energies – Synergy", Foundation DE 11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
"China Welcomes you...", Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
"Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"Strategy on Paper – Works on Paper Invitational", Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
2006
"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Haumburg, Germany
2005
"Show Me...Catch Me...Sight Unseen. Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei", China Art Archives and Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China
"Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
"PICTORIAL DNA Made in China", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Cina. Prospettive d'Arte Contemporanea / China: As Seen by Contemporary Chinese Artists", Provincia di Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
"China-Contemporary Painting", Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Palazzo Saraceni, Bologna, Italy
"A Kind of Magic - The Art of Transforming", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
1st Monpellier Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France
2004
"The Monk and the Demon – Contemporary Chinese Art", Musée d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France
"All under Heaven", Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
"Le Printemps de Chine", CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France
2003
"New Zone - Chinese Art", Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Open Sky", Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
"Living Conditions", Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2002
"Painting on the Move", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1st Guangzhou Triennale 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"Mirage", Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
"Chinese Contemporary Art", Museu de Arte Brasileira (MAB), São Paulo, Brazil
2001
"TAKE PART II", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland  
"Abbild – Recent Portraiture and Depiction", Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
"TAKE PART I", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"The Door of Century. China Contemporary Art 1979 – 1999", Chengdu Mordern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
"Our Chinese Friends", ACC Galerie and Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität (in collaboration with Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne), Weimar, Germany
1999
"d'APERTutto", La Biennale di Venezia, 48. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy  
"Innovations", China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW ), Beijing, China
"Time to Revive", Uprivers Gallery, Chengdu, China