Hu Xiangqian (b. 1983, Guangdong) graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

Hu Xiangqian's artistic practice tends toward performance and video inspired by current events and his own surroundings. With a keen eye for the absurd, he skillfully highlights the contrasts in our society and amplifies minor incidents into major social signifiers. One of his best-known video works, Blue Flags Everywhere , documents a humorous but earnest attempt to run for mayor of his hometown at the age of 21. In Sun , Hu Xiangqian tries to tan himself the same shade as two of his close African friends, while Drift with the Tide is a poignant work about the artist leaving university by literally rowing out to sea.

1983 Born in Guangdong, China
Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Major of Painting, 2007
Currently working and living in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010    51 m2 7#, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Body as a Museum/Sweet and Sweat, 24hr Art, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
2009    Knee-Jerk Reaction, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011    Moving Image in China 1988-2011,Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Asia Triennial Manchester II , institution for the future, Manchester, England
Taking the stage over, Diagram for speed, 18 space, Shanghai,China
Super-organism, Central Acadenmr of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Image• History• Existence —— Taikang Life 15th Anniverary Artcollection Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010    "Curated By Liu Wei" - Wang Yuyang & Hu Xiangqian: Organisms, UCCA, Beijing, China
Great Performance, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
2009    Bourgeoisified Proletariat: Contemporary Art in Songjiang, Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai, China
Biography, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2008    Guangzhou Station: the Contemporary Art in Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
My Body is Your Battleground, Fei Art Center, Shanghai, China
2007    China Power Station PartII, Oslo Bors, Norway
Slash Fiction, Gasworks, London, UK
2006    Urban Situation, Estonian National Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonian
The Road from Changgang, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The 1st Independent Chinese Film Exhibition, Paris, France
2005    A Future of Antiquity: The 2nd Chinese Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China