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  • Artist: Xiao Hui Wang
  • Medium(s): Photography, Sculpture, Video Art, Writer
  • Born in: Tianjin, China
  • Exhibitions List 

Xiao Hui Wang is a Chinese Contemporary photography artist. She has gone to Germany 20 years ago as an artist engaging in photography, art creation. She has also made a name for herself as an author. Now she lives in both Munich and Shanghai.

Xiao Hui Wang’s works have been exhibited in various exhibitions - most are solo-shows - in museums and galleries of numerous countries and are collected by private and public institutions alike. To date, Xiao Hui Wang has published over 40 books, mostly photo catalogues, with famous publishing houses such as Prestel, Fischer, and Edition Braus. Her autobiographical book "My Visual Diary" has been a best-seller republished for more than 20 times and won important Chinese Book Prizes such as the "Shanghai Excellent Book Award"，"National Literature of Female Authors Award" and "Bingxin Award" (National Literature Award).

She has been a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai since 2001. Here she founded the institute “Xiao Hui Wang Art Center” in 2003 and the "Tongji International Media Art Center" (TIMAC) in 2006. She has been appointed the art-director of the International Automobile City "German City" in Shanghai. Xiao Hui Wang is also active in the cultural communication between Germany and China. Her work as a "Cultural Ambassador" led her to receiving the "German-Sino Friendship Award" from the German Government. She was named as one of the top 50 "Chinese who Impact the Future of the World” by the famous Hong Kong magazine “Phoenix Life”. In 2008 she has won the "Photographer of the Year" in China and the "International Star Artist Award" at Art Masters in St. Moritz .

works

  • Red Child 2002-2007
    红孩子作品

  • Early Temptation
    粉面桃花作品

  • Isolated Paradise
    上海花园作品

  • Lost Angels

  • Self-Extrication

  • Black and White

  • Erotic Flowers

  • Fruits of Life

  • My Last 100 Years - Rural Time

  • Shanghai Girls
    上海女孩作品

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  • 2009

    Xiao Hui Wang and Ma Shuqing, “Duo”, Shang Fang Garden Villa, Shanghai
    "Xiao Hui Wang Solo Show", Art Seasons Gallery, St. Moritz,
    Xiao Hui Wang Art Salon, YongFoo Elite, Shanghai, solo show
    "Metropolis Now! – A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art", Meridian International Center, Washington
    "Inner Dialogue", Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, solo show

  • 2008

    "Shanghai Women - Between Reality and Unreality", Art Seasons Gallery, Zurich, solo show
    "Isolated Paradise", Elisabeth de Brabant private villa, Shanghai, solo show
    "Shanghai Women", Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, solo show
    "Shanghai Women", Galerie an der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, solo show
    "Asia Contemporary in Basel", Art Basel, Union Basel
    "My Last 100 Years", CinaviCina Festival, Rome
    "Shanghai Women", Shanghai Art Fair, (Galerie An der Pinakothek der Moderne), Shanghai
    "Xiao Hui Wang - Two Decades of Photography", Art Masters, St. Moritz, solo show
    "Red Child”, Shanghai Contemporary, (Art Seasons Gallery), Shanghai
    "China Academic Culture 2008 -- Contemporary Art Exhibition", 99 art center, Shanghai

  • 2007

    "Red Child"/ Performance "self-extrication" TS1 space,798Festival,Beijing, solo show;
    "Between Two Worlds", Retrospective Exhibition, Tianjin Art Museum
    Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, (Walter Storms Gallery/Felix Ringel Gallery);
    "Between Two Worlds", Retrospective Exhibition, Tianjin Art Museum.

  • 2006

    "Erotic Flowers", Camera Work, Berlin, solo show, "Erotic Flowers", Camera Work, Art Basel, group show;
    "My Last 100 Years",Pusan Biennale,Korean;
    "My Last 100 Years",Shanghai Biennale,Moma Shanghai;

  • 2005

    "Grenzenlos", Photography, Video/Multimedia Installation, BMW Group Berlin; solo show / "Erotic Flowers" ,Camera Work, Hamburg, solo show / "Erotic Flowers", Red Mansion Fundation, London, group show/ "Erotic Flowers", Art Basel, group show / "Erotic Flowers", Paris Photo, (Scalo Gallery) (group show).

  • 2004

    "Between Two Worlds" , Club Na Brestskoy / House of Photography, Fotobiennale, Moscow, solo show / "Grenzenlos" Photography, Video/Multimedia Installation, BMW Group Pavilion, Munich (moderation and design of a series of cultural events "Dialogue Between East and West" ), solo show /"Erotic Flowers", Garlerie Scalo, Zurich, solo show / "A ¨CLive”, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, solo show/ “Erotic Flowers" Art Cologne (Storms Gallery)/ “Erotic Flowers” Photo New York (Scalo Gallery).