| 1966 | Born in Guangdong, China |
| 1988 | Bachelor of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 1991 | Master of Arts, Central Academy of Arts and Design, Beijing, China |
| 1996 | Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, Texas, USA |
| Currently | Lives and works in Palo Alto, California, USA, and Beijing, China |
| 2022 - 2023 | Xiaoze Xie: Flammable Ideas, Fragile Objects, East Asia Library, Stanford University, California Xiaoze Xie: Heretical Knowledge, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Xiaoze Xie: Panorama of Eternal Night, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, California Xiaoze Xie: Library Paintings, Pi Artworks, Art Basel Online Viewing Room: 2021 |
| 2021 | Xiaoze Xie: New Paintings from the Library Series, online exhibition, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2020 | Out of the Dark: Works by Xiaoze Xie, online exhibition, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, California |
| 2019 | Xiaoze Xie: Objects of Evidence, Asia Society Museum, New York THE ART SHOW 2019, Chambers Fine Art, Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), New York Forbidden Stories: Installation and Photographs by Xiaoze Xie, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania Xiaoze Xie: New Paintings and Photographs, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 2018 | Forbidden Memories, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada Zoom In: Recent Paintings by Xiaoze Xie, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago |
| 2017 | Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA |
| Endurance: New Works by Xie Xiaoze, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Xiaoze Xie: Confrontation and Disruption, Stanford in Washington Art Gallery, Washington D.C., USA Xiaoze Xie: Nocturnes, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Empty Fiel:, Xiaoze Xie Solo Exhibition, Yibo Art Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2016 | Xiaoze Xie: Albums, Prints and Photographs, Stanford Art Gallery, California, USA |
| 2015 | Xiaoze Xie: Subtexts, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada Xiaoze Xie: Excerpts, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas Xiaoze Xie: Libraries, Moatti Masters/Contemporary, London, UK |
| 2014 | Multiple Perspectives: Recent Works by Xie Xiaoze, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2013 | Multiple Perspectives: Recent Works by Xie Xiaoze, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2012 | Xiaoze Xie, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA Xiaoze Xie, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA |
| 2011 | Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA Transient Memories, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA Layers: Recent Work by Xie Xiaoze, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA; The Bing Stanford in Washington Program, Washington D.C., USA Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Xiaoze Xie: Theatre of Power, Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University, West Virginia, USA |
| 2010 | Layers, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Rhythm of Time, Corridor of Memory: A Site-specific Installation by Xie Xiaoze, MADA s.p.a.m. Architectural Studio Office at Red Star Kindergarten, Shanghai, China |
| 2009 | Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2008 | Acts and Scenes 2001-2007 , Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA Quotidian Truths: Paintings by Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Both Sides Now, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| 2007 | Xiaoze Xie: Photographs, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA Disposable Views, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, USA Legacy, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Transient Memories: Works on Paper by Xie Xiaoze, dARTex, The Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, China (catalog) Xiaoze Xie: Works on PaperThe Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium (catalog) |
| 2006 | The MoMA Library, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA (catalog) |
| 2005 | Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2004 | 2001-2003 Fragmentary Views, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2003 | History: A Microscopic View, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China |
| 2002 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Order: Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA |
| 1998 | Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA |
| 1997 | Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA Evergreen State College, Olympia, USA Brookhaven College, Dallas, USA |
| 1996 | Puppet/Recent Work by Xiaoze Xie, New Talent Gallery, Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas, USA Xiaoze Xie: The Library PaintingsGallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas, USA The Library Paintings, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, USA Part I: The Library Paintings, Arts Council of Brazos Valley, Local Color Gallery, College Station, USA Part II: Flags and Banners, College of Architecture Gallery at Texas A&M University,College Station, USA |
| 1995 | Xiaoze Xie: Mosaics Series, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, USA |
| 2023 | After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts |
| 2022 | Tradition and Modernity: Representative Works by Modern and Contemporary Chinese Artists, ART HONG KONG, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Wuhan Biennale 2022, Wuhan Art Museum, Qintai Art Museum, He Art Museum, Wuhan, China |
| 2021 | Future History 2020, Art Museum of the School of Fine Arts at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China |
| 2020 | Art Monthly 45th Anniversary Cover Project Exhibition, Art Museum of the Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China Where the Heart Is: Contemporary Art by Immigrant Artists, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, a special presentation for Asia Week New York 2020, Chambers Fine Art, New York, New York |
| 2019 | Ink at Current: 10th International Ink Art Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, OCAT Shenzhen, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China On Paper: Collaborations in Print and Pulp from Wildwood Press, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas IN INK: Current Trends of Ink Art, Nan Hai Gallery, Millbrae, CA Napoleon Special Exhibition, Dialogue between Contemporary and Tradition, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai Future Progress: Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, ZiniTown of Art; Framework: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, the College of Art at South China Agricultural University; both in Guangzhou. Part of the 6th Guangzhou Triennial organized by the Guangdong Museum of Art. 2nd Sculpture Projects Ping Yao 2019, Ping Yao, China Swimming in the World of Images, We Gallery, Shanghai, China 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China Global Conversations: Contemporary World in Dialogue, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio |
| 2018 | Industry 4.0: Power of Transformation, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China Chen Jing: Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, No. 1 Wanjiang Art Museum, Dongguan, Guangdong, China Visual Anthology: Artworks & the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 2017 | Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China |
| Vision and Voice: Reflections of Immigrant Artists in California, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, USA Latent Pleasure, V.Gorg Art Space, Guangzhou, China | |
| 2016 | Fragmentary Narratives, Stanford Art Gallery, California, USA Seattle Art Fair 2016, Wildwood Press, Seattle, USA Dallas Art Fair, Tally Dunn Gallery, Dallas, USA |
| 2015 | Liberating the Past from the Present: Contemporary Art in China, Shengzhi Space, Beijing; Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia What Can California Art Be? , Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, USA Fragmentary Narratives: Fang Lijun, Xie Xiaoze, Yang Jiechang and Yang Shaobin, Changsha City Museum, Changsha, China A Record of Architectural Transformation, The Ninth Songzhuang Culture and Art Festival 2015 Theme Exhibition, G-Dot Art Space, Beijing, China |
| 2014 | The 1st China Xinjiang International Arts Biennale, Urumqi International Exhibition Center, Urumqi, China Now Read This: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Idaho Center for the Book, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA Deep Reading, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino California, USA Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, USA Chroma, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada Yuan Yunfu & Tsinghua Fine Art Group, East Exhibition Hall, National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China Alumni Showcase: Rachel Cox, Elliot Johsnon, Xiaoze Xie, UNT Art Space, Dallas, USA |
| 2013 | Zero State: 2013 the First Biennale of Installation Art in China, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, Xiangshan Art Museum, Beijin, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China The Awakening of Intuition, The 13th China Pingyao International Photography Festival, multiple venues, Pingyao, Shanxi, China Living Legacies: The JSMA@80, Jordon Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Mark my Word, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Califronia ac-qui-si-tions: A Selection from the Past Decade, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany Texas We: 1994-2013 The 20th Anniversary Collective Exhibition of Chinese Song Zhuang Artists, Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, China Ex Libris, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, USA Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA The Moment for Ink: Documenting the History of Ink Painting in America, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, California, USA |
| 2012 | Aspects of a New Realism (curated by Michael Klein) , Roger Arthur Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| 2011-12 | Library Science (curated by Rachel Gugelberger), Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| 2011 | Book-ish, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA I Believe – Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao, and Xie Xiaoze,Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA What We Keep: An Exhibition on Books and Memory (Xiaoze Xie, Michele Oka Doner and Nina Katchadourian), Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA Between Reality and Illusion (curated by George Morton and Karol Howard), Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, USA |
| 2006-08 | Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art (curated by Wu Hung), China Institute Gallery, New York; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, USA |
| 2006 | What War?, White Box, New York, USA Why Lee Shot C: Buzz, she left 'em Vernon!, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 2004-06 | Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China; NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, lL; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA., USA |
| 2005-06 | The Daily News, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, USA |
| 2004 | Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA |
| 2003 | The Great Drawing Show, 1550- 2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Cross the Divide, Max L. Gatov and Werby Art Galleries at California State University, California, USA (catalog) |
| 2001 | Sally Packard and Xiaoze XieArt League Houston, Houston, USA |
| 2000 | 2000 Exhibition of Guangdong Contemporary Oil PaintingsGuangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Rosalyn Richards and Xiaoze Xie, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA, USA |
| 1998 | Building for the Millennium: Recent Acquisitions Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ, USA |
| 1997 | George Segal and Xiaoze Xie Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| 1996 | First Texas Annual Grand Opening Group Show, The Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
| 1995 | Scott Barber and Xiaoze Xie 500X Gallery, Dallas, USA |
| 1994 | Unity and Diversity, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, USA |
| 1991 | Four Young Artists Shantou Painting Institute, Guangdong, China |
| Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA |
| Arizona State Univeristy Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA |
| Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA |
| Bucknell University Samek Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Eastfield College, Dallas, USA |
| The JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, USA |
| Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA |
| Oakland Museum of California |
| San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA |
| Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA |
| Seattle University, Seattle, USA |
| 2009-Present | Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, California, USA |
| 2008-10 | Guest Professor, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China |
| 2007-09 | Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. |