
Xiaoyi Chen
China
Artist and SMArtArtist's Career
Pictures to raise
Awareness on the challenges
Facing Mountain Regions
Her recent work focuses on the combination of photography and printmaking, also multi-materials, video and installation; those combination of techniques are used to explore beneath the surface of things by simplifying and abstracting; an approach aimed at reviving spiritual awareness and intuition before entering the symbolic nature of what we view.
Education
2014 – University of the Arts London – London College of Communication / MA Photography
2013 – International Gemological Institute / Polished Diamond Grader P.D.G
2010 – 2013 – University of Leeds Met / BSc (HONS) Photographic Journalism
Awards
2017 – Named one of Asia’s 30 Artists under 30 by Forbes magazine.
2015 – Three Shadows Photography Award, China’s most prestigious photography prize
2014 – LCC/Photofusion Prize
Selected exhibitions
Solo
2017 – “Never!” on A Thousand Plateaus Art Space in China
2017 – “One Giant leap” on Materia Gallery in Italy
Collective
2017 – Kyoto Asia Corridor Art Exhibition of Culture city of East Asia in Kyoto
2016 – Chinese Photobooks on Photobook Week Aarhus
2016 – Recent Art Fairs, include Photo Shanghai and Paris Asian Art Fair and solo project in London Art Fair in 2017
2015 – Participation in many exhibitions: the Format International Photography Festival, Kassel Photobook Festival, Athens Photo Festival and the group show China 8 at Museum Folkwang (Germany), The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale(Japan) and Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival