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Xiao Jiang

Xiao Jiang (b. 1977, Jinggangshan, China) creates atmospheric oil paintings of landscapes, figures, and interiors that combine elements of Western and Chinese art histories into compositions that are at once detached and emotive. He draws his subjects from photographs of his daily routine, his imagination, and his memories, composing works that are both extensions of and reflections on his experience of childhood in a rural mountain community and his current life in China’s second-largest city. Xiao’s signature textured surfaces result from his use of heavily-woven burlap as a substrate for his oils. Visual elements are pared down to flat planes of color, barely modulated and stripped of fine detail. Xiao lives in Shanghai. 

Recent solo exhibitions include López de la Serna Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid (2023–2024); Karma, New York (2022); Platform China, Beijing (2021); Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai (2021, 2018); and LEO Gallery, Hong Kong (2020). His work is held in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Dallas Museum of Art; and the EMDASH Foundation, Berlin, among others.

Xiao Jiang’s exhibition By the Window is on view at Karma, Los Angeles through May 24, 2025.

Single work, Xiao Jiang

Born 1977, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Province, China
Lives in Shanghai

EDUCATION

2003

China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

2000

Nanchang Professional Technology Academy, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Karma, Los Angeles, By the Window

2023-24

López de la Serna CAC, Madrid, Spain, Ordinary Days

2023

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Xiao Jiang: Hills Beyond a Breeze

2022

Karma, New York, Continuous Passage

2021

Platform China, Beijing, The Distant mountains  

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Mountains Aside 

        An Inward Odyssey 

2020

LEO Gallery, Hong Kong, In Common

2018

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Right in Sight

2017

MOCUBE, Beijing, MOUNTAINS

2015

BIG SPACE, Shanghai, PARK

2014

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Along the Way

2013

Café Showroom, Taipei, Object / Room

2012

Platform China, Beijing, Sign for an inexistent river

2011

Platform China, Beijing, 19 Solo Shows About Painting 
Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, No Man’s Land

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, A Particular Kind of Heaven

2023

TANK, Shanghai, Friends in the Arts

ASE Art Space, Shanghai, Upstairs Cities

Galerie du Monde Hong Kong, Lost in Translation

2021

Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, Spring Fever 2021

2020

Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, Platform China’s 15th Anniversary Special Exhibition

2020

MOCUBE, Beijing, Work and Wait in Silence – Mocube Five-Year Anniversary Exhibition

2019

UNArt Center, Shanghai, The Kind Stranger
BIG SPACE X Chino gallery, Shanghai, Incandescence
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, Group Exhibition in Summer – To Youth

2017

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Pieces
N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, Socialist Baroque
ShangART, Shanghai, Decoherence

2016

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Warehouse Story V

2015

Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Warehouse Story IV
Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, The Park
Today Art Museum, Beijing, IVY ART 2015 – Chinese Young Artists Annual Exhibition
Galerie Huit, Hong Kong, Illusory Realness and Truth
SVA-NYC Art Platform, Shanghai, Resolution

2014

Café Showroom, Taipei, The Thorn of Life
Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Warehouse Story – The 10th Anniversary
Olympia Grand Hall, London, ART 14 London
Night of Shanghai Art Theatre, Shanghai, RED
Jewelvary Art & Boutique, Shanghai, Study
K11 art space, Shanghai, Art in the City

2013

M50 Art Space, Shanghai, Studio
Platform China, Shanghai, Jungle II – A Diffuse Pattern
V Art Center, Shanghai, The Sun
K11 art space, Shanghai, Shanghai Surprise
Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Warehouse Story II

2012

Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, Daily of concept – A practice of life
YOUNG ART TAIPEI, Taipei
Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, Showtime
Platform China, Beijing, Re – Painting
Bund18, Shanghai, Contemporary Art Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists

2011

M50 Art Space, Shanghai, The Youth Sale Store
TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, Contemporary Art Top Events
World Trade Center, Beijing, China International Gallery Exhibition
Arrow Factory, Beijing, Décor
Galleria Dell‘Arco, Shanghai, Yun Lang Project
M50 Art Space, Shanghai, At Sixes and Sevens
Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, Shell Economics
Chongqing art museum, Chongqing, The 2nd chongqing Biennale for Young Artists
Qinghe art museum, Nanjing, Daily – depicting the cultural existence 2nd
Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, IE, contemporary china

2010

MOCA, Shanghai, Reflections of minds – MOCA Shanghai envisage
Shift Space, Shanghai, 2nd time- mindless but pleased
Shift Space, Shanghai, Opening exhibition – use the hand do the job
Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, In the blink of an eye
Qinghe art museum, Nanjing, Daily – depicting the cultural existence

2008

YueZhouRoad No.50, Shanghai, Gray Fertilizer Is Gray

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

Dallas Museum of Art

EMDASH Foundation, Berlin

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