Mei Xian Qiu (American, b.1964) is a Los Angeles-based artist. Born in the town of Pekalongan, on the island of Java, Indonesia, to a third-generation Chinese minority family, she was subject to cyclical violence and prejudice. As a child, her family moved to the United States, fleeing the genocide inflicted on the Chinese. She embraced her heritage, and visited China several times, where she noticed that a majority of the people she encountered had shed traditional cultural markers in favor of a more Western aesthetic. During her travels, she moved from painting to photography.

Using carefully staged subjects often dressed in clothes she designed and sewed herself, she juxtaposes assumptions about ethnicity and custom with Pan-Asian, Chinese, and Western motifs, in images designed to look candid.

Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has exhibited at numerous venues around the United States, including the Kopeikin Gallery and Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, SNAP! Orlando, Paci Contemporary in Italy, the Museum of Chinese in America in New York, and E-Moderne Gallerie in Philadelphia. She has also shown at Ping Pong, a Project Room during Art Basel in Miami.