Xiao Hui Wang

(Chinese, born 1957)

red child by xiao hui wang

Xiao Hui Wang

Red Child, 2019

1,495 EUR

Biography

Timeline

1957
Born in Tianjin, China
1978 - 1986
Studied architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Master Degree in Architecture from Tongji University, Shanghai. Master thesis on “Visual Information and its Communication”.
1982 - 1985
Two national awards for architectural design competitions
1986 - 1987
German scholarship for advanced studies (Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft), Germany
1986
University award for excellence in academic achievement
Assistant lecturer at Tongji University, Shanghai.
1987 - 1991
Doctoral thesis at the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Doctoral thesis on “The Conceptual Background of Classical Chinese Architecture”
1987
Research program on Shanghai residences under Prof. Max Baecher
Assistant lecturer at Munich University of Technology
1988 - 1991
Lecturer at the Fachhochschule München, Munich, Germany, teaching ancient Chinese architecture and landscape architecture.

Exhibitions

2006
Multimedia installation: My last hundred years
Concept for the World Culture Museum, EXPO 2010, Shanghai
Erotic Flowers, Camera Work, Berlin (solo)
2005
Erotic Flowers, Camera Work, Hamburg (solo)
Grenzenlos, Photography, Video / Multimedia Installation, BMW Group Berlin (solo)
Erotic Flowers, Buga, Munich, Germany (solo)
Erotic Flowers, Paris Photo, Scalo Gallery; Art Basel, Switzerland; Red Mansion Fundation, London, UK
Red Child, Art Thiess Galerie, Munich (solo)
Between Two Worlds, Club Na Brestskoy / House of Photography, Fotobiennale Moscow (solo)
Art in Bloom, Upper Eastside Townhouse, New York (solo)

Public Collections

FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

Literature

2004
Monograph: Erotic Flowers. The Photographs of Xiao Hui Wang, Prestel Publishing, Munich.
2003
Exhibition catalogue: Conceptualising Photography – The Eros of Flowers, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai.
2002
Photo book: Conceptualising Photography – Shades of Existences, Art Edition, Shanghai.
2001
Photo book: My Visual Diary – 15 Years in Germany, Shanghai.
Monograph: Close to the Eyes – The Portraits of Xiao Hui Wang, Prestel Publishing, Munich.
Photo book: Conceptualising Photography – Beyond Being, Shanghai.
2000
Non-fiction: Töchter des halben Himmels – Sieben Frauen aus China, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt.
1998
Photo book: Nude Photography: Masterpieces from the past 150 years, 60 selected photographs, Prestel Publishing, Munich.
1993
Exhibition catalogue: China Avant-garde, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.