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WANG XIYA
B.1999 Guiyang, China
Wang Xiya (1999, Guiyang) bases her work on photography, moving image and multimedia installations, focusing on the gaze, absence, power, space, wandering, hauntology and the connection between them and historical and cultural narratives. She regards the “image” as a strategy of diminished presence, a psychologically deferred space of manifestation, exploring how the image, as a proxy for the gaze within symbolic space, arrives at a specific stage of nothingness.
Education
2017- 2021, BA of Communication, Communication University of China
2022 – 2024, MA of Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Award
2022 Banshan Photography Award
2023 1839 Photogaphy Award
Residency
2025 SARUYA Residency, Japan
2024 Kunsthallebelow Residency，Below/Berlin, Germany
2024 Schloss Plüschow Scholarship，Plüschow, Germany
Selected Exhibition
2022 Solo Exhibition, Beyond Heaven Banshan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Group Exhibition, Judd Dredd, Worlding Project, London, UK
2024 Group exhibition, Wish You Happy in Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, China
2024 Group Exhibition, How to Play Hopscotch?, Koppel Gallery, London, UK
2024 Group Exhibition, KEEP IT SIMPLE, SEXY, Barbican Art Group, London, UK
2024 Group Exhibition, The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Small-Time Project, London, UK
2024 Group Exhibition, Ten Fingers Connected to the Heart, MandyZhang Art, London, UK
2025 Group Exhibition, Shadow Blister, Schloss Plüschow, Germany
Screening | Workshop
2025 Workshop, Catch Shadow, RAMP, Beijing, China
2025 Screening, Queer East Festival, London, UK
2025 Screening, BISFF, Beijing, Chin