Website: https://www.xiaowei-art.com
Xiaowei Chen Bio and Statement Xiaowei Chen's work includes drawing, video, and sculpture. She explores natural environments, natural disasters, human thought, and the interconnectivity between the three. Xiaowei Chen (born 1978) Chinese American artist, now living in Boston. From 2000 to 2005 she worked in television production and produced and directed independent documentary films. She was a guest lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She was awarded the Artadia NY Artist Residency at ISCP in Brooklyn, NY; The COOHAUS RESIDENCY ARTIST FOR 2013, New York, NY; The 75th Regional Exhibition, ARNOT ART MUSEUM. Elmira, NY; 2019 Art Olympia Prize, ART OLYMPIA 2019 international open art competition, Japan; 2017 The Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenale and TIM Future Center, Venice, Italy; Manifest Press International Drawing Annual 11, Cincinnati, OH. Her recent exhibitions include Solo show in Boston city hall, Boston, MA; AroundSpace, Shanghai, China; Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago; The Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL; 49B studios, Brooklyn, NY; TLGUTS Gallery, Lynn, MA; artSPACE@16, Malden, MA. And the group shows in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; NNE(North Northeast), Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT; Gong Ju International Art Show, Limlip art Museum, WAAM MUSEUM, Woodstock, NY; ARNOT ART MUSEUM, Elmira, NY; Chungnam, Korea; Beard & Weil Galleries Wheaton College, MA; DUOYUNXUAN art center, Shanghai, China; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York, NY; See | Exhibition Space, New York, NY; (Art) Amalgamated, New York, NY; ARTGATE GALLERY, New York, NY;A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT; MCLA gallery51 in North Adams, MA; and Mills Gallery in Boston, MA; Hurun Art Foundation London Exhibition2016, London, UK . I think the real version of life is made up of a superposition of real and fictional. Just imagine, in the hourglass of history, which real events can be passed down for thousands of years and still have absolute authenticity? It is very interesting that in today's Internet age, when past tense events come back, many assumptions and self-awareness judgments from different perspectives that are separated from the original collective cognition are produced. I am very interested in this phenomenon. [The Origin of Farce] This series makes me think from more angles, making the work more dramatic. 2D and 3D co-occur, background and characters are separated, and reality and virtuality are redesigned in the same scene. Let the controversial topic re-evaluate an original historical event in a multi-dimensional way with a self-deprecating and self-entertaining game attitude and show it to the public for re-examination.
