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Xu Xiaoyan (徐晓燕)

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Xu Xiaoyan (徐晓燕)

Xu Xiaoyan (徐晓燕), a contemporary Chinese artist, lost her life when battling with lung cancer on December, 21st, 2012. As an artist merging realism and urban style painting together, her works were displayed in numerous major Chinese art exhibitions in the Millennium Monument Contemporary Art Gallery in Beijing, National Art Museum, and Shanghai Art Gallery. Xu is known for the landscape oil paintings documenting the impact of urbanization in both city and rural areas. Her emphasizes on industrial waste and the over-use of land not only expresses her passion towards life and earth, but also protests against the process of non-sustainable urbanization. In the research process, I could not find any information on Xu Xiaoyan in Wikipedia. This exclusion of Xu as a global feminist artist on Wikipedia illustrates the unbalanced representation of feminist artists on the basis of gender and nationality, which also shows the power structures that rest upon masculinity and whiteness. On the other hand, the inclusion of Xu not only challenges the conventional narrative structure, but also invites conversations among feminist artists around globe by given recognition to Xu (and other artists like her) on information gathering platforms, such as Wikipedia. Also, it seems that there are only limited information about Xu in English websites and literatures. As a result, I drew some of the references from sources in Chinese.
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Xu Xiaoyan (徐晓燕 1960 - 2012), was born in Chengde City (承德市), Hebei Province (河北省), China in 1960. After graduated from the Fine Art Department of Hebei Normal University, Xu Xiaoyan started to practice art as a landscape oil painter. In 1993, she held her first solo exhibition in National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing and received Academy Award at the Chinese Oil Painting Biennale. Then, Xu carried her work to display in Shanghai, Chengdu, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New York City, Seoul, and Melbourne. After receiving the Freeman Foundation Award in the US in 1999 and “Xiao Shufang Art Fund – Excellent Female Artists” Award in 2006, Xu continued to participate in various art exhibitions such as “ China’s Creative Power-China Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Millennium Monument Contemporary in France, “Charm – Xu Xiaoyan Painting Works Exhibition” in New York City and Seoul, and “Crossing the Horizon – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Chile National Gallery in Santiago, Chile. After lung cancer took Xu’s life on December 21st, 2012, her works are collected by the Shanghai Art Gallery, the art gallery of Mountain Art and Cultural Foundation, and Taida Museum of Contemporary Arts. As a realist painter, Xu portraits urban life and landscape under unsustainable urbanization. In the Hui Huang series, Xu used cornfield to express her passion towards land and earth while questioning the circle of life. In Da Wang Jing, she contrasted industrial waste in rural area with the modern buildings in the city to comment on the city-rural gap as the result of industrial expansion and urbanization.
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 * Huang Tie International Art Zone. "Xu Xiaoyan's". http://artqx.net/xu_xiaoyan.htm
 * Art Link Art. "Grace in the Temporal -Xu Xiaoyan Paintings and Her Times".http://www.artlinkart.com/en/artist/exh_yr/502atAp
 * Shui, Tianzhong. "Xu Xiaoyan's 'Song of the Earth". 2006. http://special.artxun.com/20080215/article/a91414d45e542e4767fbcfc45e04d9b6.shtml
 * Yuan, Sitao. "Xu Xiaoyan's 'Song of the Earth'". XinHua News 2007. http://news.xinhuanet.com/shuhua/2007-04/16/content_5982171.htm
 * Today Art Museum. "Xu Xiaoyan's Oil Painting Exhibition". http://old.todayartmuseum.com/Exhibition/ExhibitDetail.aspx?ActionType=0&Exhit=3&ChannelID=267&ExhibitID=418
 * Sue Wang. "Grace in the Temporal: Xu Xiaoyan's Paintings and Her Times Opened at Inside-Out Art Museum". Cafe Art Info. 2014. http://en.cafa.com.cn/grace-in-the-temporal-xu-xiaoyans-paintings-and-her-times-opened-at-inside-out-art-museum.html