Xue Ying 薛萤

XUE YING

Born in Shandong, China in 1993. Lives and works in Shanghai, China.

 

EDUCATION

2017 – 2019

MA, Contemporary Art Practice - Public Sphere, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2013 - 2017

BA, Textile, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

Capsule, Shanghai, China (forthcoming)

2025

The World Managed to Teach Us How to Sing Our Song, Arch Gallery, Shanghai, China

2024

Reach the ooooooooof, Madein Museum, Shanghai, China

2022

Womenhouse, Organhaus, Chongqing, China

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Wangshikuo Art Foundation, Beijing, China (forthcoming)

Aranya Art Center, Hebei, China (forthcoming)

TOGETHER, RIVERSIDE, Hangzhou, China

2025

Action II: Zoe Chang’s Collection, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

The Unspoken Community, Absent Gallery, Guangzhou, China

Nanjing Art Fair International, Nanjing, China

2024

Holiday Triad: I. If Everything Were as Dreamy as a Christmas Play,Groundless Camp, Beijing, China

San Dian Shui: Part II - Liquid, Tofu Space, Copenhagen, Denmark

Taking the Night Bus Home, SNAP Art Center, Shanghai, China

2022

Incredible Action, A4 Museum, Chengdu, China

Dangxia Art Award, DANGXIA ART SPACE, Beijing, China

Untitled Source Youth Art Festival,Click Ten Gallery, Beijing, China

Violence at the Exceptional Moments: Math, Diction and Knives,SURPLUS SPACE, Wuhan, China

2021

Hereditary Territory, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China

2020

Selected Artist Book Exhibition, abC art book fair, Shanghai, China

Temporary Family, X Museum, Beijing, China

2019

Situation,Dyson Gallery, London, UK

DisOrder Live Art, Doodle Bar, London, UK

2018

The best is yet to come,Raven Row, London, UK

Revolve Performance Art Days Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

 

ART FAIR SOLO PROJECTS

2025

Annoying Love, West Bund Art & Design, xiàn chǎng section, Shanghai, China (presented by Absent Gallery)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATION

2022

“WE DEMAND IT ALL —In order to tell our own story, we are finally able to truly recognise the richness of Asian women as a group”, LEAP, Recipes for Resilience, 2022 Summer Issue

 

AWARDS

2025

Nominated, 2025 The 7th Wang Shikuo Art Support Program & Today’s Contemporary Young Artists Nomination: Vision·Horizon, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2022

Nominated, Meet You at The Corner: Dangxia Young Artists Award, DANGXIA ART SPACE, Beijing, China

 

RESIDENCIES

2026

Aranya Art Center, Hebei, China

2024

MA CHANG, Shanghai, China

2023

Dai, Rotterdam, Netherland

2022

Organhaus, Chongqing, China

2019

Asia-Art-Activism, London, UK

Sixth Tone Journalism Field Research in Rural China, Guangxi, China