Fu Xiaotong

born 1976 Shanxi China
lives in Beijing & Berlin Germany

Fu Xiaotong is known for her intricate paper pinhole creations of “traditional” landscape compositions. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2000 and later obtained a Master's degree in Experimental Art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2013. Currently teaches at the School of Arts, North China University of Technology in Tangshan, and resides in Beijing and Berlin, Germany.

Since 2017, Fu has been honored with the Sovereign Asian Art Prize three times. This includes the prestigious inaugural Asian Women Artist Award, a collaboration between the Sovereign Art Foundation and Vogue magazine in 2019. She was also shortlisted for the award in 2017 and received a finalist in 2025. Regarding significant exhibitions in recent years, these have included: Shan Shui Reboot: Re-Envisioning Landscape for a Changing World, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA; Words for the Future, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China, both 2024; Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society Texas, Houston, USA, 2023.

In 2024, Alisan Fine Arts first collaborated with the artist, and has since exhibited her works in two joint exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York, as well as participated in several art fairs including The Armory Show, New York; Art Basel Miami Beach; Dallas Art Fair, USA; West Bund Art & Design Fair, Shanghai, China; and Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong. In 2026, her work on view at ART SG.

Her works are held in the collections of Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fidelity Investments Group, Boston, USA; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia; and Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China.



BIOGRAPHY
1976 Born in Shanxi, China
2000 BA in Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
Teach at Institute of the Arts, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China
2013 MA in Fine Arts, Department of Experimental Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2017 Artist residency, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
Present Teaches at the School of Arts, North China University of Technology, Tangshan, China
Lives between Beijing and Berlin, Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
  • nun, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
  • Fu Xiaotong, Expo Chicago, Chicago, USA
2022
  • Fu Xiaotong, Intersect Aspen, Aspen, USA
  • NUN-3-1, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
  • NUN-3-2, GINKGO Space, Beijing, China
2021
  • Way Beyond: Double solo by Shi Jinsong and Fu Xiaotong, EGG, Beijing, China 
  • Gateway, Cai Jin Space, Beijing, China
  • NUN-2, Zhizhu Temple, Beijing, China
2018
  • Proliferation, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
  • Fu Xiaotong, Expo Chicago, Chicago, USA
  • Endless Points: Double Solo by Fu Xiaotong & Chen Xiaowei, Around Space Gallery, Shanghai, China

2017
  • Limitless, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2016
  • Strong Winds, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Land of Serenity: Double solo by Fu Xiaotong & Wang Fengge, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2015

  • Land of Serenity: Double solo by Fu Xiaotong & Wang Fengge, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

2014

  • Macht Sichtbar: Double solo by Pan Jian & Fu Xiaotong, Jing Gallery, Beijing, China
2012
  • Breathe: Fu Xiaotong Paper Exhibition, Nine Thinking Culture of Tianjin, Tianjin, China

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
2025
2024
2023
  • Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society Texas, Houston, USA
  • Time Gravity: Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
  • The Realms of Being and Non-Being, GINKGO Space, Shanghai, China
  • Landscape, GINKGO Space, Beijing, China
2022
  • Next Cultural Producer: Art of Craft, PSA, Shanghai, China
  • A Time for Everything, Ui Art, Suzhou, China
  • West Bund Art EXPO, Shanghai, China
  • Papierzauber, Pobst Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020
  • Ink Like Her: Chinese Contemporary Female Artists Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

    2017

    • ART021, Shanghai, China
    • China Youth Experimental Art Exhibition, Shandong, China
    • Reciprocal Enlightment-3rd College Experimental Art Literature Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
    • Organic Chaos, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
      2016
      • Annual Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
      • Paper Presence, Common Art Centre, Beijing, China
      • Envision, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
      • Birth of a Nation, Irish Wave 2016, Ning Space, Beijing, China
          2015
          • Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, USA
          • Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
          2014
          • Cosmos: Multiple Practices in Art, Shanghai 21st Century, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
          • Polyphony: 21 Kinds of State, Balcony Collective "Jianguo Project", Nanjing, China
          • New Visual Boundary: A Variety of Media Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
          • Biennale China-Italy, Beijing, China
          • To Unveil the Invisible: Pan Jian & Fu Xiaotong Exhibition, Jing Gallery, Beijing, China
          • Room C Plan Second Round, Shone-Show Gallery, Beijing, China
          • Confrontion Anitya: Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tour of Germany, France
          • Legend of Contemporary Female Art, Tianjin, China
          • Material World at M50, LOFTOOO Gallery, Shanghai, China
          2013
          • Nature and Spirit, Being3 Gallery, Beijing, China
          • New Paper, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
          • Materials: Substance, Found Museum, Beijing, China
          • Wedge: Young Artists Exhibition, Sui Feng Art Museum, Beijing, China
          • Postgraduate Graduation Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,  China
          • Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition: The Siege and Boundary, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
          2012
          • Balcony Collective Still Life Exhibition, Lelege Art Space, Beijing, China
          • Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition, Beijing International Trade Centre, Beijing, China
          2011
          • Substance • Elements Manufacturing Laboratory, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
          2010
          • Live Like Paintings: The Original Art Exhibition, Chenda Art Gallery, Suzhou, China
          2009
          • City Leaders Exhibition, Art Beijing, Beijing, China
          2008
          • The Origin • Drift Exhibition, Hebei, China
          2006
          • Asian Invitational Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea
          • Theatre Exhibition, Jiuchang Art Complex, Beijing, China
          2005
          • Beijing International Art Camp Opening Exhibition, Beijing, China

          SELECTED AWARDS
          2025   Shortlisted, Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
          2019   
          Asian Female Artist Prize, Sovereign Art Foundation & Vogue Magazine, Hong Kong
          2017   Finalist, Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong

          SELECTED  COLLECTIONS
          Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA

          Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, USA
          Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
          Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

          Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
          Fidelity Investments Art Collection, Boston, USA

          White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
          Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 
          Taihe Art Museum, Fuyang, China
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