Qin Xiaoshi
Qin Xiaoshi (b. 1989, Guangzhou). Currently lives and works in Guangzhou. Graduated from Columbia University with a MFA in
Her previous works include topics such as predicting the future through debate, sonic weapons, and doomsday preppers. Beginning in 2014, she invited award-winning high school debaters to debate on topics such as "Will there be Contemporary Art in 2020?" (2014) and "Can an A.I. Be an Artist?" (2016) at the Queens Museum and the Jewish Museum in New York. Her works have been exhibited at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany), Savvy Contemporary (Germany), basis e.V. (Germany), Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Taikang Space, Para Site, Long March Project, Vancouver 221a, UCCA Dune Art Gallery, among others.
Qin Xiaoshi (b. 1989, Guangzhou). Currently lives and works in Guangzhou. Graduated from Columbia University with a MFA in
Visual Arts, 2015, and received a Lotos Foundation Prize, nominated by Sarah Sze, at the same year.In recent years, the artist has been hunting for objects, folklore, legends, and images in landscapes. She then presents these material/immaterial, fictional/nonfictional findings with experimental materials and medium, sometimes hiding these art pieces back in the landscape, completing a cycle of exchange using objects as messages. The stories she collected are mostly about local legends, history, Southern China pirates, and their treasures hidden around the Pearl River Delta.
Her previous works include topics such as predicting the future through debate, sonic weapons, and doomsday preppers. Beginning in 2014, she invited award-winning high school debaters to debate on topics such as "Will there be Contemporary Art in 2020?" (2014) and "Can an A.I. Be an Artist?" (2016) at the Queens Museum and the Jewish Museum in New York. Her works have been exhibited at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany), Savvy Contemporary (Germany), basis e.V. (Germany), Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Taikang Space, Para Site, Long March Project, Vancouver 221a, UCCA Dune Art Gallery, among others.
