Xiao-Wei Chen                              

Birth: 1978, Xian, China

EDUCATION

1996 –2000, Institute of Graphic Communication. Beijing, China

Concentration: multimedia design, planning and production; Chinese folk art and culture.

AWARDS

2007           Artadia Awards, Boston

2004           1^st Place, Liang Dian Awards for Design and Production of Television Programs, Kunming, China

2003           “Untitled”, 3^rd Place, China Multimedia Design & Motion Picture Competition, Beijing, China

2000           “Beijing Courtyard Houses”, China 2^nd Place, 8^th French Mobius International Interactive Multimedia Design Awards, Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007           Daba Doodle, artSPACE@16, Malden, MA 

2007           Film screening: “Xiao Ye Bought a House”, artSPACE@16, Malden, MA 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008           Mills gallery,Boston, MA

2006           artSPACE@16, Malden, MA

2005           Song Zhuang, Beijing, China

2004           Catsup Gallery, Beijing, China

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The World Journal, July 4, 2006

The Malden Observer, Sept. 16, 2007

The World Journal, June 5, 2007

Artscope, Vol. 2, No. 1, (March & April) 2007

EMAIL               xiaoweichen_ jc@hotmail.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

Tasting salty teardrops is to me as seeing a diamond-embedded frog resting on a dried tree branch. Viewing a tense expression in a mirror is to me as seeing countless silkworms contorting their bodies. A touch of happiness or sorrow is to me like a strong liquor throwing off its scent. The power of love and death is to me like a red ivy climbing off a plaster vase decorated with roses....

Images of imagination are not remote from that of actual vision. What is remote is the our expression in language from precision and perfection, an ideal which I do not possess. So I have chosen simple tools to record my immediate sensations. Doing so I try to discover what lies within that might be more real and true.