Jingyu Xu

Lives and works between South Florida and Beijing

Jingyu Xu (b. 1981, Shandong, China) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Her practice explores memory, identity, transformation, and the emotional tension between personal and collective experience through psychologically charged and often surreal visual environments.

Xu taught at Shandong University of Art and Design until 2012, before dedicating herself fully to her studio practice. She moved to Beijing in 2009, where she established her studio, and relocated to Florida in 2019. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, the Grand Palais in Paris, and the Chinese Embassy in France.

Raised in Shandong, one of the oldest regions of Chinese civilization, Xu developed an artistic perspective shaped by both traditional culture and the rapid transformation of contemporary China. Her work combines delicate materiality with psychological tension, often juxtaposing softness and fragility with themes of isolation, transformation, vulnerability, and endurance. Through sewn forms, sculptural bodies, fiber elements, and immersive staging, she constructs symbolic environments that blur distinctions between dream and reality, beauty and unease, intimacy and alienation.

Selected Works

Exhibitions at VillageOneArt

2026 — In The Mood For Love (group exhibition), March 2026

2025 — In The Mood For Love (group exhibition), March 8 – April 19, 2025

2024 — Stretched Out (group exhibition), September 9, 2024 · In The Mood For Love (group exhibition), March 2, 2024

2020 — Light at Night (solo exhibition), January 11, 2020

Education

BA, Sculpture — Shandong University of Art and Design, 2000–2004
Visiting Scholar — École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France, 2007

Selected Exhibitions

2024 — “Emerging: New Works by Five Emerging Artists,” Vero Beach, Florida · “Eternal Feminine,” Lake Worth, Florida · “Paths Cross,” Phoenix, Arizona · The 24th Art Expo Beijing, Beijing · “Impersonating Myself / Becoming Myself,” Qingdao · “Cuminous Festival,” Beijing · The Palm Beach Show, West Palm Beach, Florida

2023 — Visual Poetry, solo exhibition, Lake Worth, Florida · “Beyond the Lens,” Lake Worth, Florida · “Follow the Rabbit — Taking Stock of a Collection and Its Reception Through Contemporary Chinese Art,” Neuhaus, Austria · “Treasure Coast Creates: A Tribute to Local Artists,” Vero Beach, Florida

2022 — “We Are in This Together” (online exhibition) · Yangyun Art Carnival, Shanghai · 2022 Jinan International Biennale, Jinan

2021 — “Impersonating Myself / Becoming Myself,” Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai

2020 — “WuYang” (city traveling exhibition), China · Outstanding Work Award, 1st Yage Literary and Art Award, USA, for the short film Who Came to Me, I Will Never Abandon Him

2019 — “Art for People,” GuoZhong Museum, Beijing · “Potential Actor Project,” Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing · “Impersonating Myself / Becoming Myself,” ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai

2018 — “Day to Day • RE’VAN” installation exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou · Art Shenzhen, Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, Shenzhen · “From the Perspective of Women,” Chaotianmen Grand Convergence, Chongqing

2017 — “Alchemy,” Jiajian Art Museum, Jinan · “Interface,” Art Qingdao 2017 Nomination Exhibition of Young Artists, The Mixc City, Qingdao · “Art Capital,” Grand Palais, Paris, France

2016 — Cleanliness, solo exhibition, Zhong Gallery, Beijing · Motherhood, solo exhibition, Fanspace, Beijing · “Amazing Future,” Contemporary Youth Art Invitational Exhibition, Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan · “Awaken the Senses / Art Walk Rhône,” Guangzhou Grand Theater, Guangzhou

2015 — “The Desire of Painting,” Phoenix Art Capital, Beijing · “1.8 km 72 Hours,” Koala Space, Tianjin · “Naked Eye,” female artist exhibition, Naked Eye, Beijing

2014 — “Inside the Image,” China-French Art Exchange Exhibition, Suzhou Contemporary Art Space, Suzhou · “Identity,” FuSi Gallery, Beijing · “Fresh,” Artmondial Gallery, Vienna, Austria · Bologna Shanghai International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai · “Go Mars,” Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing · “Shuffling the Cards,” 6th round, Kammerhof, Gmunden, Austria · Meditation, solo exhibition, Artspace & Gallery, Beijing

2013 — “Dark Matter — Contemporary Art, Heterogeneous Statements,” Czech China Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing · “We 1994–2013,” China Songzhuang 20th Anniversary Artist Group Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing

2012 — “Shuffling the Cards,” 1st round, “Chinese Contemporary Art Reloaded,” Hilger BROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria · “Combination,” Tree Museum, Beijing · “Youth Arts 100” (city traveling exhibition), China · “No Difference,” li-space, Beijing · “City Focus” (artist and star of cross-border exhibition), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai · “He Er Bu Tong,” Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing · “Dark Matter — Contemporary Art, Heterogeneous Statements,” meta-Code Art Museum, Beijing · “Fashion Top,” First Contemporary Female Art Invitational Exhibition, Yue Art Museum, Beijing · State China Sculpture Society Youth Referral Program Touring Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing · “Cultural Desert,” Seven Star Lake Desert Hotel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ordos

2011 — “History — New Songzhuang,” Sunshine International Art Museum, 7th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang, Beijing · “The Post-1980s Art Files,” Songzhuang Art Centre, 7th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang, Beijing · “The Needlework,” Art 110 Gallery, 7th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang, Beijing · 8th Korea-China Fine Arts Exchange Exhibition, Chungju Culture and Art Centre, Chungju, Korea · “Spirit,” 4th Exhibition of the China Young Sculptors Referral Program, China Sculpture Institute Sharon, Beijing

2010 — LANGHAMPLACE Art Corner Winner for October, LANGHAMPLACE Gallery, Beijing · 6th Art Festival of Songzhuang China, 798 Library Gallery, Beijing · 6th Art Festival of Songzhuang China, SSTK Museum, Beijing · Caochangdi Beijing Biennale, Caochangdi Museum, Beijing · “Width3,” Beijing Contemporary Art Center, Beijing · “Mind in Turmoil, Hand Better Busy,” LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing · “Mind in Turmoil, Hand Better Busy,” Center of Contemporary Art Shandong, Nanjing

2009 — “Reading From the Finished Products,” Sunshine Art Base, Beijing · “Let’s Play Together,” Soul Collection Art, Beijing · 5th Art Festival of Songzhuang China, Wansheng Museum, Beijing

2008 — First China Sculpture Exhibition (touring exhibition, China) · Love with Art, solo exhibition, Chinese Embassy, Paris, France

2005 — 6th National Sports Art Exhibition, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan · First Comics Exhibition in Shandong Province, Shungeng International Convention and Exhibition Center, Jinan

2004 — The Life, first solo exhibition, Art Museum of Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan · 10th National Fine Art Exhibition • Art and Design Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai · 10th National Fine Art Exhibition • Winners Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing · Bronze Award, 10th National Fine Art Exhibition, China, for Life

2002 — “Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Mao Zedong’s Speech at the Yan’an Symposium on Literature and Art,” National Art Exhibition, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan

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