BIOGRAPHY
Hanxuan Jiang is a time-based media artist, a tutor and a researcher who is currently based in Shanghai, China. She graduated from the University of Oxford with Distinction in Fine Art and from the Royal College of Art in Contemporary Art Practice. In 2019, She was announced by Art News of China as one of the most excellent young artists in China (100 in total). She is a member of the Zhejiang Artists Association and the Partisan Social Club. She has participated in more than thirty art exhibitions and film festivals, including 2019 Florence Contemporary Art Biennale, 2019 Coventry Biennale, 2019 Beijing International Art Biennale, 2020 European Short Film Festival, 2019 London Independent Film Festival, 2019 Manchester International Experimental Film Festival, 9th International Video Poetry film Festival. Her works have been exhibited and screened at the National Art Museum of China, Zhejiang Art Museum, K11 Art Museum, Modern Art Oxford, Beaconsfield Gallery, UK Film Channel, etc.
ARTIST STATEMENT
How to value private life through filmmaking has become her main research area. Hanxuan Jiang examines the function of conversation in social interactions and interpersonal relationships, such as connection between temporary international residents, emotional sharing between intimate friendship. Through dialogical filming, dinner parties, writing, she tries to open the process of moving image production to others and integrate it with life, to create a two-way channel of communication and cooperation between observer and the observed. The aim is to use diverse filmmaking methods to publicise private issues, or social and relational matters occurring in intimate spaces.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Presence, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Center (18th Aug-17th Sep), Xiamen, China
2020 Public Intimacy, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FILM FESTIVALS
2022 Research Project "The Canal: between the East and the West" was selected and funded by the Zhejiang Culture Art Development Fund.
2021 TANK Art Festival, Shanghai, China
2021 Pixelmeat, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, 2021
2021 Ruskin Screening, Oxford, United Kingdom
2021 9th International Video Poetry, Athens, Greece
2020 Shanghai West Bond Art Center, Shanghai, China
2020 European Short Film Festival, Online (Original place: Berlin)
2020 Southampton Film Festival, Online (Original place: Southampton)
2020 Wide Out Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 302_Redirect, Online
2020 London Independent Film Festival 2020 (LIFF), London, United Kingdom
2020 Manchester Experimental Film Festival 2020 (MANIFF), Manchester, United Kingdom
2020 Miami Independent Film Festival, Miami, United State
2019 12th Florence Contemporary Art Biennale, Florence, Italy
2019 NOWNESS China New Talent Program, K11 Museum, Shanghai, China
2019 Collaborate Work, Coventry Biennale, Coventry, United Kingdom
2019 Beijing Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2019 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2019 1st PhoPho Fair FLOWING, Three Shadow Art Center, Beijing, China
2019 Form 2019, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2019 -scapes, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Glitch, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Capped Out, The Old Biscuit Factory Atrium Venue, London, United Kingdom
2019 Excellent Artists in 'Xinfeng' Art Program, Zhejiang Exhibition Museum, Hangzhou, China
2019 1st pop up Exhibition, Glasgow Photography Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2019 Ink Art Week Brussel, ULB Museum, Brussel, Belgium
2019 Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Battersea Park, London, United Kingdom
2019 Stages of life, Harrow Arts Center, London, United Kingdom
2019 Backward Reading, 508 Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019 Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2018 Artists cultivating 'Xin Feng' Program, Zhejiang Exhibition Museum, Hangzhou, China
2018 The Partisan Social Club Project, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, United Kingdom
2018 Presence, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, United Kingdom
2018 Young Artists Selected Exhibition, Zhejiang Exhibition Museum, Hangzhou, China
2017 The Theme about HongKong Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2017 No-boundaries International Art Exhibition, Columbia Global Centers, Beijing, China
2017 Curability, Museum of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
2017 Selected works of Famous Artists, Museum of People’s Daily, Beijing, China
2017 Life, Gallery of Zhejiang Library, Hangzhou, China
2016 Experimental Short Films, University of California, Los angles (UCLA), Los angles, America
2016 Selected Young Artists Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2016 Contemporary Art in Suzhou, Suzhou International Expo Center, Suzhou, China
AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 Research Project "The Canal: between the East and the West" was selected and funded by the Zhejiang Culture Art Development Fund.
2020 Short Film 'Flowing into the Whispering River' was awarded by ALTFF Alternative Film Festival as 'Best Experimental International'.
2019 Moving Image 'Presence' was collected by National Art Museum of China
2019 One of the most excellent young artists in China (100 in total)(Announced by Art News of China)
2019 Public art conception was selected by Beijing Daxing International Airport, China
(collaborative work)
2018 One of the Artist as 2018 'Xin Feng' Art Program, China
2018 Painting called 'Emptiness' was collected by People's Daily Online
2017 Painting called 'HongKong island story' was collected by National Art Museum of China
CONFERENCE
2021 As a committee of Oxford Global Exchange OGX, she will organize a series of conferences and artist talks with other committee members.
RESIDENCY
2019 Photography and film residency program in Riga, Latvia （Baltic Analog Lab）
WORKSHOP
2019 Collaborate Work, Coventry Biennale, Coventry, United Kingdom
2018 The Partisan Social Club Project, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, United Kingdom
EDUCATION
2020-2021 Master of Fine Art (Fine Art) Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
2018 - 2020 Master of Arts (Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere), Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2014 - 2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Chinese Ink Painting), School of Art, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
2016 As an Exchange Student to University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) (Film making)
2011-2014 Affiliated High School of Fine Arts China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
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