Born in 1976 in Shanxi, China, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts as an undergraduate in 2000, and graduated from the Department of Experimental Art of the Central Academy of Fine Arts as a master's student in 2013. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Beijing. In recent years, she has used a variety of media, including rice paper, installation, sculpture and performance, and borrowed the name of the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, ‘NUN’, to explore the visualisation of the social structure and spiritual beliefs of ancient mankind.
Fu Xiaotong abandons the traditional material of brush and ink on the thickened handmade rice paper, and instead uses the unique female method of pricking holes in the paper to create her works. Through an intensive, cumulative process, she slowly creates images that are as macroscopic as mountains or as microscopic as life. Through the physical “repetition” of pricking, the artist reinvents her own subjectivity and gives her works lasting power through a new material language practice.
Fu Xiaotong's solo exhibitions in recent years include: NUN-6 (Ginkgo Space, Shenzhen, 2024); NUN-3 (Ginkgo Space, Beijing, 2022); NUN-3 (Chambers Fine Art, New York, 2022). She was awarded the inaugural Asian Female Artist Award in 2019, presented jointly by the Sovereign Asian Art Foundation and Vogue Hong Kong. Her works have been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Fidelity Investments Group, Boston, USA; Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; White Rabbit Art Museum, Sydney, Australia; and Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China.
EDUCATION
2000 BA in Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
2013 MA in Fine Arts, Department of Experimental Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “NUN-6 Silence”, Ginkgo space, Shenzhen, China
2023 “Fu Xiaotong”, EXPO Chicago Profile, Chicago, IL, USA
2022 “Fu Xiaotong”, Intersect Aspen, Aspen, CO, USA
2022 “NUN-3-1”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2022 “NUN-3-2”, Ginkgo space, Shenzhen, China
2021 “NUN-2”,Chambers Fine Art & Zhizhu Temple, Beijing, China
2020 “NUN-1”,Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2018 “Proliferation”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2017 “Limitless”, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2016 “The great wind”, Hong Kong Basel Art Expo, HongKong, China
2015 “Land of Serenity”, Fu xiaotong & Wang fengge Double solo, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2012 “Breathe”, Fu Xiaotong Pinpricks on Xuan Paper, Nine Thinking Culture of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 ART Dallas Art Fair, USA
2024 INK ASIA 2024, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2024 Metamorphosisthe shapes of paper, Berlin, Germany
2024 Scales in Flames, Shanghai Bund Art Center,Shanghai,China
2024 Shan Shui Reboot , China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
2024 Living Paper, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2023 Silence in Gazing, GINKGO Space, Shenzhen, China
2023 The Rabbit Project, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2023 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2023 The Realms of Being and Non-Being, GINKGO Space, Shanghai, China
2023 Landscape, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China
2022 Next Cultural Producer: Art of Craft, PSA, Shanghai, China
2022 A Time for Everything, Ui Art, Suzhou, China
2022 Papierzauber”Probst Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 Paper! Paper! Asia Art Week Special Presentation, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2021 Way Beyond, Shi Jinsong and Fu Xiaotong, EGG, Beijing, China
2021 ime and Space, GINKGO SPACE, Beijing, China
2021 White without White, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
2021 Union, Chambers Fine Art, Shanghai, China
2021 Ocean Flower Island International Art Exhibition, Hainan,China
2021 “Paper See”Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Paper Art Masters,
2021 HuZhou Art Museum ,China
2021 “Paper See”Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Paper Art Masters,
2021 Ke Art Museum ,China
2021 Good Things Come Naturally, Shenzhen, China
2020 The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2020 “Light as a Material”, Hilleckes &Probst Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 Taipei contemporary , Taipei,Taiwan
2020 At the Armory Show, New York,USA
2020 “2020”Song Art Museum ,Beijing, China
2020 Harmo-Power The first Jinan International Biennale,China
2020 “Of Surface and Space” Aroundspace Gallery,Shanghai, Beijing,China
2019 Needlepoint, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2019 Against the Stream, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2019 Material Traditions, Chambers Fine Art and Pagoda Red, Chicago, USA
2019 Art Basel, HongKong, China
2019 Asian Now, Paris, France
2019 Expo Chicago，Chicago, USA
2018 Past and Present, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2018 “ Untitled” Art Fair ,San Francisco，USA
2018 Art Basel, HongKong, China
2017 Organic Chaos, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017 China Youth Experimental Art Exhibition, Shandong, China
2017 Reciprocal Enlightenment—The Third College Experimental Art Literature
2017 Exhibition, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
2016 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China Beijng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Envision, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
2016 Paper Presence, Common Art Center, Beijing, China
2016 Birth of a Nation, Irish Wave 2016, Ning Space, Beijing, China
2016 Meditation, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2015 Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, USA
2015 Monochrome: Landscape, Around Space, Shanghai, China
2014 Cosmos—Multiple Practices in Art, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2014 Confrontion Anitya, Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Germany, France, Italy
2014 Material World at M50, Loftooo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 Legend - Contemporary Female Art, Tianjin, China
2014 Polyphony -21 Kinds of State, Balcony Collective" Jianguo Project", Nanjing, China
2014 New Visual Boundary, A Variety of Media Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
2014 Biennale China-Italia, Beijing, China
2014 “Room C Plan Second Round” SHONE-SHOW GALLERY, China
2013 New Paper, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2013 Nature and Spirit, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Materials-Substance, Found Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Wedge - Young Artists Exhibition, Sui Feng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Materials-Substance, CAFA art gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Postgraduate Graduation Exhibition, CAFA art gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition--the Siege and Boundary, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2012 Mizuma & One Gallery Group Exhibition 2012, Beijing, China
2012 Balcony Collective Still Lie Exhibition, Lelege Art Space, Beijing, China
2012 Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition, Beijing International Trade Centre Beijing, China
2011 Substance · Opening Exhibition of the School of Experimental Art, 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
2006 Theater Exhibition, Jiuchang Art Comlex Beijing, China
2005 Beijing International Art Camp Opening Exhibition, Beijing, China
ARTIST RESIDENCE
2019 Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize Winner, the 2019 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2017 The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Residency Program, Shanghai
2017 Finalist, Sovereign Award for Excellence in Asian Art, Hong Kong
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2025 Harvard Art Museums, USA
2025 Dallas Museum of Art, USA
2023 Houston Asian Art Association, USA
2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2021 White Rabbit Gallery, AUS
2020 Zhe Jiang Art Museum, China
2019 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Fidelity Investments Art Collection, USA
2018 The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, USA
2017 Taihe Art Museum, China
