Guan Xiao (b. 1983, Chongqing, China) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Beijing. Her practice spans sculpture, painting, installation, and video, developing a distinctive visual language through a collage-based approach. Moving across different historical and cultural contexts, it brings together elements of identity, history, regional culture, and everyday experience within a single structure. Her work combines diverse materials and imagery in unexpected ways, creating connections between different cultures, time periods, and perspectives. Through contradictions between material and structure, Guan seeks new ways of understanding how we relate to our bodies, our surroundings, and the ever-expanding flow of information that shapes contemporary life.
Guan has held solo exhibitions at institutions including the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur; Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. She has also participated in the 34th Bienal de São Paolo (2021); the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); the 3rd New Museum Triennial (2015), and the 13th Lyon Biennale (2015). Read more 
