1983 born in Huainan, Anhui Province, China; lives and works in Paris and Madrid

Education

2012-2016
practice-based PhD in Visual arts (Very Honorable with unanimous Jury Congratulations)
Beaux-Arts de Paris and Ecole normale supérieure (PSL), Paris, France
2014   
Painting Research Programme, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006-2010
MA (Jury Honours), Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
2002-2006
BA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Nachtgesänge, Caprii, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fleur de Peau, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2023
Au-delà, curated by Claudia Buizza & Ludovic Delalande, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Nachleben, Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
Victim, Lyles & King, New York, US

2022
Chant d’Amour, Semiose, Paris, France
Secret, flatmarkus, Zürich, Switzerland

2021
Slumbers, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2019
Xie Lei, Christopher Orr, HdM Gallery, London, UK (two-person show)
Xie Lei, Z Gallery Arts, Vancouver, Canada

2017
Walden II, Yima Gallery, Chengdu, China
Poe’s Garden, Z Gallery Arts, Vancouver, Canada (cat.)

2016
Xie Lei – Entre Chien et Loup, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

2015
Xie Lei – Sans rivage, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2014
Xie Lei – Murmur, Grenier du Chapître, Cahors, France (cat.)
Sortilège et diableries : l’inquiètant ordinaire, Château d’Ardelay, Les Herbiers, France

2013
Xie Lei, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (cat.)
Everything And Nothing, Feast Projects, Hong Kong, China

2012
Xie Lei – Chimères, Fondation Yishu 8, Beijing, China (cat.)
Xie Lei, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland (cat.)

2011
Xie Lei – Destination, Feast Projects, Hong Kong, China (cat.)
Xie Lei, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (cat.)

2009
Enter At Own Risk, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2024
X Collection 202: Portrait of a Man, X Museum, Beijing, China
Eighteen Painters, Andrew Kreps, New York, US
Une Chambre à Soi, curated by Margaux Plessy, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Sur tes lèvres, curated by Claire Staebler, Lieu Unique and FRAC des pays de la Loire, Nantes, France (upcoming)
La Vie Liquide, curated by Sébastien Faucon, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Chateau de Rochechouart, France
Absences, mues et macules, L’Atlas galerie des mondes, Paris, France
Second Nature, Semiose, Paris, France

2023
Formes de la ruine, curated by Sylvie Ramond, Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, France
Yuen-Yeung, curated by Ed Tang & Jonathan Cheung, K11 chi Museum, Shanghai, China
Bodies of Resistance, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
Les Nuits d’été, curated by Pierre Yovanovitch, Eléa Legangneux, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Antéfutur, curated by Sandra Patron, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Immortelle, curated by Numa Hambursin, MO.CO, Montpellier, France
Crossing Frontiers, curated by Tamar Arnon, Eli Zagury, Foundation Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sonámbulo, two-person show with Charlotte Moth, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Close, curated by Russell Tovey, GRIMM, London, UK (cat.)
Eulogy of Nothing, A Tribute to Christian Bobin, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2022
Viva Villa, curated by Victorine Grataloup, Stéphane Ibars, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Prendre soin. Restaurer, réparer, de la Renaissance à nos jours, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, France
En Soi et Au-delà, curated by María Santoyo, Institut Français, Madrid, Spain
Raw, curated by Daniel Lippitsch, Vacancy, Shanghai, China
Machines of Desire, curated by Kat Sapera, Emilia Yin, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
The Tale Their Terror Tells, curated by Geena Brown, Lauren Guilford, Lyles & King, New York, US 
An extraordinary adventure: 8 Chinese artists and the UK, curated by Lu Chao, Gallery Rosenfeld, London, UK
Futuros Abundantes, Works from the TBA21 Collection, curated by Daniela Zyman, C3A Centro de creación contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain
Itinérance, curated by Virginie Bourget, Beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Atlas of Affinities: The Far-Near, HUA International, Berlin, Germany
Mist & Thunder, curated by Àngels Miralda, Sally’s Fault, Amsterdam, Netherland
The Hearing Trumpet, curated by Danielle Shang, Marguo, Paris, France
Mouthed Echoes, Lyles & King, New York, US
Traverser les silences, curated by Thomas Fort, Editions Dilecta, Paris, France
Itinérance, Institut de France, Paris, France

Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Incipit, Cruce arte y pensamiento contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Itinérance, Casa de Velázquez, French Academy in Madrid, Spain
BRAFA in the Galleries, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
Laberinto del ramaje, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Descripción de un estado físico, curated by Pepe Suárez, Schneider Colao – Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain

2020
Much Without Many, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2019
Flesh And Bone, curated by Loïc Le Gall and Justin Polera, PS120, Berlin, Germany
Persona Grata?, curated by Alexia Fabre, Anne-Laure Flacelière and Ingrid Jurzak, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Yellow Reflection, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France
Couleurs de la Chine Contemporaine, Musée Saint-Remi, Reims, France

2018
How To See [What Isn’t There], curated by Gianni Jetzer, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Persona Grata, curated by Anne-Laure Flacelière and Isabelle Renard, Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
Group Show Moulin Joly, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Collection David H. Brolliet – Geneva, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France

2016
Nouvelles acquisitions, Fondation Colas, Boulogne, France
Who Cares?, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Utopie Picturale 3, FORMA Art contemporain & cabinet d’expertise, Lausanne, Switzerland

2014
Memo II, White Space, Beijing, China
Utopie Picturale 2, Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland
Picturalités Singulières, Chateau d’Assas, Le Vigan, France

2013
Utopie Picturale, Villa Dutoit, Geneva, Switzerland
Ca grimpe, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland

2012
1912-2012 France – Chine, un siècle de dialogue, Fondation Yishu8, Beijing, China
Visage et Portrait, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Tranches de carrés sur tranches de cercles, Saline Royale, Arc-et-Senans, France (cat.)
Accrochage, Feast Projects, Hong Kong, China

2011
Résonance/Dissonance, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Le Vent d’après, curated by Jean de Loisy and Ulla von Brandenburg, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France (cat.)

2010
Ligne de Chance, curated by François Bouillon and Bernard Moninot, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France (cat.)

2008
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Shcontemporary, Marlborough Gallery, Shanghai, China
Institut de France, Paris, France
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris, France
Salon de Montrouge, France

2007
Dessine moi un… Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris, France
Back to Canvas, the Poetry Between Abstract and Imagism, Amelie Art Gallery, Beijing, China

2006
Shi Tang Arts Space, Beijing, China

Residencies

2024
Residence Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy

2022
Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

2020/2021
Casa de Velázquez, French Academy in Madrid, Spain

2012
Fondation Yishu 8, Beijing, China

2011
Saline Royale, Arc-et-Senans, France

Awards

2016
Prix Fondation Colas

2012
Prix Alphonse Cellier, Institut de France

2011
Prix Nicolas Feuillate

2010
Bourse de la Mairie de Paris pour l’art contemporain

2008
Bourse Colin-Lefrancq, Hunter College, New York, USA

2003
Drawing Award CAFA

Catalogues

2023
Xie Lei – Corpus Painting, text by Hou Hanru, édition Semiose
Futuros Abundantes / Abundant Futures exhibition catalogue, edited by Daniela Zyman and Eva Ebersberger, TBA21 and Turner
Immortelle, Vitalité de la jeune peinture figurative française, exhibition catalogue (MO.CO, Montpellier), texts by Amélie Adamo and Numa Hambursin, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 
Close, exhibition catalogue, Russell Tovey, GRIMM, London

2022
Viva Villa, Ce à quoi nous tenons, texts by Victorine Grataloup, Stéphane Ibars, exhibition catalogue, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Dilecta, Paris
Prendre Soin, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, éditions mare&martin, Paris

2021
Casa de Velázquez – Membres de l’Académie de France à Madrid, texts by Àngels Miralda, Caterina Amirall, Madrid, Spain

2014
Murmur, text by Guitemie Maldonado, Les rencontres d’art contemporain, Cahors, France

2013
Xie Lei, text by François-René Martin, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2012
Xie Lei – Chimères, texts by Henry-Claude Cousseau, Liang Shuhan, Emmanuel Fessy, Fondation Yishu 8, Beijing, China
Tranches de carrés sur tranches de cercles, text by Pauline Lafille, Saline Royale, Arc-et-Senans, France
Xie Lei, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland

2011
Destination, text by Philippe Koutouzis, Feast Projects, Hong Kong, China
Xie Lei, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Le Vent d’après, texts by Jean de Loisy and Ulla von Brandenburg, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2010
Ligne de Chance, Fondation Ricard and Beaux-Arts de Paris, France 

2008
Salon de Montrouge, France

Publication and selected bibliography

Christophe Cesbron, Au-delà par Xie Lei, Kostar, February-March 2024, p. 54-59.
Thibault Bissirier, A la Fondation Louis Vuitton, les anti-ombres de Xie Lei, The Steidz, 13 December 2023, online.
Nat Muller, Art Advisor Recommends… Jonathan Cheung of Art-Bureau, Art Basel, 24 February 2023, online.
Anne-Cécile Sanchez, 50 Artistes de la nouvelle scène française, L’Oeil, n°762, March 2023, p.49.
Julie Chaizemartin, Viva Villa ! fait le bilan des résidences françaises à l’étranger, Le Quotidien de l’art, 6 February 2023, online. 
Alexandre Crochet, Un bon cru pour artgenève 2023, The Art Newspaper, 25 January 2023, online.
Guy Boyer, Art contemporain : la biennale des résidences d’artistes 2022 prolonge les échos du monde, Connaissance des arts, 21 November 2022, online.
Amélie Lavin, Alexis Anne-Braun, Sarah Carvello, Jean-Philippe Pierron, Hélène Sfeir, Georges Yoram Federmann… Prendre soin, exhibition cat. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, 2022), édition mare&martin, Paris, 2022.
Judicaël Lavrador, Xie Lei, le brouillard et la manière, Libération, 6 September 2022, p.27.
Marie Maertens, L’inquiétante étrangeté de Xie Lei, Connaissance des arts, September 2022, p.106.
Julie Chaizemartin, Gros plan sur dix artistes, Le Quotidien de l’art, 3 March 2022, p.13-15.
Xie Lei, Circulation of Images, From Recognition To Erasure: An Artist’s Response, Artl@s Bulletin vol. 10, 1 (spring 2021), p.134-142, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS and Purdue Publishing.
Judicaël Lavrador, Peintres de la vie quotidienne, Beaux-Arts Magazine, n°441, March 2021, p.47.
Itzhak Goldberg, Xie Lei, un Sommeil agité, Le Journal des Arts, n°578, 26 November 2021.
Sophie de Santis, Eldorado Désenchanté, Le Figaro, n°23102, 21 November 2018, p.31.
Olivia Sand, Contemporary Voices From the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds, Milano, Skira, 2018, p.732-741.
Pauline Vidal, Les visions hallucinées de Xie Lei, LeJournaldesArts.fr, 26 October 2015.
Olivia Sand, Asian Art, February 2014, Profile 2-5.
Elephant Magazine, Issue 19, summer 2014, p.6.
Pauline Vidal, La peinture Onirique de Xie Lei, Le Journal des Arts, n° 398, 4-17 October 2013, p.31.
Philippe Dagen, Le Monde, n°21361, 22-23 September 2013, p.12.
Bettina Wohlfarth, FAZ, 27 September 2013.
Liu Shiyao, Hidden Current, Time Out Beijing, 9 November 2012, p.75.
Yue Lian, Xie Lei: New Communication and Allure, Gallery, November 2012.
Chen Hongming, Xie Lei: Double re-interpretation of east and west tradition, Contemporary Art, December 2012.
Xu Nan, Xie Lei in Yishu8, Master Oriental Art, December 2012, p.18.
Tian Tian, Xie Lei pays tribute to masters in ‘Chimères’ Hi Art, 22 October 2012.
Yang Jiaqing, Chimères: Xie Lei in Yishu8, Beijing Review, 23 October 2012.
Xu Qinghong, Xie Lei solo, Jinghua Newspaper, 23 October 2012.
Zhang Shuqi, Xie Lei, Chinese artist in France, Xin Hua News Daily, 23 October 2012.
Xiong Ying, Xie Lei debut in Yishu8, China Art Newspaper, n° 1215, 20 October 2012.
Valérie de Maulmin, L‘artiste du mois: le monde surnaturel de Xie Lei, Connaissance des Arts n°690, February 2011, p.104.
Sonia Desprez, Espoirs – Le Vent d’après, A Nous, 4 July 2011, p.24.
Monica Lau, Destination, Splux, December 2011, p.64-65.
Valérie Duponchelle, Le Figaro, n°142011, February 2011.
Bruce Helander, Xie Lei, artist to watch, The Art Economist, Issue 9, 2011, p.67.

Public collections

Albertina Museum, Vienna (AT)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Madrid (ES)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (US)
Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL), Vitre-sur-Seine (FR)
Fondation Colas, Boulogne-Billancourt (FR)
Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (ES)
Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (FR)
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (FR)
Rennie Museum, Vancouver (CA)
X Museum, Beijing (CN)