Jingyu Xu is a multi-media artist whose main areas of practice are sculpture, painting, video, and installation art.  Jingyu was born in Shandong, China in 1981. She currently lives and works in South Florida, USA and Beijing, China.  In 2004, she earned a bachelor's degree in sculpture from the Shandong University of Art and Design and was invited to stay at the school to teach until 2012. From 2007-2008, Jingyu was a visiting scholar at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon, France.  Her works have been exhibited at important art institutions in China and other countries. include the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Guangzhou Grand Theater, Grand Palais in Paris, and the Chinese Embassy in France. Her video works have won the Outstanding Work Award of the 1st U.S. Yage Literature and Art Awards (2020), and her design works have won the Bronze Award of the 10th National Art Exhibition of China (2004).

 

To date, Jingyu has had seven solo exhibitions and participated in more than fifty group exhibitions. Some of the significant group exhibitions and events she has been invited to participate in include: "Beyond the Lens", Palm Beach Design and Art Showroom, Florida, USA (2023); "A World of Coexistence" Jinan International Biennale, Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China (2022), " True Character / Becoming" Chinese and Israeli Female Artist Video Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2021); "Shuffle" Reloaded Chinese Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria GALERIE ERNST HILGER and Austria Ge Monden Kammerhof (2012, 2014); "Top of Fashion" China's First Contemporary Women's Art Invitational Exhibition, Yue Art Museum, Beijing, China (2012); "No Difference" Contemporary Art Exhibition, Li Space, Beijing, China (2012);" Heart Tangle and Hand Knot", Longdexuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China (2010); and the GALERIE ERNST HILGER Artist-in-Residence Project, Vienna, Austria (2012).  Xu Jingyu's important solo exhibitions include: "Light at Night", Village One Space, New York, USA (2019); "Motherhood", Fan Space, Beijing, China (2016); "Cleanliness" Zhong Gallery, Beijing, China (2016); "Love With Art", Chinese Embassy in France, Paris, France (2008); and "Life", Art Museum of Shandong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China (2004).

 

Jingyu’s home province, Shandong, is one of the oldest regions in China and has played an important role in China since the beginning of the Chinese civilization.  Growing up in a province steeped in Chinese history during a time of openness, great change, and rapid social and economic development in China afforded Jing the opportunity to learn about contemporary art through a traditional lens.  This has helped her develop her imaginative and broad vision as seen in her art.  In China, her generation of artists is called the "new generation", their generation will represent the future of Chinese contemporary art.