Wang Xiaoqu (b. 1987, Guilin) currently lives and works in Beijing. In 2014 she graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a MA.
Wang’s work is closely related to portrait painting, and focuses on the subtleness of people’s mental states and personalities, reinforcing a sense of absurdity through exaggerated variations and overwhelming compositions. Wang projects collective dreams and social consciousness and order through her paintings. Figures in her works are bathed in a mixture of politics, culture, and everything in between.
Her solo exhibitions include “Alloy Night”, Christian Anderson, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024; “Genealogy Study of Artists No. 9—Wang Xiaoqu: Welcome”, Start Museum Preparatory Team SSSSTART, Shanghai, China, 2023; “Open Stone Gate”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2021; “Condo Shanghai Personal Project”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2018; “The 11th China International Gallery Exposition Artists Nominate Artists Exhibition”, Beijing, China, 2015. She has also participated in group exhibitions include “The Enlightenment of Biases”, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China, 2024; “Kong-fu: form and meaning”, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2023; “13+1 - Genealogy Study of Artists Retrospective Exhibition”, START Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023; “X Pink 101”, X Museum, Beijing, China, 2023; “Bodily Reaction: Vitalizing the Bare Life”, Taikang Space, Beijing, China, 2023; “Uncanny Valley”, Gagosian, Hong Kong, China, 2023; “Painting Unsettled”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China, 2023; “Zoo/Amusement Park”, Cloud Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2023; “Huayu Youth Award Finalist Exhibition: The Perfect Flaw”, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China, 2021; “House of Perception”, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China, 2021; “Let Painting Talk”, Taikang Space, Beijing, China, 2021; “Shadow Lover”, OCAT, Xi’an, China, 2021; “Golden Flow”, CHAO Art Center, Beijing, China, 2020; “Loading”, Garry Culture Center, Art Power 100, Beijing, China, 2020; “How Do We Begin？”, X Museum, Beijing, China, 2020; “Summer Fling”, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2019; “Scaffolds of Meaning”, Mine Project, Hong Kong, China, 2019; “Guangzhou Airport Biennale”, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “Land of the Lustrous”, UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, China, 2019; “Condo Shanghai”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Spiral Stairs”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2018; “The Latch”, C-Space+Local, Beijing, China, 2017; “Atmosphere”, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2015; “Winter Group Show”, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2014; “UP-YOUTH China Young Artists Exhibition”, Time Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2014.