Xie Nanxing was born in 1970 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province. He currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Xie Nanxing is a revolutionary and experimental painter, who always challenges tradition and the seemingly established rules of art education. He is interested in psychology and also approaches his practice with a psychologist’s line of questioning, inquiring into what is behind the surface. Recent solo exhibitions include: Xie Nanxing: Adverb High Command, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (2022); A Roll of the Dice, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China (2020); Xie Nanxing: A Gift Like Kung Pao Chicken, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2019); Xie Nanxing: Spices, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2018); untitled: 3×, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China (2015); and Xie Nanxing Paintings, Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany (2005). Select group exhibitions include: A Leisurely Stroll – The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (2023); Painting Unsettled, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA Edge), Shanghai, China (2023); A Place for Concealment (2022), Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China (2022); The Generation of New Painting in SCFAI, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China (2021); SNAPSHOT, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China (2021) ; Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse Dallas, Dallas, USA (2020); Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2019); PARADOXA, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Italy (2017); Permanent Abstraction: Epiphanies of a Modern Form in Escaped Totalities, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2015); China 8, Museum Folkwang Essen, Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); New Works #1, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, China (2014); Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany (2007); Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2000); d’APERTutto, 48th Venice Biennale, Italy (1999).