Fan Xi graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and currently lives and works in Beijing. With a particular interest in the relations between objects, space, and people, she attempts to reveal such relationality to create new points of entry and construct new layers, thereby deconstructing the original concept of “objects.” She uses objects as a vehicle to explore contemporary meanings of fantasy and reality, extending their engagement toward a non-object world encompassing states, relationships, situations, and time. In her long-term practice, Fan Xi explores the complex impact of spatial and psychological distance on perceptual experience. Working across photography, film, sculpture, and installation, she examines the interwoven relationships between everyday experience, the production of fiction, and heterogeneous temporalities.

Selected exhibitions: “We are topsy-turvy, all things revive”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China(2026); “Who is Singing”, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing (2024); “Simulation Play”, Fotografiska Shanghai, Shanghai (2023); “Again, With Photography”, 9th Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu; “Waterfall”, Gallery LIUSA WANG, Paris (2023); “Symphony of All the Changes”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2023); “Temptation”, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2022); “Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art”, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway (2022); “The Dream Site”, PTT Space, Taipei (2021); “In the Midst of It All”, Golden Eagle Museum of Art, Nanjing (2021); “Alienación de la Naturaleza”, Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes, Shanghai (2021); “Stroll”, Cloud Art Museum, Shenzhen (2021); “Within 5m”, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing (2021); “When to Sail?”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2020); “L’s Living Room”, Confucius Institute Nuremberg-Erlangen, Nuremberg (2020); “PEER TO PEER”, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai (2019); “PEER TO PEER”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2019); “A Composite Leviathan”, Luhring Augustine, New York; Bridge Projects, Los Angeles (2019/2020); “Have a Nice Day!”, Room 105, No. 15 Baishu Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing (2019); “After Sunset”, Gallery LIUSA WANG, Paris (2018); “Le déplacement”, Gallery LIUSA WANG, Paris (2018); “Bad New Days Ahead”, Tai Kang Space, Beijing (2017); “Reduction of Image”, Yang Gallery, Beijing (2016); “The Black Dwarf / Part 2”, Star Gallery, Beijing (2014); “The Black Dwarf / Part 1”, Star Gallery, Beijing (2013).