Miao Jiaxin Born in Shanghai. Currently lives in New York.
M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.
B.A. Shanghai Teachers University, 1999.
Solo Exhibition
2022 “725”, Friisland(Live Art Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 “Massage Therapist”, Chinatown, New York
2018 “Rear Window”, Glasshouse, New York, USA
2017 “Massage Therapist”, Miao Jiaxin Studio Night Shift/Google business
“Massage Therapist”, Ostavinska Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2016 “Next Performance 2016”, MOCA Shanghai/Ray Art Center, Shanghai, China
“Next Performance 2016”, Performance HUB/G12 HUB, Belgrade, Serbia
“Jail’s Seeking Prisoners”, La MaMa theatre, New York, USA
“Albert Bushwick”, Facebook Page
2015 “Blind Meeting in Bushwick”, Internet/Miao Jiaxin Studio
“We Share Possible”, Internet/Miao Jiaxin Studio
2014 “Cage”, Internet/Miao Jiaxin Studio
2013 “No Return”, Outlet Fine Art, New York, USA
2012 “Chinaman’s suitcase”, Box 13, Houston, USA
“Mom’s suitcase”, Caochangdi PhotoSpring – Arles in Beijing, Where Where Art Space, Beijing, China
2011 “Unarmed Guerrilla” Performance&Lecture, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2008 “Goodnight, New York”, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China
2003 “On the Way to Jonah’s”, Origin Gallery, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 “Transgressive Boundaries,Challenging Consensus and Urban Angst”, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA
“Friisland Live”, Friisland(Live Art Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark
“Viviendo en el tiempo”, Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum, Mexico City
2019 “Sangria”, Prime Produce, New York, USA
“Festival International d’Art Performance 2019″, Martinique,France
“Viva Art Action 2019”, Montreal, Canada
“Bicycle Thieves”, Para Site, Hongkong, China
“Refracting Realities”, UnionDocs, New York, USA
“Experimental Action 2019”, The Secret Group, Houston, USA
2018 “Metamorphosis”, Panoply Performance Laboratory, New York, USA
“Loisaida Opening”, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA
“in(di)visible”, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, USA
2017 “Appear Here”, Associated Gallery, New York, USA
“Re-IGNITE”, Defibrillator, Chicago, USA
“Just Situations”, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA
“Neo-Domesticity performance Art Festival”, Glasshouse, New York, USA
“Experimental Action 2017”, The Secret Group, Houston, USA
“Rebel Cities”, Yam Museum, Beijing, China
2016 “Your Shopping Cart is Not Empty”, Sorry Archive, New York, USA
“Performance Forum”, Panoply Performance Laboratory, New York, USA
2015 “What Barbara Would Do”, Defibrillator, Chicago, USA
“Bindle Nation”, Sorry Archive, New York, USA
“Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival”, Defibrillator, Chicago, USA
2014 “Reminiscence of The Land”,798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China
“May Performance@Grace Exhibition Space”, New York, USA
“EDOC-Encuentros del Otro Cine”, Quito, Ecuador
“The New Romantics”, EyeBeam, New York, USA
“Time Body Space Objects”, Defibrillator, Chicago, USA
“The Armory Show – ArtReview Asia”, New York, USA
“Lone Star Explosion – International Performance Art Biennale”, Houston, USA
“New York’s Chinatown on Screen”, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
2013 “Through the Parlor”, No Longer Empty Lab, NYC, USA
“YANS & RETO 2013”- Action Festival, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, USA
“Performing China”, The Wooster Group/The Performing Garage, NYC, USA
“Climate Change”- BIPAF 2013, Grace Exhibition Space, NYC, USA
“LUMEN 2013” – International Video and Performance Art Festival,NYC, USA
“Bare Life”, Space Station, Beijing, China
“Spring Benefit”, Momenta Art, NYC, USA
“Fountain Art Fair”, Armory NYC, USA
“Internal Visualizer”, Grace Exhibition Space, NYC, USA
“Performance Heart”, Muchmore’s, NYC, USA
2012 “LUMEN 2012” – International Video and Performance Art Festival,NYC, USA
“iCan”, Panoply & IV Soldiers Gallery, NYC, USA
“The Great Refusal”, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA
“Performance Anxiety”, Culture Fix, NYC, USA
2011 “2011 ASYAAF”, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
“File Type”, Gallery 400, Chicago, USA
“East Meets West”, Jumbotron Herald Square, New York City, USA
“Reality Show”, Noble&Superior, Chicago, USA
“The (International) Home Theater Festival”, USA
“Touch”, Defibrillator Performance, Chicago, USA
“Sexier”, Zhou Brother Art center, Chicago, USA
“Déjà vu”, Carrousel space, Chicago, USA
2010 “Illinois Emerging Artists Exhibition”, MCAC, Bloomington, USA
“PowPowPow: Action performance festival”, San Francisco, USA
“The Joke is Irresistible”, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, USA
“Chinese Contemporary Photographers”, The Great Wall, Beijing, China
2009 “Today’s dreamer”, Wanted Paris, Paris, France
“Trace: Urban Photography in Shanghai”, 1933 Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2008 “Trace: Urban Photography in Shanghai”, Ray Art Center, Shanghai, China
“Urban Episodes”, Osage Soho Gallery, Hong Kong, China
“Discomforting Anxieties” CAAC Gallery 456, New York, USA
2007 “Shanghai Superimposed” Time zone 8 Editions, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
2006 “Moscow Photo Biennial”, Moscow, Russia
“Restless Photography and New Media”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2005 “Lianzhou International Photo Festival”, Lianzhou City, Guangdong, China
“Harvest”: Chinese Contemporary Photography Art Scene Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Salute to Daido Moriyama”: 5 New Generation Photographers EP Site Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Selfhood. Absent Minded”: New Generation Photographers in China, Guangzhou, China
2004 “Humanism” Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
“Humanism” Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2003 “Ping Yao International Photography Festival”, Pingyao, China
2001 “Ma Xiao Bing’s Nap”, 2001 Chinese Independent Film Festival, China
1999 “Three People”, Formless Gallery, Shanghai, China
Lecture/Workshop University of Quebec
School of Visual Arts
NYU Tisch School of the Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Performance Hub/G12 Hub, Belgrade
Collections Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Awards Franklin Furnace Grant 2012-2013, NYC, USA
Merit Award – “Illinois Emerging Artists Exhibition”, MCAC, Bloomington, USA
Fred J. Forster Fellowship(MFA Fellowship,SAIC), Chicago, USA
Contact: miaojiaxin@gmail.com