SU XIAOBAI Lives and works in Shanghai and Düsseldorf
 
1949            Born in Wuhan, China
1972-84       China Wuhan Artists Association, creative artist of Wuhan Painting Academy
1984-85       Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, creator of oil painting studio
1993-2003   Independent artist, working in Weidingen, Germany, established studio
2003-2024   Independent artist, working in Shanghai Jinyu Road Studio
 
Education   
1965-69         Wuhan Arts and Crafts School
1985-87         Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Oil Painting Department Training Class
1987-90          Art Academy Dusseldorf, Germany, postgraduate course
1990-92         Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany, Master Disciple Class

Awards & Prizes
1980     Won the Second National Youth Art Exhibition Award for his work Student Times
1985     Won the Bronze Award at the 6th National Art Exhibition for the work My Wife
1987     Won the Outstanding Work Award of the German Academy of Arts
1992     Won the German Artists Association Award
2005     Won the Sino-German Cultural Exchange Award

Public Media
2010     German National Television Special Film Artist Su Xiaobai
2015     Art Film Dayin - The Art of Su Xiaobai Jiangnan Buyi Production
2016     Won the Shanghai G20 Main Venue Art Exhibition
2017     Shanghai TV Station shoots Su Xiaobai’s art feature film
2018     Won the Charming Person of the Year Award from China's "Southern People Weekly"
    
Selected Solo Exhibitions    
2022    “Su Xiaobai: Blue”, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019    “Beneath a descending moon, breathing: The Paintings of Su Xiaobai”, Tina Keng
            Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018    “And There’s Nothing I Can Do”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe City, Japan
2016    “Luminescence: Su Xiaobai Solo Exhibition”, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
            “Su Xiaobai”, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014    “Su Xiaobai”, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
            “Su Xiaobai: Painting and Being”, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
            “Three Hundred Leafs”, Installation, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong 
2013    “Grand Immensity — The Art of Xiaobai Su”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
            Taichung, Taiwan
2012    Polígrafa Printing Studio, Barcelona, Spain
2010    “Black on Red — The Artworks of Xiaobai Su”, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
            “The Dynasty of Colours — Xiaobai Su Solo Exhibition”, Langen Foundation, Neuss, 
            Germany
2009    “The Dynasty of Colours — Xiaobai Su Solo Exhibition”, ZDF German State Television,       
            Mainz, Germany  
2008    “Kao Gong Ji — Xiaobai Su Solo Exhibition”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
            “Clarify My Mind to View the World: A Solo Exhibition of Xiaobai Su”, Lin & Keng
            Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China
2007    “Intangible Greats”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    
Selected Group Exhibitions    
2024    “In Touch: Collection of Fubon”, Fubon Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 
2019    “Abstract By Nature”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, U.S.
2017    “Infinite Blue”, Brooklyn Museum,  NY, U.S.
2016    “The world is yours, as well as ours”, White Cube Mason's Yard, London, U.K.
2015    “Jing Shen — The Act of Painting in Contemporary China”, Pac Padiglione D’arte
            Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
            “First Look: Collecting Contemporary at the Asian”, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco,
            U.S.
2008    “Yi Pai: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstraction”, Wall Museum, Beijing, China; La Caixa
            Forum, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
    
    
Selected Collections    
    Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.
    Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.
    EFG Bank, Singapore 
    Fubon Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 
    Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China 
    Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany 
    Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany 
    National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 
    National Second Television ZDF, Mainz, Germany 
    Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
    DKM Museum, Duisburg, Germany
    Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Yuanta Cultural & Educational Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
    Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,  Australia
    M+ Museum, Hong Kong