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Museum Exhibitions:

2022     Exposed, Sasse Museum, Pomona, CA

2021     Photo Flux: Unshuttering L.A., the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2020     We are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA

2019     19th Japan International Exchange, National Museum, Tokyo, Japan

            STEP, Beijing 9 Museum, Beijing, China

2018     15 x 15, Copelouzos Museum, Athens, Greece

2017     Transangeles, Kunstlanding, Aschaffenburg, Germany

2016     Transangeles, Chabot Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

            Social Justice, It Happens to One It Happens to All, St Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga 

2015    Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, Palazzo Stella, Genoa

             Let Mille Fiori Bloom, Villa Communalle Frosinone, Rome, Italy

            Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, The Asia Society, New York City, New York

2014     Freeway Studies 2: Inside the Quad, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of art & Design

            Transangeles,  Wilhelm Mogner Haus Kuntsmuseum, Soest, Germany

            Beyond Limits, Mediations Biennale, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA

            From Her, El Pueblo Museum, Los Angeles

2012     Reversing the Gaze, The Kinsey Institute, University of Indiana, IN

2008     Requiem for Genocide, MOMA, Yerevan, Armenia

2006     Las Mujeres de Juarez, Nevada State Museum, NV          

2005     (invisible), Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2004     Angel Island, West Los Angeles College Gallery, Los Angeles

            General Lee’s Banquet Room, Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, New York City

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2019     Mostra Photo, Palazzo del Commune, Giotto, Italy

2017     Let Mille Fiori Bloom, Area Contessa Arte, Rome, Italy

2016     I LOVE YOU, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2015     Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, E-Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia

            Untitled, Artcore Brewery, Los Angeles, CA

            The Museum Tour, Outside Riverside Museum, Riverside

2014     Qilin, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2013     Lascia che Mille Fiori Sboccino, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

2012     Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2010     Dreamscape Live, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009     Analysis, Silverstreet Project Space, Los Angeles, CA

            Untitled, Paulina Miller Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2007     Untitled, Paulina Miller Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2005     Untitled, Paulina Miller Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2002     Angel Island, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2023     Rewired: Eating Rocks and Roses, 515 Gallery, Los Angeles

              Finding Beauty, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles

              Telling Stories: Customary Exchange, El Camino College Gallery, Los Angeles

2022     Sound, the New Woman and the Modern Girl, El Camino College Gallery, Torrance

2021     Ping Pong at Art Basel, M54, Basel, Switzerland

               Crossroads, Crossings, and Convergence, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA

2020     Woven Threads: the Migration of Myths and Metaphors, Brandstater Gallery, Riverside, CA

2019     Erotic-Vulvic-Erotic, POST, Los Angeles, CA

            Immigration Part II, Laurent Proneur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            STEP, Haibei University Gallery, Haibei, China

2018     Ten Women, Marie Baldwin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Kaohsiung International Photographers Exhibition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

            Between Two Seas, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            Optical: Life Through the Lens, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

            Group, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Dragnet, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA

             Round Hole, Square Peg, Long Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

2017     Hollywood & Fine, AG Geiger Gallery, Chinatown Los Angeles, CA

2016     Awaken, the Female Voice, City of West Hollywood Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

            From Other Lands, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Kaohsiung International Photographers Exhibition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

            MAS Attack, Torrance art Museum

            Round Hole, Square Peg, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA

            I am More, The Gabba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            12th Anniversary, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2015     Conceived Without Sin, Radiator Gallery, New York City, New York

2014     Identity, SNAP Space, Orlando, FL

            Contraventions, Galerie Merkel, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany

            Identity, Nine5 Gallery, New York City, New York

            One Shot: One World, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2013     SNAP!, SNAP Space, Orlando, FL

            Turnover, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

            Daas Paar (with Contemporary Art Ruhr), Los Angeles Art Assoc., Los Angeles, CA

2010     See Thru, LAAA and ICON (with Shinsuke Shiomojo), Los Angeles, CA

 

Collections:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cesar Chavez Museum, San Diego Art   

                        Art Institute, Capelouzos Museum (Athens)

Auctions:  Half the Sky, Artworks by Asian Women’s Artists, Christies NYC

 

Public Art Projects:

2016     Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom (Mural), West Hollywood, CA

2012     Play Me, I’m Yours (Piano), Los Angeles, CA

2011     Elephants of Asia (Sculpture), Los Angeles Zoo, CA

2004     Children of Heaven (Installation), Los Angeles, CA

 

Publications and Media:

2021     Mei Xian Qiu, Meet the Artist, LA Weekly, by Shana Nys Dambrot

2020     Diversity inspires LA curator’s Brandstater Gallery exhibit, Arts + Culture, by Darla Marti                       Tucker

2019     Mei Xian Qiu, Ephemerality, Magic and Rebirth, Art and Cake, by Gary Brewer

2018     Q is for Mei Xian Qiu, MUSEE, Vanguard of Photography Culture

            Ken Weingart Interviews Mei Xian Qiu, Lenscratch Magazine

2017     Communism, meet capitalism: Mei Xian Qiu talks the Myth of Identity + Fake News in her                          Queer, Inter – Ideological Propaganda, AQNB, by Daniel Spielberger

2016     New WEHO Park Mural suggests Make Love Not War, WEHOVILLE Magazine

            Creating a New Visual Archetype, by Kathleen Caulderwood, Popular Photography Magazine

            Artists as Activists, Pursuing Social Justice, by Amy Pleasant, Huffington Post

2015     La Pop art Cinese e Americana Esplode Nelle Foto di Mei Xian Qiu, by Fausta, Insognata                          Dumano

            Mille Fiore from Central Java and Grown in the World, by Dumanounoetre

            Mei, by Mei Xian Qiu, Isuu Magazine

2014     Critic’s Pick: Mei Xian Qiu at Kopeikin Gallery, by Lita Barrie, Artweek LA

            Mei Xian Qiu: It’s all in the Name, by Juri Koll, Huffington Post

            Mei Xian Qiu: Qilin, by Megan Abrahams, White Hot Contemporary Art Magazine

            Mei Xian Qiu: Qilin, by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch: Fine Art Photography Daily

            Communist Foils: The Work of Mei Xian Qiu,  by Kyle Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, I’m Yours

2013     Rosa Fresca Aulentissima: La Cina di Mei Xian Qiu, by Milena Zanotti, Artribune

2012     Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, by Elizabetta Platti, ZOOM

            What Can I Say about Mei?, by Phil Tarley, Fabrik

            A Hundred Flowers Bloom when China Invades, by An Xiao, Hyperallergic

            On the Level,  by Andrea Childs, Living Etc. (UK)

2004     Behind the Menu, MoCA Celebrates the history of Good Fortune at Chinese Restaurants, by                    Jennifer Furl, Time Out New York

            Chinese History is on the Menu at NYC, by Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times

 

Radio / TV / Internet / Blog:

2020     Podcast Interview with Mei Xian Qiu, Ken Weingart Blog Podcast

2017     Episode 22, Mei Xian Qiu and Susan Feldman, Matt Gleason Modern Art Blitz

2015     In the Studio with Mei Xian Qiu, by Karen Shifman, Artful Amphora

2014     Interview with the American, Chinese and Indonesian Fine Art Photographer Mei Xian Qiu, by                Ken Weingart, Weingart Art and Photography Blog

            Say Cheese, Out There in the Artworld: Mei Xian Qiu, by Rene deLoffre

2012     Art Basel 2012, Swiss TV Coverage

2008     The Art of Outrage, moderated by Peter Clothier, ArtScene Visual Radio

2004     Art and Activism, KCRW Radio

 

Selected Other:

2022     Residency with YAXS Foundation, Guatemala (Secret Letters of Asturias)

2021     Residency with YAXS Foundation, Guatemala (The Soldier in the Mirror)

2019     LAB Beijing Residency, China

2016     Visiting Artist Lecturer, Occidental College

2015     Early Spring, Artist Book

2014     Forbidden City, Guerilla Project for LA Fashion Week

2011 –  2013  Bamboo Lane Gallery,  Owner and Managed in Los Angeles Chinatown

 

Art Fairs:  

2922     Ping Pong, Art Basel Miami

2021     Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel Basel

2020     Photo LA

2018     Los Angeles Art Show

2016     Tom of Finland Art Festival  /   La Biennale de Frosinone (Italy)

2015     L’Dep Wynwood, Art Basel Miami

2014     Photo LA  /  San Francisco ArtMKT /  Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel

2013     Photo LA  /  Arte Fiera Bologna  / Ping Pong, Art Basel Miami

             Miami Project / Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel

2012     Photo LA / Art Platform Los Angeles / Ping Pong, Art Basel Miami

              Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel

2011     New Media Art Fair, Cologne

2010     C.A.R. (Contemporary Art Fair), Cologne

2004     Leon Contemporary International, Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

2022     Sound, the New Woman and the Modern Girl, El Camino College Gallery, Torrance

2021     Ping Pong at Art Basel, M54, Basel, Switzerland

               Crossroads, Crossings, and Convergence, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA

2020     Woven Threads: the Migration of Myths and Metaphors, Brandstater Gallery, Riverside, CA

2019     Erotic-Vulvic-Erotic, POST, Los Angeles, CA

            Immigration Part II, Laurent Proneur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            STEP, Haibei University Gallery, Haibei, China

2018     Ten Women, Marie Baldwin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Kaohsiung International Photographers Exhibition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

            Between Two Seas, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            Optical: Life Through the Lens, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

            Group, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Dragnet, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA

             Round Hole, Square Peg, Long Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

2017     Hollywood & Fine, AG Geiger Gallery, Chinatown Los Angeles, CA

2016     Awaken, the Female Voice, City of West Hollywood Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

            From Other Lands, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Kaohsiung International Photographers Exhibition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

            MAS Attack, Torrance art Museum

            Round Hole, Square Peg, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA

            I am More, The Gabba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            12th Anniversary, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2015     Conceived Without Sin, Radiator Gallery, New York City, New York

2014     Identity, SNAP Space, Orlando, FL

            Contraventions, Galerie Merkel, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany

            Identity, Nine5 Gallery, New York City, New York

            One Shot: One World, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2013     SNAP!, SNAP Space, Orlando, FL

            Turnover, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

            Daas Paar (with Contemporary Art Ruhr), Los Angeles Art Assoc., Los Angeles, CA

2010     See Thru, LAAA and ICON (with Shinsuke Shiomojo), Los Angeles, CA

 

Collections:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cesar Chavez Museum, San Diego Art   

                        Art Institute, Capelouzos Museum (Athens)

Auctions:  Half the Sky, Artworks by Asian Women’s Artists, Christies NYC

 

Public Art Projects:

2016     Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom (Mural), West Hollywood, CA

2012     Play Me, I’m Yours (Piano), Los Angeles, CA

2011     Elephants of Asia (Sculpture), Los Angeles Zoo, CA

2004     Children of Heaven (Installation), Los Angeles, CA

 

Publications and Media:

2021     Mei Xian Qiu, Meet the Artist, LA Weekly, by Shana Nys Dambrot

2020     Diversity inspires LA curator’s Brandstater Gallery exhibit, Arts + Culture, by Darla Marti                       Tucker

2019     Mei Xian Qiu, Ephemerality, Magic and Rebirth, Art and Cake, by Gary Brewer

2018     Q is for Mei Xian Qiu, MUSEE, Vanguard of Photography Culture

            Ken Weingart Interviews Mei Xian Qiu, Lenscratch Magazine

2017     Communism, meet capitalism: Mei Xian Qiu talks the Myth of Identity + Fake News in her                          Queer, Inter – Ideological Propaganda, AQNB, by Daniel Spielberger

2016     New WEHO Park Mural suggests Make Love Not War, WEHOVILLE Magazine

            Creating a New Visual Archetype, by Kathleen Caulderwood, Popular Photography Magazine

            Artists as Activists, Pursuing Social Justice, by Amy Pleasant, Huffington Post

2015     La Pop art Cinese e Americana Esplode Nelle Foto di Mei Xian Qiu, by Fausta, Insognata                          Dumano

            Mille Fiore from Central Java and Grown in the World, by Dumanounoetre

            Mei, by Mei Xian Qiu, Isuu Magazine

2014     Critic’s Pick: Mei Xian Qiu at Kopeikin Gallery, by Lita Barrie, Artweek LA

            Mei Xian Qiu: It’s all in the Name, by Juri Koll, Huffington Post

            Mei Xian Qiu: Qilin, by Megan Abrahams, White Hot Contemporary Art Magazine

            Mei Xian Qiu: Qilin, by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch: Fine Art Photography Daily

            Communist Foils: The Work of Mei Xian Qiu,  by Kyle Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, I’m Yours

2013     Rosa Fresca Aulentissima: La Cina di Mei Xian Qiu, by Milena Zanotti, Artribune

2012     Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, by Elizabetta Platti, ZOOM

            What Can I Say about Mei?, by Phil Tarley, Fabrik

            A Hundred Flowers Bloom when China Invades, by An Xiao, Hyperallergic

            On the Level,  by Andrea Childs, Living Etc. (UK)

2004     Behind the Menu, MoCA Celebrates the history of Good Fortune at Chinese Restaurants, by                    Jennifer Furl, Time Out New York

            Chinese History is on the Menu at NYC, by Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times

 

Radio / TV / Internet / Blog:

2020     Podcast Interview with Mei Xian Qiu, Ken Weingart Blog Podcast

2017     Episode 22, Mei Xian Qiu and Susan Feldman, Matt Gleason Modern Art Blitz

2015     In the Studio with Mei Xian Qiu, by Karen Shifman, Artful Amphora

2014     Interview with the American, Chinese and Indonesian Fine Art Photographer Mei Xian Qiu, by                Ken Weingart, Weingart Art and Photography Blog

            Say Cheese, Out There in the Artworld: Mei Xian Qiu, by Rene deLoffre

2012     Art Basel 2012, Swiss TV Coverage

2008     The Art of Outrage, moderated by Peter Clothier, ArtScene Visual Radio

2004     Art and Activism, KCRW Radio

 

Selected Other:

2022     Residency with YAXS Foundation, Guatemala (Secret Letters of Asturias)

2021     Residency with YAXS Foundation, Guatemala (The Soldier in the Mirror)

2019     LAB Beijing Residency, China

2016     Visiting Artist Lecturer, Occidental College

2015     Early Spring, Artist Book

2014     Forbidden City, Guerilla Project for LA Fashion Week

2011 –  2013  Bamboo Lane Gallery,  Owner and Managed in Los Angeles Chinatown

 

Art Fairs:  

2022     Ping Pong, Art Basel Miami

2021     Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel Basel

2020     Photo LA

2018     Los Angeles Art Show

2016     Tom of Finland Art Festival  /   La Biennale de Frosinone (Italy)

2015     L’Dep Wynwood, Art Basel Miami

2014     Photo LA  /  San Francisco ArtMKT /  Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel

2013     Photo LA  /  Arte Fiera Bologna  / Ping Pong, Art Basel Miami

             Miami Project / Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel

2012     Photo LA / Art Platform Los Angeles / Ping Pong, Art Basel Miami

              Ping Pong Projektraum M54 Art Basel

2011     New Media Art Fair, Cologne

2010     C.A.R. (Contemporary Art Fair), Cologne

2004     Leon Contemporary International, Mexico