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