Biograpy
Yixiao Cao is a Chinese multimedia artist, born 1987 in Sichuan, China. Now lives and works in Germany and China.
She received a BFA from China Academy of Fine Arts in 2010, from 2011 still now she studying in Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. Successive four years she received the annual scholarship from the China Academy of Art. She is known for her multimedia installations, videos and performances, and is as one of the artists of a new generation emerging from Mainland China. She mixes social commentary, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her videos and performances, and combined effects of multmedia with modern dance, theater and opera elements. Her works reflect on the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in society today.
Education
10.2011 – 02.2017 Studied in the fields of Fine art – Film and Video in Prof. Marcel Odenbach Class and Grandmaster-Student’s degree in the of Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts
04.2012 – 10.2013 Studied in the fields of Media art in Prof. Heide Hagebölling Clas- s of Academy of Media Arts Cologne
10.2010 – 07.2011 Exchange student of University Partnership Programme (UPP) of Folkwang University of Arts and Tsinghua University
09.2006 – 07.2010 Studied in China Academy of Art in pursuit of Bachelor’s degree in the subjects Multimmedia design, Hangzhou, China
Exhibition
11.2017 Post Post, Art Düsseldorf Project, Düsseldorf, Germany
09.2017 Adriana, Offraum Acht, Düsseldorf, Germany
05.2017 Follow Up 2017/ PwC Preis Exhibition, PwC Düsseldorf (PricewaterhouseCoopers ), Düsseldorf, Germany
04.2017 New Collection, Konrad Fischer Galerie / Weltkunstzimmer, Mckinsey & Company, Düsseldorf, Germany
03.2017 The Artist going to work / Solo Exhibition, Kunstraum Museum Neuss / Culture Department Neuss, Neuss, Germany
02.2017 Rundgang 2016 and Graduation Exhibition, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
07.2016 Empty Space, Galerie Tong, Peking, China
02.2016 Rundgang 2015, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
10.2015 Choreographic Centre Corporation Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
08.2015 Wartezeit- Solo Ausstellung, Shifang Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
06.2015 Klasse Odenbach Aussstellung, Galerie W57, Düsseldorf, Germany
02.2015 Rundgang 2014, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
05.2014 Spring Selection 2014, Shifang Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
04.2014 2014 Festival Sound 24-Hour, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway
02.2014 Rundgang 2013, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
11.2013 VARIANTE FANTASTICO-endloser Heimweg, Herz Jesu Kirche, Wuppertal Elberfeld, Germany
12.2013 Regenwahrscheinlichkeit, Philara Collection for contemporary art, Düsseldorf, Germany
02.2013 Rundgang 2012, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
02.2012 Rundgang 2011, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
07.2010 Ausstellung über hervorragenden Abschluss Design Werk, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
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