Xiong Jiaxiang (b. 1991, Shanghai, China) focuses on image installations and mixed-media works. His practice enters into dialogue with classic works from art history, weaving his own ideas together with seminal artistic concepts while simultaneously confronting and enacting them in a highly personal manner.

In this series of works, Xiong draws materials from the banality of everyday life, exploring the fluid, generative relationships between images, bodies, and spaces—between material reality and virtuality. He reveals the contradictory dilemmas of contemporary existence through lenses such as emotion and politics, data and the ordinariness of life. With an ethereal, dynamic manner of describing the world, and through a self-possessed virtual agency in creation, Xiong seeks to forge a path connecting material cultural studies, formalist genealogies, and conceptual art, thereby establishing a new kind of sensitive bond with the world.

Xiong received his MFA in Free Art Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bremen, Germany in 2018. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing, China.