Faith Xiao

Education

2015 MFA in Art Theory, Institute of the Arts , National Taichung University of Education , Taiwan.

2002 BFA in Fine Art , National Taichung University of Education , Taiwan

Grants/Fellowships

1998 Student Fellowship, Fine Arts Department.

Exhibition Record
Exhibitions

2019 Group Exhibition, Art Expo Taiwan , Taipei

2018 Group Exhibition, Art space of Sieh Chih Vocational High School , Chiayi.

2017 Solo Exhibition, Absolutely Art Gallery, Kaohsiung City

2016 Solo Exhibition, DOR Art Gallery, Tainan City.

2016 Solo Exhibition, Absolutely Art Gallery, Kaohsiung City

2015 Group Exhibition, CathayGallery, Taipei

2015 Group Exhibition, Cans Book Art Gallery, Taipei

2009 Solo Exhibition, Art Gallery, Dajia district office , Taichung

2003 Solo Exhibition, PEN LING SI Modern Arts Gallery, Taichung

2002 Group Exhibition, Graduate Exhibition, DaDun CulturalCenter,Taichung

2000 Group Exhibition, Private Night Art Museum Gallery, Taichung

2000 Solo Exhibition , Abstraction lyrique , Philosophy Gallery, Taichung

2000 Solo Exhibition , Abstraction lyrique , Art Gallery in Taichung Hospital , Taichung

1999 Solo Exhibition , Art Gallery of National Taichung University of Education, Taichung

Collaborative Projects

2003 Artistic research Exhibition - rational and emotional dialogue , Cultural Affairs Bureau Taichung City Government, Taichung (in collaboration with Professor Chuang Ming Zong)

2002 Loving Taichung photography exhibition - Adji eyes, Stock 20 caffee, Taichung (in collaboration with Professor Chuang Ming Zong) And published poetry writing)

2001 Installation Art Show, Art Space , Cultural Affairs BureauTaichung City Government, Taichung (in collaboration with Professor Chuang Ming Zong)

2001 Art sail - old captain and new sailor's Diary, The Taichung City Seaport Art Center,Taichung (in collaboration with Professor Chuang Ming Zong)

2001 Installation Art Show , Stock 20 Gallary ,Taichung (in collaboration with Professor Chuang Ming Zong)

Teaching or Related Experience
Teaching Experience

2017 Solo Exhibition, Absolutely Art Gallery, Kaohsiung City

Publications

2003 Co-writer, Artistic research Exhibition – Rational and Emotional Dialogue ,Taichung City: Cultural Affairs Bureau Taichung City Government

2005 Co-writer, Portrait of Taichung Artists in a Century-Volume One, Taichung City: Cultural Affairs Bureau Taichung City Government

Artist’s Statement :
The Visual Metaphors Of Abstract Expression

Constant channel changing and info updating are the norm of the modern-day people, whose spiritual life is nothing but a continuum of a disorderly string of fragmented eerie images extracted from television and Internet ; and this is also how we build our own fantasy world.

When the individual or the entity of self disappears, the era of anxiety and depression dawns, and what Roland Barthes once called the "death of the author" is now realized. In this flat world, where channels are constantly changed and the surplus of information overflows, people seem to have seen something and nothing at the same time. Art remains intact, and people who love art still express themselves with unreduced enthusiasm. The gist of art is the free expression of one’s inner spirit.

Knowing how precious art is, I have always kept it close to heart. In essence, life is composed of true pain and disillusionment, but when we turn to the graphic world of art, we are bringing an oasis to the mind, where all contradictions and failures in reality are disregarded, and the freedom of spirits protected.