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Sichong Xie is a multidisciplinary artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles.​ Her practice combines materiality, movement, and performance of memory through elemental media and site-specific installations. By placing traditional sculptural forms within new sites, materials, and social constructs, she investigates these forms and movements within global communities to re-consider and re-envision shared spaces and performative practices. Her practice raises questions about identity, politics, cross-culturalism, and the surreal characteristics of her body in the ever-changing environment. Xie is interested in the research of human populations, their geographical locations, and the resulting cultural movements, she strives to create work that reflects the importance of the spaces we find ourselves in and their impact on our lives.

Xie holds an MFA from CalArts and is a 2022 MAP Fund and 2021 Artadia Los Angeles Award recipient. In her recent durational performance/installation, Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series, at the Armory Center for the Arts, she transforms a playground into a stage of temporal disintegration. Drawing from children’s games and the rawness of construction site materials, this durational performance collapses the boundaries between play and labor. A trampoline becomes the platform for a living drawing, where a large chalk piece is layered over original architectural blueprints from Xie's grandfather in the 1960s. Every memory is an empty theater—a space that once held meaning, now gradually fading into oblivion. As the durational performance slowly dissolves the chalk drawing, the ephemeral nature of memory takes form in every movement. Xie's commitment to durational performance extends across her practice, including her 2017 project Walking With The Disappeared during the Hauser & Wirth Somerset exchange residency in the U.K. She has been a fellow at MacDowell, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Yaddo, the Watermill Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Her practice has been supported by grants from Artadia, The MAP Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Marciano Art Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.

 


EDUCATION

 

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (June 2018-August 2018)
Fellowship Award             Skowhegan, MA

MFA in Photography and Media + Integrated Media (2015-2017)
California Institute of the Arts            Valencia, CA

BFA in Fine Arts Graduated on May 2014
Columbus College of Art & Design           Columbus, OH
Bachelor of Fine Arts (equivalent) May 2012
Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts Xi’an, China

 

ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

 

2025

I-Park Foundation - East Haddam, CT

2024

Lucid Art Foundation - Inverness, CA, USA

Joshua Tree Highland Artist Residency - Joshua Tree, CA, USA

2023

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts - Omaha, NE, USA

Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship - Provincetown, MA, USA

The Watermill Center Alumni Retreat Residency - Long Island, NY

2022

MacDowell Colony - Peterborough, NH, USA

Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik - Berlin, Germany

Vermont Studio Center Fellowship - Johnson, VT, USA

Marble House Project - Dorset, VT, USA

2021

Camera Obscura Art Lab Residency - Santa Monica, CA, USA

McColl Center for Art + Innovation - Charlotte, NC, USA

2020

Automata Arts Residency - Los Angeles, CA, USA

2019

The Corporation of Yaddo Artist Residency - Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency - North Adams, MA, USA

Salmon Creek Farm Artist Residency - Albion, CA, USA

2018

Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Fellowship - Los Angeles, USA (2018-2019)

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture - Madison, ME, USA

The Reef Artist Residency - Los Angeles, USA

2017

Hauser & Wirth Somerset Exchange Residency - Bath, U.K.

The Watermill Center Summer Residency - Long Island, NY

Venice Biennale CalArts "The Pavilions" Residency - Venice, Italy; Kassel, Germany; Munster, Germany

2016
The Watermill Center Summer Residency – Long Island, NY

2015

Da Li International Photography and Film Festival Visiting Artist in Residence - Da Li, China

2014
Mildred's Lane Summer Fellowship Residency, HumanYingWork Styles Session Participant - Narrowsburg, NY

2013
New York Studio Residency Program/AICAD – New York, NY

 

AWARDS/CONTESTS

2025 The Center for Ethnographic Media Arts Fellowship Award, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2024 The Center for Ethnographic Media Arts Fellowship Award, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2023 The Sinatra Award, University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA August 2023

2022 MAP Fund Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Foundation, and Mellon Foundation, NYC December 2022

2021 Artadia Los Angeles Award, Marciano Art Foundation Award, ARTADIA, Brooklyn, NY March 2021

Visual Artist Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA May 2020

United States Artists Fellowship Award Nomination, Chicago, IL January 2021

Visual Artist Grants Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY January 2020

2nd Place at the Chiquita Canyon Awards, Held at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA March 2016

Dean’s Grant, California Institute of the Arts, 2015 - 2017

1st Place at the AOI Illustration Contest & Exhibition, Held at Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH March 2013

Second Place, They Draw & Travel, Columbus, OH March 2012

SOLO EXHIBITION

 

2025

Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series (Durational Performance), Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, USA

2023

Elephant In The Dark, Hudson D. Walker Gallery at Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, USA

2021

Memory Structure, Scaffold Series, Wende Museum Garden, Culver City, CA, USA

2020

Lake Lonely, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2019

With The Notes Of Far-Away Song Floating From The Other Shore, Automata Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018

When The Peaks Of Our Washing Sound Come Together, My Tree House Will Have A Roof (Durational Performance), Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Washing Day: Losing and Recollecting Memories (Site-Specific Performance/Installation), AR Projects, Los Angeles, USA

2017

Walking With The Disappeared (Durational Performance), Hauser & Wirth Somerset Gallery, Bruton, UK

We Know We Could Go To Jail, D300 Gallery, Valencia, CA, USA
Do Donkeys Know Politics & A Story (Film Screening), Bijou Theater, Valencia, CA, USA

2016

You Can't Take That Away From Me, L Shape Gallery, Valencia, CA, USA

2015
Do Birds Know Politics, Beaton Gallery, Columbus, OH

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

 

2025

Collective Memory, Camera Obscure Art Lab, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Film Screening, USC School of Cinematic Arts, SCI 106 Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA

iMAPPING, Soundstage Four, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2024

Irrational Exhibit 13: Juxtaposing Terrains, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

David Hammons during Frize LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Beyond Personal, Cypress College, Cypress, CA, USA

iMAPPING, Soundstage Four, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2023

The Sail From The Red Sea, 2023 MexiCali Biennale, Calexico, CA, USA and Mexicali, Mexico

Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA

Collective Memory Installation, The Grand Park, Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Irrational Exhibits 12: Body, Materiality and Systems, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Windows and Blinds, SCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Skowhegan Alumni Group Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA, USA

2022

Renew - A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Sail From The Red Sea, Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany

The 1st Chengdu International Photography Festival, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2021

Conflict Point, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, USA

The Drawing Center Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA

Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Memory Walk, Automata Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2020

Inverse Performance Art Festival, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary, Bentonville, AR, USA

We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Distant Future, Vermont Studio Center, Gallery II, VT, USA

Opera Povera, Open Form Opera: The Pink Moon, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2019

The Medea Insurrection, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Irrational Exhibits 11: Placemaking and Social Memory, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Becoming - Experimental Video Works, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Limited Access 8 Festival, Tehran, Iran

The 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

4TH WALL: HER.E I SEE LOTUS, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

The Boat Has Sailed, Hasn't It?, Coaxial Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018

Mapping the City: A Vision of History and City, OCAT Museum in Chengdu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Noctem Diaboli, The Living Gallery Outpost, New York, NY, USA

Skowhegan Book Meet, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculptures NY Space, New York, NY, USA

Mapping the City: A Vision of History and Xi’An, OCAT Art Museum, Xi’An, China

5-Nine Variations, The Reef Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The 2018 New Genre Arts Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa Gallery, Tulsa, OK, USA

2017

See What You Mean, Getty Museum (Harry Gamboa Jr.'s Performance Group "Slipping Into Something More"), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Tracing Memory With The Disappeared, Automata Arts Gallery (Two Artists Exhibition), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Clothing Optional, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Discovering Watermill Day, The Watermill Center, Long Island, NY, USA

Irrational Exhibits 10th Anniversary: Mapping the Divide, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA, USA

The 2nd Changjiang Photo & Video Biennale Exhibition, Changjiang Art Museum, Chongqing, China

Sounds of Central Valley, Bijou Theater, Valencia, CA, USA

Far Bazaar, Alternative Art Fair and Art Collective Festival, Cerritos College Fine Arts Galleries, Norwalk, CA, USA

GLAMFA Exhibition, Cal State Long Beach Art Galleries, Long Beach, CA, USA

2016

The Watermill Center for Performance GALA: House of Madness, Long Island, NY, USA

Discovering Watermill Day, The Watermill Center, Long Island, NY, USA

Photo LA, The Reef Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The 3rd Photo Independent Art Fair, Raleigh Studios Hollywood, Hollywood, CA, USA

Always A Body, Glass Box Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Ecologies, Photo LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Nothing To See, D300 Gallery, Valencia, CA, USA

2015

HumanUfactory Workstyles, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

Dancing Tables, Mildred's Lane, Narrowsburg, NY, USA

2014

Young Hearts, Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA

En Massse, or sameness, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA

2013

Curate NYC 2013, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Contemporary Art Fair, New York Convention Center, New York, NY, USA

Dumbo Art Festival, Dumbo Art District, New York, NY, USA

Sweet Breads, New York Studio Residency / AICAD, New York, NY, USA

AOI Show, Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA

Rotating Exhibit, Universal Green House Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA

2012

Mapping the City, Beaton Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA

You Can’t Take That Away From Me, The Canzani Center, Columbus, OH, USA

TEACHING

 

2023 fall, Visiting Lecturer, Sound and Vision in collaboration with Sharon Lockhart, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, China

2021 spring, Instructor, Video Art, Armory Center for the Art, Los Angeles, USA

2020 spring, Instructor, Video Art, Armory Center for the Art, Los Angeles, USA

2019 summer, Instructor, Clay Studio, Armory Center for the Art, Los Angeles, USA

2019 spring, Instructor, Dreamscape, Field Trip Classes, Armory Center for the Art, Los Angeles, USA

2018 fall, Instructor, Dreamscape, Field Trip Classes, Armory Center for the Art, Los Angeles, USA

2018 summer, Lecturer, Visiting Artist Lecture: Sichong Xie, Art Practice, Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’An, China

2018 spring, Instructor, How To Trace Memory, Performance and Drawing Workshop, New Genre Arts Festival, Tulsa, OK

2017 spring, Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Critique, Harry Gamboa Jr.’s class in Photography and Media Department, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA

2016 fall, Teaching Assistant, Artist As Writer, Harry Gamboa Jr.’s class in Photography and Media Department, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA

2016 summer, Lecturer, New Genre and Experimental Art, New Media Art Department, Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’An, China

2016 summer, Lecturer, Time Based Media and Interdisciplinary Art, Fine Art Department, Xi’An Ouya College, Xi’An, China

2016 summer, Lecturer, New Genre and Experimental Art, Photography and New Media Department, Xi’An Ligong University, Xi’An, China


PRESENTATIONS, ARTIST TALKS, AND PANELS

 

04/2025 Artist Presenter, Reimagining Space, Identity, and Movement, University of Southern California Annenberg Symposium, Los Angeles, CA

02/2024 Visiting Artist Talk, CalArts School of Art, Valencia, CA, USA

03/2023 Artist Lecture on Zoom, Art Department at Smith College + Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA

02/2023 Artist Talk and Broadcast on Zoom, Memory Structure, Scaffold Series, Prospect Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

07/2022 Artist Talk, You Can’t Take That Away From Me, Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany

11/2021 Panelist, The Arts: Dreaming of a Shared Humanity, Horasis Asia Meeting 2021, Singapore

10/2021 Visiting Artist, Approaches to Making, Parsons School of Art, The New School, New York, NY, USA

12/2020 Artist Talk and Panel Discussion, Art - Past - Present, Wende Museum, Culver City, CA, USA

11/2020 Artist Talk, Durational Performance, The Momentary and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, USA

07/2020 Artist Talk, Durational Performance: A Meditation on Time, The Inverse Summer Residency Laboratory Series, Cuesta College, Los Angeles, CA, USA

06/2020 Artist Talk on Zoom, Contrasting Body and Place, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, USA

05/2020 Visiting Artist, Design Media Arts, MFA Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

04/2020 Artist Talk on Zoom, Do Donkeys Know Politics, Scaffold Series I, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

04/2020 Presenter on Zoom, Do Donkeys Know Politics, curated by Danny Greenberg, Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, New York, NY, USA

02/2020 Artist Talk and Panel Discussion, History, Cultures, Identities, Wende Museum, Culver City, CA, USA

04/2019 Visiting Artist, Integrated Media, Art and Technology MFA Program, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA

03/2019 Artist Talk, We Know We Could Go To Jail, The 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

11/2018  Presenter, The Boat Has Sailed, Hasn’t It, invited by Andrew Freeman, Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA

08/2018 Guest Speaker, The Boat Has Sailed, Hasn’t It, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Xi’An Art Conversations, OCAT Art Musuem, Xi’An, China

08/2017 Artist Talk, Walking With The Disappeared, The Watermill Center, Long Island, NY, USA

07/2016 Artist Talk, We Know We Could Go To Jail, The Watermill Center, Long Island, NY, USA

06/2016 Visiting Artist Talk, You Can’t Take That Away From Me, Summer Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’An, China

06/2016 Visiting Artist Talk, You Can’t Take That Away From Me, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, D.P. Art Space, Xi’An, China

07/2015 Panelist, Performance Art, Photography and New Media Department, Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’An, China

PUBLICATIONS

 

Xie, Sichong. “L.A. (So) The Story Goes - LA Artists on Fiction, Identity, and Transformation“ Page #57-60, Prospect Art, (2025)

Xie, Sichong. “Lake Lonely“ Page #318-322, The Chengdu International Photography Festival Exhibition Catalog, (2023)

Xie, Sichong. “The Medea Insurrection at the Wende Museum“ Page #60-63, In Carla Magazine, Issue 19, (2020)

Xie, Sichong. “Becoming - Experimental Video Works“, Eli Klein Gallery Exhibition Catalog, (2019)

Xie, Sichong. "The Ship Has Sailed, Hasn’t It?", Self-Published Artist Book, (2018)

Xie, Sichong. "Leaning On", Self-Published Artist Book, (2018)

Xie, Sichong. "Dancing Tables", Page #18-20, The 2nd Changjiang Photo & Video Biennale Exhibition Catalog, (2018)

Xie, Sichong. "Minsheng's Photographs of People's Lives in Hong Kong" Page #36, Picturing Humanism, (2017)

Xie, Sichong. "You Can't Take That Away From Me" Page #28, In Whitefish Review Magazine, Issue "Change", (2016)