Guan Xiao (b. 1983) lives and works in Beijing. Her practice focuses primarily on sculpture, video, and installation. Combining a wide array of visual references, Guan Xiao continuously reinvents her biographical details such as identity, personal history, geographical background and the experience of her daily life by inscribing them into her exuberant works. Guan Xiao takes her sculpture and installations as virtual characters or “species” which she imbues with a new, literalized identity. The artist attempts to emphasize the importance of difference by creating purposeful contradictions between the materiality and the concept.

Guan Xiao graduated from the Communication University of China and has exhibited internationally. Her work has been featured at MUDAM (2021); the 34th Bienial de Sao Paulo (2021); Belgrade Biennial (2021); Antenna Space, Shanghai (solo; 2020); Skulpturenpark Cologne (2020); X Museum Triennial (2020); Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen (2020); Sharjah Art Foundation (2020); Bonner Kunstverein (solo; 2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (solo; 2019); Fellbach Triennial, Fellbach (2019); Honolulu Biennial (2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (2019); Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang (2019); Kunsthalle Winterthur (solo; 2018); High Line, New York (2017); the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (2017); Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2017); M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2017); 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016); Jeu de Paume, Paris (solo; 2016); the K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai (2016, solo); ICA, London (solo; 2016); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2016); Shortlist for Hugo Boss Asia Art Award at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2015); the 13th Biennale de Lyon: La vie modern, Lyon (2015); Antenna Space, Shanghai (solo; 2015); 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York (2015); Daimler Contemporary Berlin (2015); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2015); M HKA Museum, Antwerp (2014); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (solo; 2014); 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen (2012) and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2007).

Her work is in the collections of Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Boros Collection, Berlin; Daimler Collection, Stuttgart; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Rubell Family Collection, Miami among others.

關小1983年生於重慶，現工作和生活在北京。作品涉及雕塑、錄像、裝置等多種媒介。她用高度“拼貼”的方式，藉由不同的主題，將身份、歷史、地域文化、以及瑣碎的日常生活重塑，融入虛構的角色或物種中，並賦予它們文學化的新身份。通過在材質與概念製造矛盾來強調差異性與趣味的重要。

她的作品被多個重量級美術館及私人機構收藏，包括科隆路德維奇美術館，瑞士聖加侖美術館等。曾在世界多個重要美術館舉辦個展或參加群展，包括瑞士聖加侖美術館，Julia Stoschek Collection，Boros collection，桑德雷托·瑞·瑞寶迪戈基金會，德國波恩美術館，倫敦當代藝術中心（ica)，法國波爾多當代美術館(CAPC), 法國巴黎國立網球場現代美術館, 比利時當代美術館（M HKA），上海k11美術館，等。並參加了諸多國際雙年展，包括貝魯特雙年展（2021），巴西聖保羅雙年展（2021），第57屆威尼斯雙年展（2017），第9屆柏林雙年展（2016），第13屆里昂雙年展（2015），和紐約新美術館雙年展（2015）等。