Xie
Caomin
Xie Caomin – Artist
Originally from China, artist and educator Caomin Xie creates works that explore issues of acculturation, spiritual enlightenment and cycles of creation and destruction and dissolution and coalescence.
Xie’s works have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. His exhibitions include The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; Altered Traditions 2007, at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York; Electronic Media Painting 2008 at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in China and solo exhibition Samsara at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia in 2011. Map of Infinitude Solo Exhibition at Savannah College of Art & Design Art Museum 2015, group exhibition Abstract China at Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum 2016. Caomin is also the winner of the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia Working Artist Project Award 2010-2011. His paintings have been collected by Atlanta High Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah Telfair Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, and Shanghai H.O.W. Art Museum.
Education
2001
MFA, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
1998
BFA, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, P. R. China, Sculpture
Academic Experiences
Professor of Art, Clayton State University, GA.
Award
MOCA GA 2010-2011Working Artist Project award winner.
2010
Commended Award of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
2006
2nd Place award of Tribes Gallery International Art Competition 2006.
2006
Art Work Collections
HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
High Museum of Atlanta, Georgia
Savannah College of Art & Design
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
Telfare Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Exhibitions
Solo
2017
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
2008
2008
2006
2005
Everything is Just a Moment, L+ Space, Shanghai
Map of Infinitude, Savannah College of Art & Design Art Museum.
Black Lotus, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
The Circle of the Ruins, the Other Gallery, Beijing
Samsara - Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta
The Still Within, Savannah College of Art & Design Hong Kong Campus.
Countless Universes, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Afterlife, Gallery55, Shanghai
Solo Exhibition at Gallery 55, Shanghai
Interlaced, RX gallery, San Francisco
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2017
2017
2016
Of Origins and Belonging, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
4th China Onscreen Biennial, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
Path & Reconstruction, Qu Yuan Art Gallery, Shanghai
On the Sea, Shanghai City Creative Culture Space
MoInk, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai
Divergent//Abstraction, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta
Let There Be Light, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Gathered III, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia
Abstract China, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai
2015
2015
2015
2014
2013
2010
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
Sprawl! Drawing outside the lines, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Georgia Artists Select Georgia Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia
Lake, Hill, Dawn, Dusk, SanShang Art Center, Hangzhou
Trace, Shanghai XinTianDi, Shanghai
Dragon, Asia Aspiring, Arterior Taipei
Shadow, Martin Mullen Art Gallery, State University of New York at Oneonta
Volta Show, Volta Contemporary Art Fair 5, Base
Digital Media Painting, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
International Arrivals, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh
Getting Close, bridge Art gallery, Beijing
Fish in Art, Bank Art Center, Beijing
Divergent//Abstraction, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta
Let There Be Light, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Possibility of Framing Infinity, Agnes Scott College Dalton Gallery, Atlanta
Power of the Brush, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
2004
2003
In My Solitude, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
China Today, Galerie Barthe & Senarclens, Geneva
My Private Idaho, Gallery 55, Shanghai
Altered Traditions, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York
Cross Currents, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Exhibition.
Born in Da' 70s, Gallery 55 Shanghai
Yellow Box, Contemporary Art in Chinese Traditional Space, Shanghai
Two Persons Show, Tribes Gallery International Art Competition, New York
Three Artists Painting and Video Art Exhibition at Eyedrum, Atlanta
Motion Stills, National Juried Exhibition, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design
Pour L'Amour des Chiens, Contemporary Art Exhibition at Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris