Xiao Hanqiu (b.1986, Beijing, China) is a painter and a poet. Xiao’s paintings on canvas juxtapose objects in situations that conjure the ethereal magic and intensity of being. Her paintings operate like her poems: linear narrative is rejected in favour of open questions that reflect on the complexity, ineffability, and inconstancy of experience. Xiao received her MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011, and BA Fine Art from Leeds University in 2008.

Her solo and duo exhibitions include: Do Angels Need Haircuts, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2024); Sci-Fi Doomsday/Lost in Wonderland, Shekou Gallery (Shenzhen, 2023); Love Stories and Horror Stories, Lyles and King (New York, 2022); Honey, Bee, Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2021); LISTE, dual solo booth, presented by Tabula Rasa Gallery (Basel, 2021); There May Be No Pearls in This Shell, Leo Gallery (Shanghai, 2020); Skating Through the Gallery With Tricksy Snakes, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2018); That’s Quite Something, Canton Gallery (Guangzhou, 2018); Self-portrait, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2016).

Selected group exhibitions include: ORBITAL, Nova Contemporary (Bangkok, 2024); NADA Miami, presented by Tabula Rasa Gallery (Miami, 2023); Contemporary Myths and Artifacts, Stads Gasverk (Stockholm, 2023); Minor Attractions × Cornershop (London, 2023); Magic Square: Art and Literature in Mirror Image, Beijing Biennial (Beijing, 2023); Becoming Creature, Tabula Rasa
Gallery (London, 2022); Tabula Rasa Vista, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2020). 

She has published four poem collections: Losing Everything is Beautiful (2022), A Dream Comes True (2019), Three Minutes to Midnight Flower Thief (2018), and Four Hearts (2015).



RELATED EXHIBITIONS
Paris Internationale 2025 Do Angels Need Haircuts, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing 2024 NADA Miami 2023 Contemporary Myths and Artifacts, Stockholm, November 2023 Tabula Rasa: Unveiled, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, November 2023
Minor Attractions x Cornershop, Group show, London, 2023
NADA Miami, Miami 2023 
Becoming Creature, Group show, Tabula Rasa London, December 2022
Honey, Bee, Solo show, Tabula Rasa London, September 2021
LISTE Art Fair Basel, 2021
ART021, 2019
ART SHENZHEN, 2019
SKATING THROUGH THE GALLERY WITH TRICKSY SNAKES, Solo show, Tabula Rasa Beijing, September 2018
THAT'S QUITE SOMETHING, 2019
ART SHENZHEN, 2018
ART SHENZHEN, 2017

PRESS
ABCOFFICIAL, EVENT, 2020
TABULA RASA GALLERY, REPORT, 2019
ENCLAVE, REVIEW, 2019
YISHU 8,REPORT, 2019
TANHUA, INTERVIEW, 2018
OOH ART SATURDAY, REVIEW, 2018
TABULA RASA GALLERY, INTERVIEW, 2018

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