2021 GRANTEE XIOUPING

BIOGRAPHY

Xiouping is a 2021 MFA candidate at Otis College of Art and Design and a multi-media artist working in painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. She is Taiwanese and Texan and her work examines identity politics through storytelling through a queer bi-racial lens of Indigenous shamanic Taiwanese and Cherokee-European ancestry, taking her narrative within identity, using the relationship between performer and audience, dismantling racism, sexism, and the human condition.

She holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, and San Francisco. Currently she is the host for Otis’ Visiting Artist Lecture series.

Learn more about Xiouping at her site: http://www.xiouping.com/

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Images courtesy of the artist