Xiaoze Xie is an internationally recognized artist and the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University. Xie received his Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing and the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in architecture from Tsinghua University. Xie has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally; his recent solo exhibitions include “Objects of Evidence” at the Asia Society Museum in New York City (2019-20) and “Eyes On” at the Denver Art Museum (2017-18). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the 2023 Chengdu Biennale and the 2022 Wuhan Biennale. Xie’s work has garnered critical acclaim, his exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, and hyperallergic.com, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of such institutions as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oakland Museum of California, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Xie received the Asia Game Changer West Award from the Asia Society Northern California (2022), the Academic Award in Painting in The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival (2016), the Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2013), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2003), and artist awards from the Dallas Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum.