Canadian b. Beijing
Alice Gong Xiaowen is drawn to processes of indexing as meditations on anticipating loss, allowing action to become a hand in mitigating that which is becoming distant, disintegrating, slipping; yet anew. Her/their thoughts linger on the conceptual connotations of matter, once repositioned and interpreted as material culture. Translation helps lay to witness stills from an exhaustive effort to hold onto that which is constantly in a stage of atrophy—to make relics from remnants that are no longer exercised via a reconjuring of memory through sound, texture, and impression.
Contact
alicexgong@gmail.com
Education
2025 MFA Yale School of Art, Sculpture
2016 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Upcoming & Current Exhibitions
2025 Solo Exhibition, Franz Kaka
Two Person Exhibitions
2024 CHAMBER, lower_cavity, Holyoke
2023 Malar, House of Seiko, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2024 Can Thought Go On Without a Body?, Stilllife, New York
2024 NADA New York, Franz Kaka
2024 The Oil of Angels, Iowa, Brooklyn
2024 Adaptation, Franz Kaka, Toronto
2023 InSummer's Teeth, Silke Lindner, New York
2023 why do i always fall out of bed at night?, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
2023 The Art of Access, New Collectors, New York
2023 Embodied, Hercules Art Studio Program, New York
2023 Mantle, Aminah Ibrahim Performance Series, New York
2023 HOUSE, Hatch, New York
2022 Bury the Bridge, DUPLEX, New York
2022 Rough Cuts, MASS Gallery, Austin
2022 Looped \ Lykkjuo, Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós
2022 The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York
2022 Merde!, Alyssa Davis Gallery Gala & Auction, New York
2022 Titebond Infinity, 651 Woodward Ave, Brooklyn
2021 Salon #1, New Collectors Gallery, New York
2016 1866 WhatNot, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan
Residencies
2022 Ós Textile Residency Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós
2019 D-Crit Summer Intensive, MA Design Research, Writing, and Criticism, SVA, New York
2017 Pier 9, Autodesk, San Francisco
2015 Object Lab 7.0, The Chipstone Foundation Milwaukee
Press
2024 Adaptation at Franz Kaka, Toronto, Akimbo
2023 Cast iron dumpling sutures and winding graphite snakes in resonant ‘Malar’, 48Hills
Awards
2022 Canadian Council for the Arts Grant Explore and Create
2019 UrbanGlass Winter Scholarship Award
2015 John W. Kurtich Foundation Travel Fellowship
2015 Franz Award International Design Compeition Finalist and Excellence Award
Lectures
2022 The Infrastructure of Exhibition Symposim, Syracuse University Department of Architecture
2021 Multi-Disciplinary Design Visting Artist Lecture Series, University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning