Education
2017 MFA, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
2013 BFA, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Bird on Fire, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, CN; curated by Fiona He
Group Exhibitions
2026 Vitalisms II, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, CN; curated by Michelle Yeonho Hyun
2026 Enigmatic Images & Cryptic Language, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, CN; curated by Bao Dong
2025 Kungfu Lightness, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, CN; curated by Zhao Xinxin
2025 Take a Perceptual Leap, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN; curated by Fiona He
2024 Wukang Drying Field, E.SCAPE; curated by Bao Dong
2023 We the Singular in Multiple Ghosts. I the multiple as parts of Whole., Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, CN; curated by Michelle Yeonho Hyun
2023 OffSide | Youth Artists Breaking and Practicing, Yixing Art Museum, Yixing, CN; curated by Zhang Yuzhuo
2023 Night Dimension - The Night of the Gifts, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, CN; curated by Alice Wu
2023 Layered Surface, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, CN
2021 Super Fusion - 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu, CN; curated by Fan Dian
2021 Pararailing EP.5, Para Railing Artist Residency, Shanghai, CN
2021 Rituals in Rituals of the Future, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, CN; curated by Chao Jiaxing and Gao Jie
2021 Unanswered Question, AM Art Space, Shanghai, CN
2020 THere, Studio Gallery, Shanghai, CN; curated by Ouming and Liang Zihan
2019 Paint School 2019, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, US; curated by Shandaken Project
2019 Women in Spaces: Past/Present, FXCollaborative, New York, NY, US; curated by Morgan Everhart
2018 Under Erasure, Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY, US; curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein
2018 Four Degrees of Abstraction, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY, US; curated by Anne-Brigitte Sirois
2018 Emergency Eyewash in the House, 71 Ludlow Street, New York, NY, US; curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski
2018 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place (MAP), Baltimore, MD, US
2018 Infinite Cantaloupe, Elsewhere Studios Residency, Paonia, CO, US
2018 Modern Expressions of Traditions China-America Young Artists Exhibition, New York, NY, US; organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai New Gallery of Art, and New York School of Interior Design
2017 In My Room, Linden Gallery, Baltimore, MD, US
2017 LED Baltimore Art Billboard, Baltimore, MD, US
2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Semifinalist Exhibition, Artspace, Baltimore, MD, US
Awards
2026 ArtReview Future Greats, nominated by Cheng Xinyi
2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, New York Nominee
2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Semifinalist
Residencies & Grants
2022 Art Farm Nebraska Artist Residency, Aug.-Oct., Marquette, NE, US
2021 Para Railing Artist Residency, Aug., Shanghai, CN
2019 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, July, Berlin, DE
2018-2019 Shandaken Paint School Fellowship, Nov. 2018-May 2019, New York, NY, US
2018 Art Farm Nebraska Artist Residency, Marquette, NE, US
2018 Elsewhere Studio Residency, Paonia, CO, US
2015-2017 Hoffberger Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, US
Lectures, Talks & Workshops
2022 Painting and Writing Workshop, Sensor, online
2021 Observation and Cognition Workshop, Excel Liberal Arts Summer Camp, Hangzhou, CN
2021 Observation and Cognition Workshop, Cenote Workshop, Shanghai, CN
2021 Painting Workshop, Shanghai Jing'an District Youth Service Center of AIDS Prevention (Shanghai Qing Ai), Shanghai, CN
2021 Conversation with Kaiyu Huang, Grammar Salon, AM Art Space, Shanghai, CN
2020 Workshop, Grammar Salon, Shanghai, CN
2020 Artist Talk, PreCog Time, Episode 4, Kaleidoscope, online
2019 Artist Talk, COMBO Independent Bookstore, Wuhan, CN
Selected Writings
2023 Looking at the Stars, Looking in the Ring, Ocula
2023 Su Yuxin, Rocks and Rapids, Ocula
2023 Trinh T. Minh-ha, Walking in the Dark, Ocula
2023 Theaster Gates: Black Elegy, Ocula
2022 Hu Xiaoyuan: Meandering and Metamorphosis, Ocula
2020 Wang Xiaofu: Floating, published by Studio Gallery
2020 A Women's Thing, From New York to Shanghai: How Two Artists Cope with COVID-19, published by A Women's Thing
2020 Co-authored with Simone Kearney, Xiaofu Wang x Simone Kearney, One Sings the Other Doesn't, PreCog Mag
2017 Bang Bang, artist's book, self-published
Selected Publications, Press & Interviews
2026 ArtReview, Cheng Xinyi, Future Greats | Xiaofu Wang, Poiesis
2025 GLASS, Sophia, Whispers of Fire
2025 ARTBBS, Xiaofu Wang | Portrait of a Burning Bird
2025 Antenna Space, interview with Fiona He, Take a Perceptual Leap: Xiaofu Wang
2022 PreCog Mag, Contributor, Issue 6
2020 PreCog Mag, Featured Artist of the Month
2019 Better, Bocan Wang, Fungi Artist: Xiaofu Wang
2019 COMBO x Talk About Art | Xiaofu Wang (interview with COMBO Independent Bookstore)
2019 Foundry Journal, Featured Artist, Issue 11 (publication with interview)
2019 The New York Times, Will Heinrich, What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week (review)
2019 The Brooklyn Rail, William Corwin, Under Erasure (review)
2019 Two Coats of Paint, Erasure as Aesthetic Principle at Pierogi (review)
2018 Featured work, Under/Erasure online publication
2018 Revue-Parcours, Four Degrees of Abstraction, À New York (review)
2018 ArtMaze Mag, Winter Issue 6, UK