Xiaozhou Liao 廖小舟

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Xiaozhou Liao was born in 1995 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, he graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, majoring in Stage Design, and is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany, under the tutelage of the renowned German contemporary sculptor Alexandra Bircken. Was shortlisted for the Wuliangye Tomorrow Sculpture Award in 2025.In 2024, Liao received Art Matters 11 Honourable Mention by Köln Biesenbach Gallerie. In 2022, he respectively received The Winner of the tender for the new artistic interior design by Oval Office im Schauspielhaus Bochum and Emerging Artist of the Year & Best Creative Award by Beijing UCCA Lab x Perrier.
 
With a background of growing up in a theatre troupe, Liao has never defined himself as a typical artist, but always combines the everyday and the political with a textual deconstruction of the theatrical. In his theatre-inspired works, he combines the everyday and the political in a textual deconstruction, and is keen to express his understanding of contemporary space and neo-liberalism through a variety of media.

 

Education

2023 - 2025 Düsseldorf Art Academy Fine Art, Skulpture

2020 - 2024 Düsseldorf Art Academy Fine Art, Stage Design

2019 - 2020 Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, Stage - and costume Design

2013 - 2018 The Central Academy of Drama Beijing, Stage Design

 

Awards

2025 Tomorrow Skulpture Awards, Sichuan Fine Arts Institut, Chongqing

2024 Art Matters 11 Honourable Mention, Biesenbach Gallerie Köln

2022 Oval Office im Schauspielhaus Bochum, The Winner of the tender for the new artistic interior design

2022 Emerging Artist Program, UCCA Lab Beijing

 

Selected Exhibitions

2025 The Gale in the Armor,Gene Galerie, Shanghai (Solo）

2025 Z Genatation of Third Culture: Interculture Child, Soul Art Center, Bejing

2025 Concave-Convex, Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, National Agricultural Exhibition Center

2025 Tomorrow Skulpture Awards, Participating in Uncertainty, Sichuan Fine Arts Institut, Chongqing

2024 Outpost Dec-Jan, Gene Galerie, Shanghai

2024 Art Matters 11, Biesenbach Galerie, Köln

2024 SPONTRONIC, Klub 300 Neun, Köln 

2024 fresh position, BBK Kunstforum, Düsseldorf

2024 Cabian, Magma Maria, Offenbach am Main

2023 Parallel Exhibition of Chengdu Biennale

2023 Community of the future:The Same Frequency and Resonance, AC Lab, Chengdu

2023 in the Air, SPURS Galerie, Beijing

2022 To the Light: Nature Life Cycle, Emerging Artist Program, UCCA Lab, Beijing 

2020 Shifting Perspective, Japanese Palace, Dresden