about / Artistic Resume Artist, designer and writer An Xiao looks at the intersection of the digital and analog in the 21st century. She photographs, installs, performs and tweets and has shown her work in publications and galleries internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, Yale/Haskins Laboratories, The New York Times and Art in America. She founded and directs @Platea, a global online public art collective, and serves as a contributing columnist for PBS-affiliate Art21.

Selected Exhibitions, INSTALLATIONS, performances

  • 2010 Escape From New York. Curated by Olympia Lambert. Paterson, NJ. (forthcoming)
  • #class. Organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. An Artforum Critics’ Pick. Winkleman Gallery. New York.
  • 2009 Phone-tastic View. 13th Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, with the Dumbo Arts Center. Brooklyn.
  • hopes/dreams/fears. FIGMENT. Governor’s Island (New York).
  • Status Update. Yale Haskins Laboratories with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. New Haven.
  • Morse Code Tweets. Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn.
  • 2008 Micro, Macro. Gallery Satori. New York.
  • GLAAD Award Winners. Named 2007 Best Emerging Artist in Photography. W Hotel White Space Gallery. New York.
  • $2 Show. i-5 Gallery at the Brewery Art Colony. Los Angeles.
  • Objects of Desire II. Sundaram Tagore Gallery, with Artists Talk on Art. New York.
  • 2007 Asian Contemporary Art Fair. Tenri Cultural Institute. New York.
  • The Circular Exhibition. Hun Gallery and Gallery Ho. New York and Seoul.
  • 2006 Hun Gallery International. Hun Gallery. New York.
  • Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images. Brooklyn Arts Council and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Brooklyn.
  • Diversity and Solidarity. I-Gallery. New York.

selected BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Schenker, Dylan. “Photo Gallery: Escape From New York Art Show”. Flavorwire. April 24, 2010.
  • Butler, Sharon L. “Artists take on the art industry in New York”. The Huffington Post. March 29, 2010.
  • Cotter, Holland.”#class”. The New York Times. Friday, March 19, 2010.
  • Lindholm, Erin. “The Art of the Crowd”. Art in America. February 16, 2010.
  • Vittachi, Nury. “Lost art of poetry is returning, thanks to magic mushrooms”. The Standard (Hong Kong). October 16, 2009.
  • Lafia, Marc. “Social Media | Public Space”. Art+Culture. September 22, 2009.
  • Spiegel, Jan Ellen. “Where Art Meets Social Networking Sites”. The New York Times. Sunday, July 5, 2009.
  • Reagan, Gillian. “The Deep Meaning of the Facebook Vanity URL”. The New York Observer. June 16, 2009.
  • Dankosky, John with Debbie Hesse and Sharon Butler. “Status Update”. Where We Live. WNPR. May 22, 2009.
  • Appel, Allan. “New Art Exhibit Faces Facebook”. New Haven Independent. May 15, 2009.
  • Miranda, Carolina A. “Tweet Arts”. ARTnews. April 2009.
  • Pemberton, Andy. “Cheep talk?” The National Newspaper (United Arab Emirates). March 9, 2009.
  • Jamieson, Ruth. “Art on Twitter: yes, but is it twart?” The Guardian (United Kingdom). February 23, 2009.
  • Klaver, Marie-José.”Tweets in Morse”. NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands). January 31, 2009.
  • Standage, Tom. “Twitter = Telegram 3.0, sort of”. TomStandage.com. January 6, 2009.
  • Wilson, Robert D. “An Interview with An Xiao”. Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry. Winter 2008.
  • Peng, Tony. “華裔安小展出攝影作品” (Asian-American An Xiao Exhibits Art Photos). Sing Tao Daily weekend edition. August 23, 2008.
  • Todd, Sarah. “Haiku Moments: An Interview with An Xiao”. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. June 17, 2008.
  • Wolf, Nicole Pressly. “GLAAD Auction Raises Money from Art”. The Fire Island News. October 25, 2007.

Publications and articles

  • “ArtsTech: A Year in Review”. NYFA Current. February 26, 2010.
  • “Connections at MIT Museum”. Art21 Blog. February 25, 2010.
  • “Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back”. Hyperallergic. November 17, 2009.
  • “The Cosplay Ethic”. Art21 Blog. August 13, 2009.
  • “@Platea: Art in the Web 2.0 Ethos”. Art21 Blog. June 25, 2009.
  • “On art, Web 2.0, and physical/digital seamlessness”. Arts.Council.Blog, with The Arts Council of Greater New Haven. June 10, 2009.
  • “An Xiao on Twitter as an Artistic Medium”. NYFA Current. March 26, 2009.
  • “Everything Ends”. With a haiku response from Andrew Schelling. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Spring 2008.
  • “Visions of Coney Island”. Brooklyn Rail. June 2007.

PRESENTATIONS and talks

  • Whitney Biennial Twitter Tour. Organized by Carolina Miranda and WNYC Culture. Whitney Museum. March 2010. New York.
  • “Background, Identity and the Straight White Male”. Co-organizer with Joanne McNeil. Part of #class, organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida at Winkleman Gallery. March 2010. New York.
  • “Social Media Art = Crowd-Created Art”. Panelist. Social Media Week NY 2010 and the Arts, Culture and Technology Meetup. February 2010. New York.
  • “Art and Technology”. Featured speaker. Seen and Heard Conference. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. January 2010. Urbana, IL.
  • “Art and Gender 2.0″. Featured alumna speaker. Georgetown University. December 2009. Washington, DC.
  • “Social Media Interventions”. Guest lecturer. Design Laboratory, co-taught by Kian Goh and Michelle Laporte. Parsons New School. January 2009. New York.
  • “E-Derive: Psychogeography and the Digital Landscape”. Co-presentation and workshop with Julia Kaganskiy. Conflux Festival, with NYU Steinhardt. September 2009. New York.
  • “@Platea, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media”. Featured speaker. Brooklyn Museum. June 2009. Brooklyn.
  • “Wild/Life”. Panelist. Bushwick Reading Series, with Bushwick Open Studios. June 2009. Brooklyn.
  • “Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology”. Panelist. Yale Haskins Laboratories. May 2009. New Haven.
  • “Two Tweeters & a Tweety Bird”. Twitter-based interview with Hrag Vartanian. March 2009. New York.
  • “1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for January 2009: An Xiao”. Featured speaker. Brooklyn Museum. January 2009. Brooklyn.
  • “NY-Ku: Tanka and Photography”. Featured speaker. Haiku Society of America. March 2007. New York.
  • Transfigurations Panel. Moderator. I-Gallery. February 2007. New York.

professional affiliations

  • Contributing Columnist. Art21 Blog.
  • Contributing Writer. NYFA Current and Hyperallergic.
  • Director and Founder. @Platea: An Online Public Art Collective.

education

  • Art Center College of Design. MFA, Media Design. Pasadena, CA (starting fall 2010).
  • Georgetown University. BA, Philosophy. Chinese minor. Washington, DC.