about / Artistic Resume An Xiao looks at the intersection of digital and analog.  She photographs, installs, performs and tweets and has shown her work a in publications and galleries internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, Yale/Haskins Laboratories, The New York Times and ARTNews. She founded and directs @Platea, a global online public art collective, and blogs on art and social media technology for Art21.

Selected Exhibitions, INSTALLATIONS, performances

  • 2010 #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. 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

  • 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.
  • Borne, Miriam. “New York, New York”. Haiku Society of America Regional Announcements and News. 2007.
  • “A Short Interview with An Xiao”. Daily Dose of Queer. November 29, 2006.

Publications and articles

  • “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.
  • “Streethaiku”. INTHEFRAY Magazine. July 2008.
  • “Everything Ends”. With a haiku response from Andrew Schelling. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Spring 2008.
  • November 2008 Feature.  Hun Gallery 2008 New Year Calendar. January 2008.
  • “Visions of Coney Island”. Brooklyn Rail. June 2007.

PRESENTATIONS and talks

  • 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-Champaign.
  • “Art and Gender 2.0″. Featured alumna speaker. Georgetown University. December 2009. Washington, DC.
  • “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.

honors and awards

  • Twitterist in Residence. New Media Scotland. 2010. (forthcoming)
  • Feature Artist. 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Brooklyn Museum. January 2009.
  • Nominee, Best Achievement in Creation or Use of Graphics. 2008 Blogisattva Awards.
  • Best Emerging Artist in Photography. GLAAD outAuction 2007.

professional affiliations

  • Contributing Columnist. Art21 Blog.
  • Director and Founder. @Platea: An Online Public Art Collective.
  • Art and Photography Editor. Boxcar Poetry Review.

education

  • Georgetown University. Washington, DC.