Zadie Xa

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Zadie Xa
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
EducationMA in Painting, Royal College of Art, 2014; BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, 2007
Known forArtist
Website https://www.zadiexa.com/

Zadie Xa (born 1983) is a Korean-Canadian visual artist [1] who combines sculpture, painting, light, sound, video, and performance to create immersive multi-media experiences. Drawing inspiration from fields such as ecology, science fiction, and ancient religions, her work explores how beings imagine and inhabit their worlds. Her work is centered on otherness and is informed by personal experience within the Korean diaspora, as well as by environmental and cultural contexts of the Pacific Northwest. [2] [3]

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Xa's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at numerous galleries in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Serpentine Gallery in London, UK; Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, France; Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, British Columbia; and Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, among others. [4] [5] Xa's work is also in the holdings of the permanent collection at The Box, Plymouth (previously the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery). [6]

In addition, Xa has been a participant in the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, the 13th Shanghai Biennale in 2020, and Frieze Live 2020. [7] [8]

In 2020, Xa was a recipient of the Sobey Art Award, Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. [9]

Early life and education

Xa was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was raised by her mother, an immigrant from South Korea. Xa is now based in London, United Kingdom.

Xa earned a BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (now the Emily Carr University of Art + Design) in 2007. After graduating, she lived in Madrid for four years. She then moved to London to attend the Royal College of Art, [10] where she earned an MA in Painting in 2014.

Work

Xa's visual and performance work is inspired by street style, music videos, quilting techniques, and traditional clothing, among other sources, and frequently references the performing arts, religion, and folklore of Korea. The primary method Xa uses in her work as a visual artist is collage and assemblage, in which she cuts, layers, and pastes different elements and media to create a new work. [3]

In 2018, following her participation as a solo artist in the Frieze Art Fair that year, the Contemporary Art Society’s Collections Fund at Frieze acquired a cloak and mask related to Xa's performance practice. The work was purchased along with the first film installation of American artist Kehinde Wiley. Both acquisitions were donated to The Box Plymouth (previously the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery), located in Plymouth, Devon, UK, to be part of the museum and art gallery's permanent collection. [6] [11]

Select works

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Performances

Awards

Sobey Art Award

Xa was nominated for the Sobey Art Award in 2020 and was on the longlist as a representative of the West Coast and Yukon region (other geographic categories for the Sobey Art Award include the Prairies and North, Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic). That year, the program award fund was equally awarded to 25 finalists, including Xa, Joseph Tsiga, Sara Cwynar, Caroline Monnet, and Jordan Bennett, among others. [9]

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