Wen-Jun Xie is a Chinese queer artist and curator based in the UK, working across performance, installation, photography, painting, and various other media. Her practice challenges artistic boundaries and explores the intersections of identity, gender, and form. In her artistic creations and curatorial work, she focuses on empowering women's experiences and identities in fictional and non-fictional contexts, uncovering the inner strength of marginalised identities.
Instagram: @gwendrawimme
Email: gwendrawimme@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2024 My body, Whose Choice?, Out of the Drill Hall, Edinburgh, UK
2024 Annual Open 2024, Southwark Park Gallery, London, UK
2024 Video Flux: Performance in Video Art, Miami Art Society, American
2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
2024 Illumination, Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, UK
2024 As Curator Portraits in a Chinese Studio, Solaris Print Gallery, St Leonards, UK
2023 As Curator Portraits in a Chinese Studio, Centre for British Photography, London, UK
2023As Curator Portraits in a Chinese Studio, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2023 As Curator Portraits in a Chinese Studio, the Marland Shopping Centre, Southampton, UK
2023 A Room of One’s Own, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester
2022 We Belong Here, spudWORKS, Sway, UK
2022 Lucky Dip Bursary Exhibition, God’s House Tower, Southampton, UK
2022 Inspirational Women Artists, God’s House Tower, Southampton, UK
2019 2019 Xu Qinsong Creation Award National General Selection Finalist, Art Museum of GAFA, China
Award and Bursary
2024 Belfast Photo Festival Open Subbmition Photo-book Winner
2024 London Gallery Weekend Travel Bursaries
2022 Lucky Dip Bursary
2019 Xu Qinsong Creation Bronze Award
Art & Zine Fair
2024 Outland Publishing Fair 2024, London, UK
2024 Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair 2024, Vienna, Austria
2021 Witch Feast Art Fair, Shenzhen, China
Residency
2023 Making Rooms Residency, Arch Studio, Southampton UK
Education
2021 - 2022 MA in Contemporary Curation, University of Southampton, UK
2015 - 2019 BA in Public Art, The South China University of Technology, China
2018 - 2018 Exchange student in Graphic Communication Design, The East China University of Science and Technology, China