Qiu Xiaofei was born in Haerbin in 1977. He graduated from the Subsidiary School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1998 and received a BFA in oil painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2002.

Qiu Xiaofei’s artistic practice mainly focuses on painting, as well as installation and sculpture connected to painting, connecting concepts and aesthetics in unique ways.

His works have been a constant presence at art museum and institutional exhibitions around the world, including at the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Tate Liverpool in Britain, Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland, the Groninger Museum and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands, the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany.

His important Solo Exhibitions: 2020 “Trotskyky grew into a tree”at New Centyry Art Foundation, Beijing, China; 2016 “Double Pendulum”at Pace Gallery, New York, USA; 2014 “Apollo Bangs Dionysus” at Pace Beijing, Beijing, China; 2013 “Repetition” at Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China; 2010 “Point of No Return” at Boers-Li gallery, Beijing, China; 2006 “Heilongjiang Box” at Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, etc.