| 1966 | Born in Guangdong, China |
| 1988 | Bachelor of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 1991 | Master of Arts, Central Academy of Arts and Design, Beijing, China |
| 1996 | Master of Fine Arts, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas |
| Present | Lives and works in Palo Alto, California and Beijing, China. |
| 2011 | Layers, Chambers Fine Art, New York (catalog) Amplified Moments, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee (catalog) Layers, The Stanford in Washington Art Gallery, Washington, DC (catalog) Xiaoze Xie's Resistant Archeology Exhibition, Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, |
| 2010 | Layers, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China (catalog)
Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008), Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Touring through 2012: Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine. (catalog) Rhythm of Time, Corridor of Memory: A Site-specific Installation by Xie Xiaoze, MADA s.p.a.m. Architectural Studio Office at Red Star Kindergarten, Shanghai |
| 2009 | Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2008 | Acts and Scenes 2001-2007 , Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Quotidian Truths: Paintings by Xie Xiaoze, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California Both Sides Now, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2007 | Xiaoze Xie: Photographs, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Disposable Views, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina Legacy, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea (catalog) Transient Memories: Works on Paper by Xie Xiaoze, dARTex, The Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, China (catalog) Xiaoze Xie: Works on PaperDallas,The Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium (catalog) |
| 2006 | The MoMA Library, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York (catalog) |
| 2005 | Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2004 | 2001-2003 Fragmentary Views, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2003 | History: A Microscopic View, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
| 2002 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Order: Installation and Paintings by Xiaoze Xie, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
| 1998 | Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1997 | Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX |
| 1996 | Puppet/Recent Work by Xiaoze Xie, New Talent Gallery, Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas Xiaoze Xie: The Library PaintingsGallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas The Library Paintings, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX Part I: The Library Paintings, Arts Council of Brazos Valley, Local Color Gallery, College Station, TX Part II: Flags and Banners, College of Architecture Gallery at Texas A&M University,College Station, TX |
| 1995 | Xiaoze Xie/ Mosaics series, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas |
| 2010 | Re-Present: Pat Boas, Adam Chapman, Isaac Layman, Joe Park, Xiaoze Xie, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon Memory, Well Art, Shanghai The Message and the Medium: The Library Turns 10 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California |
| 2009-10 | Something Geographical: Vernon Fisher, Buzz Spector and Xiaoze Xie, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Illinois |
| 2009 | First Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists, , Chongqing International Convention and Exhibition Center, Chongqing, China (catalog) China Urban: Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Chinese City, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (catalog) |
| 2008 | Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China,, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California (catalog) |
| 2007 | Just Words: Xu Bing, Hong Hao, and Xie Xiaoze,Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California What We Keep: An Exhibition on Books and Memory (Xiaoze Xie, Michele Oka Doner and Nina Katchadourian), Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho Between Reality and Illusion, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Curated by George Morton and Karol Howard (catalog) |
| 2006-08 | Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York, New York; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI. Curated by Wu Hung (catalog) |
| 2006 | What War?, White Box, New York, New York. Curated by Eleanor Heartney, Larry Litt, and Juan Puntes Why Lee Shot C: Buzz, she left 'em Vernon!, (William T. Wiley, Xiaoze Xie, Buzz Spector, Vernon Fisher) Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2004-06 | Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China; NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, lL; University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. (catalog) The Daily News, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art From China and the US,Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA; University of California San Diego Art Gallery, San Diego, CA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA (catalog) |
| 2005-06 | The Daily News, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (catalog) |
| 2004 | Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (catalog) |
| 2003 | The Great Drawing Show, 1550- 2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Cross the Divide, Max L. Gatov and Werby Art Galleries at California State University, Long Beach, California (catalog) |
| 2001 | Sally Packard and Xiaoze XieArt League Houston, Houston, Texas Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 | 2000 Exhibition of Guangdong Contemporary Oil PaintingsGuangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Recipients of 1999 Arizona Artists Materials Fund GrantsContemporary Forum, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Rosalyn Richards and Xiaoze Xie, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA |
| 1999 | West Looks East: Jae Hahn, Katherine Chang Liu, Chiaki Shuji, Hung Liu, Yung Ja Lee, Younghee Cho Martin, Xiaoze Xie, , LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1998 | Building for the Millennium: Recent Acquisitions Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ |
| 1997 | George Segal and Xiaoze Xie Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA |
| 1996 | First Texas Annual , grand opening group show, The Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, TX (curated by Dave Hickey) |
| 1995 | Scott Barber and Xiaoze Xie 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 1994 | Unity and Diversity, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX |
| 1993 | Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX |
| 1991 | Four Young Artists Shantou Painting Institute, Guangdong, China |
| 2008 | The National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Humanities, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (three-year appointment) Interpreting Brooklyn Project Grant, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2003 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, New York |
| 2002 | U.S. General Services Administration's Art-in-Architecture Program commission for the Federal Building and U. S. Courthouse, Davenport, Iowa (catalog of project published in 2007 by GSA) |
| 2001 | Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Grant, Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1995 | First Place, Voertman Art Exhibition, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas |
| 1994 | First Place, Greater Denton Arts Council Award, 26th Annual Juried Fine Arts Awards Exhibit of North Texas Area Art League, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas |
| Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona | |
| Bucknell University Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | |
| Eastfield College, Dallas, Texas | |
| The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York | |
| Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas | |
| Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona | |
| Seattle University, Seattle, Washington |
| 2009-Present | Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, California. |
| 2008-Present | Guest Professor, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China |
| 2007-2009 | Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 2006-2009 | Associate Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 1999-2005 | Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 1996-1997 | Visiting Artist, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington |
| 1991-1992 | Assistant Professor, Shantou University, Guangdong, China. |