The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art

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Jia Xu

Jia Xu is a writer, curator and artist. She got a B Arch Degree in Tongji University, 2008 and a PhD degree of art history in China Academy of Art, 2016. She is now teaching in Fiber Art Department of China Academy of Art, Hanghou, P.R. China. She is the curator of Fiber Code exhibition in China International Design Museum in 2021, the Organizer of the international symposium of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2019, the curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2016 and the assistant curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2013. She is also the editor of Textile Reader 2 published by CAA publishing house in 2021. She becomes Regional Editor – China of TEXTILE: CLOTH AND CULTURE journal from June 4, 2021. She once went to have exchanges in Rhode Island School of Design, the USA and Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published many academic papers and participated in many Chinese and foreign exhibitions as an artist: “The Fifth Dimension: Art of Fibre and Space”(2009), “Animamix Biennial”(2009) toured in Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, “The 7th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen—Comic media on Line”(2010), “Future Pass: La Biennale di Venezia”(2011), “The 8th China Contemporary Young Ceramic Artists’ Biennial Exhibition”(2012), “Fiber, Heart and Thought: Fibre & Space Art Exhibition from China Academy of Art”(2013), “Veni, Vidi, We young: Zhejiang International Youth Art Week”(2019). As a founder of “80 Commune,” she planned “Inheritance: Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of 80 Commune”(2013, 2014). Besides, she has published several academic articles: “A Review of Kaunas—a report of The Biennial Fibre Art of Kaunas”(2012), “The dance of Cotton—The Exhibition of ‘Cotton: an International Thread’ in Whitworth Gallery, Manchester”(2012), “Fiber, Visions—the Hangzhou Trinennial of Fibre Art in 2013”(2013), “The Restart of Perception: A series of material cultural thoughts elicited from ‘The Fall of Public Man’”(2014), “Envisioning Fibre in the Cultural Heritage of Hangzhou, China”(2016), “Weaving and Needle”(2016), “Re-experiment, Fight for Architecture”(2017),“From Embroidered Painting to Needle Words”(2020), “Boundless Encounters––The Impression of the 2019 3rd Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art”(2020). Her PhD dissertation Embroidered Painting—Research Into China’s Traditional Jiangnan Embroidery was published in 2018. [email protected]