Education
2006 B.A Studio Art & Psychology, Vanderbilt University (magna cum laude),
Honors/ Awards
2008 Lucy C. Morgan Scholarship Fund, Penland School of Art and Crafts
2007 Distinguished Media Award, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft
2006 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award, Vanderbilt University
2006 Juror’s Award, DeLoach Photography Competition, Vanderbilt University
2006 Cooley Art History Award, Vanderbilt University
Exhibitions
2012 Redux Artist Show, Connolly Gallery at Redux, Charleston, SC
2011 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Show , Charleston SC
2011 The Postcard Show , Halsey Institute of Art, Charleston, SC
2011 Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year , Columbia Museum of Art, SC
2011 Re-Orientation IV , Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
2010 30th Anniversary Show , Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2009 Small Packages, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2009 Celestial Comforts (solo show), Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Red Dot Art Fair , Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
2008 Paper Goods, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Small Packages , Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Somewhere In Between (solo show), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2008 The Sevier County Invitational Exhibition , Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft
2007 Packages: Small and Large , Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007 13th Sevier County Biennial Juried Exhibition , Gatlinburg, TN
2007 Vanderbilt Hamblet Show , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2007 Sarratt Student Art Show , Vanderbilt. University, Nashville, TN
2007 Vanderbilt Student Life Center , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2007 DeLoach Photography Show, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2006 Cohen Student Art Show , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Workshops
2011 Introduction to Letterpress Fundamentals, Redux Contemporary Art Center, SC
2008 Collagraphic Printmaking, Penland School of Craft, NC
2007 Coop member, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Metals and Enamels, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft
2007 Printmaking without the Toxins Arrowmont, School of Arts and Craft
2006 Etching with Colors, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft
Publications
2008 Tennessean, Nashville, TN
2008 Mountain Press, Sevierville, TN
2007 Vanderbilt Hustle , Nashville, TN ,
2006 Vanderbilt Review, Nashville, TN
Thank you for visiting my website! I make my work in the printshop at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC. Visitors are always welcomed!
Feel free to contact me at xiao.x.lu_gmail.com if you have questions about my work or just want to say hi.
CUMBERLAND GALLERY
4107 Hillsboro Circle
Nashville, TN 37215-2742
(615) 297-0296
REDUX CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
136 Saint Philip St
Charleston, SC 29403-6140
(843) 722-0697
In my narrative monoprints, I use both abstracted and representational images of places that, at one time or another, I have considered my home. Using geographic maps as a foundation, a starting point understood by speakers of all languages, I create a chronological narrative of my journey from Fuzhou, China to Nashville, Tennessee, from the East to the West, from the rural to the urban. This series of prints arise from a need to capture, locate, and secure my past. The ranging ancient and modern images represent the personal struggles I have faced growing up torn between two seemingly contradicting cultures and the compromises I have had to make to accommodate each. In my series of prints I hope to share my strong sense of disorientation and my sincere longing for a place to call home. I use images of China and the United States, the East and the West, my relocated childhood and adolescence, my oppressed gender and race, as a representation of the journey in my continual search for a place to belong.
Art is my first language as it has greatly empowered me to share my story and my development from a reclusive child to a self-assured young woman. Maps transcend both language and cultures to communicate my ideas and feelings in the universal language of art that is accessible for everyone. Though the lines and dots on my maps are simple and plain, they are powerful enough to connect my childhood to the present, embody my search for home, share the struggles of my gender and race, and communicate what words simply cannot.
Xin Lu
This series was inspired by the gruelsome practice of footbinding in China. It involved painfully wrapping a girl's feet into a "lotus" shoe to prevent normal growth. Most women who underwent this practice had lifelong diabilities. Footbinding, both physically and socially, limited a women's mobility in Chinese society.
Monoprints
String Theory
Secrets of the Sea
Somewhere In Between
Lotus Shoes
Lines that Connect
