1963年生于陕西渭南。现生活工作于陕西。
西亚蝶以自学的剪纸创作讲述自身性意识转变的故事。他在2005年北漂打工时开始以西伯利亚蝴蝶为艺名,北京活跃的同志亚文化圈也成了他的避风港。正如他自己所形容,能在恶劣气候中存活的西伯利亚蝴蝶代表了他在一个压抑酷儿群体及其权利的环境中仍能够保有蝴蝶般的华丽和对自由的追求。
Born in Weinan, Shaanxi in 1963. Currently lives and works in Shaanxi.
Xiyadie is a self-taught traditional Chinese papercut artist who starting creating works with homoerotic themes to tell his narrative of transformation. Xiyadie means Siberian Butterfly, a name he chose after his move to Beijing as a migrant worker in 2005, where he found an accepting community in the burgeoning gay subcultural scene. As he relates, the Siberian Butterfly is a northern creature. Surviving in the harshest conditions, it maintains its vanity and pursuit of freedom in an environment that does not lend political agency or representation to queer-identifying people.
个展 Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Queer Cut Utopias, The Drawing Center, 纽约,美国
2012 Metamorphosis of a Butterfly: A Kaleidoscope Vision of Life by a Gay Chinese Artist,Flazh!Alley Art Studio,洛杉矶,美国
2010 西亚蝶, 北京同志中心,北京,中国
群展 Group Exhibitions:
2024 处处都是外人——第60届威尼斯视艺双年展主展,威尼斯,意大利
2023 徒步中国:未曾讲述的故事,上海纽约大学当代艺术中心,上海,中国
2023 DANCING FORWARD, LOOKING BACKWARD, Kunsthal Gent, 根特,比利时
2022 神话制造者——光.合作用 III,大馆当代美术馆,香港
2022 Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) ,Haus der Kulturen der Welt,柏林,德国
2022 豆梦之奶,刺点画廊,香港
2022 Transactions with Eternity, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler,柏林,德国
2020 Crack Up — Crack Down,Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art,华沙,波兰
2019 Crack Up – Crack Down——第33届卢布尔雅那平面艺术双年展,Tivoli Mansion,卢布尔雅那,斯洛文尼亚
2019 SPECTROSYNTHESIS II – Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia,曼谷艺术文化中心,曼谷,泰国
2019 夜行动物,上海外滩美术馆,上海,中国
2018 Imagined Borders——第12届光州双年展,光州,韩国
2017 光合作用:亚洲当代艺术同志议题展,台北当代美术馆,台北,台湾,中国
2017 寻找无情小姐,Para Site 艺术空间,香港,中国
2015 Antwerp Queer Arts Festival,Galerie Verbeeck – Van Dyck, 安特卫普,比利时
2015 Secret Love,Topenmuseum,阿姆斯特丹,荷兰
2013 Secret Love,Museum of World Culture,哥德堡,瑞典
2012 Secret Love,Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,斯德哥尔摩,瑞典
收藏 Collections:
骄阳基金会,香港,中国
泰特现代美术馆,英国