1963年生于江苏南通，是国际知名的中国水墨画家，以绘画超现实的工笔画最为著名。作为工笔花鸟画家，徐累最具标志性的隐于帘下的骏马图和石景图享誉国际，画面表现出古今时空交错，富有对于世事无常的忧郁和怅然若失的疑惑。1984年于南京艺术学院国画系毕业后，于江苏省国画院从事创作和研究多年，1990年回归运用传统工具和技法进行创作，包括绢、毛笔、墨、矿物颜料。徐氏是1980年代北京「八五新潮」运动的活跃份子之一，至今已举行逾六十次展览，包括个展于著名美术馆和机构如美国华盛顿国会图书馆、英国伦敦亚洲之家、中国北京今日美术馆、南京江苏省美术馆、苏州博物馆等。尤其是2022年参展威尼斯双年展中国馆。现工作于北京国家艺术研究院，及出任《经典》杂志主编。
作品获北京今日美术馆、上海美术馆、南京江苏省美术馆、南京艺术学院收藏。
Born in 1963 in Nantong, Jiangsu, is a Chinese ink artist internationally renowned for his meticulous and surreal paintings. Trained as a gongbi flower-and-bird painter, his iconic portrayals of horses situated in cloistered settings and scholars’ rocks have garnered him international acclaim. Though possibly anachronistic, his paintings are imbued with questions of loss, and the melancholic feelings surrounding the impermanence of time, things, and objects. After graduating from the Department of Traditional Chinese Art at Nanjing Academy of Art in 1984, he held a research position at the Jiangsu Traditional Painting Academy. In 1990, he returned to using traditional tools and techniques in his creations, such as the use of thin silk, a Chinese writing brush, Chinese ink and mineral colours. He was an active member of the 85 New Wave Movement in Beijing during the 1980s. Over the years, he has held over sixty exhibitions, including solo showcases at prestigious venues such as the Library of Congress in Washington, USA; Asia House in London, UK; Today Art Museum in Beijing; Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum in Nanjing; and Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, China. Notably, in 2022, he also participated in the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Xu currently works at the Chinese National Academy of Arts, and the chief editor of Oriental Art · Classics.
His works are in the collections of Today Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing; and Nanjing Arts Institute, China.
