Vera Xia Jingyi 夏靖宜
Photography
La Petite Mort / 小小的死亡
Days of Judgement / 审判日
The Nocturnal / 夜行动物
Untitled Movies / 无题电影
In the Mood for Love / 花样年华
Vera Xia’s CV
EDUCATION
2021 Bard College, New York, USA, Bachelor of Arts, Photography
2022 Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China, Certificate Program, Cinematography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Consciousness Wandering in Quantum Field”,@hā Art Space, Changsha, China
2022 "The Nocturnal”, Tofu Collective Online Exhibition, Denmark
2019 “Untitled Movies” HAKUCHI Online Exhibition, China
2019 “XIA JING YI” HAKUCHI Online Exhibition, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “See You Hometown” Photographic Art Show, Ware and Wear, Hunan, China
2023 “Women Artists Biannual”, Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022 “Pho Pho Fair”, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2022 “Kong Kong Kong, Kong Dong”, White Temple (Bai Miao) Art District, Chaobai River, Beijing, China
2021 “Chiri Photography Festival”, Enjoy Art Museum, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
2021 “Chinese Youth Photographer Promotion Project” PIP Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi, China
2020 “The Song of Morning and Dawn”, HAKUCHI Third Anniversary Photography Exhibition, Chongqing, China
2020 “Hide&Seek” Vol.6, Banshan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Dirty House” Art Exhibition, Changsha, China
2020 “Pankumenta: Multi-Media Art Festival”, Berlin, Germany
2019 “Photography Moderation Show”, Woods Studio, Bard College, New York, USA
2019 “Whitney Houston/ Every Woman Biennial”, New York, USA
2019 “Open Call Art Show”, Woods Studio, Bard College, New York, USA
AWARDS
2025 Globe Award Finalist, ARFF Film Festival, Amsterdam
2024 Best Documentary Finalist, ARFF Film Festival, Amsterdam
2021 Special Recommendation Award by Lin Zhipeng (aka. No.223), Chiri Photography Festival, 798 Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing, China
2021 "KunPeng Award”. PIP Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Xi'an, China
RESIDENCY
2022 AURUA Artist Residency, Yangshuo, Guilin, China.
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Monograph “La Petite Mort” 《小小的死亡》, Howling Cactus Publishing House, Amsterdam (coming soon)
2023 “Obscurities” 《使者的云》 Photography Poetry Collection, Collaboration with Yeo Meng (Harvard Divinity 21’), Self-Published, Beijing, China
2022 "What are Those Young People Doing at the Crossroads of West Tucheng/ Midnight Street,” Esquire Fine, June Edition, China
2020 "THE NOCTURNAL" 《夜行动物》 matchbox photography collection, HAKUCHI, China
2020 "Phantom” 《幻人》, HAKUCHI, China
INTERVIEWS AND TALKS
2025 “Film? Digital? AI? Analog Photography, Phenomenology, and Quantum Physics.” Talk at Tsinghua University Art Museum Art&Technology Week 2025, Beijing, China
2022 “Poetry x Photography: Jingyi Xia, Yeo Meng——The Moment of Pressing the Shutter is Everything,” AURUA x Solaris Art, Yangshuo, Guilin, China
2022 “Obscurities”, Book Release Talk, Blue Onism, Beijing, China
2022 “I Believe that Time Will Give Me the Answers, So I am Still Slowly Photographing,” Interview with curator A-Zhu at @hā Art Space, Hunan, China
2021 “Visual Diary of Nocturnal Animals ---- Interview with young photographer Xia Jingyi.”, Interview with Chinese Photographers Magazine 《中国摄影家》, China
2021 “The Nocturnal”, Artist Talk, Enjoy Art Museum, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
2025 “Town Nexus”, Documentary, Director, Cinematographer
2024 “Where You Look 2023”, Documentary, Director, Cinematographer
2024 “Unfamiliar” 《云影掠过》, Narrative, Dir. Anrong Liu, Director of Photography
2024 “Offstage” 《幕后》, Narrative, Dir. Leah Liu, Director of Photography
2022 “Moon Under Water” 《水下月潜》, Music Short Film, Artist, Fishdoll, Dir, Haonan Wang, Cinematographer
CURATORIAL
2025 “See You Hometown” Photographic Art Show, Ware and Wear, Xia Pengcheng Art Museum, Hunan, China
2024 “Town Nexus”, Social Design and Documentary Exhibition, Ware and Wear, Xia Pengcheng Art Museum, Hunan, China
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS
2025 “Thomas Ruff’s Exhibition in Lishui, China”, Server Art Online Symposium Series, Beijing, China (coming soon)
2025 “David Campany: How to Read a Photograph”, Server Art Online Symposium Series, Beijing, China
2025 “Gregory Crewdson’s ‘Twilight’ and Later Works”, Server Art Online Symposium Series, Beijing, China
2025 “Fred Ritchin: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI”, Server Art Online Symposium Series, Beijing, China
2025 “Stephen Shore: Photographic Seeing and Mental Image”, Server Art Online Symposium Series, Beijing, China
2025 “Xia Pengcheng: The Imagery of Chinese Calligraphy”, Lecture, Documentation Division, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
2024 “Stephen Shore: Five Transformative Events in My Life, and How They Made Me an Artist” Lecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China