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Born in Xi'an, China, the artist Xing Danwen currently lives and works in Beijing.
She started her visual art practice with the painting medium in her teens.
From 1982-1986, she participated in a 4-year program of professional study in painting at the primary art school affiliated to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. From 1988-1992, she continued painting and completed her BFA at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
In 1998, she went to New York with a grant and fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council.
Xing Danwen, Chris Jordan, Portia Munson, and JeongMee Yoon, whose approaches to the subject range from depictions of mountains of American E-trash in China.From 1998-2001, she completed her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York with a chairman grant from SVA.
Being a part of the Chinese avant-garde, Xing is best known for her early photographic work documenting the underground cultural and artistic activities in the mid-to-late 1990s.
She was one of the few artists exploring the boundaries of photography and using photography as an art form in late 80s and 90s in China. Fiction, truth, and illusion often play