1960 Born in Chengde City, Hebei Province
1982 Graduated from the Fine Art Dept. of Hebei Normal University
Awards
1993 Academy Award at the Chinese Oil Painting Biennale
1995 Gold Award at the Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting
1998 Collectors' Award at the Invitational of the Century's Women Artists in Beijing
1999 Freeman Foundation Award in the US
Group Exhibitions
2006 First Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art,
Millennium Monument Contemporary, Art Gallery in Beijing
2005 Along the Great River: a Retrospective of Chinese Oil Painting from 1976 to 2005,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Second Exhibition of Traditional Chinese Landscape and Oil Landscape Painting,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2003 An Era of Opening Up: the 40 Years of the National Museum of Fine Arts,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Representation of Imagery: the Invitational of China's Neo-Expressionist Oil Painters,
Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai
2002 Invitational of Artists from Chengdu and Beijing,
Millennium Monument Contemporary Art Gallery in Beijing
2001 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum in Chengdu
2000 Gate of the Century: an Invitational of Chinese Modern Art from 1979 to 1999,
Chengdu Modern Art Museum in Chengdu
Solo Exhibitions
2006 The Song of the Earth: Paintings by Xu Xiaoyan, National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing
2007 The Vanishing Homeland, Art Museum in Shanghai