✜ Xiaoxi Chen engages architecture as a medium to investigate and articulate critical cultural, spatial, and political practices. Her work seeks to expand ruptures to affirm political possibilities across disciplines.
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✪ Assistant Director @ Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
✪ Xiaoxi has taught at GSAPP Columbia University, Barnard College, Fordham University, CUNY City University of New York, and the Cooper Union.
⚉ Becoming Guanxi: An Autofiction of Chinatown Futures, with Lily Chishan Wong, University of Colorado Denver, 2025 ⚉ Moonrise with Lily Chishan Wong, University of Miami, 2024 ⚉ Intergovernmental Architecture of Climate Regulation, SOM Foundation, 2015 - 2016 ⚉ Echoing Borders with Nina Kolowratnik & Nora Akawi, 2015
Tamara de Lempicka - de Young Museum San Francisco, 2024 ✖ The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England - Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2023 ✖ Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today - The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, 2023 ✖ Andy Warhol’s Social Network: Interview, Television and Portraits - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2022 ✖ Faith Ringgold: American People - de Young Museum San Francisco, 2022 ✖ UCCA Store - Retail Space for the UCCA Edge Center for Contemporary Art Shanghai, 2021 ✖ Becoming Andy Warhol - UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beijing + The Andy Warhol Museum, 2021 ✖ Becoming Andy Warhol - UCCA Edge Center for Contemporary Art Shanghai + The Andy Warhol Museum, 2021 ✖ Signage & Institutional Wayfinding System - UCCA Edge Center for Contemporary Art Shanghai, 2021 ✖ About Time: Fashion & Duration - Metropolitan Museum of Art + Es Devlin, 2020 ✖ CAMP: Notes on Fashion - Metropolitan Museum of Art + Jan Verweysveld, 2019 ✖ Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra - Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019 ✖ Jewelry: The Body Transformed - with Alejandro Stein + Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018 ✖ Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & the Catholic Imagination - Metropolitan Museum of Art + Diller Scofidio Renfro, 2018 ✖ Epic Abstraction - Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018-2020 ✖ The Roof Garden Commission: Huma Bhabha, We Come in Peace, 2018 ✖ The Roof Garden Commission: Alicia Kwade, Parapivot, 2018 ✖ African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s- Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018 ✖ The Decorated Word: Writing & Picturing in Islamic Calligraphy - Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019 ✖ The Renaissance of Etching - Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019 ✖ Seeing the Divine: Pahari Paintings of North India - Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018 ✖ Prada L'Homme & La Femme Pavilion - with 2x4, 2016 ✖ Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing - with 2x4, 2016