Education

(2019-2020) Honours of Fine Art (First-Class Honours), Monash University, Melbourne

(2017-2018) Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne

(2015-2016) Diploma of Art and Design, Monash College, Melbourne

Solo exhibitions

(2023) “Art is a washing machine that is washing itself”, curated by Zara Sigglekow, Futures Gallery, Melbourne

(2022-2023) “An artist doesn’t need a label”, Curated by Amelia Wallin, LRI Biannual Façade Public Art Commission, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo

(2022) “COPY”, Curated by Chelsea Hopper, 99% Gallery, Melbourne

(2021) “Chunxiao Qu”, Lon Gallery, Melbourne

(2021) “The title is no longer relevant”, curated by Chelsea Hopper, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions and collaborative projects

(2023) Spring 1883 Art Fair with Futures Gallery, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

(2023) Kings 20-Year Anniversary Fundraiser, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

(2023) “Top Quality Plastics”, Curated by Otto Enos, Adult Contemporary, Melbourne

(2022) “Blue”, Curated by Adam Stone, Lon Gallery, Melbourne

(2022) White Night Bendigo 2022, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo

(2022) “Snack Mistake”, In collaboration with Alex Hobba, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

(2022) “Person, woman, man, camera”, TV. Curated by Chelsea Hopper, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne

(2022) “Das Boot”, with Tamsen Hopkinson and Christina Apostolidis, Curated by Oscar Perry and Esther Stewart, ACCA, Melbourne

(2021) “In Plein Light”, Curated by Gaffa, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

(2021) BLINDSIDE Fundraising Exhibition 2021, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne

(2021) Trocadero Art Space Fundraising Exhibition 2021, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne

(2020) BLINDSIDE Fundraising Exhibition 2020, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne

(2019) “THE GAP” (In collaboration with Alex Hobba), Curated by Rex Rollin and Patrick Larmour, Tributary Projects, Canberra

(2019) MADA NOW 2019, Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne

(2019) “COLLECTIVELY”, West Space, Melbourne

(2018) Sino Australian Art Exhibition, Protea Culture Arts Centre, Melbourne

(2018) “Abstraction + Non-Objective Painting”, curated by John Nixon, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne

(2017) “Everything That Is Outside Of Us”, Curated by A Constructed World, Palazzo Vai, Prato, Italy

Awards and scholarships

(2019) MADA Now Graduate Exhibition, Tolarno Hotel Painting Prize

(2019) Shortlisted for the Macfarlane Fund and Stockroom Residency 2019

(2019) Sino-Australian Art Festival Award, Sino-Australia Art Group

(2018) MADA Now Graduate Exhibition, West Space Award

(2017) Prato Travel Scholarship, Monash University

(2016) International Study Grant, Monash University

Publications

(2022) This poetry book is too good to have a name & Logic Poetry. Melbourne: Discipline, 2022

(2021) Popcorn: porn of poetry. Melbourne: no more poetry, 2021

Bibliography

(2023) Paul Boyé, “Editorial Feelings”, un-Projects, 4 July 2023

(2023) Liang Luscombe, “You think this is poetry”: Liang Luscombe in Conversation with Chunxiao Qu”, Cordite Poetry Review, 15 February 2023 

(2022) Yuye Lu, “New sights in Bendigo, Chunxiao Qu’s Bilingual neon works” (audio interview), SBS Mandarin, 11 September 2022

(2021) David Wlazlo, “The title is no longer relevant”, Memo Review, 21 February 2021