Bin Xie (; born 1957) is a

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-born artist living in Sydney, Australia. She was a finalist in the 2006

Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor ...

Early life

Xie graduated from

Chongqing University Chongqing University (CQU; , colloquially abbreviated as ChóngDà) is a public research university located in Chongqing, China. It is a National Key University directly funded by the central government of China as part of the Double First Class ...

in 1982 with a bachelor of science degree, and earned a master of science from the same university in 1988. She remained at Chongqing University as a mathematics instructor until 1990, when she moved to Australia. She began painting seriously around 2002, and studied fine arts at the Meadowbank campus of the

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, from which she received a diploma in 2003. She went on to the

Sydney College of the Arts The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019, the campus was loc ...

(SCA), graduating in 2006 with a master of studio arts.

Works

Xie's work ''Bright Smile'' (a portrait of SCA senior lecturer

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), her first entry into the Archibald Prize, was part of a series of ten paintings of

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women which Xie did as part of her master's project at SCA. It was chosen as one of the Archibald street banners that year. The work was later acquired by a private collection. Xie's work is also represented in public and private collections in Australia, China, the UK, and the US. Xie has been exhibiting since 2002, in places such as the Chinese Cultural Centre in Chatswood, the Sydney Antique Centre, Surry Hill, Crossbay Gallery, Eden Gardens, in 2008 in the Paddington Contemporary Art Gallery, and in 2015 at Gallery Lane Cove.

References

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