Zadie Xa

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Rough hands weave a knife, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France

 

2023

Nine Tailed Tall Tales: Trickster, Mongrel, Beast, Space K Seoul, South Korea

 

2022

House Gods, Animal Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Long ago when tigers smoked, cur. by Nicoletta Lambertucci, The Box, Plymouth, UK

 

2021

Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers, Leeds Art Gallery, UK

 

2020

Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers, cur. by Rose Bouthiller, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada

 

2019

Child Of Magohalmi and the Echos of Creatoin, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK

Child Of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Child Of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

 

2018

Soju Sipping on a Sojourn to Saturn, Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, Mexico

HOMEBOY 3030: Return the Tiger 2 the Mountain, Union Pacific, London, UK

 

2017

The Conch, Sea Urchin and Brass Bell, organised by PS/Y for Hysteria 2017, Pump House Gallery, London, UK

 

Performances

2021

Scorpion, in collaboration with Benito Mayor Vallejo, curated by Priyesh Mistry, The National Gallery, London, UK

 

2020

Dream Dangerous, in collaboration with Benito Mayor Vallejo, Jia-Yu Corti and Ophelia Liu, presented with Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, Frieze 2020: The Institute of Melodic Healing, curated by Victor Wang, No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK

 

2019

Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, Dance International Glasgow, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, Art Night 2019, curated by Helen Nisbet, co-commissioned by Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK and Walthamstow Library, London, UK

Grandmother Mago, performed in 58th Venice Biennale performance programme curated by Ralph Rugoff with Aaron Cezar and produced by Delfina Foundation, Venice, Italy

 

2018

Flooded with ICE/Hellfire Can't Scorch Me, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK

Iridezcent Interludez, performed as part of DO D!STURB performance art festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

 

2017

Perfumed Purple Rice and Sateen Songs for Sadie, performed as part of GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

The Sea Child, Octopus and Brass Bell, performed in Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive, Korean Cultural Centre UK

Crash Boom Hisssssss. Legend of the Liquid Sword, performed in Block Universe 2017, Somerset House Studios, London, UK

 

2016

Basic Instructions B4 Leaving, organised by PS/Y for Hysteria 2017, Cafe OTO, London, UK

Linguistic Legacies and Lunar Exploration, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

 

Online

Word for Water is Whale, in Ways of Knowing: Imagining Other Futures, curated by Jane Scarth, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers 2020, for ASSEMBLY 2020: New Works, Somerset House Studios, London, UK

A Sojourn Through Saturn and Across the Southern Sea, commissioned sound work by Stella Bottai and Lucia Pietroiusti for Cold Protein podcast

 

Group Exhibitions

2024
Make a Wish, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
 
2023
Beautiful Repair: Mending in Art and Fashion, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
Myths of Our Time, with Heemin Chung and Sun Woo, Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul, South Korea
 
2022
Flowing Moon, Embracing Land, Jeju Biennale 2022, South Korea
The Horror Show, co-curated by Claire Catterall with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Somerset House Studios, London, UK
The New Bend, cur. by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth,  Los Angeles, USA
Soy Dreams of Milk, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong

House Spirits, with Hernan Bas, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA

The Condition of Being Addressable, curated by Marcelle Joseph and Legacy Russell, ICA LA, USA

Wonder Woman, curated by Kathy Huang, Deitch Projects, New York City, USA; then travelling to Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Lee Scratch Perry The Orbzerver, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser and Wirth, New York City, USA
 
2021
Painting in Person, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria, Castillo di Rivoli, Italy
Sweat, curated by Anna Schneider and Raphael Fonseca, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Bodies of Water, in collaboration with Benito Mayor Vallejo, 13th Shanghai Biennale 2021, curated by Andrés Jaque, You Mi, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Shanghai, China
Wishbone Vision, Anthea Hamilton, Sofia Al Maria and Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo, Project Native Informant, London, UK
Interior Infinite, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Diaspora Pavilion 2, curated by IFC, Campbelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia 
 
2020
Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale 2021, curated by Andrés Jaque, You Mi, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Shanghai, China
Siembra, presented by Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, Kurimanzutto Mexico City, Mexico
 
2019
Feedback Loops, curated by Miriam Kelly, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia
STILL I RISE: FEMINISMS, GENDER, RESISTANCE, ACT 3, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
STILL I RISE: FEMINISMS, GENDER, RESISTANCE, ACT 2, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-upon-Sea, UK
 
2018
Body Armor, curated by Jocelyn Miller, MoMA PS1, Queens, New York, USA
Blessed Be: Spirituality, Mysticism, and the Occult in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona, USA

Four Pillars, with Hanna Hur, Laurie Kang and Maia Ruth Lee, L’INCONNUE, Montréal Canada

 

2016
The Rose is without a 'why'. It blooms because it blooms, curated by Sean Steadman, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York City, USA
At Home Salon: Double Acts, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascot, UK
With institutions like these, curated by Victor Wang and Alex Meurice, Averard Hotel, London, UK
 
2015
Living Room in the Tropics, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
Silent Barn, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Video Nacht Klub, Brussels Art Department, Belgium
Space Station 51, Area 51, London, UK
Faux Sho, Assembly House, Leeds, UK
Studio Voltaire Open: 2015, selected by Cory Archangel and Hanne Mugaas, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
 
2014
Frosted and Defrosted, Albion 44, London, UK
Inoperative Mythology, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, UK
 
2011
Premio Ibercaja Pintura Joven 2010, Centro Ibercaja Guadalajara, Centro Cultural Ibercaja Huesca, Museo Camon Aznar, Zaragoza, Spain
 
2010
Premio Ibercaja Pintura Joven 2010, Fundación Fran Daurel de Barcelona, Museo Maeztu de Estella, Navarra, Spain
 
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