Information about ah xian biography

Chinese born artist based in Sydney, Australia

Ah Xian (born ) is a Chinese-born artist based in Sydney, Australia.

Information about ah xian biography

Early life

Ah Xian was born in Beijing, China, in While both of Xian's parents worked at universities, Xian worked as a mechanical fitter and in a factory. Xian taught himself how to paint, though at one point was jailed overnight by the Chinese Communist Party for producing nude paintings.^[1]

In , Xian travelled to Australia to visit the University of Tasmania.

He briefly returned to Beijing, but did not stay as the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June motivated him to leave China.^[1] After leaving China, he applied for asylum in Australia.^[2] Though his application was initially rejected in , he was granted residency in Australia in ^[3]

Art exhibitions

• Metaphysica ().

  Metaphysica includes a series of bronze busts. Each bust is different from the rest in that there is a different object on the head of eac