EDUCATION

2023 MFA in Fiber & Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL, USA
2020 BFA in Fiber, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, USA
2024 Research Student Program in Craft, Tokyo University of the Arts,Tokyo, Japan
2023 Correspondence course Certification, Japan Handicraft Instructors’ Association, Japan
2023 Workshop in Papermaking, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC, USA
2022 Workshop in Fiber, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, USA

EMPLOYMENT

2023 Studio Assistant for Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Chicago, IL
Studio Assistant for Kate Smith, Chicago, IL
Jacquard Assistant at Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistant for Jacquard Class with Poppy DeltaDawn, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Jacquard Assistant at Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2022 Research Assistant at Textile Resource Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Lab Monitor at Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2021 Teaching Assistant for Advanced Woven Structure with Danielle Andress, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Assistant at Xiaoshan Zhongyi Lace Company with artisan Fu Chunjiang, ZJ, China
2020 Research volunteer for Project “Indigo Shade Map” with Rosa Chang, Baltimore, MD
Teaching Assistant for History of Textile with Julie Geschwind, MICA, Baltimore, MD

AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

2026 Vermont Studio Center Residency with VSC Fellowship, Johnson, VT
2025 Kurume Kauri Residency, Sakata Orimono, Fukuoka, JP
Artist Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
CAMP Open Grant, CAMP Residency, Aulus-les-Bains, FR
2025 Takako Sano Student Scholarship, Glass Art Society, Seattle, WA
2025 Workshop Financial Aid, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2024 Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2022 Nominator, 2024 Brandford Elliott Award,Textile Society of America, IL
Outstanding Award, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Glen Ellyn, IL
2021 Novak Pekins Full Scholarship, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC
Clay Morrison Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2020 Lenore G. Tawney Foundation Scholarship, MICA,Baltimore, MD
2019 International Outstanding Scholarship,MICA,Baltimore, MD
Drawing Department Scholarship,MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017 Neil and Sayra Meyerhoff Scholarship,MICA, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED LECTURES/PANELS/PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS

2024 Xiaoshan Huabian Workshop, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Xiaoshan Huabian Workshop, Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Chicago, IL
Zha ran Workshop, Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Chicago, IL
Xiaoshan Huabian Workshop, Fiber + Materials Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2022 Artist Lecture, “Flowing Ambivalence”, Fiber + Materials Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2021 Artist Lecture, “Xiaoshan huabian-Lace”, Fiber + Materials Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Artist Panel, VisArts Center, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 Rivers Qinnan Zhu X Luwei Shan Two persons exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (TBD)
Rivers Qinnan Zhu X Meixuan Li Two persons exhibition, US (TBD)
Lost and Absence, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2024 Gallery Opening and 2024 Counting Down Exhibition, Xiang Space, Ningbo, China
The Kanagawa Art Exhibition 2024, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
The Dyeing and Weaving Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
The Fourth China Japan Fiber Art Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo,Japan
Elsewhere Dafu Store Opening Exhibit, DAFU Store, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Trace with the thread- Lace on an enclosed island, SITE Gallery, Chicago, IL(solo show)
Once: 2023 Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit, Cleve Carney Museum of Art,Glen Ellyn, IL
On Purple, London Art Collective Gallery, London, UK
Unwinding / Unwound,the Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL
Curator: Michelle Grabner, Painting Department Chair of School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Graduate Exhibition Two, SAIC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Creating Our Own Home, 280 Building Ceramics Department Gallery 1922,Chicago, IL
2022 Grand Rising: On Feeling and Interbeing, SAIC Wellness Center, Chicago, IL
Graduate Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2021 NextGen 8.0, VisArts Center, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023 Anne Skaug & Delaina Doshi, “Unwinding / Unwound Exhibition Spotlight”, Surface Design
Association, October 20, 2023
Xiao daCunha, “Discover five new Chicagoland artists”, Chicago Reader, October 27, 2023
Joe Rosenthal, “SAIC’s Graduate Exhibition Offers a Primer on Chicago’s Best Emerging Artists”, Insidehook, May 19, 2023
MuRan, “Xiaoshan Huabian and its cultivating stitches'”, Yueliang Zongdui, May 11, 2023