Ziqi Xu
Based in London, UK
I am an artist working in drawing and printmaking. I also run production of an editioning studio in London. My work begins in my daily work life - somewhere between a meadow and a factory, where clocks stop working, girls are working with empty hands, some of them are turning into animals. Soft and fragile, yet there is still hope. That tenderness is what I'm protecting in my images.
email: ziqi.ziqixu@gmail.com
instagram: ziqiziq1
Based in London, UK
I am an artist working in drawing and printmaking. I also run production of an editioning studio in London. My work begins in my daily work life - somewhere between a meadow and a factory, where clocks stop working, girls are working with empty hands, some of them are turning into animals. Soft and fragile, yet there is still hope. That tenderness is what I'm protecting in my images.
instagram: ziqiziq1
Exhibitions
Derby Print Open 2026, Green Door Printmaking Studio, Derby, UK, 2026
Edition 12: Open Printmaking Exhibition, 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK, 2026
Hampstead Art Society’s Works on Paper Winter Exhibition, Regent’s Park Gallery, London, UK, 2025
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2025
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2025, Tokushima, Japan, 2025
Holding Patterns, 1831 Shop, London Deptford X, UK, 2025
Little Papers, Jock Tamson’s Gairden, Edinburgh, UK, 2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2024
Siss / Phuss, HausPrint Studio, London, UK, 2024 (solo exhibition)
Project Babel, Galleria Ratamo, Finland, 2023
Small but Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London, UK, 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2023
Mind the Gap, Black Swan Studios, London, UK, 2023
Blinds Shield Me from What I Distrust, the Crypt Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2022
RE International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Boundless, Miart Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Awards
John Purcell Paper Award - Derby Print Open 2026, Derby, UK, 2026
Honorable Mention - Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan, 2025
Thames Side Print Studio Prize - RE International Original Print Exhibition, London, UK, 2022
Education
BA Illustration (First Class Honours), University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, 2019-2022
MA Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 2017-2020
BA Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 2013-2017
Derby Print Open 2026, Green Door Printmaking Studio, Derby, UK, 2026
Edition 12: Open Printmaking Exhibition, 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK, 2026
Hampstead Art Society’s Works on Paper Winter Exhibition, Regent’s Park Gallery, London, UK, 2025
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2025
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2025, Tokushima, Japan, 2025
Holding Patterns, 1831 Shop, London Deptford X, UK, 2025
Little Papers, Jock Tamson’s Gairden, Edinburgh, UK, 2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2024
Siss / Phuss, HausPrint Studio, London, UK, 2024 (solo exhibition)
Project Babel, Galleria Ratamo, Finland, 2023
Small but Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London, UK, 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2023
Mind the Gap, Black Swan Studios, London, UK, 2023
Blinds Shield Me from What I Distrust, the Crypt Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK, 2022
RE International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Boundless, Miart Gallery, London, UK, 2022
Awards
John Purcell Paper Award - Derby Print Open 2026, Derby, UK, 2026
Honorable Mention - Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan, 2025
Thames Side Print Studio Prize - RE International Original Print Exhibition, London, UK, 2022
Education
BA Illustration (First Class Honours), University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, 2019-2022
MA Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 2017-2020
BA Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 2013-2017