Born in Tianjin, China
Lives and works in Munich and Shanghai

Studied architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai Master Degree in Architecture from Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Master thesis on "Visual Information and its Communication"

German Scholarship for advanced studies (Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft) in Germany
Travel within Europe to major architectural sites

Work for doctoral thesis on "The Conceptual Background of Classical Chinese Architecture"at the University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Advanced studies in directing at the Hochschule fuer Film und Fernsehen, Munich, Germany

Assistant lecturer at Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Assistant lecturer at Munich University of Technology, Germany

Lecturer at the Fachhochschule in Munich, teaching ancient Chinese architecture and landscape architecture

Freelance artist/regular member of the National Visual Artists' Association of Germany (BBK, Berufsverband bildender Kuenstler)

Shuttling between Germany and China, engaged in photography, writing, publishing (25 books), exhibitions and workshops

Professor for Art Photography at Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Advisory professorship at National University, Beijing, China

Art concept for Anting New Town (German City)/individual contribution Studio "Xiao Hui Wang Art Workshop", Tongji University

Hotel project, Yangzhou (interior design)/general planning and design of the office buildings of Jiuquan Steel Company/responsible with the architect Yu Lin for design and construction of the Muslim Restaurant, Shanghai, China

Research programme on Shanghai residences under Prof. Max Baecher, exhibition at the International Trade Fair in Hanover

Revamping "Xiao Hui Wang Art Workshops" space at Tongji University,
Shanghai/re-design of 2 private apartments with studios

Script writer for Chinese sections "XI'AN AND CULTURE IN TANG DYNASTY", "EMEI MOUNTAIN AND BUDDHIST CULTURE", "TAI MOUNTAIN AND TAOIST CULTURE" in the television series "THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF THE WORLD", produced by Bavaria Television

Consultant for the documentary film "FAMILIES IN BEIJING COURTYARD HOUSE", a German & Chinese co-production

"THE BROKEN MOON" (script, direction), a black-and-white 35mm film/"THE CHAIR", a Chinese, Hong Kong and Japanese co-production (artistic supervisor, assistant director)/direction and co-production of the documentary film "THE PEKING OPERA MAN AT THE END OF THE CENTURY" (co-director John Wate)/participation at the International Photo Festival in Herten, Germany (lecture and exhibition)

Artistic Supervisor of the film "THE CHAIR", jointly produced by producers from China, Hong Kong and Japan

Publication of the film script "BURNT OUT BLUE CANDLE"

Photo workshop"CAPTURING FEELINGS", International Photo Festival in Herten, Germany

"CREATIVE VIEWING" seminar together with Thomas Luettge at Xiao Hui Wang Art Workshop, Tongji University/curator of the exhibition "LOOKING AND THINKING WITH TEN GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHERS"

Video multimedia installation, A-Live, Shanghai Art Museum.

Multimedia installations: "FREEDOM UNLIMITED", "WE ARE THE WORLD", videos/"BETWEEN TWO WORLDS", "PEAR BLOSSOMS", "SHANGHAI NIGHT", "TIMETRACE-WATER AND TIMETRACE-LIGHT" for the exhibition "GRENZENLOS", BMW Group Pavilion, Munich

Two national awards for architectural design competitions

University award for excellence in academic achievement

Nomination for grant commended as advanced Artist (Bavaria)

Commended as "FORUM ON CULTURE" artist by the Department of Culture in Munich

Bayerische Filmfoerderung award for the script to "THE BROKEN MOON"

Highest award from the Filmkuratorium of Germany for "THE BROKEN MOON"

Special award for"THE BROKEN MOON"at the International Film Festival in Bludenz, Austria

Recommendation of the photographic collection "WOMEN TO EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 97"

Award for excellence, KODAK photography prize, China

Shanghai Book Award and Bingxin Award (National Literature Award) for "MY VISUAL DIARY 15 YEARS IN GERMANY"

National Literature and Female Authors' award for "MY VISUAL DIARY 15 YEARS IN GERMANY"

"LICHT UND WIDERSCHEIN", Werkbund Galerie, Berlin
Support Exhibition Kuenstlerwerkstatt, Munich (group show)

Xiao Hui Wang Photography AGFA Center, Munich

"CHINA AVANTGARDE", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Photographic Review, Art Museum, Shanghai
"VISUAL DIARY AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH DEATH" International Photo Festival, Herten, Germany
"VISUAL DIARY AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH DEATH", Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany

Century Woman National Museum of Art, Peking (group show)
"CONTEMPORARY PHOTO ART FROM CHINA AND XIAO HUI WANG", Kunsthalle Darmstadt
"FRAUENBILDER", Photogalerie, No Name, Basel

"XIAO HUI WANG", Photography Arts Center, Hongkong
"FRAUENBILDER UND DIE NEUE ABSTRAKTION", Haus der Fotografie, Hanover, Germany
Gruber Exhibition Fotogalerie Lichtblick, Cologne (group show)
"SHANGHAI IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD'S TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS", (group show)
"SHANGHAI IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD'S TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS", (group show, touring exhibition)

Participation in "1st FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN ASIA", Dhaka, Bangladesh

"EROTIC FLOWERS AND ABSTRACT BODIES", Open Air Exhibition on LED screen during Asia Pacific Week, Berlin, Germany
"ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY", Photogalerie im Kulturzentrum, Mannheim
"DIE SCHAUKEL", Das Gelbe Haus Museum, Flims, Switzerland (group show)

"CLOSE TO THE EYES", Exhibition Center, the Bavarian Insurance Co., Munich, Germany
"WOMEN AND SELF-PORTRAITS", German Cultural Center, Taipeh, Taiwan
"ABSTRACTING FLOWERS",Gallery Elo Art, Ischia
"THAI NIGHT LANDSCAPE", Photokina, Cologne (group show), Germany
"A BLAZE OF COLOURS", Taiwan International Arts Center (TIVAC), Taipeh
"CONCEPTUALISING PHOTOGRAPHY", International Fotofestival Pingyao, Shanxi, China
"SPEED", Volkswagen Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
"LOOKING INSIDE OUT: CONCEPTUALISING PHOTOGRAPHY", Photography and Multimedia Show, Millenium Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
"ROTER LOTUS", Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany

"RED CHILD", Series, Shanghai Huang Pu Art Museum, China
"TWO PEOPLE SHOW" with Jock Sturges, European Art Expo, Walter Storms Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany
"THE EROS OF FLOWERS", (Photography, Video·Multimedia Installation), Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"DAJIA: STUDYING ON DESIGN FROM CONTEMPORARY ART" (group show).

"RED CHILD", Series, Art Thiess Galerie, Munich, Germany
"THE EROS OF FLOWERS", Kunstkreis Townhall, Graefelfing
"BETWEEN TWO WORLDS", Club Na Brestskoy, House of Photography, Fotobiennale, Moscow, Russia
"ART IN BLOOM", Upper Eastside Townhouse, New York, USA
"GRENZENLOS", (photography, video·multimedia installation), BMW Group Pavilion, Munich, Germany
"DIALOGUE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST", (moderation and design of a series of cultural events
"EROTIC FLOWERS", Garlerie Scalo, Zurich, Switzerland
"A-LIVE", exhibition tour, Tianjin Museum, Tianjin
"A-LIVE", exhibition tour, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
"EROTIC FLOWERS", Art Cologne (Storms Gallery), Germany
"EROTIC FLOWERS", Photo New York (Scalo Gallery), USA

Sehen und Erleben: Muenchen (photographs), Munich
Heimat des Drachens (text and photographs), Dortmund
Chinesische Klassische Architektur und Gartenbaukunst, Fachhochschule Muenchen

Sehen und Erleben: Sachsen, (photographs), Munich
Sehen und Erleben: Prag, (photographs), Munich

Merian live: Bangkok (text and photographs), Munich
Keine Angst vor duenner Luft (photographs on successful women in Germany), Frankfurt, New York

Blue Candle Burnt Out (film script, published in Chinese), Shanghai
various film and television publications

Frauenbilder (photographs and text), Heidelberg
Xiao Hui Wang Photographic Review (concept), Hong Kong

Architecture and its Communication (concept in Chinese), Tianjin
Toechter des halben Himmels (text and photographs), Frankfurt, Xiao Hui Wang
Abstract Photography (photographs), Heidelberg

My Visual Diary 15 - Years in Germany (in Chinese), Shanghai
Close to the Eyes (photographs and text), Munich, London, New York, Conceptualising Photography-Beyond Being, Shanghai
Abstracting Flowers, Elo Art Galerie, Ischia, exhibition catalogue

Conceptualising Photography - Shades of Existences, Shanghai, China

Conceptualising Photography - The Eros of Flowers, Shanghai Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, Shanghai

The Eros of Flowers, telephone card collectors' book, China Telecom

Feng Jicai: 100 People in 10 Years (interviews about the Cultural Revolution), Literature and Art Publishing, Jiansu

How to live in Shanghai? (publication accompanying research project under Prof. Max Baecher), Technical University (cat.), Darmstadt

China der Frauen, Frauenoffensive Verlag, Munich

Architecture and Literature (cat.), China Architecture Publishing, Beijing

China Avant-garde (cat.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Internationale Fototage Herten, Edition Braus, Heidelberg

Nude Photography: Masterpieces from the past 150 Years, 60 selected photographs, Prestel Publishing, Munich, London, New York.

Shanghai: In the Eyes of the World's Top Photographers, Shanghai Publishing, Shanghai

World photographers focusing on Beijing, Foreign Cultural Exchange Service Center Beijing
First Festival of Photography in Asia (cat.), Dhaka
Photographic Work in Chinese Art Dictionary of the 20th Century, 70 selected photographers, Shanghai

Fotobiennale Moscow (cat.).