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EDUCATION

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          University of Pennsylvania，Weitzman School of Design 

          MFA

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          Beijing Forestry University, College of Water and Soil Conservation

          Ph.D.

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          China Agricultural University, School of Agronomy

          BS

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SOLO EXHIBITION

 

(Upcoming), Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia,  PA 2027

Stumbling Through, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia,  PA 2024

Conscious Disruptions, Jianshexiang Gallery, Beijing, China 2021

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

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• $99 Exhibition, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2025

• THIS TOO IS A THRESHOLD, AUTOMAT Gallery, Phildelphia, PA 2025

• 3rd Annual Kingdom Animalia - 2024, Exhibizone  2024

• Art Ability, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, PA 2024-2025

• No Take-Backs, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2024

• EIGHT: THIS IS HOW TO COME HOME, Vox Populi Gallery, PHiladelphia, PA 2024

• (re)Focus at City Hall, Art In Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2024

• William Way LGBT Community Center’s 18th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Frank’s, Philadelphia, PA 2024

• RBSA Friends Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK 2024

• ARTWORKS OPEN, St. Petersburge Gallery, FL 2024

• Transcendent Mess (5 person show), Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2024

•  Slapstick Polyphonies, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• $99 Exhibition, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• Member Holiday Show, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• Lino Kino for the Five Year Anniversary, Fringe Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• Ornaphonism, Flux Factory, New York, NY 2023

• Sonic Expression: Music+Art, Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ 2023

•  ATTERMATH: UPenn MFA Satellite Show, WorthlessStudios, Brooklyn, NY 2023  VOX POPULI XVIII: Oil of Milk, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• 5into1 Exhibition 2023, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• Away From Center, Atelier gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2023

• 215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition, Delaware County Community College, Philadelphia, PA 2022

•  Hotwork, The Charles Addams Fine Arts gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2022.

• The Ritual of Soil, Group Exhibition, No Space Gallery, online 2021​​​

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AWARDS AND HONORS

• Literary Titan Gold Book Award, Children’s Books, Nurse Florence, Why Do We Need Vitamin B2 or RRiboflavin in Our Diet?, 2024

• Artist of the week, BBA Artist Prize, 2024

• Independent Press Award, Book:Nurse Florence, 2023 ( I am working as the illustrator)

• ​NYC Big Book Award, Book:Nurse Florence, 2023 ( I am working as the illustrator)

• Public Art Residency, Arcadia University, 2023

• Monument Lab MFA Fellowship, Center for Public Art and Space, 2023

• Halpern-Rogath Independent Travel Award, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2022

• Lijing Innovation Scholarship, School of Water and Soil Conservation, Beijing  Forestry            

• University, 2013               

• Second Place, Academic Scholarship, School of Water and Soil Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, 2011, 2012       

• First Place, Academic Scholarship, Beijing Forestry University, 2010

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Professional Engagement

• Curator, All into One Exhibition, Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia, PA 2025-

• Ocarina performance, ⁠Repair Electronics Faire, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2026

• Ocarina performance. Pistil & Stamen: A Vox Populi Pollinator Party. The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden. Philadelphia, PA 2024

• Panelist, ‘EIGHT: THIS IS HOW TO COME HOME’. Vox Populi Gallery. Philadelphia, PA 2024

• Panelist, ‘transcendent mess: to outwit representation’ moderated by David Getsy, Che Gosset, and organized by Lane Speidel. LGBT Center at University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA 2024

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS​​

• Ryan deRoche and Roberta，Midweek News Podcast, Washington Post, ‘Oh, Mary!’ on Broadway, Artblog Art Market, InfoSpace Gallery, Mycology and theater picks for the week. Artblog. August 28, 2024

• A QUIET DRINK IN MOSELEY, WITH FRIENDS. I CHOOSE BIRMINGHAN. 2024

• Roberta. Mycelium and Rocks, a conversation with Chenxi Shao. Artblog. August 27, 2024

• Review: Nurse Florence, Why Do We Need Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin in Our Diet?. Literary Titan. May 4, 2024

• transcendent mass: to outwit representation. body joke press & voxpopuligallery IG. 2024

• Michael Dow, Chenxi Shao. Nurse Florence, Why Do We Need Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin in Our Diet?. Amazon, Bookshop, Booksamillion, eBay  & Lulu. 2024

• Lane Speidel. Transcendent Mess’ at Vox Populi Gallery, Exploring Trans Experience through Art. Artblog. Feb 12, 2024

• Catalog of (re)FOCUS at City Hall in partnership with WOMEN’s CAUCUS for ART and (re)FOCUS 2024 . The Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. 2024

• 23rd  5into1 Exhibition Catalog. Philadelphia Sculptor. 2023

• Michael Dow, Chenxi Shao. Nurse Florence, Why Do We Need Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin in Our Diet?. Lulu & Amazon. 2024

• Lane Speidel. transcendent Mess’ at Vox Populi Gallery, Exploring Trans Experience through Art. Artblog, Feb 12, 2024

• transcendent mass: to outwit representation, body joke press, 2024

• E-flux Education. University of Pennsylvania 2023 MFA satellite exhibition: Aftermath​

• Metro Chinese Weekly News, Philadelphia's Five Major Universities Sculptural Annual Exhibition Brings Forth an Art Storm，July 21,  2023

• Chenxi Shao, Effects of Physical Characteristics of Biological Crusts on Seed Germination, Journal of China Agricultural University, 2016, 21 (1-2): p 20-30

• Chenxi Shao and Zihe Li, Constructing Linguistic Phylogenetic Tree, International Conference on Linguistics，Peking University，2012

• Autogenous nitrogen-fixing bacteria, with 9 granted patent （Patent Nos.:201510860778.4, 201510860560.9, 201510860755.3, 201510857725.7, 201510859663.3, 201510859878.5, 201510859692.X, 201510859692.X, 201510860743.0, 30/11/2015

• Wind Power Plant, CN102868203A, 09/01/2013

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