Lantian Xie

Home Country:
Bahrain
Lives and Works:
Dubai


Lantian Xie (b. 1988, Manama) makes images about belonging and cosmopolitanism. He is particularly interested in general trading, hotel lobbies, broasted chicken, and those peacocks that roam around DIFC. Xie holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is editor-at-large at Dubai-based publishing practice THE STATE.

Lantian Xie was a participant of Tashkeel's Critical Practice Programme 2017.

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Selected Artworks

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Lantian Xie

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  • 2014
  • Hardees UAE home-delivery hotline holding music pressed to vinyl
  • Excerpt from Wong Kar Wai's Days of Being Wild.
    Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.
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Home-delivery motorcycle parked outside

Lantian Xie

Home-delivery motorcycle parked outside

  • 2014
  • . Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.
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HHSM

Lantian Xie

HHSM

  • 2012
  • Oil on canvas, state mandate
  • Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.
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Turn the Cold Weather into Sun and Fun

Lantian Xie

Turn the Cold Weather into Sun and Fun

  • 2015
  • Lecure performance
  • Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.
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Chicago Beach Hotel

Lantian Xie

Chicago Beach Hotel

  • 2014
  • Colour pencil on paper
  • Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.
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Meridian

Lantian Xie

Meridian

  • 2014
  • 1950s lithographs by John Fabreau from 1920s drawings by Daniel G. Elliot.
  • Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.
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Critical Practice Programme 2016 - 2017

Following the success of the first edition of the Critical Practice Programme, this year Tashkeel has selected through open call Hadeyeh Badri, Lantian Xie, and Raja'a Khalid as participants of the 20...

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