Sophia Jiaqi Xu 徐嘉琦 (b. Guangdong, China) is a photographer based in Amsterdam. Her practice interweaves photography and printed matter, exploring the materiality and temporal conditions of images.

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Contact: sophia.jiaqi.xu@gmail.com
Commissioned photography: exhibition & project documentation



EDUCATION


2021-2024     Photography, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020-2021     Photography, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, Netherlands


PUBLICATIONS

1, group | matter, group works, print on demand as an edition of 10 (+5AP), published 2026
Untitled, lines, self-published, 2025
Variations, self-published, ISBN 9789090386195, edition of 285, 2024
because an original is a copy, published by bring your own book, ISBN 9789083416588, edition of 50, 2024
From the Edge, self-published, first print of 30 in 2023, reprint edition of 30 in 2025

Dreamscape
, self-published, edition of 14, 2022

Time Square Calling, self-published, edition of 28, 2022
The Shallows, edition of 6, collaboration with Miles Schleifer, Mabel Ranselli, Sybren Tieleman, Rodrigo Munnecom, and Vincent Zedelius, 2022    
DAYS
, self-published, edition of 14, 2021

Winter in the Netherlands
, self-published, edition of 30, 2021
Evidence
, self-published, first print of 30 and reprint edition of 30 in 2020



EXHIBITIONS
 
· No Fixed Outcome, group exhibition, House of Art at House of Communication Amsterdam, September 24, 2026 - August 2027
· ‘paralelepípedo: about paradoxical dreams, bodies and imaginaries’, group exhibition, KunstRAI x Rietveld, RAI Amsterdam, April 22-26, 2026

· Library, group exhibition (group | matter), Lewisham Arthouse, London, March 26-April 5, 2026
· Outland Publishing Fair, book presentation, Copeland Gallery, London, April 17-19, 2026

· Zomer in zwart-wit, group exhibition, Schietbaan, Marineterein, Amsterdam, July 4-August 7, 2025
· Contemporary artist’s books, group exhibition, Le Plac’Art Photo, Paris, October 8-31, 2025
· Athens Art Book Fair, book presentation, Stoa Tristrato, Athens, October 3-5, 2025

· All Access Archive, group exhibition, De Bouwput, Enter Enter, Amsterdam, 2025
· Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, July 3-7, 2024

· Shadowplay, solo exhibition, IRIS, Arles, France, August 26-October 1, 2023

· Rietveld Uncut: The Shallows, group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 23-26, 2022
· Green Chaud!, group exhibition, Rietveld Fedlev, Amsterdam, 2022


BOOKFAIRS
 
· DRUK, Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 29, 2026 (group | matter)
· bring your own book fair, Loods6, Amsterdam, October 16-17, 2026 (group | matter)

· INDIECON, Gleishalle Oberhafen, Hamburg, Germany, September 5-6, 2026 (Sprout Publish)
· GLUE, ICA London, September 13, 2026 (group | matter)
· Biblioteka Art Book Fair, The Warburg Institute, London, June 12-13, 2026 (group | matter)

· A Bigger Book Fair, Peckham24, London, 2026 (group | matter)

· DRUK, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2025 (DIABP)
· Offprint Paris, Césure, Paris, 2025 (DIABP)
· Super Books 6, Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany, 2025 (DIABP)

· Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MOMA PS1, New York, 2025 (DIABP)

· Between Books Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Art Book Fair, Germany, 2025 (DIABP)
· Miss Read Art Book Fair, Berlin, Germany, 2025 (DIABP)
· GLUE, ICA London, 2025 (group | matter)
· A Bigger Book Fair, Peckham24, London, 2025 (group | matter)
· Gent Art Book Fair, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium, 2025 (with Sprout Publish)
· bring your own book fair, fifth edition, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2025 (Sessssion)

· Summer Book Market, Paradise, Den Haag, 2025
· Breaking even! Art Book Fair, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2024 (DIABP)

· SPREAD zinefest, Het Resort, Groningen, 2024
· Brutus Winter Market, Brutus, Rotterdam, 2024
· It’s A Book, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany, 2024 (bring your own book)
· bring your own book fair, fourth edition, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2024

· bring your own book at Enter Enter, Amsterdam, 15 September - 15 October, 2023
· bring your own book fair, third edition, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2023
· Polycopies, Paris, 2023 (Rietveld Photography)
· The Other Book Fair, Quartair, Den Haag, 2022
· bring your own book fair, second edition, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2022
· Unseen Book Market, Westergas, Amsterdam, 2022 (Rietveld Photography)

· Unseen Book Market, Westergas, Amsterdam, 2021 (Rietveld Photography)