Sophia Jiaqi Xu 徐嘉琦

(b. Guangdong, China) photographer based in Amsterdam. Working across photography, printmaking, and bookmaking,  she explores the transformative life of images through material processes. Her practice moves between abstraction and the physicality of printed matter, focusing on how images shift across time, perception, and the changing conditions of materials.  


sophia.jiaqi.xu@gmail.com
@sophiaxjiaqi


portfolio for commissioned documentation photography



BOOKS

2025      Untitled, lines / edition of 58
2024       Variations / edition of 285 / ISBN 9789090386195
2023       From the Edge / first print of 30, reprint edition of 30 in 2025
2022      Dreamscape / edition of 14
2022
      Time Square Calling / edition of 28
2022       The Shallows / edition of 6 / collaboration with Miles Schleifer, Mabel Ranselli, Sybren Tieleman, Rodrigo Munnecom, and Vincent Zedelius
2021        DAYS / edition of 14
2021        Winter in the Netherlands / edition of 30
2020       Evidence / first print of 30, reprint of 30



EXHIBITIONS

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

                  All Access Archive, group exhibition, at De Bouwput and Enter Enter, Amsterdam
2024       Graduation Show, July 3-7, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2023       Shadowplay, solo exhibition, August 26-October 1, at IRIS, Arles
2022       Rietveld Uncut: The Shallows, group exhibition, March 23-26, at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
                  Green Chaud!, group exhibition, at Rietveld Fedlev, Amsterdam


BOOKFAIRS

2025      DRUK, November 30, at Paradiso, Amsterdam (with DIABP)
                 Offprint Paris, November 13-16, at Césure, Paris (with DIABP)
                 Super Books 6, November 3-4, at Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany (with DIABP)

                 Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, September 11-14, at MOMA PS1, New York (with DIABP)

                 Between Books Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Art Book Fair, September 19-21, Germany (with DIABP)
                 Miss Read Art Book Fair, June 13-15, Berlin, Germany (with DIABP)
                 GLUE, ICA Art Book Fair, September 13-14, London (with group | matter)
                 A Bigger Book Fair, May 16-18, at Peckham24, London (with group | matter)
                 Gent Art Book Fair, May 3-4, at Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (with Sprout Publish)
                 bring your own book fair, October 10-11, at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (with Sessssion)

                 Summer Book Market, August 30, at Paradise, Den Haag
2024      Breaking even! Art Book Fair, December 14, at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (with DIABP)
                 SPREAD zinefest, September 29, at Het Resort, Groningen
                 Brutus Winter Market, December 8, at Brutus, Rotterdam
                 It’s A Book, March 23, at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany (with byob)
                 bring your own book fair, May 10, at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2023      bring your own book at Enter Enter, September 14-October 14, Amsterdam
                 bring your own book fair, May 25-26, at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
                 Polycopies, November 8-12, Paris (with Rietveld Photography)
2022      The Other Book Fair, May 27-29, at Quartair, Den Haag
                 bring your own book fair, May 19-20, at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
                 Unseen Book Market, September 15-18, at Westergas, Amsterdam (with Rietveld Photography)
2021      
Unseen Book Market, September 17-19, at Westergas, Amsterdam (with Rietveld Photography)


EDUCATION

2021-2024     Photography BA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2020-2021     Photography BA, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam (NL)
2017-2018      Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai (CN)
2014-2017      Shenzhen Art High School, Shenzhen (CN)