lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
reachable on sophia.jiaqi.xu@gmail.com
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)
INVOLVEMENT & WORK EXPERIENCE
2025
Rewire Festival, Den Haag
Volunteer - assistant location manager
2024-present
DIABP - Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers
2024-present
Enter Enter - A Space for Books, Amsterdam
Exhibition host
2024-present
Freelance photographer
Works with Marwan Amsterdam, Nieuw Dakota, Studio salt, pepper, and peace, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Sandberg Instituut, and more.
Available for commissions and collaborations
see portfolio for commissioned photography
2023-2024
Public & Projects, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
In-house photographer
2023-2024
bring your own book
co-organizer, host and photographer.
Previous projects included: bring your own book fair 4th edition (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2024 May); BYOB invities! Be our guest: A symposium on publishing (Rietveld Academie, 2023 December); bring your own book at ENTER ENTER (2023 September - October); W139 hosts... bring your own file (2023 September); bring your own book fair 3rd edition (Rietveld Academie, 2023 May)
2017
e Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
Exhibition host
EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS AND BOOKS
2025
` Untitled, lines, publication, edition of 58
` From the Edge, publication, reprint edition of 30
` Untitled, lines showcased at All Access Archive at De Bouwput, Amsterdam
2024
` Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
` Variations, publication, ISBN 9789090386195, self-published, edition of 285
` because an original is a copy, publication, ISBN 9789083416588, published by bring your own book, edition of 50
2023
` Shadowplay, solo exhibition, IRIS ARLES, France
` From the Edge, publication, first edition of 30
2022
` Rietveld Uncut: The Shallows, group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
` The Shallows, publication, collaboration with Miles Schleifer, Mabel Ranselli, Sybren Tieleman, Rodrigo Munnecom, Vincent Zedelius, edition of 6
` Green Chaud!, group exhibition, Rietveld Fedlev building, Amsterdam
` Dreamscape, publication, edition of 14
` Time Square Calling, publication, edition of 28
2021
` DAYS, publication, edition of 14
` Winter in the Netherlands, publication, edition of 30
2020
` Evidence, publication, first edition of 30, reprint edition of 30
BOOKFAIRS
2025
` Ghent Art Book Fair, Stand Sprout Publish
` A Bigger Book Fair (ABBF), Stand group | matter, upcoming 16-18 May in Peckham, London
` Miss Read Berlin, Stand DIABP - Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers, upcoming 13-15 June
2024
` Breaking Even! Art Book Fair at Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Stand DIABP
` SPREAD zinefest, Het Resort, Groningen
` Brutus wintermarkt, Rotterdam
` bring your own book fair 4th edition, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
` It’s a book, Leipzig, Stand bring your own book
2023
` Polycopies, Paris, Stand bring your own book x Gerrit Rietveld Academie
` bring your own book at ENTER ENTER, Amsterdam
` bring your own book fair 3rd edition, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam
` Miss Read Berlin, Stand bring your own book
` Fanzineist Vienna, Stand Sprout Publish
2022
` Unseen book market, Amsterdam, Stand Rietveld Photography
` The Other Book Fair, Den Haag
` bring your own book fair 2nd edition, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam
2021
` bring your own book fair 1st edition, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam
` Unseen book market, Amsterdam, Stand Rietveld Photography
GRANT
` 2024 Berlagefonds