Wu Xueli
BORN: 1962
HOMETOWN: BEIJING, CHINA
LIVES AND WORKS: SINGAPORE
Born in 1962 in Beijing, China, Wu Xueli is an artist who specialises in oil painting. Before migrating to Singapore in 1991, she graduated from the Department of Linguistics Arts at the Beijing Institute of International Politics in 1984. She has also earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute (RMIT) in Australia. From 1985 to 1987, she taught at the Art Academy of Qing Hua University (formerly known as the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts), exhibiting for the first time in 1985 at the Chinese Avant-Garde Artists Exhibition at the British Embassy in Beijing. She has since established the Wu Xueli Gallery in Singapore in 2017 and is currently a lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), having participated in many group exhibitions and holding numerous solo exhibitions throughout her career as an artist.
Xueli paints in an abstract style with a wide variety of colours, making her paintings stand out vibrantly and beautifully. Previously, she mostly drew inspiration from sceneries in nature and her surroundings. Now, with her abstract art, she lets the rhythm and flow of her colours on the canvas guide her.
Collectors of her works include the China Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum, OdysseyRe Corporation in France, Li Ke Ran Art Foundation, Song Art Foundation, various art organisations and private connoisseurs in China and abroad.