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Xinia Guan

Jewelry professor

Education

  • M.F.A., jewelry, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.A., Chinese language and literature, Inner Mongolia University

Credentials

  • Professor of jewelry, 2024–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Selected Artist of SCAD Alumni Atelier, Spring 2023
  • Best of Show, The 46th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, Philadelphia, 2022
  • Excellence Prize, Japan Jewelry Competition, Japan, 2022
  • BKV-Preis Young Applied Arts finalist, Munich, 2022
  • Winner, PRESIOSE YOUNG, Italy, 2021
  • Bronze, 15th Annual IDA Rewards, Accessory/Jewelry Student Category, 2021
  • Bronze, 14th Annual IDA Rewards, Accessory/Jewelry Student Category, 2020
  • Athens Awards, Athens Jewelry Week, Greece, 2020
  • First place, Swarovski Design Challenge, 2019
  • Silver, 13th Annual IDA Awards, Accessory/Jewelry Student Category, 2019

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • Magazine: Metalsmith. Front cover/FLOW: Searching for Infinity by Leslie Shershow. Vol 42 No 1- 2022.
  • Magazine: Ornament. Vol.42. No.3 2021, p. 57
  • Magazine: Munich Jewelry Week 2021 + Current Obsession- Crucible, p. 4
  • Growth & Evolution International Jewelry Exhibition. Sun, Herman. China Modern Publishing House Limited: Hong Kong, 2020
  • Online article: The Time Zone. Master's degree Thesis by Xinia Guan
  • Online article: IDA Design Awards 2019 Student Winner. IDA Design Awards: Los Angeles, 2019
  • Catalog: 2022 Japan Jewelry Competition
  • Catalog: PREZIOSA YOUNG 2021, Italy
  • Catalog: BKV-Preis Young Applied Arts finalist, Munich
  • Catalog: JOYA Barcelona Art Jewelry & Objects 2019. Le-Department: Barcelona, 2019

Exhibitions and shows

  • The 47th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, Philadelphia, 2023
  • Smithsonian Craft 2 Wear, Washington D.C., 2023
  • Through the Garden Gate Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition, Shanghai, 2023
  • Purifying the Soul Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition, Qinghai/Beijing, 2023
  • Matter of Form, Adornaxis Gallery at Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, 2023
  • ASIA MON AMOUR Exhibition, Charon Kransen Arts, NYC Jewelry Week, New York, 2022
  • The 46th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, Philadelphia, 2022
  • Japan Jewelry Competition Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022
  • From These Hands, Pistachio Gallery, Chicago, 2022
  • BKV-Preis Young Applied Arts, finalist, Munich, 2022
  • PREZIOSA YOUNG 2021, Florence Jewelry Week, Italy, 2022
  • MAD About Jewelry, MAD Museum, New York, 2021
  • The 45th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, Philadelphia, 2021
  • Until Death Do Us Part Exhibition, Alliages/ Schmuck Munich Jewelry Week, France/Germany, 2021
  • American Craft Exposition, online event, 2021
  • Smithsonian Craft Optimism, online event, 2021
  • Painful Hope Exhibition, Alliages/ Schmuck Munich Jewelry Week, France/Germany, 2020
  • Solo M.F.A. Thesis show-The Time Zone, USA, 2020
  • Athens Jewelry Week 2020, Athens, 2020
  • American Craft Shows, Baltimore, MD, 2020
  • Growth & Evolution International Jewelry Exhibition, Kunming, China, 2020
  • Broken Beauty Exhibition, Alliages/Schmuck Munich Jewelry Week, France/Germany, 2020
  • SCAD'S NYC Jewelry Week Pop-Up, New York, 2019
  • Mu Ian. New Age Chinese Art Jewelry Exhibition, at 2019 New York Jewelry Week, New York, 2019
  • The 43rd Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, Philadelphia, 2019
  • Selected Artists at JOYA Barcelona Art Jewelry, Spain, 2019
  • Smithsonian Craft 2 Wear, Washington D.C., 2019
  • The 37th Annual Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, D.C., 2019
  • American Craft Shows, Baltimore, MD, 2019
  • The 42nd Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, Philadelphia, 2018
  • Piece by Piece Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition, SCAD Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA, 2018