Ukraine. Every Day.

In partnership with Branch 113 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), the UIA presents a special evening with Chinese artist and professor, Weixin Xu, who has created a drawing every day since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Featured recently in the Wall Street Journal, Professor Xu will share reflections on using art as a form of witness and resistance in times of war. 

With this event, UNWLA Branch 113 marks its 40th anniversary as an organization of women of Ukrainian descent committed to supporting humanitarian efforts around the world and celebrating the rich legacy of Ukraine’s artistic heritage.

$20 General Admission
$15 UIA Friends
$10 UIA Members
$10 Members of UNWLA Branch #113

About Professor Weixin Xu

Weixin Xu was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, in 1958, and now lives and works in New York and Beijing. He received a BA from the Xi’an Academy of Arts and an MFA from the Zhejiang Academy of Arts. Xu has combined his interest in universal human conditions with a stark Realist style that is deeply rooted in China’s modern art history. His most recent works are single-person portrait series, whose subjects share the same historic time or environment, merging personal and collective narratives. Xu’s critically acclaimed works have been exhibited and collected by public institutions and private collections in China. Solo exhibitions include Song of Workers (Shanghai Art Museum, 2007), Chinese Historical Figures: 1966-1976  (Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2007), and China Image: Portrait in Circulation  (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2011). He is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts, Renmin University, Beijing. In 2016, Xu had his first major solo exhibition in USA at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).