KAN Xuan was born in 1972, Xuancheng, Anhui Province. She is a visual artist whose work primarily takes the form of video, as well as photography and installation. She graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 1997 and completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She was a recipient of Holland’s Prix de Rome in 2005. Now she divides her time between Beijing and Amsterdam.