Xiaoyue Cao is a contemporary painter and art educator whose practice spans oil painting, watercolour, and mixed media. Her work is informed by a strong foundation in Eastern painting traditions and years of academic training, while engaging with contemporary visual language and material exploration.
Cao began her formal art training in high school and completed degrees in Fine Art and Art Education, specialising in painting and figurative studies. Since graduating with her Master’s degree, she has worked as a university art lecturer, maintaining an active studio practice alongside teaching and research.
Her paintings are process-driven and intuitive, often exploring atmosphere, memory, and the emotional presence of the human figure or landscape. Rather than referencing traditional imagery directly, Cao draws on the discipline of line, spatial sensitivity, and material awareness developed through her early training, translating these elements into contemporary forms of painting.
Cao has held solo exhibitions and participated in national-level exhibitions in China. She continues to develop her practice through painting, exhibition, and cross-cultural dialogue, creating works that sit between structure and freedom, tradition and experimentation.