Ah Xian is a Chinese born artist based in Sydney, Australia.

Ah Xian was a practising artist in China throughout the 1980s. He sought political asylum in Australia following the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...

 and moved to Sydney in 1990. He started work on porcelain casting in the 1990s, and produced the China China and Human Human series of busts and figures.

Awards and honors

• In 2001, he won the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize.

• In 2009, he won the final Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
  Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
  The Clemenger Contemporary Art Award was a major, triennial, invitational art prize organised under the auspices of the National Gallery of Victoria and funded by the philanthropists Joan and Peter Clemenger. The Clemengers' gift was made in 1991 and the first award was made in 1993. The final...
  
   from the National Gallery of Victoria
  National Gallery of Victoria
  The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
  
  . He was awarded the prize of $50,000 for his work, Concrete forest.

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