Jiang Xiaoyu was born in 1990 in Dazu, Chongqing, China. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the Oil Painting Department from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014, a master’s degree from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2020. He currently lives and works in Chongqing.

Jiang Xiaoyu's paintings are restrained and introspective, and he tries to eliminate as much redundancy and complexity as possible from the everyday scenes or materials, so that the images become focused and pure. Through the insight and heterogeneity of this single image, Jiang Xiaoyu attempts to portray the complex encounters of individual lives in real-life situations, thus revealing and metaphorizing the inner activities that arise when people are generally faced with a changing and turbulent world. Jiang Xiaoyu's work diminishes the narrative as much as possible, instead, it focuses more on the exploration and communication of emotions and the spiritual world. These seemingly obscure, absurd and treacherous contents, which at the same time reveal innocence, loveliness and interest, are both vivid and poetic.