Ah Xian (born 1960) is a Chinese-born artist based in Sydney, Australia.
[1] In 1989, Xian travelled to Australia to visit the University of Tasmania.
He briefly returned to Beijing, but did not stay as the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June motivated him to leave China.
[2] Though his application was initially rejected in 1989, he was granted residency in Australia in 1995.
[3] Ah Xian has held several other art installations aside from the ones mentioned above.