born   Cleveland, Ohio, 1970

education   The Ohio State University, BFA, 1993,
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College,  MFA, 2001

Xan Palay is an installation sculptor living in Columbus, Ohio.  She exhibits her work regionally, nationally and  internationally.  She has received Individual Artist Fellowships  from the Ohio Arts Council and Arts Midwest. In 2000 she was awarded an Artists Project grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Xan Palay has been a resident artist at the Contemporary Artist's Center in Massachusetts (‘94), at the Yaddo colony in New York (holding the Louise Bourgeois Endowed Residency (‘96), and at the Kohler Arts/Industry program in Wisconsin (‘00).  She has been a visiting artist at The Ohio State University, Hastings College in Nebraska, Aichi University of Education, Aichi, Japan, Tokyo Glass Art Institute,Tokyo, Japan and at the Forest  of Creation, Kanazu, Japan. In 2000 she installed a permanent public sculpture of the rooftop of the SPACES gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. Bead Game, an outdoor sculpture, was installed in Kingston, NY as part of the Kingston Biennial in 2003. Her work was highlighted in a solo show, As Wishes Still Helped, at the Columbus Museum of Art in 2005 and These Things Still Travel Along Wires at the Springfield Museum of Art in 2006. Palay's audio recording, An Introduction to Inequalities, will be heard in the Sound Art Limo, curated by Holly Crawford, at the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia.