Tao Xian's works are full of reflections and deep thoughts on the current social environment, the collision of reason and sensibility, coexistence and trade-offs, as well as challenges to the single visual and psychological experience of narrative.

She employs images and texts that are both ambiguous and vague as well as meticulous and precise to search for an uncharted spiritual space; using contrasting colors, composition, and brushstrokes to produce layer upon layer of synesthesia within metaphors. The beauty of her works dwells in a slow-moving dynamism, a kind of “metaphysical landscape” and “lively fantasia”. They portray the plane of a parallel universe that the artist, in a meditative yet conscious state, has probed and then faithfully reproduced on the canvas.

Tao Xian's major exhibitions include: solo exhibition The Nightingale is Singing, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen (2023); The Fool and Dionysus, L·AN Gallery, Shenzhen (2022); solo exhibition Déjà vu, Asian Art Platform, Singapore (2019); two person exhibition Sense Scratch (with Tao Damin), Beijing (2017); two person exhibition Phantom Pains (with Ryota Sato), Gallery 456, New York (2017); solo exhibition The Unseen, Fukiage Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan (2016). Her major group exhibitions include: Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellation, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen(2023); Beijing Contemporary Art Expo REUOION, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing (2023); The Days Before the Silent Spring, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen (2023); Design Shenzhen 2023, ShenZhen Convention & Exhibition Center, ShenZhen (2023); Autumn Fruits: Group Exhibition of Women Artists born in the 1990s, KWM Art Center, Beijing (2021); Star Start: International Young Artists Salon Exhibition, Rear Window Gallery, Hangzhou (2021); Blurred Boundaries, The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York (2018); I Can Because You Do, PARTICIPANT INC, New York (2016), etc.