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Space City - Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX, USA
Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Open Sky - Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA
SCIFI: Mythologies Transformed - Science Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Cosmos Archaeology - Shanghai Astronomy Museum, Shanghai, China,宇宙考古 - 探索时空的科学艺术之旅｜上海天文馆，中国上海
The 4th Xinjiang International Art Biennale 2024 - Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China 腹地脉动——第四届中国新疆国际艺术双年展｜新疆美术馆，中国乌鲁木齐
Photographic Geomancy - Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China 相地堪舆——图像、田野与地理的诗学｜广东时代美术馆，中国广州
Poetry by the Barbarian - ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China 野蛮人写诗｜ASE基金会，中国上海
| Year |
Title |
Institution |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice | Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, USA |
| Open Sky | Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College | Claremont, California, USA | |
| Space City | Asia Society Texas Center | Houston, TX, USA | |
| Poetry by the Barbarian | 野蛮人写诗 | ASE Foundation | Shanghai, China | |
| Photographic Geomancy ｜ 相地堪舆——图像、田野与地理的诗学 | Guangdong Times Museum | Guangzhou, China | |
| Glad Rags - Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany |
Jan Kaps Gallery | Cologne, Germany | |
| Scales in Flames | 燃烧的尺度 | 185 of Shanghai Bund Art Center | Shanghai, China | |
| To Supplement the Fragment | Public Gallery | London, UK | |
| Gleaming Bodies (solo) | Sapporo International Art Festival | Sapporo, Japan | |
| 2023 | The 3rd Thailand Biennale: The Open World | Thailand Biennale | Chiang Rai, Thailand |
| The 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema | 第十四届上海双年展：宇宙电影 | Power Station of Art | Shanghai, China | |
| Offworlds | Yve Yang Gallery | New York, USA | |
| The 4th Future of Today Biennial: To Your Eternity | 第四届今日未来馆: 致不灭的你 | Today Art Museum | Beijing, China | |
| At the End of Everything (solo) |
ARTPACE | San Antonio, Texas, USA | |
| Seedlings and Offsprings (solo) |
Pioneer Works |
Brooklyn, NY, USA | |
| Self Devourer (solo) |
Make Room Gallery | Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Plásmata II/ Ioannina | Onassis Foundation | Athens, Greece | |
| 2022 | The Earth is An Image (online) |
M+ Museum | Hong Kong, China |
| The Disconnected Generation | Song Art Museum | Beijing, China | |
| In Solidarity with_? OCAT & KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition |
OCAT Shanghai | Shanghai, China | |
| Science Fiction and Hallucination | MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art | Rome, Italy | |
| 2021 | The Ground is Falling (solo) | Aranya Art Center | Beidaihe, China |
| Synthetic Wilderness | Honor Fraser Gallery | Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Blue Cable in Venetian Watercourse | 他山之石 | Power Station of Art | Shanghai, China | |
| OCAT Biennale Nüwa Elysium | 飞去来器 OCAT 双年展: 女娲极乐园 |
OCAT Shenzhen | Shenzhen, China | |
| 2020 | New Frontier Official Selection |
Sundance Film Festival | Park City, UT, USA |
| Living/Distance |
Make Room Gallery | Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Prologue: A Falling Tooth (solo) |
Museum of Arts and Design | New York. NY, USA | |
| Supassing r=a(1-sinθ) |
Qimu Space | Beijing, China | |
| A glitch in the stars | Ars Electronica | Linz, Austria |
Xin LIU is an artist and engineer. She creates experiences/experiments to take measurements in our personal, social, and technological spaces in a post-metaphysical world: between gravity and homeland, sorrow and the composition of tears, gene sequencing, and astrology. Her work resides between the measurable and ineffable, seeking tensions and reconciliations at macro- and micro-scales beyond our daily experiences. Her recent research and interest center around the verticality of space, extraterrestrial explorations, and cosmic metabolism: the metabolism of our planet and how it has been affected by technological infrastructures in the past few decades.
Xin is an artist-in-residence at SETI Institute, an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab, a researcher at Antikythera, Berggren Institute, the founding Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT Media Lab, and the Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech (2024-25). Her recent institutional solo exhibitions include Seedings and Offsprings at Pioneer Works, New York, and At the End of Everything at ARTPACE, San Antonio. In 2024, she participated in Rhizome’s flagship program, 7x7 and joined the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University as the first artist-in-residence in the Houston Asian American Archive. Xin is joining Cornell Tech as a visiting fellow in its 2024-2025 academic year.
She has been commissioned by institutions including Artnet (UK), BMW Culture Group, M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Aranya Art Center (China), Ars Electronica (Austria), Rhizome (USA), Media Art Xploration Festival (USA), and Onassis Foundation (US & Europe). Her works have been exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale (2023), Thailand Biennale (2023), National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome (2022), MoMA PS1(2022), Sundance Film Festival (2020), etc.
Xin is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the inaugural K11 Artist Prize, Karman Fellowship, Porches Chinese Young Artist of the Year, Silver Arts Project in the World Trade Center , Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, X Museum Triennial Award, the Van Lier Fellowship from Museum of Arts and Design, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, inaugural Europe ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency with Ars Electronica, SXSW Interactive Innovation Award, Core 77 Interaction Design Award, Fast Company Innovation by Design Award, Queens Museum Artist Studio program, New INC, Watermill Center and Pioneer Works.
She has led and successfully launched two International Space Station payloads and one sub-orbital flight payload onboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard system, and flown three parabolic flights.
Xin graduated from MIT Media Lab with a master's in Media Arts and Sciences after her M.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.E from Tsinghua University in Beijing (Measurement, Control Technology, and Instrument).
Full CV available upon request.
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