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Liu’s practice examines the entropic aftermath of technological and scientific aspiration, foregrounding exhaust as a generative state: rocket fragments falling back to Earth; cryogenic vessels suspending organic matter; genomic code rendered as unreadable scripture; plastics dissolving under enzymatic digestion; satellites logging their own obsolescence.
Taken together, her works form a constellation of metabolic worlds—a research trajectory she calls Cosmic Metabolism.
Liu is an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute, a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech (2024–25), and the founding Arts Curator of the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. She currently leads creative and culture at Episteme, a new science research institute. Recent solo exhibitions include The Permanent and the Insatiable, Management Gallery, New York (2025); At End of Everything, Artpace, San Antonio (2023); Seedlings and Offsprings, Pioneer Works, New York (2023); and Self Devourer, Make Room, Los Angeles (2022). In 2024, she participated in Rhizome’s flagship 7x7 program. Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
She has been commissioned by institutions including Hyundai Artlab, Moody Center for the Arts, Artnet, BMW Culture Group, M+ Museum, Ars Electronica, Rhizome, and the Onassis Foundation. Her work has appeared in the Shanghai Biennale; Thailand Biennale; Moody Center for the Arts, Houston; Public Gallery, London; Asia Society Texas Center, Houston; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Benton Museum of Art, Claremont; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Science Gallery London; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; MoMA PS1, New York; MAXXI, Rome; and the Sundance Film Festival.
Liu is the recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award, the inaugural K11 Artist Prize, Porches Chinese Young Artist of the Year 2021, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, the X Museum Triennial Award, the Van Lier Fellowship at the Museum of Arts and Design, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship, the ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency with Ars Electronica, the SXSW Interactive Innovation Award, the Core77 Interaction Design Award, and Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award. Recent residencies include the Delfina Foundation, London (2025); Somerset House, London (2024–present); Rice University, Houston (2024); Artpace, San Antonio (2023); Silver Art Projects, New York (2021); NEW INC, New York (2018–2020); Queens Museum, New York (2018–2020); and the Watermill Center, New York (2019).
Liu has led and successfully launched two payloads to the International Space Station and one suborbital payload onboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard system, and has flown three parabolic research flights.
She holds an M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a B.E. in Measurement, Control Technology, and Instrumentation from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
For Xin Liu’s design and technology practice, please go to
https://slowimmediate.com/
Full CV available upon request.
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