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Her practice works within the entropic aftermath of scientific and industrial ambition, 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.
Her work operates across material and algorithmic systems. On the material level, she traces how matter is extracted, transformed, and degraded through processes of accumulation, decay, and redistribution. In parallel, she develops computational systems that enact these dynamics algorithmically, generating patterns of growth, erosion, and emergence through local rules and distributed interactions. Across both domains, Liu treats matter and computation as continuous substrates through which metabolic processes unfold.
Liu’s background rigorously bridges contemporary art and advanced scientific research. She 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. As the first author, she has published in Nature Microgravity and received a lasting impact award for her paper at The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference.
She currently leads creative and strategy at Episteme, a research organisation dedicated to advancing translational science. Her prior research and artistic positions include Artist-in-Residence at the SETI Institute and founding Arts Curator of the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, and she is a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech (2024–25).
Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and participation in the Uzbekistan National Pavilion for La Biennale di Venezia 2026
She has been commissioned by institutions including Hyundai Artlab, Moody Center for the Arts, LAS Foundation, Google Arts and Culture, Artnet, BMW Culture Group, M+ Museum, Ars Electronica, Rhizome, and the Onassis Foundation. Her work has appeared in the Shanghai Biennale; Thailand Biennale; 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, 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).
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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