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Commission - NOAA: A fall towards home - Hyundai Art Lab
Video - Meet Me in London - Xin Liu featured on FRIEZE
Talk - Digital Cosmos with Hartwig Art Foundation
Talk - Pratt Institute, New York
Exhibitions:
SPACE: Internal Illuminations - Fotografiska, Shanghai
Cosmos Falling - The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, US
From Signal to Screen - M+ Cinema, Hong Kong
Thresholds of Becoming - esea, Manchester, UK
Press:
New Currents: Xin Liu Asia Art Pacific
Xin Liu on Generational Issue 44 CURA Magazine
With Plastic-Eating Enzymes, Xin Liu Critiques Consumerism on FRIEZE
- NOAA
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NOAA: A fall towards home Ground Station Earth Is An Image Atlas Seeing through the Eyes of Gods, You Have Mistaken Yourself for Him NOAA
| Year |
Title |
Institution |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Insomnia | Public Gallery at Frieze London | London, UK |
| Second Body | David Kordansky Gallery | Los Angeles, USA | |
| Cosmos Archaeology | National Museum of China | Beijing, China | |
| Behind that Arctic Wall Lies a Paradise | Museo de Arte Zapopan | Jalisco, Mexico | |
| The Permanent and the Insatiable (solo) | Management Gallery | New York, USA | |
| The Theater of Metamorphoses | Make Room Gallery at Frieze LA | Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2024 | Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice | Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, USA |
| Open Sky | Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College | Claremont, USA | |
| Space City | Asia Society Texas Center | Houston, 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 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, USA | |
| Self Devourer (solo) | Make Room Gallery | Los Angeles, 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, 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, USA |
| Living/Distance |
Make Room Gallery | Los Angeles, USA | |
| Prologue: A Falling Tooth (solo) | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, USA | |
| Supassing r=a(1-sinθ) | Qimu Space | Beijing, China | |
| A glitch in the stars | Ars Electronica | Linz, Austria |
Portraits for download
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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