ABOUT XINYU XUXX
she / it
born in 1998, China.
currently based in London, UK
XINYU XUXX is a Chinese-born. London-based image artist and screening organiser.
She is one of the organisers of If Splash as your Whitsle 水哨, a programme showcases queer, diasporic moving images and artist films through multimedia art events.
Xinyu’s practice is based on the image as the medium, including moving images, prints, video installations, and short films. Currently, she is exploring the vulnerability and performativity of the image as a digital body, contribute to the visual intimacy and caring experience, how the image uses its own fluid body to inhabit different spaces and times, providing in-between spaces for the marginalised body in the context of diasporic queerness.
︎ instagram: xinyuiris
email: xinyuxuiris@ gmail.com
Education:
2021- 9/2023 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2020-2021 Graduate diploma, Fine Art, Royal College of Art, UK
2016-2020 BA Fashion Design, China Academy of Art, China
Exhibition / Award:
2023 July Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show
2023 May If Splash as Your Whistle, as the screening/event organiser and artist, Goldsmiths Contemporary Art Centre CCA residency space, London
2023 May collaborating short film BUBBLES shown as part of Videoclub screening in Berlin at Sameheads & in New York at the living gallery
2023 Feb Quote unquote, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, London
2022 Aug Omitted References, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London
2022 July Riposte London (queer art Pride rave), Electrowerkz, London -as collaborating artist
2022 May Our Body Are Portal, Asylum Chapel, London
2022 May At the edge of safe house, Safe House, Peckham, London
2022 March Futures After, Peacock, Catford, London
2021 Dec ON HOLD, Goldsmiths,London
2021 part of The Land From Which We Come (zine) - Sola Journal
2021 The Law of Alchemy - Three Shadows gallery, Beijing, China
2021 Double Interval - Huangshan, China - as curator & artist
2021 White City constructing for the uninhabited - Hoxton 253 Gallery, London
2020 Lin Fengmian Creative Award given by China Academy of Art
2020 Photopia, Labelhood Shanghai, China - as collaborating artist
2020 Isolation, Ephemeral Gallery online show
2019 Shanghai Fashion week showroom assistant / HAO Art festival photographer