Xin Liu (b. 1991, Xinjiang, China) is a New York-based artist and engineer whose work addresses narratives related to space, science, time, and personal identity. Through working with advanced technologies and a wide range of materials, Liu creates experiences to measure and modify organic and non-organic matters so as to explore their relationships to space and individuals. Her work varies from performances to installations, scientific experiments to academic research. Her unique approach to interrogating the illusory prospect of space exploration, combining her education background in mechanics and fine art, continuously provides dynamic multidisciplinary views and interrogations of self-identity in practices.
Liu graduated from MIT Media Lab with a MA in Media Arts and Sciences after receiving her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and BE from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Liu is currently in residency at SETI Institute and is a studio resident at Queens Museum. She is an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab and a faculty member at The Terraforming, a new research program at Strelka Institute in 2020. She is also an art curator of the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative. Xin's first solo show– Living Distance– was exhibited at Make Room in 2019. Since then, her work has been included in multiple solo and group exhibitions and international art fairs. A solo museum exhibition of Xin Liu's work recently opened at the Aranya Art Center in China. Liu is an award recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship from Museum of Arts and Design, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, Huayu Youth Award Finalist, Creative Capital On Our Radar, inaugural Europe ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency. In 2020, Forbes selected Liu for its list of 30 under 30 Asia. Xin will have her second solo exhibition with Make Room in 2022.
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Make Room artists included in group exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery in London
Guimi You, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Astra Huimeng Wang, Jacopo Pagin, Yuri Yuan and Xin Liu August 9, 2022Works by Guimi You, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Joeun Kim Aatchim, Astra Huimeng Wang, Jacopo Pagin, Yuri Yuan, Shana Hoehn, Roksana Pirouzmand, Xin Liu among...Read more -
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Slow Factory: The Revolution is a School at MoMA PS1 January 22 - April 23, 2022 January 14, 2022Xin Liu’s work Orbit Weaver will be entering MoMA PS1 this January 22nd as part of Slow Factory: The Revolution is a School. From deep...Read more -
WOAW GALLERY X MAKE ROOM LOS ANGELES COLLABORATE ON GROUP SHOW URBAN WHISPERS
WOAW GALLERY 15 DECEMBER 2021 - 12 JANUARY 2022 December 15, 2021Woaw Gallery and Make Room Los Angeles are pleased to announce a two-chapter group exhibition, Urban Whispers . The first phase of the show will...Read more -
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"Wandering Mind" by slow immediate (Xin Liu and Gershon Dublon) to be featured as part of the MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse festival November 5, 2021Xin Liu and Gershon Dublon, as slow immediate, will present their performance work 'Wandering Mind' at MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse. Produced in collaboration with New...Read more
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"The Ground is Falling" at Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao October 8, 2021Aranya Art Center will play host to Xin Liu's solo exhibition, The Ground is Falling . Curated by Iris Long, the show will be on...Read more -
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"Synthetic Wilderness", curated by Jesse Damiani, at Honor Fraser Gallery September 12, 2021Video and sculptural work by Xin Liu is featured in Synthetic Wilderness , a trio group show at Honor Fraser curated by tech writer Jesse...Read more -
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Xin Liu’s Living Distance (2019-20) is on view on e-flux Video & Film from Feb 22 through Feb 28 February 22, 2021Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Xin Liu’s Living Distance (2019-20), on view from Monday, February 22 through Sunday,...Read more -
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Congratulations to Xin Liu on receiving the 1st X Museum Triennial Award December 1, 2020The “X Museum Triennial Award” aims to provide an outlook on the future of contemporary Chinese Art from different perspectives originated from diverse cultural backgrounds....Read more
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Xin Liu’s “Tear Set” opens today at Yuz Museum as part of “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa” November 12, 20202020.11.12 Xin Liu’s “Tear Set” opens today at Yuz Museum as part of “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”, an exhibition exploring the relationship between humans...Read more -
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Slow immediate on Ars Electronica September 11, 20202020.09.11 Hearing/Recording/Wandering slow immediate: Gershon Dublon (US), Xin Liu (CN/US) Our work has always been a search for planetary connection. Quarantine shifted the dynamics of...Read more -
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Queens Museum home visit June 17, 20202020.06.17 A Free Fall in New York City, a video that chronicles artist Xin Liu 's experience sheltering in place while her home operates as...Read more -
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Sleepwalk - commissioned by Onassis Foundation and Queens Museum May 18, 20202020.05.18 Sleepwalk is a solitary adventure game in which you find yourself confined to your apartment in New York City under quarantine. Information about the...Read more
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on the list fo Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2020 April 1, 20202020.4.1 Liu Xin is the art curator of the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, which develops technologies, tools and experiences for a new space...Read more -
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Sojourner2020 successfully launched on board SpaceX CRS-20 to the International Space Station (ISS) March 8, 20202020.03.08 (Cape Canaveral, FL—March 6, 2020) The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s art payload, Sojourner2020 successfully launched on board SpaceX CRS-20 to the International...Read more -
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Xin Liu participates in the first edition of X Museum triennial January 17, 20202020.3.17Read more -
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"Living Distance" is officially selected in the 2020 New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival December 13, 20192020.1.24 “Living Distance: An Outer Space Performance” presented by slow immediate and LumiereVR will be available to audiences daily in the New Frontier Section of...Read more
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Joining Space Art Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago March 23, 20192019.03.23 Gravity conditions all forms and behaviors produced on Earth, including art. What new artistic forms and experiences can be created if both creators and...Read more -
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Artist Talk at MIT Open Documentary Lab March 10, 20192019.03.10 We May Be All Alone. In 1990, from 6 million kilometers away, Voyager 1 took a snapshot of our existence in the universe: a...Read more -
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Joining SXSW: First Principles First: How to Solve Hard Problems February 19, 20192019.02.19 Xin Liu will join the panel “First Principles First: How to Solve Hard Problems” along with Leigh Christie, Lauren Cohen and Diba Kaya this...Read more -
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Artist Talk at NYU ITP February 9, 20192019.02.09 Join us for an artist talk on February 15! We are excited to introduce Xin Liu, the Arts Curator in Space Exploration Initiative in...Read more
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“Can you tear for me?” and “When is the last time you cried?” will be included in the Chinternet Ugly group exhibition in CFCCA February 5, 20192019.02.05-2019.05010 Chinternet Ugly - CFCCA February 5th - May 10th 2019 ‘Chinternet Ugly’ navigates the messy vitality of China’s online realm, a space where artists...Read more -
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Solo Exhibition: Prologue: A falling tooth at Museum of Arts and Design January 18, 20192019.01.18 Initially trained as a mechanical engineer, Liu thinks of science as her first language and uses this vernacular to tease out artistic nuance alongside...Read more -
Peng Ke, Xin Liu
PENG KE AND XIN LIU ARE NOMINATED BY 2018 HUAYU YOUTH AWARD January 15, 20192018.12.7-2019.3.7 Peng Ke and Xin Liu are nominated and selected as one of the finalist for the 6th Huayu Youth Award (Art Sanya). Peng Ke...Read more
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Spotlight: A Two-Part Exhibition in London and Hong Kong Explores How Art Can Inject New Images Into the Collective Cons
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Artist Xin Liu Lets Science-Backed Absurdity Take the Wheel: Interview with Cultured Magazine
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Against all odds, Hong Kong’s gallery scene is on the up
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The Satellite Chaser: Artist Xin Liu in Conversation
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Xiu Liu: Artsy - How Xin Liu Created the First NFTs in Space with Retired Satellites
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Xin Liu interviewed in the LA Times about her piece "Living Distance"
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Xin Liu in 'Synthetic Wilderness' at Honor Fraser
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Art Workers Demand Coverage of Stop Asian Hate
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Mary Brophy Marcus, CBS NEWS, June 6, 2017