XINYU XUXX 许馨予
they/she
Xinyu XuXX is an artist-filmmaker and screening organiser born in Huangshan and based in London.
Raised among mountain mist, they move between artists’ film, moving image, screening curation, and writing. Their practice follows images as fluid orbits, tracing diasporic stories across personal and collective memory to form a non-linear microcosm of intimacy, displacement, and emotional residue.
Xinyu is a recipient of Research and Development for Individuals of National Lottery Project Grants in 2026 and DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice) funding from Arts Council England in 2024. Their work has been shown at the London Short Film Festival, Queer East Festival, Conditions Studio, Goldsmiths CCA residency space (London), Studio dB (Berlin), The Living Gallery (New York), The Art Pavilion (London), and Three Shadows Gallery (Beijing), among others.
Xinyu is the half of 水哨 Shuǐ Shào, co-organised with artist Yuqing Lin in 2023, an artist-led project exploring queer and diasporic moving image and artist film through community screenings and collaborative creative activities. 水哨 Shuǐ Shào is the guest screening curator for Queer East festival in 2024-2026.
Xinyu also plays as XX NAILS, a creative nail art project emerging from one of typical immigrant labour and service works, exploring the therapeutic, artistic, and expressive potential of everyday care practices, embodied intimacy.