Xinyu XuXX - they/she
(b.1998 Huangshan, China), based in London, UK
received an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, a graduate diploma in Fine Art from Royal College of Art and a BA in fashion design from China Academy of Art.
Xinyu is an experimental filmmaker, mixed-media artist, and occasional screening organizer. They see the image as a phantom limb—one that inhabits multiple times and spaces, forming a "second skin" that blurs the boundaries between presence and absence. Rooted in the poetics of memory, spectrality, and the fragmented nature of perception, their work explores the interweaving of non-linear narratives, feminist world-making, queer spatialities, diasporic displacement, and haunted archives.
Drawing from found footage, material decay, and embodied storytelling, Xinyu’s practice engages with the liminality of images, investigating how cinema can function as a site of both remembrance and reinvention. Their work has been showcased at the London Short Film Festival (ICA, London), Goldsmiths CCA (London), Studio dB (Berlin), The Living Gallery (New York), The Art Pavilion (London), and Three Shadows Gallery (Beijing), among others.
Contact:
Email: xinyuxuiris@gmail.com
Instagram: @xinyuiris
Artist studio programme:
2023-2025 Conditions Studio Programme, London, UK
Education:
2021- 2023 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Jan-July 2021 Graduate diploma, Fine Art, Royal College of Art, UK
2016-2020 BA fashion design, China Academy of Art, China
Prizes & Awards:
2024 DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) funding Round 19 Funded applicant
London Short Film Festival (LSFF), Official Selection, artists’ film
Selected Group Exhibition & Screening:
2024 CRAFTING FUTURES, organised by Squish at The Grey Space, Hague, Netherlands
CIRCLE, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Conditions Screening, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Cinema 2, London, UK
GENERIC CORPORATE EVENT curated by Kawaii Agency, London,UK
Shedding:::selves, part of Queer East Festival, Ugly Duck, London, UK
PHONY, Lock In Gallery, Brighton, UK
INVISIBLE VISIBLE, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
WELCOME TO UK, Ugly Duck, London, UK
INTERRUPT as part of Queer Fest Norwich, UK
London Short Film Festival LSFF, Institute of Contemporary Art(ICA), Cinema 1, London,UK
2023 Videoclub Ed.16 screening, Studio,dB, Berlin, Germany
Extrapool Weekend, as part of Video Club collective, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show
Videoclub Ed.12 screening, Sameheads, Berlin, Germany; The Living Gallery, New York, US
Quote unquote, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, London, UK
2022 Omitted References, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London,UK
Riposte London (queer art Pride), Electrowerkz, London, UK
Our Body Are Portal, Asylum Chapel, London,UK
At the edge of safe house, Safe House, Peckham, London,UK
Futures After, Peacock, Catford, London,UK
2021 White City constructing for the uninhabited, Hoxton253, London, UK
The Law of Alchemy - Three Shadows photography art centre, Beijing, China
Double Interval - Huangshan city, China
Curatorial project:
20/04/2024 - Queer East Artists’ Moving Image programme as guest curator, IMAGE UNDER THE GROUND at Ugly Duck, London, UK
03/10/2023 - Screening If Splash as Your Whistle vol.2 at IKLECTIK, as organiser, London, UK
27/05/2023 - Screening If Splash as Your Whistle vol.1 Goldsmiths Contemporary Art Centre CCA residency space as the organiser and one of artists, London, UK
23/07-22/08/2021 Group show Double Interval as curator & artist, Huangshan city, China
Publication&Review:
2024 Work featured in “Building community through creativity, Queer East Film Festival comes of age” written by Cici Peng, published on Little White Lies
2024 Work featured in“Daydream House” written by Cindy Ziyun Huang for London Short Film Festival. Published on LSFF official website,
2023 Work featured in “Splashes of Queerness: Memories and Resistance in an Artist Screening” written by Ernesto Hernan, published on Only Child Mag.
2022 Work featured in The Land From Which We Come, edited by Alice Oliver - Sola Journal