Shen Xin (b.1990, Chengdu) works in Northern An t-eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye). They create moving image installations and performances that empower alternative histories, relations, and potentials between individuals and nation-states. They seek to create affirmative spaces of belonging that embrace polyphonic narratives and identities.
Shen Xin (b.1990, Chengdu) graduated from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art in 2014 with an MFA. They currently live and work in An t-eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye). Their solo exhibitions, performances and screenings include: “but this is the language we met in”, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada, 2024; “one, arriving at floodplains”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2023; “Brine Lake (A New Body)”, MHKA, Antwerp, 2023; “ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར (The Earth Turned Green)”, KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS, Vienna, 2023 & Swiss Institute, New York, 2022; “Brine Lake (A New Body)”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2021; “Double Feature”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 2019; “Synthetic Types”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2019; “To Satiate”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; “Warm Spell”, ICA, London, 2018; “Sliced Units”, CFCCA, Manchester, 2018; “Records of Rites”, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 2018; “half-sung, half-spoken”, Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017; “Originally Inclusive”, Performance, CFCCA, Manchester, 2016; “At Home”, Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2016.
Their recent group exhibitions include: Cosmos Cinema, 14th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (Shanghai, 2023-24); 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: THIS TOO, IS A MAP (Seoul, 2023); To bind, embed, shimmer, and brace, with 楔Xiē (daadgalerie, Berlin, 2022); In Solidarity with ____ (OCAT x KADIST, Shanghai, 2022); ON | OFF 2021: Back to the Future (HE Art Museum, Shunde, China, 2022); 13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning (Gwangju, 2021); Language is a River (Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2021); An Impulse to Turn (Inside Out Museum, Beijing, 2020); Sigg Prize (M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2019); Songs for Sabotage (New Museum Triennial, New York, 2018).
They received the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Minnesota, 2023), Sigg Prize shortlist (M+, Hong Kong, 2019) , BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) , and participated in the Rijksakademie residency in Amsterdam (2018-19).
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Artist Shen Xin says the layering of desire, bondage and labour in Hito Steyerl’s video Lovely Andrea has deeply informed their understanding of image.
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