Shen Xin works with moving image, sound, text, painting, performance, and installation. They were born in Chengdu, Sichuan, and find home in Northern An t-eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye) and Mni Sota Makoce.
All images on this website include alt text. Some works have closed captions online, some have integrated captions as video installations, and some are accompanied by their own sonic description scores. If you have any feedback or questions, please feel free to reach out via the email below. Thank you.
shenxinstudio (at) gmail (dot) com
Links
Exhibitions
Mink and Berry, TINA, London
but this is the language we met in, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
Brine Lake (A New Body), M HKA, Antwerp
ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (THE EARTH TURNED GREEN), Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna
ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (THE EARTH TURNED GREEN), Swiss Institute, New York
Brine Lake (A New Body), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Texts
The Skinny, Rethinking Roots: Shen Xin on Highland Embassy, Jelena Sofronijevic
AnOther Magazine, The Artist Revealing the Healing Power of Language, Kate Wong
ArtForum, Critic’s Pick: Shen Xin at Swiss Institute, Gu Qianfan
ArtReview Asia, Shen Xin Explores Statelessness in East Asia, Mark Rappolt
13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Shen Xin, Defne Ayas
Phaidon, Prime: Art’s Next Generation, Shen Xin, Alvin Li
M+ Museum, Sigg Prize, Interview with Shen Xin, Pi Li
CURA, Shen Xin, Alise Upitis
Mousse Magazine, Rules of Traction, Alvin Li
Videos
87:58, Burns of a first language, with Paul Frèches, vidéo et après, Centre Pompidou, Paris
10:00, History and Memory, IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America, Stanford University
3:27, Shen Xin: Navigating Belief Systems, Sigg Prize, M+ Museum
9:16, Interview with Johanna Laub – Magical Beach Resort or a Cemetery? Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
26:55, Floating Constellation, Spike Magazine, Berlin
10:24, Shen Xin and Mike Nelson, BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017
a learning utterance — newsletters
སྲམ་ Dòbhran — publishing and translating place based stories and texts
An Deò — communities and moving images
AX Archive — a collaborative duo with Ali Van
Vimeo — excerpts and trailers