LIU Xinyi
Liu Xinyi (b. 1982, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) currently lives and works in Beijing, working primarily on installations, as well as still and moving images.
Liu pays attention to the messages that arise from the transnational circulation and cross-cultural application of everyday products. His studio work reframes political spectacles originating in the digital public sphere, alongside social installations embedded in daily life. His solo and collaborated projects navigate social spaces shaped by contemporary municipal governance, translating cultural contexts and technological practices that choreograph collective behavior. Liu’s conceptual practice engages the latent structures of the Chinese psyche—veiled in particular phrases and idioms, inscribed in political imagery, and woven into public infrastructure—while imagining the residual roles of the obsolete, the defective, and the untraceable in an increasingly instrumentalized information society.
A selection of his solo exhibitions/projects includes, Rehearsal #6: Liu Xinyi(2026), Taikang Art Museum, Beijing; Applause Is Due(2019), DRC No.12, Beijing; Fraternité Passagère (2018), Espace DawanArt & Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris; Air Port (2017), Forum Art Museum(Sekmai Space), Dongguan; Hundred Thousand Miles Away(2016), White Space, Beijing; Chaoyang Qunzhong (2015), A307 Space, Beijing; Goulash(2014), White Space, Beijing and Excitation Waves (2013), Taikang Space, Beijing. His works have been featured in group exhibitions at Hong Art museum, Wenzhou; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; BY ART MATTERS Tianmuli Art Museum, Hangzhou; OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen; HOW Art Museum, Shanghai; Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing; OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai; Busan Biennale 2016, Busan; Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an; Yuz Museum, Jakarta and UCCA, Beijing. He was awarded the 2nd Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year”(2018-2019) and was also a finalist for the 4th Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award (2015).
NEWS
Digestive Ethics
Hong Museum
1.17 – 7.17, 2026
Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008
Tai Kwun
9.26, 2025 – 1.4, 2026
A Blue-Flowering Day
Yuan Art Museum
9.24 – 11.24, 2024
Expeditionary Botanics
Long March Independent Space
3.16 – 7.7, 2024
ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress
He Art Museum
2022.2.4 – 4.17
2021 OCAT Biennale “Boomerang”
OCAT Shenzhen
2021.12.19 – 2022.5.22
Miracle of Life: Art Collection Exhibition for Celebrating The 25th Anniversary of Taikang Insurance Group
Guardian Art Center
2021.8.22 – 10.8
Cover: Enclave Contemporary Opening Exhibition
Enclave Contemporary
2021.3.20 – 5.23
What Is It that Makes Today’s Life So Different?: Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the year of 2018-2019
Beijing Exhibition Centre
2019.5.30 – 6.2
Liu Xinyi
Artforum
2019.5.27
Applause is Due
DRC No.12, Beijing
2019.4.28 – 6.30
China Landscape: Selections from the Taikang Collection 2019
798 Art Zone
2019.3.21 – 5.5
HOW NOW · The Life APP
How Museum
2019.1.19 – 4.19
The Comfort Zone At A Distance
Taikang Space
2018.12.13 – 1.19
QinJun: Space Travle
HuArts
2017.8.8
Being Information
SSSSTART
2017.7.15 – 9.9
I Do (Not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration
Qiao Space
2017.6.29 – 8.27
Social Emotion
Cc Foundation & Art Centre
2017.6.10 – 8.27
Between Utopia and Dystopia
Massimo De Carlo
2017.1.20 – 3.11
Secret Chamber
AM Art Space
2016.10.1 – 11.13
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Art World
2016.9.29
Busan Biennale: Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude
Busan Museum of Art
2016.9.3 – 11.30
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Art World
2016.8.2
Liu Xinyi：Hundred Thousand Miles Away
LEAP
2016.7.31
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Artron
2016.6.29
Liu Xinyi: Hundred Thousand Miles Away
Artforum
2016.6.24
Art Sanya: Scenarios of Time
Art Sanya
2015.12.17 – 2016.3.17
Liu Xinyu: The Chaoyang Masses
Artforum
2015.8.23
The Chaoyang Masses
A 307 Space
2015.8.8 – 8.28
Liu Xinyi: Politics of Knowledge and Practice
LEAP
2014.12.18
Liu Xinyi: Political Expression is Not What I Concern
Hi Art
2014.10.31
Stewed Beef and Potatoes Communism
Randian
2014.10.17
Liu Xinyi | Goulash
WHITE SPACE
2014.10.16
Liu Xinyi
Artforum
2014.9.18
Liu Xinyi: Out of “Political Path” Discussion
I Art
2014.8.28
Conversation between Xiang Jing and Liu Xinyi
Master Oriental Art
2014.2.6
Liu Xinyi on his practice
Artforum
2014.1.15
Political Games and the Politics of Play – on “Responsive Institution”
Look Art Space
2013.12.12
Light Pavilion Project
Taikang Space
2013.6.14
Liu Xinyi
Bazaar Art
2013.2.13
The Life of Agent L – Action…Cut Booklet
Yuz Foundation
2013.2.7
Liu Xinyi: Agent
LEAP
2012.8.15