| Xuan Ye |
| x/they |
| fr. | Minnan |
| p. | Toronto/Tkaronto |
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| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2024 | I OWNED, A TONGUE, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph |
| 2022 | It Takes Spirals to Feed the Spiral, MOCA Toronto |
| 2020 | Filling the Klein Bottle, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, InterAccess, CONTACT Photography Festival ⅋ two-person multi-site exhibition with Wenxin Zhang, curated by Belinda Ho-Yan Kwan |
| 2019 | The Oral Logic, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2024 | Long-Distance, the 4th Kamias Triennial, Gallery TPW, Toronto ⅋ co-curated by Patrick Cruz, Su-Ying Lee and Karie Liao |
| A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings, Varley Art Gallery of Markham ⅋ curated by Anik Glaude |
| 2023 | Carnival of Algorithmic Culture, UKAI Projects, Toronto |
| There is No Centre, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina ⅋ online, curated by Katie Micak |
| 2022 | The Pieces that I Am, UCCA Edge, Shanghai |
| Glaneuse, Papier Contemporary Art Fair, Montreal ⅋ curated by Galerie Galerie |
| Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?), Vector Festival Flagship Exhibition, Toronto ⅋ curated by Karina Iskandarsjah |
| The Hundreds Islands Project, Wanshan Archipelago |
| TECHNO//MYSTICISM, Eastern Bloc, Montreal |
| 2021 | Paradoxical Objects: Video Sculpture from 1968 to today , peer to space, Berlin ⅋ online, curated by Sue Bachmeier and Peggy Schoenegge |
| Digital Detox, MUTEK, Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal |
| Sound Nomads, the 6th abC Art Book Fair, Today Art Museum, Beijing |
| The Hot Vax Summer Collection, The Museum for You ⅋ online, curated by Charlene K. Lau |
| SunShip: the Arc that Makes the Flood Possible, Venice Biennale of Architecture |
| ÉCRAN TOTAL, Centre de Design de l’UQAM, Montreal |
| 2020 | The Blind Examining an Elephant, Center of the Experimental Film, online ⅋ online, curated by Yan Zhou |
| stem to where we grew stuck, Hearth, Toronto ⅋ curated by Sameen Mahboubi and Benjamin de Boer |
| Allegorical Circuits for Human Software, Fonderie Darling, Montreal ⅋ curated by Laurie Cotton Pigeon |
| 2019 | All Hours, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ⅋ curated by Bojana Stancic |
| Bcc:, Vivid Projects, Birmingham ⅋ curated by Decoy Projects |
| Le Large, Galerie AVE, Montreal ⅋ curated by Kaysie Hawke and Sarah Ève Tousignant |
| Shadow Protocol, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm ⅋ curated by Angel Callander |
| Soft Refractions, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto ⅋ curated by Mary Chen and Theresa Wang |
| 2018 | The Lonely Spirit, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing ⅋ curated by Dai Jinhua and Su Wei |
| Border Resonance, Goethe-Institut, Beijing ⅋ curated by Wenxin Zhang and Hu Hao |
| The Stories that Tell Stories, Trinity Square Video, Toronto |
| 2017 | The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale ⅋ online |
| art( i f)ACTS, AGYU off-site at Gales Gallery, Toronto ⅋ curated by Belinda Ho-Yan Kwan |
| 2016 | Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/Symposium, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto ⅋ curated by Natasha Bailey, Dario Del Degan, and Johannes Zits |
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| Selected Music Performances |
| 2011 - | at music festivals and venues including Tranzac (Toronto), Array Space (Toronto), Basilica Hudson (Hudson), Now Hear This Festival of New Music (Edmonton), Send + Receive Sound Festival (Winnipeg), OBEY X (Halifax), Toronto Biennale of Art, Music Gallery (Toronto), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), Kazoo! Fest (Guelph), Electric Eclectics Festival (Meaford), Long Winter Festival (Toronto), Track Could Bend (Toronto), Casa Del Popolo (Montreal), XP Club (Beijing), School (Beijing), Downtown Music Gallery (NYC), Bronx Art Space (NYC), Fête de la Musique (Shanghai), among others. |
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| Selected Awards and Honours |
| 2024 | Travel Grant, Canada Councils for the Arts |
| Artist-Direct Grant , Partners in Art |
| 2023 | Exhibition Assistance Grant (Trinity Square Video), Ontario Arts Council |
| 2022 | Media Artist Creation Grant, Toronto Arts Council |
| 2021 | Research and Creation Grant, Canada Councils for the Arts |
| Exhibition Assistance Grant (InterAccess), Ontario Arts Council |
| 2020 | Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Councils for the Arts |
| Exhibition Assistance Grant (SAVAC), Ontario Arts Council |
| Media Artist Creation Grant, Toronto Arts Council |
| 2019 | Exhibition Assistance Grant (Ed Video), Ontario Arts Council |
| Travel Grant, Canada Councils for the Arts |
| 2018 | Travel Grant, Canada Councils for the Arts |
| Newcomer Artist Mentorship (Mentor: David Rokeby), Toronto Arts Council |
| EQ Bank Emerging Digital Artists Award Finalist, CA |
| 2017 - 18 | Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |
| 2016 - 18 | Graduate Fellowship, York University |
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| Residencies |
| 2024 | ICST, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich |
| 2023 | Artist-in-Residence, Tranzac, Toronto |
| Digital Artist-in-Residence, Pro Helvetia |
| 2020 | Reader-in-Residence, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto |
| 2018 | Digital Artist-in-Residence, InterAccess, Toronto |
| 2017 | Roundtable Residency, Toronto |
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| Selected Talks & Symposia |
| 2024 | Speaker, "Smaller, Slower, Sloppier", Ethics of AI Symposium, University of Waterloo |
| 2023 | Panelist, No Centre, No Limits: Artists on Creating and Exhibiting in Digital Environments, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina |
| 2022 | Panelist, Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?), InterAcess, Toronto |
| Artist Talk, Xuan Ye presents It Takes Spirals to Feed the Spiral, MOCA Toronto |
| Speaker, "Self-publishing as Technotext", Zines and Self-publishing in Chinese Cultures Symposium, University of Manchester |
| 2021 | Artist Talk, "Noise & Grains in Techno-sensorium", Phi Centre, Montreal |
| 2020 | Artist Talk, "Media Poetry: Sensorium in Technotext & Textual Space", Artcite Inc., Windsor |
| Artist Talk & Panelist, The New Nasty: Automated Cannibalism, Unproductive Machines, & Convolutional Parabiology, Foreign Objekt |
| Panelist, Art as Critical Tourism: Sensory Time Warps & Acts of Worldbuilding, InterAcess, Toronto |
| 2018 | Performance lecture, "FIN", York University Art History and Visual Culture Symposium: Navigating the Cyber Sea,Toronto |
| 2015 | Panelist, AMUSIA, HB Station Contemporary Art Research Center, Guangzhou |
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| Selected Publications |
| 2024 | Smaller, Slower, Sloppier, The Digital Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7273/xts3-rp44 ⅋ writing in English |
| EveryLetterCyborg Bites, Self-published ⅋ artist multiple |
| 2022 | Working Title Digital Art Curriculum, BlackFlash Magazine ⅋ writing in English |
| 2021 | Ghost Sound, Unheard Record ⅋ double vinyl compilation |
| 2020 | W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G, Self-published ⅋ artist multiple |
| Universal Serial Bus, Squint Press ⅋ artist multiple |
| Transmissions 3: Is, but will be, Blackwood Gallery ⅋ reader-in-residency interview |
| 2019 | xi xi, Halocline Trance ⅋ vinyl |
| Breath Fractals, Notice Recordings ⅋ cassette |
| feng shan 2.0 / july 2019 , Zoomin' Night ⅋ cassette |
| 2017 | You’ve Just Become Part of Me, Self-published ⅋ double CD |
| 2016 | Why (Soma/Sound) , Companion, HB Station Contemporary Art Research Centre ⅋ writing in Chinese |
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| Selected Bibliography |
| 2025 | Charlene K. Lau, Codebreak in the Waves: The Prismatic Practice of Xuan Ye, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Issue 104) |
| 2022 | Rebecca Bruton, Mutual Agency, Machinic Bodies with Xuan Ye, CJSW 90.9 FM The Drop and The Turning ⅋ interview |
| Techno//Mysticism, CKUT 90.3 FM PirateBlocRadio ⅋ interview |
| 2020 | Emily Fitzpatrick, The Oral Logic by Xuan Ye, Peripheral Review ⅋ exhibition review |
| Sara Constant, Xuan Ye: Plurality & Dissonance, Musicworks (Issue 136) |
| Joy Xiang, Xuan Ye: The Oral Logic, Canadian Art Magazine (Spring 2020) ⅋ exhibition review |
| 2019 | Renata Azevedo-Moreira, L’art au rendez-vous: Opacité et transparence se rencontrent au sein du «Large», Baron Mag |
| Joy Xiang, Bending the light: A National Survey of 10 Artists, Canadian Art Magazine (Winter 2020) |
| Marc Masters, Breath Fractals, Bandcamp Daily ⅋ album review |
| Improvisation and Intervention with Xuan Ye, XX Files Radio ⅋ interview |
| Traces: Xuan Ye, Project 40 Collective ⅋ interview |
| 2018 | Ophelia Lai, New Currents In Between, ArtAsiaPacific (Issue 111) |
| Nathalie Bachand, L'IA et le génératif en art, Goethe-Institut Montreal |
| Andrea Zittlau, Million Followers Popfeminismus und Online Kunst, KUNSTFORUM International (Bd. 257) |
| Jiabin LinFA Opinion: Art in the Post-human Era, CAFA ArtInfo |
| 2017 | Griffin Martell, You've Just Become Part of Me, SBVRSV Press ⅋ album review |
| Eric Hill, Xuan Ye at Halifax Music Co-Cop, Exclaim! ⅋ album review |
| Brennan McCracken, OBEY X marks the spot, The Coast |
| Tom Beedham, Xuan Ye at Kazoo! HQ, Exclaim! ⅋ album review |
| Jenn E Norton, Why Xuan Ye Rules, Kazoo! Fest |
| 2016 | James Beardmore, Der Stromausfall / Cloudbursting, Weird Canada ⅋ album review |
| Kristel Jax, Der Stromausfall / Cloudbursting, Musicworks (Issue 124) ⅋ album review |
| 2012 | Boliang Shen, 20 Best Chinese Artists’ Websites, BLOUIN ARTINFO |
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| Education |
| 2018 | MFA in Visual Arts, York University, Toronto |
| 2013 | MA in Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, NYC |
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| Public Collections |
| Varley Art Gallery of Markham |
| EQ Bank Digital Art Collection |
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| Full CV available upon request. |