when
what
where
2026
The Electric Gallery
curated by Liana Mortin
Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
group exhibition
2026
The Other Film Festival
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff
release & screening
2026
UKAI Projects x Toronto Climate Week, Allan Gardens Conservatory
talk
2026
Fellows Day Conference: Artificial Stupidity, University of Toronto
talk
2026
Guest Speaker & Critic, GBDA 101, Introduction to Digital Media Design
Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo
talk
2026
University of Toronto Scarborough
talk
2025
ERROAR!
curated by Talia Golland
The Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto
solo exhibition
2025
Peck School of the Arts, University of Michigan Milwaukee
talk
2025
The Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
talk
2025
flashDRIVE Digital Arts Fundraiser
InterAccess, Toronto
donation
2025
The Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto
residency
2024
Book/Multiple Launch: A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints and EveryLetterCyborg Bites ↗
joint release with Ruby Thelot
Art Metrople, Toronto
release & screening
2024
Long-Distance, the 4th Kamias Triennial ↗
co-curated by Patrick Cruz, Su-Ying Lee and Karie Liao
Gallery TPW, Toronto
group exhibition
2024
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings ↗
curated by Anik Glaude
Varley Art Gallery of Markham
group exhibition
2024
Speaker, "Smaller, Slower, Sloppier"
Ethics of AI Symposium, University of Waterloo
talk
2024
Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich
residency
2023
Carnival of Algorithmic Culture
UKAI Projects, Toronto
group exhibition
2023
There is No Centre ↗
online, curated by Katie Micak
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
group exhibition
2023
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
talk
2023
Xuan Ye 2023 Solo Concert
Tranzac, Toronto
music performance
2023
Digital Artist-in-Residence
Pro Helvetia, Shanghai
residency
2022
Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?) ↗
curated by Karina Iskandarsjah
Vector Festival Flagship Exhibition, Toronto
group exhibition
2022
Guest Speaker & Critic, VPSC66H3: Theory & Practice 2D Work
University of Toronto Scarborough
talk
2022
Zines and Self-publishing in Chinese Cultures, University of Manchester
talk
2021
Paradoxical Objects: Video Sculpture Art from 1968 to Today ↗
online, curated by Sue Bachmeier and Peggy Schoenegge
peer to space, Berlin
group exhibition
2021
The Hot Vax Summer Collection ↗
online, curated by Charlene K. Lau
The Museum for You
group exhibition
2021
Venice Biennale of Architecture
group exhibition
2021
XENOYOGA(((TROLL THE SCROLL)))
New Music Edmonton
commission
2021
Artist Talk, Noise & Grains in Techno-sensorium ↗
curated by Lucas LaRochelle
Phi Centre, Montreal
talk
2021
Guest Speaker & Critic, VIS303: Advanced Time-Based Installation
Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto
talk
2021
Photorama 35
Gallery TPW, Toronto
donation
2021
Now Hear This Festival
Edmonton
music performance
2021
Basilica Hudson 24-Hour Drone
Basilica Hudson
music performance
2020
filling the Klein bottle (x){(y){(z){}}}
two-person multi-site exhibition with Wenxin Zhang, curated by Belinda Ho-Yan Kwan
Varley Art Gallery of Markham, InterAccess, Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container, Toronto
solo exhibition
2020
stem to where we grew stuck ↗
curated by Sameen Mahboubi and Benjamin de Boer
Hearth, Toronto
group exhibition
2020
Allegorical Circuits for Human Software ↗
curated by Laurie Cotton Pigeon
Fonderie Darling, Montreal
group exhibition
2020
The Blind Examining an Elephant
online, curated by Yan Zhou
Center of the Experimental Film
release & screening
2020
Artcite Inc., Windsor
talk
2020
Panelist, The New Nasty: Automated Cannibalism, Unproductive Machines, & Convolutional Parabiology
Foreign Objekt
talk
2020
InterAcess, Toronto
talk
2020
Xuan Ye / Tamayugé / YlangYlang
La lumière collective, Montreal
music performance
2020
Convergence Theory
FAWN Chamber Collective, Toronto
music performance
2020
a graph, a lovely tree symposium, Ottawa
music performance
2020
Reader-in-Residence
Blackwood Gallery, Toronto
residency
2019
Xpace Cultural Centre (Vitrine), Toronto
solo exhibition
2019
Le Large
curated by Kaysie Hawke and Sarah Ève Tousignant
Galerie AVE, Montreal
group exhibition
2019
Shadow Protocol ↗
curated by Angel Callander
Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm
group exhibition
2019
Soft Refractions ↗
curated by Mary Chen and Theresa Wang
Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
group exhibition
2019
Hipoglote
RUC 107.9 FM, Coimbra
broadcasts & sound feature
2019
Xuan Ye + Brigitte Bardon’t
Grandma’s Secret Spices, Toronto
music performance
2019
Xuan Ye / Chik White
Silence, Guelph
music performance
2018
Forest City Gallery, London
music performance
2018
Double Double Land, Toronto
music performance
2018
EQ Bank Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
Trinity Square Video, Toronto
group exhibition
2018
The Lonely Spirit ↗
curated by Dai Jinhua and Su Wei
Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
group exhibition
2018
Border Resonance ↗
curated by Wenxin Zhang and Hu Hao
Goethe-Institut, Beijing
group exhibition
2018
The Stories that Tell Stories
Trinity Square Video, Toronto
group exhibition
2018
Dude, Where's my Phallus? ↗
curated by Kate Benedict
Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container, Toronto
group exhibition
2018
Electric Sense
CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto
broadcasts & sound feature
2018
Lecture Performance, "FIN"
York University Art History and Visual Culture Symposium: Navigating the Cyber Sea, Toronto
talk
2018
Guest Speaker & Critic, VISA1999: Intermedia Fundamentals
York University, Toronto
talk
2018
Double Double Land, Toronto
music performance
2018
New Chance / ZOE / Xuan Ye + Jason Doell / HEXZUUL
Smiling Buddha, Toronto
music performance
2018
CARES / Xuan Ye / Alex Zhang Hungtai
Double Double Land, Toronto
music performance
2018
Xuan Ye / YlangYlang / N NAO / Kee Avil
Être, Montreal
music performance
2018
Xuan Ye / Johann Diedrick / Jeffrey Lamoureux
Floating Point, Brooklyn
music performance
2018
Xuan Ye / YlangYlang / PHEW
This Ain't Hollywood, Hamilton
music performance
2018
Xuan Ye + Jason Doell / New Tendencies / Mitchell Akiyama
Handlebar, Toronto
music performance
2018
Suoni Per Il Popolo
La Vitrola, Montreal
music performance
2018
Xuan Ye + Colin Fisher
Tranzac, Toronto
music performance
2018
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo
music performance
2017
Intersection Music Festival
Younge-Dundas Square, Toronto
music performance
2017
The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale
online
group exhibition
2017
art( i f)ACTS ↗
curated by Belinda Ho-Yan Kwan
AGYU off-site at Gales Gallery, Toronto
group exhibition
2017
The Night Shift
CJRU 1280 AM, Toronto
broadcasts & sound feature
2017
Aural Tethers
CFRU 93.3 FM, Guelph
broadcasts & sound feature
2017
Guest Speaker & Critic, VPSA62H3: Foundation Studies in Studio
University of Toronto Scarborough
talk
2017
Double Double Land, Toronto
music performance
2017
Chris Corsana / Xuan Ye + Jason Doell / GARY BUSINESS
The Little Grasshopper Cafe, Hamilton
music performance
2017
Brigitte Bardon't / Egyptrixx / Hexzuul / Open Fortress / Xuan Ye
The Baby G, Toronto
music performance
2017
Intersection Music Festival: Plant Music
Allan Gardens Park and Conservatory, Toronto
music performance
2017
The 5th Annual Somewhere There Creative Music Festival
Tranzac, Toronto
music performance
2017
WHIMM / Ice Cream / Que Lastima / Xuan Ye + Jason Doell
The Baby G, Toronto
music performance
2017
Chik White / Slow Attack Ensemble / Fleshtone Aura / Xuan Ye
Ratio, Toronto
music performance
2017
Xuan Ye + Colin Fisher
Tranzac, Toronto
music performance
2017
Xuan Ye + Jason Doell / Tom Richards / BABEL
The Steady, Toronto
music performance
2017
Kazoo! Fest
Guelph
music performance
2017
OBEY Convention X
Halifax
music performance
2016
Banyan Commune Project (Travel Agency)
HB Station Contemporary Art Research Centre, Guangzhou
group exhibition
2016
Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/Symposium
curated by Natasha Bailey, Dario Del Degan, and Johannes Zits
Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
group exhibition
2016
Dianetics.V
Electric Perfume, Toronto
music performance
2016
coexisDance 78
Array Space, Toronto
music performance
2016
Heidi Chan / Kayla Grant / Nicole Rampersaud / Xuan Ye
Array Space, Toronto
music performance
2016
21C Music Festival, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
music performance
2016
Tingying Ma + Tina Wang / Jason Doell / Xuan Ye + Sean Ali / Julia Santoli + Kaia Gilje
1144 bergen, Brooklyn
music performance
2016
Abundant Habitat Festival
Tranzac, Toronto
music performance
2016
Long Winter Festival
The Great Hall, Toronto
music performance
2016
Xuan Ye + David Jones
Array Space, Toronto
music performance
2016
Xuan Ye / Not the Wind, Not the Flag / Xu Shaoyang
Burdock, Toronto
music performance
2016
Nite Comfort 39 - Moon McMullen / Xuan Ye
Handlebar, Toronto
music performance
2016
Track Could Bend First Anniversary All-Star Spectacular
Dundas Video, Toronto
music performance
2016
Jason Finkbeiner / Xuan Ye / Fleshtone Aura + Brodie West / Urlapse
Ratio, Toronto
music performance
2015
Synthetic Zero: I Always See the Image that I Want ↗
curated by Mitsu Hadeishi
BronxArtSpace, NYC
group exhibition
2015
Galleri CC (in partnership with Swedish Film Institute), Malmö
release & screening
2015
Artist Talk, AMUSIA
HB Station Contemporary Art Research Center, Guangzhou
talk
2015
AMUSIA Three Performances That Examine Voice as an Instrument and Vibration Source
HB Station Contemporary Art Research Center, Guangzhou
music performance
2015
Xuan Ye + Dada Wu + Yanqin Gao + Anita Pan / Sontag Shogun
School, Beijing
music performance
2015
TORONTO NOISE NOW
Casa Del Popolo, Montreal
music performance
2015
Track Could Bend - SlowPitchSound / Xuan Ye / Vorvis + Thomson
Dundas Video, Toronto
music performance
2015
10½ TATAMI CONCERT 03
Rego Park, New York
music performance
2015
10½ TATAMI CONCERT 02
Trinity Bellwoods, Toronto
music performance
2015
10½ TATAMI CONCERT 01
Summerhill, Toronto
music performance
2015
Zoomin' Night
XP Club, Beijing
music performance