Shen Xin
Shen Xin creates 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’s most recent work, Brine Lake (A New Body), had premiered in Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennale (2021), and had its North American premiere in their first US museum solo exhibition at Walker Art Center (2021).
Their solo presentation of exhibitions, performances and screenings include Swiss Institute, New York (2022), Double Feature (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2019), Synthetic Types (Stedelijk Museum, 2019), To Satiate (MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019), Warm Spell (ICA, London, 2018), half-sung, half-spoken (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017), and At Home (Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2016). Their group exhibitions include Language is a River (MUMA, Melbourne, 2021), An Impulse to Turn (Inside Out Museum, Beijing, 2020), Sigg Prize (M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2019), Afterimage (Lisson Gallery, London, 2019), and Songs for Sabotage (New Museum Triennial, New York, 2018). They received the BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) and held the Rijksakademie residency in Amsterdam (2018-19). Shen Xin practice on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the land of the Dakhóta Oyáte, as well as in London, UK.
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Shen Xin creates 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’s most recent work, Brine Lake (A New Body), had premiered in Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennale (2021), and had its North American premiere in their first US museum solo exhibition at Walker Art Center (2021).
Their solo presentation of exhibitions, performances and screenings include Swiss Institute, New York (2022), Double Feature (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2019), Synthetic Types (Stedelijk Museum, 2019), To Satiate (MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019), Warm Spell (ICA, London, 2018), half-sung, half-spoken (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017), and At Home (Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2016). Their group exhibitions include Language is a River (MUMA, Melbourne, 2021), An Impulse to Turn (Inside Out Museum, Beijing, 2020), Sigg Prize (M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2019), Afterimage (Lisson Gallery, London, 2019), and Songs for Sabotage (New Museum Triennial, New York, 2018). They received the BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) and held the Rijksakademie residency in Amsterdam (2018-19). Shen Xin practice on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the land of the Dakhóta Oyáte, as well as in London, UK.
Courtesy of Madein Gallery
沈莘(1990年,成都)创作的影像装置和行为表演,赋权力予个人与民族国家之间的另类历史,关系和可能。他试图创造包含多重叙事和身份的肯定性空间。沈莘最近的作品《盐水湖》(新身体)在Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning和光州双年展(2021年)上全球首映,并在艺术家的首个美国博物馆个展中于沃克艺术中心(2021年)进行北美首映。他的个人呈现,表演和放映包括纽约瑞士学院(2022),Double Feature (锡恩美术馆,法兰克福,2019),合成类型(阿姆斯特丹市立博物馆,2019),使饱和(没顶画廊,2019),温暖期(伦敦当代艺术中心,2018),半唱半说(蛇形画廊,伦敦,2017),在家(剩余空间,武汉,2016)。他近期的群展包括 Language is a River(莫纳什大学美术馆,墨尔本,2021),忍不住转身(中间美术馆,北京,2020),希克奖(M+博物馆,香港,2019),AfterImage(里森画廊,伦敦,2019),破坏之歌(新美术馆三年展,纽约,2018)。沈莘曾获得2017年波罗的海艺术家奖,并于2018至2019年在阿姆斯特丹Rijksakademie驻地。沈莘在原住民Dakhóta Oyáte的土地Miní Sóta Makhóčhe以及英国伦敦进行实践。