Yi Xin Tong

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  Born on Mount Lu
  Works in New York
   
  EDUCATION
  2014 MFA, Studio Art, New York University, New York, USA  
  2012 BFA, Visual Art Honours, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada  
  2005-2007 Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China  
       
  SOLO AND TWO-PERSON (*) EXHIBITIONS
  2024 Taoist Punk, Candice Madey, New York, USA  
  2023 Ring over Pond over Tusks, Candice Madey, New York, USA  
  2022 Environmental Love Manual, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France  
    Environment, mon amour, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China *  
    Petrified Seas, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China  
  2020 World River Atlas, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China  
  2019 The Attraction Show – Origin of Ripples, Snarte Space, Nanchang, China  
  2018 Going Outside, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, NanHai Art, Millbrae, USA *  
  2017 NYC Fishing Trip, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, USA  
    Alien, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China  
  2016 Strange New Health, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada  
    Lots of Pulp, SBC Gallery, Brooklyn, USA *  
  2015 Gas Station: The Rubber Trumpet, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China *  
    Thin Air, Bright Light, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada  
  2014 The Phenotypic Traits of Facets, AVENUE, Vancouver, Canada *  
  2013 Claude Is Allergic to Unicorns, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, USA  
       
  GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  2024 Shanshui Reboot, curated by Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
    Vanitas, Chart, New York, USA
    Vanguard Onwards: 20th Anniversary, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
  2023 Motion is Action – 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, China
    NADA Miami, Candice Madey, Miami, USA
    Sam iz Dat, curated by Shisi and Jiaoyang Li, University Settlement, New York, USA
    Art Within Reach, APSMUSEUM, Shanghai, China
    At Sunrise and Sunset, Tides Rise and Fall, curated by Boyan Li, Qi Mu Space, Beijing, China
    White Holes, curated by Yang Zi, 798CUBE, Beijing, China
    Up in the Air, curated by Lu Mingjun, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
    Nián Nián, curated by Zi Yang, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
    Map of Dusk, Afternoon Projects, Jinjiang Hotel, Shanghai, China
    Layered Surface, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
  2022 Beijing Biennial: Symbiosis, National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing, China
    Beast, Chimera, Kin, curated by Danni Shen, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
    Multispecies Clouds, curated by Beichen Yang, Macalline Art Center, Beijing, China  
    Liquid Ground, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Dune, Aranya, China  
  2021 OCAT Biennale – Boomerang, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China  
    Göteborg Biennial, collaboration with Shanzhai Lyric & Solveig Qu Suess, Gothenburg, Sweden
    Liquid Ground, Para Site, Hong Kong, China  
    Death Ray on the Coral Island, curated by Shuai Yin, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    ART021, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China  
    Durational, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China  
    Being in the Void, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China  
    From Checkers to Complex Systems, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China  
    Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, Special Special, New York, USA  
  2020 Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China  
    Object Play, Underwater New York, New York, USA  
    Stay Art Festival, Nanchang, China  
    Catastrophic Beauty, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, USA  
    Poems in the Mount Lu Zoo, Vanguard Gallery, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo, Beijing, China
    abC Art Book, OCAT Museum, Shanghai, China  
    One Tree Fifty Ideas, TianMuLi, Hangzhou, China  
  2019 BRIC Biennial III, BRIC House, Brooklyn, USA  
    Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China  
    Disaster of Extra Epic Proportions, curated by Alvin Li, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
    Long March Project: The Deficit Faction, Long March Space, Beijing, China  
    Adrift, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA  
    Long Day, Aranya Art Centre, Qinhuangdao, China  
    Treasure Island Phantoms, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China  
    To Speculate, Of Nature, NanHai Art, Millbrae, USA  
    Disappearing Archives, Mocube, Beijing, China  
  2018 Shadow as a Stain, ACRE, Chicago, USA  
    Yanping Art Harvest in the Village, Jiulong Village, China  
    Practice: in Progress, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, USA  
    Life and Revolution: Landscape of Huangshan and Lushan, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
    Time Square, Yve YANG Gallery, New York, USA  
  2017 Roadside Picnic, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA  
    LIGHT UP Therapy Resort, PSA Emerging Curators Project, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
    40 Pest Street, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, USA  
    How to Squeeze 8 Days Inside 1 Week, curated by Francesco Bonami, JNBY, Beijing, China
    To Be an Image Maker, Jimei Arles International Photo Festival, Jimei Citizen Center, Xiamen, China
    Tall Non-Fat Raspberry White Mocha Latte, Investment Projects, New York, USA  
    Photo Shanghai, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China  
    Being Information, SSSSTART, Shanghai, China  
    All-Day Breakfast, First Canada Place Gallery, Toronto, Canada  
    Drive-thru, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada  
    Beat the System Like a Dead Horse, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, USA  
    All Happens after Sunset…, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China  
    Vestigial Future, Gallery 456, New York, USA  
    LEAP Screen: What You See is Not What You See, Photofairs, San Francisco, USA  
  2016 Trembling Surfaces, Long March Space, Beijing, China  
    Bad Religion, Lyeberry HQ, Brooklyn, USA  
    An All-encompassing All Sounds, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China  
    Annals of Floating Island, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China  
    ART021, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China  
    West Bund Art & Design 2016, Vanguard Gallery, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China 
    Dark Adaptations, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, USA  
    Concept Now, Xinhua 1949 Cultural and Design Park, Beijing, China  
    Photo Shanghai, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China  
    Warehouse Story, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China  
    Broken Machine, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, USA  
    Miller Time, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada  
    Action - Chang Lichi Collection Exhibition, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China  
    Reknown, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China  
  2015 The Real Thing, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan  
    Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artists Award screening, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
    Feature Art Fair, Katzman Contemporary, Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, Toronto, Canada
    Retina of the Unconscious, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, USA  
    Moving Image Programme, OCAT Museum, Shanghai, China 
    West Bund Art & Design 2015, Vanguard Gallery, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
    Photo Shanghai, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
    Remainder; Us for never forever for the first and the last month, Space Baptist, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    Household Goods and Gift Items, Utopia Parkway, Queens, USA  
    Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015, Vancouver, Canada  
    Nightstand, Galerie de La Rotonde de Stalingrad, Paris, France  
  2014 Begin from Chaos, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
    Boxes: Lost in Circulation, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, USA
    Reflecting on Olana, Catwalk Institute, Catskill, USA
    Pingyao International Photography Festival, Ancient City of Pingyao, China
    Somewhere Else, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
    I Like Fluorescent Light (I Love the Sun): NYU MFA Thesis Exhibition, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, USA
  2013 DUMBO Arts Festival Exhibition, 85 Washington Street Gallery, Brooklyn, USA  
    Black Jacket and Black Sunglasses, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA  
    Proof 20, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada  
    Stony Brook University Philosophy and the Arts Conference Exhibition, The Alchemical Theatre
      Laboratory, New York, USA
    NYU First Year MFA Exhibition, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, USA  
    Art / Work, Coohaus Art, New York, USA  
  2012 LOSING GROUND, VIVO Media Arts Centre and Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Embassy of Canada, Berlin, Germany  
    BMO1st Art!, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
    ANIMATION AUTOMATION, Khyber Arts Centre, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada  
    Urban Art Exhibition. Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada  
    I Flux, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
    So Crazy It Just Might Work, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
  2011  Square Pegs IV, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Canada  
    Summer Live: time-based video program, Vancouver 125, Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada
    Counter Mapping, PuSh International Arts Festival, Roundhouse Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
    A Furtive Conundrum: Practicing the Furtive, 1612 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
    Drop In / Drop Out Video Arts Expo (BYOB Vancouver), W2 Storyeum, Vancouver, Canada
    I Could Be Wrong, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
  2010 Signal & Noise X Media Art Festival, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada  
    The Sci-Fi Show, Gam Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
    TRADE, 221A Artist Run Centre, off-site exhibition at Center A, Vancouver, Canada  
    For the Moment, W2 Community Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada  
    EVEN, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada  
       
  MUSIC PERFORMANCES
  2018 Ultima Thule album release, Yve YANG, New York, USA  
  2017 Home Audio, Brooklyn, USA  
  2015 Muted Portraits, Trans-Pecos, Queens, USA  
    Sound Performances, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, USA  
    Xian Xing Yi Che - Vinyl Depot, Taipei, Taiwan  
    C.G.17: Recuperate, 182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan  
    Miji Concert, Meridian Space, Beijing, China  
    School, Beijing, China  
    Aperture, Xi’an, China  
    Nuts Live House, Chongqing, China  
    Noise in Hanyang, Han Art Space, Wuhan, China  
  2014 COMA (Citizens Ontological Music Agenda), ABC No Rio, New York, USA  
    Siwen Saodi, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, USA  
    Litmus.space launching party, Litmus Space, Brooklyn, USA  
    All-Nighters opening performance, 41 Hester St, New York, USA  
    Contra-Rotations closing prformances, Ran Tea House, Brooklyn, USA  
    I Like Fluorescent Light (I Love the Sun), 80 WSE Gallery, New York, USA
  2011 Fake Jazz Wednesdays final concert, Astoria, Vancouver, Canada  
    Art: It’s in You to Give, Lion’s Den Gallery, Vancouver, Canada  
  2010 Not Sent Letters & Guest, BLIM, Vancouver, Canada  
    Fake Jazz Wednesdays, Astoria, Vancouver, Canada  
    Slab 4: Sound & Noise, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada  
       
  AWARDS AND HONOURS
  2023 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant, Canada  
  2022 British Columbia Arts Council Project Assistance Grant, Canada  
  2021 Prix de la Fondation Choi pour l’art contemporain, China, France  
  2020 Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals Grant, Canada  
  2018 Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, Canada  
  2017 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant, Canada  
    Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant, Canada  
  2015 Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artists Award finalist, Canada  
  2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Mentoring Program,USA  
    The Art Gallery of York University Artists’ Book of the Moment shortlist, USA  
  2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship, USA  
    British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship, Canada  
    New York University MFA Artistic Practice Award, USA  
  2012 May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Multimedia Technology Scholarship, USA  
    NYU Steinhardt Friends of Art Scholarship, USA  
    Orange Corporation Annual Award in Visual Arts, Canada  
    BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition winner for British Columbia, Canada  
  2011 Takao Tanabe Award in Visual Arts, Canada  
    Bice Caple Awards, Canada  
  2010 British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship, Canada  
       
  RESIDENCIES
  2023 Beast Residency, Bornholm, Denmark  
  2021 Deer Lake Artist Residency, Burnaby, Canada  
  2020 Sound Artists in Residence, Media Arts Committee, Vancouver, Canada  
  2019 Offshore Artist-in-Residency, Dinawan Island, Malaysia  
    Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson, Canada  
  2018 Ruan Yisan Heritage Foundation Artist Residency, Jiulong Village, China  
  2017 ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, USA  
    Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, USA  
  2016 Lacawac Sanctuary and Field Station, Lake Ariel, USA  
  2015 The Thicket, Darien, USA  
  2014 CATWALK Art Residency, Catskill Mountains, USA  
  2013 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, USA  
       
  PUBLICATIONS
  2022 Environmental Love Manual, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  2021 On the Mountain of the Hermits: ‘The Becoming of Feathered Beings’,’ curated by Winnie Wong,
      Critical Times, Duke University Press, Durham, USA
    Award Speeches from the Anglers,’ Heichi Magazine, Beijing, China
  2020 The Becoming of Feathered Beings,’ LEAP: In the Field, Shanghai, China
  2019 NYC Fishing Journal, Gong Press, New York, USA
    Self-portrait, LEAP, Shanghai, China
  2018 Fishermen’s Words, PULSASIR, China
  2017 Rum Distillery Ruins,’ Fly Ruthless: LEAP 2017 Shanghai Special, Shanghai, China
  2015 Hometown Landscape, self-publishing, New York, USA
    ‘Taste’ and ‘Afterglow Haiku,’ Dossier on Special Topics in Appropriation, edited by Rick Moody,
      
Denver Quarterly, Denver, USA
  2014 Average Sweetheart, self-publishing, New York, USA  
    ‘Tasteless,’ VOIX BRUTES | International Compilation | Vol.II, Audition Records, Berlin and Mexico City
  2013 Wind-speed Indicator, self-publishing, New York, USA  
    The Description of a Whale, Espresso Book Machine, New York, USA  
  2011 POIESIS XIII: The Head of Orpheus, A Journal of the Arts and Communications, EGS Press, Toronto, Canada
    ‘Insensitive Interdisciplinarity,’ Art and Culture Studies Spring Catalogue, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
  2010 Signal & Noise X, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada  
       
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  2022 Jo Wei, ‘Archiving the Art of an Era: Ecological Revitalization,’ TANC, Shanghai, China
    Fangying Tan, ‘Who can become a fossil?,’ ING, Shanghai, China
    Shanyu Zhong, ‘Set Your Eyes on Ruins, Skunks, Beavers and Mermaids,’ TANC, Shanghai, China
  2021 Sarah Wei, ‘Liquid Ground at Para Site Seeks a Future Commons,’ Ocula, London, England
    Aaina Bhargava, ‘Staying Afloat When Hong Kong Is Sinking,’ ArtReview, Shanghai, China
  2020 Beichen Yang, ‘Meditations in an Emergency,’ Critics’ Picks, Artforum, New York, USA
    Pinyu Liu, ‘Meditations in an Emergency,’ Ocula, Beijing, China
    Clementino Huang, ‘Viruses, Nuclear Explosions, Sleepless Worlds: 11 Meditations Under the Disaster Narrative,’
       Wallpaper*, Beijing, China
  2019 Qianfan Gu, ‘A Three-Course Fish Meal,’ Gong Press, New York, USA
    Brett Yates, ‘Yi Xin Tong Finds His Inner Animal,’ Red Hook Star-Revue, Brooklyn, USA
    Yanzhi Wang, ‘Displacement as Empowerment: The Art Practices of Kunlin He and Yi Xin Tong,’ Yishu: Journal of       Contemporary Chinese Art, Vancouver, Canada
    Tanner Tafelski, ‘Adrift,’ The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, USA
    Barbara Pollack, ‘Adrift in New York,’ COBO Social, New York, USA
    Jiangxin Jin, Interview at Coney Island History Project, Brooklyn, USA
  2018 Christopher Frank Blackmore, 'Going Outside at NanHai Art: The Solitary Landscapes of He Kunlin and
      Tong Yi Xin,' Art Practical, San Francisco, USA
    Si Zhang, ‘Wenxiang Su Talks about ‘The Ordinary and the Revolutionary: Landscapes of Mountain Huang
      and Mountain Lu
,’ Artforum 500 Words, Beijing, China
 
    Yuanyuan Yang, 'Tree Tent Party and Boat Date,' Art World Magazine, Shanghai, China
    Qianfan Gu, 'Time Square,' Critics’ Picks, Artforum, New York, USA
  2017 Andrew Stooke, 'Yi Xin Tong: Alien,' Critic’s Guide, Frieze, London, UK
    Ziying Duan, 'Yi Xin Tong: NYC Fishing Trip,' Critics’ Picks, Artforum, Beijing, China
    Bowen Li, ‘The Curious Case of Yi Xin Tong,’ LEAP Magazine, Beijing, China
    Fiona He, ‘Trembling Surfaces,’ Critics’ Picks, Artforum, New York, USA
    Choya Hung, ‘10 Most Promising Young Chinese Artists,’ COBO Social, International
  2016 Isabel Wahono, ‘Annals of Floating Island,’ ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong, China
  2015 Xing Xu, ‘Yi Xin Tong | Poetic Fragments,’ Idea Chang’an, Xi’an, China
    ‘City Beat’ interview, International Channel Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Jane Stone, Interview, SinoVision Journal, New York, USA
  2014 Shengzhao Li, Interview, Begin from Chaos catalogue, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
    Alison Cooley, ‘Smart Guide: Hot Jobs,’ Canadian Art magazine, Toronto, Canada  
    Jiayin Chen, ‘Yi Xin Tong’s Work,’ Wulun Whatever, New York, USA  
    Jennifer Krasinski, ‘The Artists Who Ate the World,’ NYU MFA Thesis Exhibition catalogue, New York, USA
  2013 ‘Photography Smart Guide,’ Canadian Art magazine, Toronto, Canada  
  2012 Scott McLean, ‘“Cryptic Entity” wins BMO 1st ART! Award,’ Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada  
    Dean Lastoria, Interview at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada  
       
  LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
  2021 Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada
  2020 Waterways in Contemporary Chinese Ecological Art, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
  2019 Frontier Conference poetry performance series, Special Special, New York, USA  
    Nanchang University, Nanchang, China  
    Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson, Canada  
  2015 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan  
  2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Mentoring Program, New York, USA  
  2013 Stony Brook University Philosophy and the Arts Conference, The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory, New York, USA
       
  TEACHING
  2023 Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
  2021 Term Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
  2019 Term Research Faculty, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
  2016 Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Mentoring Program, New York, USA  
  2013-2014 Adjunct Faculty, New York University, New York, USA