XUAN YE
1989 Born in Lixian, CN
Pari Nadimi Gallery
EDUCATION
2018 MFA, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada
2013 MA, Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, NYC, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (*forthcoming, $two-person, #commission)
2022 It Takes Spirals to Feed The Spiral, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA
2020 Filling the Klein Bottle III, Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container, Toronto, CA*$
Filling the Klein Bottle II, InterAccess, Toronto, CA
Filling the Klein Bottle I, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Unionville, CA$
@djxenoyoga, Centre CLARK, Montreal, CA
2019 The Oral Logic, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, CA
Wear Your Soul in Wordy Yesterday Gold, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, CA
What Nebula, What Hyperbolic Light, What Flora and Fauna, Ellephant Gallery, Montreal, CA
2018 Fin, Decoy Magazine Bcc:, Online#
EveryLetterCyborg V1.3, InterAccess, Toronto, CA
Et Cetera, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, CA
2017 What You See is Where You Go, AGYU Vitrines, Toronto, CA#
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Winter Group Program, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, CA*
2019 All Hours, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA*
Bcc:, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK
Le Large, Galerie AVE, Montreal, CA
Supermarket Art Fair (Ed Video Media Arts Centre), Stockholm, SE
Soft Refractions, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, CA
2018 The Lonely Spirit, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN#
Border Resonance, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, CN
The Stories that Tell Stories, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, CA
Virtual(ity), Project 40, Online
Navigating the Cyber Sea, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017 The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Online
CARE Roundtable Residency Group Exhibition, Dragon Academy, Toronto, CA
art (i f)acts, AGYU off-site at Gales Gallery, Toronto, CA
Art @ Suite 500, Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto, CA
I'd Rather be a Cyborg Than a God/dess, idratherbeacyborgthanagoddess.com, Online
2016 Banyan Commune Project (Travel Agency), Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN
Noiqouvdcseality, Array Space, Toronto, CA
Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/Symposium, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, CA
2015 I Always See the Image that I Want, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, US
LOOP - A video art marathon, Galleri CC (in partnership with Swedish Film Institute) , Malmö, SE
XVK COLLECTIVE ($solo)
2018 ╰(*8:8:8*)╯♡, Idea Exchange, Cambridge, CA$
Life of The True, Martin Goya Business, Hangzhou, CN
2017 Y+XVK=<3, Y+ Contemporary, Scarborough, CA$
XVK Press Conference, Big on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture, Toronto, CA
༜༜༜cutecuteride8, SP Gallery, Toronto, CA$
SELECTED MULTIMEDIA SONIC/SOMATIC PERFORMANCES
2020 All Tomorrows Oceans, Send+Receive Festival of Sound, online performance*
2018 Feng Shan (EMERGENTS I), Music Gallery, Toronto, CA
Border Resonance, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, CN
XENOYOGA((I REALLY WANT SOME)), Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo, US
Suoni Per Il Popolo, La Vitrola, Montreal, CA
2017 Intersection Music Festival, Younge-Dundas Square, Toronto, CA
Quiet Concerts, Scarborough Civic Centre Library, Toronto, CA
Music Gallery Departure Series (in partnership with Tone Fest) , Burdock, Toronto, CA
OBEY Convention X, Halifax, CA
Kazoo! Fest, Guelph, CA
Rummaging - Making Sounds with Stuff, Electric Perfume, Toronto, CA
2016 Abundant Habitat Festival, Tranzac Club, Toronto, CA
Xuan Ye + Sean Ali + Jason Doell Trio, Downtown Music Gallery, New York, US
Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, CA
NASA (Noise Against Sexual Assault), Double Double Land, Toronto, CA
Mixer (Christof Migone), 21C Music Festival (in partnership with MOCCA), Toronto, CA
Long Winter Festival, The Great Hall, Toronto, CA
2015 The 5th Annual FASTER Christmas Show, Array Space, Toronto, CA
TORONTO NOISE NOW, Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, CA
Der Stromausfall / Cloudbursting, Being Generations, Toronto, CA
AMUSIA Three Performances That Examine Voice as an Instrument and Vibration Source,
HB Station Contemporary Art Research Center, Guangzhou, CN
Zoomin' Night, XP Club, Beijing, CN
2014 Hair Hymn , Gallery 50, Toronto, CA
2011 Fête de la Musique, Le Festival Croisements, Shanghai, CN
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Ed Video), CA
Ontario Arts Council Skills and Career Development Grant, CA
Canada Councils for the Arts Travel Grant, CA
2018 Canada Councils for the Arts Travel Grant, CA
Artist-in-Residence, InterAccess, Toronto, CA
Toronto Arts Council Newcomer Mentorship Grant (Mentor: David Rokeby) , CA
EQ Bank Emerging Digital Artists Award Finalist, CA
2017-8 SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier CA Graduate Scholarship, CA
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Roundtable Residency, Toronto, CA
2016-8 Graduate Fellowship, York University, CA
2006-10 Merit-based Scholarship, SUIBE, Shanghai, CN
PUBLICATIONS & DISCOGRAPHY
2019 WYSIWYG, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, CA, Artist Book*
xi xi, Halocline Trance, CA, Vinyl*
Breath Fractals, Notice Recordings, US, Cassette
2018 Atmosphere: Fog, DREAMERfty, CN, Artist Book
Et Cetera, York University Library Catalogue, Writing
Fertile Window, #Craftof2018, Artist Book
2017 You've Just Become Part of Me, D.A.Y.I.N, Double CD
2016 Why (Soma/Sound)? Companion, CN, Writing in Chinese
2015 AMUSIA Three Performances That Examine Voice as an Instrument and Vibration Source D.A.Y.I.N, CD
Der Stromausfall / Cloudbursting, D.A.Y.I.N, Cassette
2014 The History of Spatial Music (Richard Zvonar), BeinGeneration, CN, English-to-Chinese Translation
2013 Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Experimental Music in China after 2000, New York University
2011 2ème édition Fête de la Musique de Shanghai, Le Festival Croisements, CD (Compilation)
Bitter & Sweet, Dying Empylver Productions (DEW 11), CD + Artist Book (Compilation)
CONFERENCES & TALKS & TEACHING
2018 Workshop Instructor, From Oulipo to Generative Art,
Beijing Haidian Foreign Language Shi Yan School, Beijing, CN
Guest Teaching, Intermedia Fundamentals, York University, Toronto, CA
17th Annual Art History Symposium - Navigating the Cyber Sea, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017 Guest Teaching, Foundation Studies in Studio, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, CA
Course Instructor, Digital Photography: Camera to Print, York University, Toronto, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 XX Files Radio: Interview, Studio XX, Montreal, CA
Marc Masters, Breath Fractals, Bandcamp Daily
Renata Azevedo-Moreira, L’art au rendez-vous: Opacité et transparence se rencontrent au sein du Large, Baron Mag, Montreal, CA
Traces: Interview, Project 40
Hipoglote, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra 107.9 FM, Coimbra, Portugal
2018 Mary Chen & Theresa Wang, Soft Refraction, catalogue essay, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, CA
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 Lin, CAFA Opinion: Art in the Post-human Era, CAFA ArtInfo
Wenxin Zhang & Hao Hu, Border Resonance, catalogue essay, Goethe-Institut China
Roundtable Residency Artist Catalogue 2013 – 2018, Roundtable Residency
Art Must-See Critics' Picks, Now Magazine
Electric Sense, CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto, CA
2017 Griffin Martell, You've Just Become Part of Me, SBVRSV Press
The Women's Hour: Interview, Radio Regent
Eric Hill, Xuan Ye at Halifax Music Co-Cop, Exclaim!
Brennan McCracken, OBEY X marks the spot, The Coast
Tom Beedham, Xuan Ye at Kazoo! HQ, Exclaim!
Jenn E Norton, Why Xuan Ye Rules, Kazoo! Fest, Guelph, CA
Aural Tethers, CFRU 93.3 FM, Guelph, CA
The Night Shift, CJRU 1280 AM, Toronto, CA
Out There in the Construction Zone, exhibition catalogue, AGYU, Toronto, CA
2016 James Beardmore, Der Stromausfall / Cloudbursting, Weird Canada
Kristel Jax, Der Stromausfall / Cloudbursting, Musicworks ISSUE 124
2012 Boliang Shen, 20 Best Chinese Artists’ Websites, BLOUIN ARTINFO
Radio Nova 101.5 FM, Paris, FR
2010 Yue Zhou, Chaos: Interview, DREAMERfty, CN
Teen Spirits, Faith and Love: Interview, Shanghai Times, CN