Yi Xin TONG

1988   Born in Lushan, China

2012-2014   MFA, Studio Art, New York University, New York, USA

2008-2012   BFA, Visual Art Honors, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

2005-2007   Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

Lives and works in New York, USA

 

The creation of Yi Xin Tong is like a modern wanderer, wandering in the city, collecting pieces of daily life and converting to poetry. Fascinated by taking some heroic adventure, romance and absurd things, seems to follow one’s inclinations, don’t pursue in the form of a delicate, is the result of careful layout, hidden under the ordinary surface layers of the language of poetry. Yi Xin Tong create objects, moving images, and sound to discover human culture’s dynamic relationship with nature at a geological scale. His work explores the polymorphic quality of both living and non-living beings, and with a wry sense of humor, instigates noise for societal beliefs in value, decency, and rationality.

  • Solo and Duo-Exhibitions

    2024 “Taoist Punk”, Candice Madey, New York, USA
    2024 “Bony Horseman”, De Liceiras, Porto, Portugal
    2023 “Ring over Pond over Tusks”, Candice Madey, New York, USA
    2022  “Petrified Seas”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2022 “Environmental Love Manual”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
    2022  “Environnment, Mon Amour”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, 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  “Alien”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2017  “NYC Fishing Trip”, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, USA
    2016  “Strange New Health”, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
    2016  “Lots of Pulp”, SBC Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
    2015  “Gas Station VIII: Rubber Trumpet”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2014  “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”, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
    2024 “Wan Hai Hotel”, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    2024 “Vanitas”, Chart, New York, USA
    2024 “Two Sides of One Coin”, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China
    2024 “Interface of the Abyss”, Below Grand, New York, USA
    2024 “Vanguard Onwards”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2024 “ Fictitious Trade”, Shanghai International Arts Festival, Shanghai, China
    2023 “Motion is Action – 35 Years of Chinese Media Art”, By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, China
    2023 “NADA Miami”, Candice Madey, Miami, USA
    2023 “Art Within Reach”, APSMUSEUM, Shanghai, China
    2023 “At Sunrise and Sunset”, Tides Rise and Fall, curated by Boyan Li, Qi Mu Space, Beijing, China
    2023 “White Holes”, curated by Yang Zi, 798CUBE, Beijing, China
    2023 “Up in the Air”, curated by Lu Mingjun, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
    2023 “Nián Nián: The Power and Agency of Animal Forms”, curated by Zi Yang, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
    2023 “Map of Dusk, Afternoon Projects”, Jinjiang Hotel, Shanghai, China
    2023 “Layered Surface”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2022  “Beast, Chimera, Kin”, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, USA 
    2021 “Death Ray on the Coral Island. Science Fiction and its Archeology”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    2021  “Boomerang – OCAT Biennale 2021”, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
    2021  “Durational”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2021  “Liquid Ground”, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
    2021 “Being in the Void”, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China      
    2021  “From Checkers to Complex Systems”, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China        
    2020  “Meditations in an Emergency”, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China     
    2020  “Object Play”, Underwater New York, New York, USA           
    2020  “Catastrophic Beauty”, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, USA        
    2020  “One Tree Fifty Ideas”, OōEli, Hangzhou, China
    2019  “Extreme Mix – Guangzhou Airport Biennial”, Guangzhou Ariport Resort, Guanghzou, China
    2019  “BRIC Biennial III”, BRIC House, Brooklyn, USA
    2019  “Disaster of Extra Epic Proportions”, curated by Alvin Li, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
    2019  “Long March Project: The Deficit Faction”, Long March Space, Beijing, China
    2019  “Adrift”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
    2019  “Long Day”, Aranya Art Centre, Qinhuangdao, China
    2019  “Treasure Island Phantoms”, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing, China
    2019  “To Speculate, Of Nature”, NanHai Art, Millbrae, USA
    2019  “Disappearing Archives”, Mocube, Beijing, China
    2018  “Shadow as a Stain”, ACRE, Chicago, USA
    2018  “Yanping Art Harvest in the Village”, Jiulong Village, China
    2018 “The Ordinary and the Revolutionary: Landscapes of Mountain Huang and Mountain Lu”, Taikang Space, Beijing
    2017 “ROADSIDE PICNIC”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
    2017  “LIGHT UP Therapy Resort”, PSA Emerging Curators Project, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
    2017 “40 Pest Street”, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, USA
    2017  “How to Squeeze 8 Days Inside 1 Week”, curated by Francesco Bonami, JNBY, Beijing, China
    2017  “To Be an Image Maker”, Jimei Arles International Photo Festival, Jimei Citizen Center, Xiamen, China
    2017  “Tall Non-Fat Raspberry White Mocha Latte”, Investment Projects, New York, USA
    2017  “Photo Shanghai”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
    2017  “Being Information”, SSSTART EXHIBITION, Shanghai, China
    2017 “All-Day Breakfast”, First Canada Place Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    2017 “Drive-thru”, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
    2017 “Beat the System Like a Dead Horse”, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
    2017  “All happens after sunset…”, MOCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China
    2016  “Trembling Surface”, Long March,Beijing, China
    2016  “Annals of Floating Island”, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hongkong, China
    2016  “Warehouse Story V”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
    2016  “Broken Machine”, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, USA 
    2016  “Miller Time”, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
    2016  “Action – Chang Lichi Collection Exhibition”, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
    2016  “Reknown”, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2015  “The Real Thing”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
    2015  “Emerging Digital Artists Award screening”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
    2015  “Feature Art Fair”, Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, Toronto, Canada
    2015  “Retina of the Unconscious”, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, USA
    2015  “Moving Image Programme”, OCAT Museum, Shanghai, China
    2015 “West Bund Art & Design 2015”, Vanguard Gallery, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2015  “Photo Shanghai”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
    2015  “Remainder; Us for never forever for the first and the last month”, Space Baptist, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    2015  “Household Goods and Gift Items”, Utopia Parkway, Queens, New York, USA
    2015  “Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015”, Vancouver, Canada
    2015  “Nightstand”, Galerie de La Rotonde de Stalingrad, Paris, France
    2014  “Begin from Chaos”, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
    2014  “Boxes: Lost in Circulation”, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, USA
    2014  “Reflecting on Olana”, Catwalk Institute, Catskill, USA
    2014  “Pingyao International Photography Festival”, Ancient City of Pingyao, China
    2014  “Somewhere Else”, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
    2014  “I Like Fluorescent Light (I Love the Sun)”, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, USA
    2013  “DUMBO Arts Festival Exhibition”, 85 Washington Street Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
    2013  “Proof 20”, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
    2013  “Stony Brook University Philosophy and the Arts Conference Exhibition”, The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory, New York, USA
    2013  “NYU First Year MFA Exhibition”, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, USA
    2013 “Art/Work”, Coohaus Art, New York, USA
    2012 “LOSING GROUND: Experimental Video shorts from Canada’s West Coast”, VIVO Media Arts

    2012  “BMO1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition Exhibition”, Museum of  Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
    2012  “ANIMATION AUTOMATION”, Khyber Arts Centre, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
    2012  “Urban Art Exhibition”, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
    2012 “I Flux”, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    2012  “So Crazy It Just Might Work”, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    2011  “Square Pegs IV”, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Canada
    2011 “Summer Live: time-based video program”, Vancouver 125, Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada
    2011  “A Furtive Conundrum: Practicing the Furtive”, 1612 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    2011  “BYOB Vancouver”, Drop Out Video Arts, W2 Storyeum, Vancouver, Canada
    2011  “I Could Be Wrong”, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    2011  “Counter Mapping, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival”, Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada
    2010  “Signal & Noise X Media Art Festival”, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
    2010  “The Sci-Fi Show”, Gam Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    2010 “TRADE”, 221A Artist Run Centre, off-site exhibition at Center A, Vancouver, Canada
    2010  “For the Moment”, W2 Community Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada
    2010  “EVEN”, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada