Yi Xin Tong (b.1988)
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
Solo and Duo-Exhibitions
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
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
Music Performances
2021 “Human Whale Songs: Recordings from the Deep Throat”, Katydid Records · Vancouver · January, Vancouver Media Arts Committee
2018 “Ultima Thule album release”, Yve YANG, New York, USA
2017 “Home Audio”, Brooklyn, USA
2015 “Muted Portraits”, Trans-Pecos, Queens, USA
2014 “COMA (Citizens Ontological Music Agenda)”, ABC No Rio, New York, USA
2014 “Siwen Saodi”, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, US
2014 “Litmus.space launching party”, Litmus Space, Brooklyn, USA
2014 “All-Nighters opening performance”, 41 Hester St, New York, USA
2014 “Contra-Rotations closing performances”, Ran Tea House, Brooklyn, USA
2014 “I Like Fluorescent Light (I Love the Sun) music performance”, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, USA
2011 “Fake Jazz Wednesdays final concert”, Astoria, Vancouver, Canada
2011 “Art: It’s in You to Give”, Lion’s Den Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 “Not Sent Letters & Guest”, BLIM, Vancouver, Canada
2010 “Fake Jazz Wednesdays”, Astoria, Vancouver, Canada
2010 “Slab 4: Sound & Noise”, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Awards and Honors
2021 Award of Prix de la Fondation Choi pour l’art contemporain
2018-2020 Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, Canada
2017 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant, Canada
2017 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
2014 The Art Gallery of York University Artists’ Book of the Moment shortlist, Canada
2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship, USA
2013 British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship, Canada
2013 New York University MFA Artistic Practice Award, USA
2012 May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Multimedia Technology Scholarship, USA
2012 NYU Steinhardt Friends of Art Scholarship, USA
2012 Orange Corporation Annual Award in Visual Arts, Canada
2012 BMO 1st Art Invitational Student Art Competition winner for British Columbia, Canada
2012 Simon Fraser University Service Award in Contemporary Arts (Spring), Canada
2011 Takao Tanabe Award in Visual Arts, Canada
2011 Bice Caple Awards, Canada
2011 Simon Fraser University President’s & Dean’s Honor Roll (Fall), Canada
2011 Simon Fraser University Service Award in Contemporary Arts (Summer), Canada
2010 British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship, Canada
2010 Bice Caple Awards, Canada
2010 Simon Fraser University Service Award in Contemporary Arts (Spring, Summer), Canada
2010 Simon Fraser University Golden Key Outstanding Member Award, Canada
2010 Simon Fraser University Dean’s Honor Roll (Spring), Canada
Residency
2019 Offshore Artist-in-Residency, Dinawan Island, Malaysia
2019 Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson, Canada
2018 Ruan Yisan Heritage Foundation Artist Residency, Jiulong Village, China
2016 Lacawac Sanctuary and Field Station, Lake Ariel, USA
2015 The Thicket, Darien, USA
2014 CATWALK Institute, Catskill Mountains, USA
2013 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, USA
