Xuan Ye

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Office: ECH 1201
Department of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Tel.: 519.888.4567, ext. 43065
Email: xuan.ye@uwaterloo.ca

Xuan Ye (叶轩) is an artist, musician, and technologist whose practice unfolds in a vibrational world-building via software, sound, image, installation, performance, publication, and teaching. Their work has appeared in recent solo exhibitions at the Centre for Culture and Technology (2025) and MOCA Toronto (2022), and in group showcases at the Kamias Triennial (2024), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (2022, Shanghai), UQAM and Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), MUTEK Montreal (2021), Peer to Space (2021, Berlin), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019, Toronto), the Goethe-Institut (2018, Beijing), among others. They have been recognized with awarded residencies at the University of Toronto (2025/26), ZHdK (2024), and Pro Helvetia (2023), and have received grants and scholarships from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Partners in Art, and the SSHRC. Their practice has also been critically featured and reviewed in Peripheral Review (2020), Canadian Art (Winter 2020 and Spring 2020), ArtAsiaPacific (Issue 111), KUNSTFORUM (Vol. 257), Musicworks (Issue 136), and Bandcamp Daily (Best Experimental Albums). Ye teaches in the computational art specialization and other expanded media practices.

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Artwork with expandable tubing printed with text and patterns, loops through a metal frame sitting on the floor.

ERROAR! (exhibition view). The Centre for Culture and Technology. Toronto, 2025.

Art exhibition with a dark room filled with spiralling grey lines and scientific symbols. On the far wall is a monitor with computer generated patterns.

It Takes Spirals to Feed the Spiral (exhibition view). MOCA Toronto, 2022. Photo by Jack McCombe.

Art work in a dark room with a projection on the back wall of grey scale story sea with text at the bottom. In the center of the room is a scaffold stair-like structure.

Coda, The Spectacles Were Indeed Sublime (2019, two-channel video, Penrose structure, EEG sonification). Install view at The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2022

Artwork of two monitors on a wall above two white tables with keyboard and mouse. The monitor on the left displays a grid of multiple images of an ear being pulled up into a point. The monitor on the right displays a grid of multicoloured square with a word in each square. A larger word, "yoink", repeats on top of this grid.

I OWNED A TONGUE (exhibition view). Ed Video, Gueph, 2024

Artwork of multiple digital tablets secured to a stand with a scroll of paper with computer generated poetry.

ERROAR!#04 – The Oral Logic. Single-channel video, interactive web-based application, laser-engraved mirror, 3D prints, generative poetry on paper scroll, algorithmic composition (in collaboration with Jason Doell), 2019

Detail of an digital sculpture with a speaker encircled by a warped CD.

Telematic Allergies - Hexacore. Recycled e-wastes, solder station, 2020

Computer generated patterns that resemble coral, superimposed by linked words.

Deep Aware Triads – orishormonaspina. Digital painting, giclée print triptych, 36’’ diameter, 2019

Artwork with expandable tubing printed with text and patterns, loops through a metal frame sitting on the floor.
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ERROAR! (exhibition view). The Centre for Culture and Technology. Toronto, 2025.
Art exhibition with a dark room filled with spiralling grey lines and scientific symbols. On the far wall is a monitor with computer generated patterns.
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It Takes Spirals to Feed the Spiral (exhibition view). MOCA Toronto, 2022. Photo by Jack McCombe.
Art work in a dark room with a projection on the back wall of grey scale story sea with text at the bottom. In the center of the room is a scaffold stair-like structure.
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Coda, The Spectacles Were Indeed Sublime (2019, two-channel video, Penrose structure, EEG sonification). Install view at The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2022
Artwork of two monitors on a wall above two white tables with keyboard and mouse. The monitor on the left displays a grid of multiple images of an ear being pulled up into a point. The monitor on the right displays a grid of multicoloured square with a word in each square. A larger word, "yoink", repeats on top of this grid.
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I OWNED A TONGUE (exhibition view). Ed Video, Gueph, 2024
Artwork of multiple digital tablets secured to a stand with a scroll of paper with computer generated poetry.
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ERROAR!#04 – The Oral Logic. Single-channel video, interactive web-based application, laser-engraved mirror, 3D prints, generative poetry on paper scroll, algorithmic composition (in collaboration with Jason Doell), 2019
Detail of an digital sculpture with a speaker encircled by a warped CD.
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Telematic Allergies - Hexacore. Recycled e-wastes, solder station, 2020
Computer generated patterns that resemble coral, superimposed by linked words.
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Deep Aware Triads – orishormonaspina. Digital painting, giclée print triptych, 36’’ diameter, 2019