Xuan Ye

Xuan Ye

Office: ECH 1108
Department of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

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

Xuan Ye 叶轩 works in art, music and technology. Their work has appeared at the Kamias Triennial (2024), MOCA Toronto (2022),  UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (2022, Shanghai),  UQAM (Montreal) and Venice Architecture Biennale (2021),  Peer to Space (2021, Berlin),  MUTEK Montreal (2020), Fonderie Darling (2020, Montreal), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019, Toronto), Vivid Projects (2019, Birmingham), the Inside-out Art Museum (2018, Beijing), the Goethe-Institut (2018, Beijing), among others. Their multifaceted practice has been featured and reviewed in Canadian Art (Winter 2020), ArtAsiaPacific (Issue. 111), KUNSTFORUM (Bd. 257), Musicworks (Issue. 136), and Bandcamp Daily (Best Experimental Albums). They authored the article Smaller, Slower, Sloppier highlighting the collective dynamics and the progressive blending of human and cybernetic intelligence in creativity (2024, published by The Digital Review). They were an artist-in-residence awarded by the Swiss Arts Council in 2023, a finalist of EQ Bank digital artist awards in 2018, and a recipient of scholarships and project grants from Canada Councils for the Arts and the SSHRC.


View the artist's website at xuan ye studio (pureapparat.us)

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

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

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
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