1988 Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province

2011 Graduated from Broadcasting and Hosting Art College of Zhejiang University of Media and Communication with a ba

Currently studies at the Experimental Art Department of Transmedia School of China Academy of Art for a master’s degree, works and lives in Shanghai, Hangzhou

SOLO EXHIBITION

2016

"Such as Song" audio and video Exhibition space, Hangzhou, China

GROUP EXHIBITION

2022

"No Shortcut in the Wave of The Times" , Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China

"Gender", Sen's Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2021

"Above the Fields" Xicun Earth Art Festival, Xicun Village, Anhui, China

"Between the square Inches is Nature", Endless Art Museum, Jiangsu, China

May 2021 - International Youth Art Season, Zhejiang Exhibition Center, Hangzhou, China

2020

International Cross-Media Arts Festival: Near Future, Possible Life, Hanling, Ningbo, China

"Resurrection" Art Exhibition, Fuyicang Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2019

Light and Effect, Bow Art Museum, Suzhou, China

Xu Yi's works include images, installations, sound and text. She is good at using emotional logic to construct the world, and her works are often filled with humanistic atmosphere. She said that from an early age, she was extremely sensitive to words, and went on to love literature, poetry, and the creation of divergent words. In her works, she often uses words to explore the deep poetic power of her works.

Voice is another characteristic elements in her work, after 10 years of professional training and forging voice, she will "broadcast" the extremely has the time feeling and the mystery of embedded voice work, also often appear in her installation horn, mixer, microphones and other sound carrier, the medium by sound, discusses the present social and emotion, memory and the future, Search for the dilemma and healing between the external and internal environment.

A story of rebirth

In 2020, my father because operation in very low probability of accident and coma suddenly, in a vegetative state, disease to the operation process, as the global outbreak period, the hospital is also strictly control escort, so I can't complete process witnessed father from admission to coma, to me, is facing a perfect father went into the hospital, a week later to become a "vegetative state", Is the most direct life is impermanent, is all eyes and become a powerless, small family, grand national crisis, overlap at the same time, the community of human destiny under the commonness and individuality was set each other off, anxiety, helplessness, fatalism, struggle, and ultimately the change of feeling, is deeply touched and inspired me to think about: "Rebirth" may be the only hope for people under despair, but is there a state, besides "life and death", and what kind of state can make people fearless of life and death? And if you break life and death, can you really break pain.