MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York
Wo Xinyu / About
About
Contemporary artist based in New York
Biography
Wo Xinyu is a Chinese-born contemporary artist based in New York, working across painting, public art, and site-responsive projects. She received her BFA from the China Academy of Art and her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Her practice explores migration, urban experience, and the changing relationships between the body, technology, and the environment in the age of AI. In her ongoing Light Fields series, light becomes an active structure through which figures and their surroundings dissolve into fields of color, movement, and energy. Her public projects extend this visual language into everyday spaces, treating architecture and community as integral parts of the work.
Wo’s work has been exhibited across the United States and China and featured in publications including New American Paintings, Whitehot Magazine, ArteFuse, Meer, and CAFA.
Curriculum Vitae
XINYU WO
Born 1996, Ningbo, China
Based in New York
Education
2021
2018
BFA in Oil Painting, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024
The Rift of Perception, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
2023
Starry Heavens, Moral Law, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
Transcendence of the Mundane, Object Momento Gallery, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
DWP Cares: Benefit Auction, Artsy, New York
In the Mood for Love, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
Tamen Cizai, Habitat Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
2024
In the Mood for Love, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
I Built a Cave and I Choose You, O2 Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2023
In the Mood for Love, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
All Our Puny Sorrows, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York
Foundations Online Art Fair, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
2022
Double Trouble, VillageOneArt Gallery, New York
Ying Zhiguang, East Gallery, Nanjing, China
2021 Himalayas Museum × No Theater Co-screening, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
20-ZOOM-21 Real-Time Online Performance, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Brighten Up the Night, Yuan Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Star Start II – August Vortex, Rearwindow Gallery, Hangzhou, China
The Running Water Takes Me to a Farther Lake, Meisyakan Gallery, Ningbo, China
2020
South Facing, East Gallery, Nanjing, China
Please Don’t Come to This Show, Online
Your Internet Is Unstable, Online
2019
4/4 Puzzle Project, Musée l’Amour, Hangzhou, China
“Dannie Kate” Solo Show – Fake Artist Project, 117 Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China
Interactive Dialogue: Drift Bottle Project, Bernini Restaurant, Hangzhou, China
Infinity Edge, Xiangshan Art Space, Hangzhou, China
2018
Graduates Arts Fair, Guangzhou, China
The 9th New Star Art Award, Jiangsu Center for the Performing Arts, Jiangsu, China
Media Coverage and Interviews
2025
Grit Daily
Wo Xinyu Investigates AI but Believes Art Is a Human Domain
ArteFuse
A Surreal Conversation with Wo Xinyu
Whitehot Magazine
Dreaming in Color: The Imaginative Paintings of Xinyu Wo
New American Paintings
Issue No. 178
Cultbytes
The Rift of Perception at VillageOneArt
2024
AI-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
Interview with Xinyu Wo
2023
Li Tang Community
VillageOneArt Presents Artist Wo Xinyu’s Solo Show, Starry Heavens, Moral Law