...like ashes like seeds like stars (film)
2023-2026
HD video / stereo sound / 14 min

Music by Yinhan Jiang (guqin) and grace xu (dizi)
Filmed on Muwekma Ohlone Territory, Tovaangar, and Jiangxi






Frequencies of Ephemeral Collectives
2026
Field(Trip) of Proximities
E-Gallery, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya Malaysia
April 15 – 30th, 2026

Curated by Yap Sau Bin

3-channel sound installation, 21 min 06 sec (looped).
Graphite on wall drawings of pensol (Semai nose flute), dizi (Chinese flute), and Malaysian bamboo flute by Fadly Sabran.







Post-Meridiem Spirit
2026
Gravity of the Wall, Stateless Mind Festival
Museo delle Mura, Rome, Italy
February 4 – April 12, 2025

Curated by Camilla Boemio

Collaboration with Amir Zainorin and opening performance with Dario Paini (saxaphone)





芥籽世界 Contending Parables: Mountains in Mustard Seeds
2023
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) New Genres Residency
Broad Art Center, Los Angeles

Jan – Mar., 2023





咝 ‘s' is for synapse
2025
Commissioned by P8 Art Center
Changsha, China
August 15 – September 21, 2025





A light for bodies to inhabit
2023
New Wight Gallery, installation
Topanga, performance
November 30 – December 14, 2023

Paying homage to ancestral migrant bodies and meditating on embodied memory as guide for surviving the future, when impending catastrophes will soon make us all migrants on our earthly home.



The Carrier Chronologies
2023
Little Gallery
Los Angeles
October 9 – 18, 2023

Installation of unglazed terracotta vessel, braided perennial ryegrass, mustard seeds, mustard-fiber paper, photo transfers on rocks, oil paint on rocks, sand, plant ash. Invitation to engage through touch, smell, walking, reading, resting.

Parables, saddle-stich bound notes, 24 pages, mustard fiber paper, seeds, instant film.






Divine rock (minigama kiln)
2026

The Pottery Workshop  
Jingdezhen
March 23 – May 18, 2026







Wading
2022
New Wight Gallery
Los Angeles
November 17 – December 8, 2022

B&W video, unglazed porcelain






Selected Photography 
2025
Analog photography / Medium format / E-6 positive film 






Exhibition Text: Future Fossils
2024
Exhibition text for Future Fossils, Trey Ross solo exhibition at Long Play Contemporary, Santa Monica

August 14 – September 29, 2024







Filmography: DoP 
2025 
Collaboration with Avery Collins-Byrd, documenting performance Chasing Quiet Rings, Houston – Baton Rouge

April 18  – May 3, 2025








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Bio
grace xu 徐栩 (b. 2001, New Orleans) is an artist based between Muwekma Ohlone Territory (California) ⇆ 江西 Jiangxi.

They work across lens-based media, print matter, ceramics, sound, and site-responsive improvisations to explore the world-building possibilities of collective memory, diasporic trajectories, and spi-ritual cosmologies. With a voice of emotional tenderness in response to our ever unfolding present, their practice finds power in community and in conversation with our human and more-than-human world. They hold a B.A. in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Minor in Community Engagement and Social Change.

Current/Upcoming —
16th Gwangju Biennale
Stateless Mind Pavilion
September 5th - November 15th, 2026


Recently at

Artist-in-Residence → The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
Research Fellow → Lintas Benua: Crossing Continents Research Residency, Ipoh—LangkawiKuala Lumpur, Malaysia  
International Artist-in-Residence → P8 Art Center, Changsha, China
Teaching Artist → Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Research Fellow → Counterforce Lab, Los Angeles, CA
Guest Writer → Long Play Contemporary, Future Fossils, Santa Monica, CA

Ongoing

Research Fellow → Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston/Helsinki
Musician → Passion of the Cut Sleeve, Los Angeles
Collaborating artist → Stateless Mind
꩜ → Studio from the South, Jingdezhen


Contact

gracexustudio@gmail.com
ig: @wildgrasseses