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grace xu is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tovaangar (Los Angeles) + Muwekma Ohlone Territory (San Francisco Bay Area)
grace xu 徐栩 (b. 2001) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Muwekma Ohlone Territory (San Francisco Bay Area) and Tovaangar (Los Angeles). They received a B.A. in Art with a Minor in Community Engagement and Social Change from the University of California, Los Angeles.
They work across performance, film, photography, ceramics, installation, and writing to find languages of belonging within diasporic trajectories, collective memories, and spi-ritual cosmologies. Prioritizing 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 have performed and exhibited their work internationally at the New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Museo delle Mura (Rome), Kapallorek ArtSpace (Malaysia), P8星球 Artist Residency (China), and Long Play Contemporary (Santa Monica, CA). Recently, they were awarded the Lintas Benua: Crossing Continents research residency by the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (US/FI), funded by the Rashid Johnson Fellowship. You may also see them as a musician playing dizi, xiao, and guqin in Los Angeles with Passion of the Cut Sleeve show.
Email gracexustudio@gmail.com to say hi + for any inquiries.