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

Music by Yinhan Jiang and grace xu
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
2026Gravity 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
2023University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) New Genres Residency
Broad Art Center, Los Angeles

Jan – Mar., 2023





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




A light for bodies to inhabit
2023New 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
2023Little 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
2022New 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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