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Artist Bio
Duck Day, single channel video, 2019
Yuchen Xin’s artist practice examines personal and curious perceptions of the world and the absurdities in everyday life. This unconscious self-expression expresses through various mediums, including hand-formed objects, painting, video, ceramics, and digital work. The unique anthropomorphic characters she creates engage both her personal universe and the hyperactive side and strangeness of human conditions. She considers her characters to have aspects of absurdity, strangeness, and craziness like human beings but still retain a lovable quality.
Born in 1998 in Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
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2021 Master of Fine Art (Coursework), with Distinction, RMIT University, Melbourne
2020 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), with 1st class, RMIT University, Melbourne
2019 Bachelor of Fine Art, with Distinction, RMIT University, Melbourne
Solo Shows (︎clik )
2023 Do Your Worst, Entrance Gallery, Footscary community arts, Melbourne, Australia
2022 I Dream of You and Ice-cream, Display window, Library at the Dock, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Recall, Gallery One Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, Australia
2021 A False Start, Assembly point by Creative Space, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Our Bodies Give Up the Ghosts, Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan
Group Shows
2023 (UN)Home, Being-towards-place, Testing Ground Emporium, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Local Artist, Gallery Sunari, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Fifty Square Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Master of Fine Art Graduation show, RMIT University, Melbourne (online/physical)
2021 Fort Earth, Marfa Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Hall & Wilcox Art Exhibition and Acquisition Program, Melbourne, Australia (online)
2021 Troc Talks Online, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Platform, The SUBSTATION and Creative City Hobsons Bay, Melbourne Digital Fringe Festival
2020 RMIT Fine Art Honours Graduation Show, RMIT University, Australia (online)
2020 Death In A Box, EACExhibitions, Australia (online)
2020 Woods Steert Youth Art Prize, Woods Street Art Space, Australia (online)
2020 Museum Of Me, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (online)
2020 Hope In Isolation, FORTHEART, Australia (online)
2020 Linden New Art Postcard Show, Linden new art, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Third year ESP Graduation Show, RMIT city campus, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Surface / Light / Duration, Michaels Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 SMALL!, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Objective, RMIT city campus, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Somewhere In Time, Wilderness school, Adelaide, Australia
Awards and Grant
2021 Hall & Wilcox Art Prize 2021
2020 RMIT School of Art Honours Travelling Grant
2020 The Joel Elenberg Prize judged by Anna Schwartz of Anna Schwartz Gallery
2020 Woods Street Youth Art Prize shortlisted
2016 Rozenbilds Prize for Visual Art
Commissions
2021
In collaborations with Mikala Dwyer’s public artwork Apparition displayed at University Square, Carlton, Melbourne City Council
Residencies
2022-2023 RESIDENCE, Footscray Community Arts, Melbourne, Australia 2020 Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan
2020 First site gallery, Melbourne, Australia (online)