Visiting Artist Lecture: Xuan Ye

Xuan Ye (叶轩) makes noise as a compass, navigating the eddies of art, music, and technology. Their practice unfolds in a vibrational world-building via software, sound, image, installation, performance, publication, and teaching. Their work has appeared in recent solo exhibitions at the Centre for Culture and Technology (2025) and MOCA Toronto (2022), and in group showcases at the Kamias Triennial (2024), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (2022, Shanghai), UQAM and Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), MUTEK Montreal (2021), Peer to Space (2021, Berlin), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019, Toronto), the Goethe-Institut (2018, Beijing), among others. They have been recognized with awarded residencies at the University of Toronto (2025/26), ZHdK (2024), and Pro Helvetia (2023). Their practice has also been critically featured and reviewed in Canadian Art (Winter 2020 & Spring 2020), ArtAsiaPacific (Issue 111), KUNSTFORUM (Vol. 257), and Bandcamp Daily (Best Experimental Albums). X serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

U of T Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here. 

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme of this year's series, Futures Otherwise: Memory, Myth and the Politics of Tomorrow, invites artists to share insights into their respective practices exploring themes including Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, diasporic mythology, techno-utopian, queer temporalities, and beyond. These artists engage with the future not just as speculative, but as a site of resistance, healing, memory and radical re-imagining. 

This is a seated event. The classroom is wheelchair accessible.