Jingyu Xu is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Born in Shandong, China, in 1981, she lives and works between South Florida and Beijing. Her practice explores memory, identity, transformation, and the emotional tension between personal and collective experience through psychologically charged and often surreal visual environments.

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Xu earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from Shandong University of Art and Design in 2004 and taught there until 2012 before dedicating herself fully to her studio practice. From 2007 to 2008, she was a visiting scholar at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon, France. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the National Art Museum of China, Today Art Museum, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, the Grand Palais in Paris, and the Chinese Embassy in France.

 

Raised in Shandong, one of the oldest regions of Chinese civilization, Xu developed an artistic perspective shaped by both traditional culture and the rapid transformation of contemporary China. Her work combines delicate materiality with psychological tension, often juxtaposing softness and fragility with themes of isolation, transformation, vulnerability, and endurance. Through sewn forms, sculptural bodies, fiber elements, and immersive staging, she constructs symbolic environments that blur distinctions between dream and reality, beauty and unease, intimacy and alienation.