Artist Bio: Xuanlin Ye works and lives in Chicago. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017), received his MFA from Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (2020), and graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA in Art History (2022). Ye completed his thesis under the guidance of renowned art historian Wu Hung. He is the recipient of the Hoffberger Fellowship and MFA Juried Exhibition in Print by New American Painting, featuring one issue #159. He has been exhibited around the world, including Still, life at Art Cake Brooklyn, NY(2021), and has been featured at the Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival at Hongik Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea (2021).

Exhibit: Ye’s project examines how diasporic self intersects with lingering spirituality and overwhelming waves of memories and love. Through the labyrinth of culturally encoded images and the precarious lines and forms that re-embody Ye’s self-interrogation on his flickering memories of mother, land, religion, and universe, Xuanlin Ye invites the viewers to meander among the overarching sense of history with unconscious expression of self to understand the unresolved tension (or sartorial incompleteness) that is in between his root and his life in America, to feel the pulsing vibration of the bamboo in his chest.

– Meichen Liu, PhD candidate, Art History
University of Michigan