Leilei Xia was born in Guangzhou, China. She is a multimedia artist who works in tactile art, experimental animations, video art, and participatory collective art. As one of the editors of independent science zine Icosa Magazine and the founder of tactile art collective Tactileye, Leilei explores how tactility and bodily feelings are manifested in different medium, and is interested in combining the process and the result of art together to make art not as a noun but as a verb.
Website: www.leileixia.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilyxia99/
Email: [email protected] Vimeo: vimeo.com/leileixia Phone: +1 8042638233
2020-2024
2016-2020
2017-2020
Virginia Commonwealth University, Master of Fine Art, graduate assistantship recipient.
Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honor Degree, Film/Animation/Video;
Brown University Courses: Comparative Literature, English, Creative Writing, Anthropology, Media Theory.
2024
Virginia Commonwealth University, 3D computer Art and Animation Practice.
2022-2023
Virginia Commonwealth University, teaching faculty for Animation Practice class in 2023 Fall.
Teaching Assistant for Video Practices and Art Foundation: Time Studio in VCUarts for 2022 Fall and 2023 Spring
2018-2020
Rhode Island School of Design, Teaching Assistant for classes: Directing, Stop-motion Studio, Time Light and Sound.
( *Tactileye means representing Tactileye art collective)
2023
VCUArts Graduate Thesis Show, The Anderson, Richmond, Virginia;
“Hi Hair” Tactile Workshop in “Coming Into Contact” Group Exhibition, The Anderson, Richmond, Virginia; “Untouchable Memory” Empty Touch Workshop, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, *Tactileye; “Creature in Your Bag” Tactile Workshop, ICA at VCU Field Day, Richmond, VA, USA, *Tactileye; Empty Touch Workshop, E-flow, Shanghai, China, *Tactileye;
2022
“Tactile Riddle” Workshop, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China, *Tactileye; “Listen'in touch, mushrooms know how”, Book In HandTactile Workshop, KunMing, China, *Tactileye; “Love Life—Women with Disability”,SoengJoengToi Tactile Workshop, Guangzhou, China, *Tactileye;
2021
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, "Portrait of Friendship" Tactile Workshop, China, *Tactileye;
2023
“Coming Into Contact” Group Exhibition, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA; “Here Be Dragons” Group Show, Greensboro, NC, USA; “What if we hug in The JCPenny” Group Show, Richmond, VA, USA; “Recycled” Group Show, ArtWorks, Richmond, VA, USA; “Diverging Path” Group Show, Governor’s Island, New York, NY, USA; NAFI·Future Nanjing Art Fair International;
2021
“It’s Time to Reduce the Backlog” Group Exhibition, Latitude Gallery, Frame, New York, NY, USA; Remote Landing: The Global Graduation Group Exhibition, Frame, Tactile Cinema, Beijing, China; Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, The Horse Guessing Game, Canada; Female Film Festival Berlin, The Horse Guessing Game, Berlin, Germany; Feinaki Beijing Animation Week, Frame, Curatorial Program, The Horse Guessing Game, Main Competition Program, Beijing, China.
2020
RISD Graduation Show, Frame, online; 58th Ann Arbor International Film Festival, Scar, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Taichung International Animation Festival, Run, Taichung.
2019
StopTrik International Film Festival, Run, Maribor, Slovenia; San Francisco Another Hole in the Head Fim Festival, Run, San Francisco, CA; Paris International Animation Film Festival, Run, Paris, France; Isomnia International Animation Film Festival, Run, Moscow, Russia; Ivy Film Festival, Run, New York, NY, Providence, RI, USA.
2018
New Orleans Film Festival, Run, New Orleans, LA, USA; China Independent Animation Film Forum, Run, Beijing, China. Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival, Tasty Beauty, Providence, RI, USA.