Xīn is a contemporary artist, poet and performer of Chinese and Italian heritage working primarily through large-scale painting, ritual performance and immersive environments. Her practice explores thresholds and liminal states: fields of encounter between the body and vast ecological, planetary and cosmological systems.
Informed by Eastern contemplative traditions, Xīn engages in meditation, movement and spontaneous mark-making – combining plant and mineral pigments on canvas. The body is explored as a cosmological axis where personal, biospheric memory are registered through sensation and gestures. Her canvases operate as seismographs, recording traces of transformation across microscopic and cosmic scales.
Alongside painting, Xīn extends her work into immersive environments that explore altered states of consciousness through hypnotic sound, spoken word, and ritual dance performance. Across these forms, her practice investigates transformation, threshold-crossing, and the intimate relation between inner life, the embodied experience and the wider cosmos.
Her visual works have been featured in galleries, institutions, cultural festivals, and contemporary art publications, including My Modern Met, Fine Art Basel Hong Kong, and the Indonesian Institute of Art. Her background includes a BSc in Psychology from the University of London, Stanford University Compassion Cultivation Training, and extended silent retreats studying Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas. Xīn is also a published writer and a spoken-word poet with work appearing in Mingled Voices, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and The Hopper.
Exhibitions & Features
2026: Group Show: Medicine Gallery, UK
2026: Group Show: Visionary Colors, Mexico
2026: Feature Article: My Modern Met: Anthea Xin. Immersive Paintings Made Through Meditative State Draw Parallels Between the Body and Cosmos.
2025: Longlisted, ArtEvol, London Art Collective, Saatchi Gallery, UK
2025: Feature Article: Divide Magazine, Issue 13
2024: Group Show: Body Echoes, Natta Citta Art Space, Indonesian Institute of Art
2024: Group Show: Medicine Gallery, UK
2024: Group Show: Soul Revolution Gallery, UK
2023: Private Solo Show: Love Earth Global, Ireland
2020: Group Show: Rhythm of Life, OSA, Fine Art Asia & Art Basel, Hong Kong
2019: Feature Article: Words of Women, HOKK Fabrica, Hong Kong
2018: Group Show: Picked & Preserved IB Art exhibition, Li Po Chun United World College, Hong Kong
2017: Group Show: OSA Award Exhibition, Hong Kong Visual Arts Center
Trainings & Certifications
BSc Pyschology, University of London
Stanford University Compassion Cultivation Training
Extended Silent Retreats under Tibetan Buddhist instruction in North India & Nepal

