刘辛夷关注那些在不经意间作用于政治参与的媒介物与其潜能。他的一部分创作挖掘广为传播的意识形态习语和符号，在日常情境中重置数字公域中的政治景观，以标记个体与当代世界之间不安的信息交换。伴随着工作现场的连续迁移，他的另一部分实践探询现代市政治理下的社会空间，模拟并转译那些间接塑造了自身文化心理的社会情境和技术实践。他将这些自发的查验工作看做一种长期方法，以捕捉在信息网络和物质现实的历史中不断交叠与断裂的现代性表征，并想象在日趋工具化的信息社会中，那些失效的，缺损的以及不可追溯之物可能的角色。
刘辛夷生活工作于杭州和北京。他的工作形态主要包括在地性项目、装置和影像。他历年代表性的个展及个人项目包括 “应有掌声”（2019），外交公寓12号，北京；“信号”（2018），西宁当代及小桥街道市民中心，西宁；“一时博爱”（2018）, Galerie Liusa Wang & Espace DawanArt，巴黎；“空港”（2017），旗峰山艺术博物馆，东莞；“十万八千里”（2016），空白空间，北京；“朝阳群众”（2015），A307空间，北京；“土豆烧牛肉”（2014），空白空间，北京；“激振波”（2013），泰康空间，北京。他的作品也曾参加过多个机构的群展，包括上海昊美术馆、现代汽车文化中心、上海OCAT艺术中心、乔空间&油罐艺术中心、韩国2016年釜山双年展、上海民生现代美术馆、中央美术学院美术馆、西安OCAT艺术中心、雅加达余德耀美术馆、北京尤伦斯艺术中心等。他曾获第二届保时捷 “中国青年艺术家双年评选” 奖（2019），也曾入围第四届艺术三亚华宇青年奖（2015）。
Liu Xinyi is interested in unfolding various kind of agencies that unintentionally played their roles in the history of political participation. Part of his works excavates the widely circulated ideological idioms and icons, recontextualizes the political spectacles from the digital public domain into daily life, aiming to trace the restless interchange between an individual and the Contemporary World. Accompanied by continuous migration of his worksite, another half of his practice start to study on modern municipal management over social spaces, where he imitates and translates some of the social situations and technical practices that may have involved in shaping his own cultural psychology. He regards these autonomous inspections as a long-term approach, to capture the overlayed and fractured representations of modernity among the history of information networks and physical realities, with the view to imagine the potentials of the invalid, incomplete and non-retrospective objects in the information societies rolling towards instrumentalization.
Liu Xinyi is an artist currently based between Hangzhou and Beijing, primarily working on site-specific project, installation, and moving & still image. A selection of his solo exhibitions/projects includes Applause Is Due (2019), DRC No.12, Beijing; Signal (2018), Xining Contemporary Art Space & Xiaoqiao Street Civic Center, Xining; Fraternité Passagère (2018), Galerie Liusa Wang & Espace DawanArt, Paris; Air Port (2017), Forum Art Museum, Dongguan; Hundred Thousand Miles Away (2016), White Space Beijing, Beijing; Chaoyang Qunzhong (2015), A307 Space, Beijing; Goulash (2014), White Space Beijing, Beijing and (2013), Taikang Space, Beijing. His works have been featured in group exhibitions at HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, Qiao Space & Tank Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, YuzMuseum, Jakarta and Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing. He was one of the winners of Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the year” (2018-2019), his was also one of the shortlisted artists for the 4th Art SanyaHuayu Youth Award (2015).
