Shen Xin is an artist who practices empowering alternative histories, relations, and potentials between individuals and nation-states and understanding culture on its own terms. Engaged with moving image, video installation, public event, and collective process, Shen Xin creates affirmative spaces of belonging that embrace polyphonic narratives. Recent solo presentations include ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (The Earth Turned Green), Swiss Institute, New York (2022); Brine Lake (A New Body), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021); Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2019); and Synthetic Types, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2019). Group exhibitions include Language is a River, MUMA, Melbourne (2021); Gwangju Biennale (2021); Sigg Prize, M+ Museum, Hong Kong (2019); and Afterimage, Lisson Gallery, London (2019). They received the BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) and were a resident at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2018–19). Shen Xin practices on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the land of the Dakhóta Oyáte, as well as on Lënapehòkink (New York City), the land of the Lenape peoples.