Holli Xue is a visual artist and filmmaker working predominantly with moving images. They tend to adopt non-linear timeline in storytelling, weaving subtle sentiments into lived reality, and collecting evidence for the record of the uncelebrated. Their practice is based on audiovisual narratives, often consisting of constructed scenes, recorded performance, video clips from everyday life, and spoken narrations. Their work combines auto-biography, experimental video, installation, documentary, and performance, blending the factual and the imagined, the seen and the unexpressed, examining the construction of identity narratives from within.

>> AWARD
Art Cabbage Prize 2024, Animated Digital Art, Third Place
9th Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, Doc Art, Audience Award and Jury Award
Grierson Awards 2020, shortlisted

>> PRESS AND PUBLICATION
Work featured in ZYA’s digital magazine The Mix, Issue Zero

>> SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION AND SCREENING
2024
Darkroom Festival, London, UK
Body Language, Fringe! Queer Arts and Film Festival. London, UK
Canal Dream Art Festival. London, UK
Fox Yard Studio Summer Exhibition. Suffolk, UK
Suitcase Project, Ruthin International Arts Festival. UK
/imagine...Digital Soul by ArtX Gallery. Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, US
AVIFF Art Film Festival. Marseille, France
Spilt Milk. VFDalston, London, UK
Image Under the Ground, Queer East Festival. Ugly Duck, London, UK
Welcome to the UK. Ugly Duck, London, UK
2023
In Conversation: Between the Rains — The difficulty, resilience, and humanity in the storm. Sólmate, Guangzhou, China
Between the Rains Screening. ShareU Bookstore, Guangzhou, China
Hanzi Modern: The Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Fonts. Zikawei Library, Shanghai, China
SMASH! Mobile Video Screening. SMASH! Coffee and Space, Chengdu, China
Disability Pride Arts Fest. Make Studio, Baltimore, US
2022
Busy being in lockdowns. Shanghai, China

>> FACILITATION
2024
Curatorial team and documentation, group exhibition Thingness of Things. 4 Princelet Street, London, UK
Media and documentation, Ruthin International Art Festival. UK
Lead facilitator, stop-motion animation workshop and public screening. Organised by VaChina at SOAS, University of London, UK
2023
Display design and curatorial team, Hanzi Modern: The Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Fonts. Zikawei Library, Shanghai, China
Programmer, August film programme and event. Yuyintang Park, Shanghai, China
2021
Lead facilitator, stop-motion animation workshop and public screening. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
Lead facilitator, stop-motion animation workshop and public screening. Maziren Bookstore, Beijing, China
Lead facilitator, stop-motion animation workshop and public screening. Jiangren Craft Centre, Chengdu, China

>> ARTIST PROGRAMME
2024-25 Conditions Studio Programme. London, UK

Holli Xue things happen where you don’t look cocoon i toast enid’s leaving town

thingness of things

stop-motion animation workshop

hire me

stop-motion animation workshop

Holli Xue

things happen
where you don’t look

cocoon

i toast

enid’s leaving town

stop-motion animation
workshop