Xinyi Cheng
Xinyi Cheng’s paintings explore fantasy, desire, and intimacy through fleeting gestures and everyday encounters. Occupying a position that is at once close to and removed from her subjects, she captures moments suspended in time. While the situations she depicts often appear ordinary or candid, they are charged with longing, anticipation, and melancholy, poised between the possibility of fulfilment and its persistent deferral.
Xinyi Cheng (b. 1989, Wuhan, China) lives and works in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include presentations at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2022); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2020); and Balice Hertling, Paris (2017). Her work has also been included in exhibitions at SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul (2024); the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2021); the 13th Shanghai Biennale at Power Station of Art (2021); Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris (2021); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020), among others.
Cheng received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2018. She was awarded the Baloise Art Prize in 2019.
