Riley Tu is a London-based artist and researcher working with moving image and sound. Her practice investigates how algorithmic systems shape bodies, affect, and perception within digital environments. Drawing on feminist theory and posthuman thought, she examines how technology mediates gender, subjectivity, and agency through the construction of cyborg identities.

Through 3D animation and speculative narrative structures, Tu creates immersive environments where digital bodies operate within systems of surveillance, optimisation, and control. These bodies become sites of tension, suspended between internal processes of transformation and the external logics that govern them. Rather than framing technology as either utopian or dystopian, her work focuses on the instability of computational systems—foregrounding moments where emotion, error, and excess disrupt programmed behaviour.

Her projects explore how language, intelligence, and communication are reconfigured within artificial systems. Working across sound and animation, she constructs spatial and temporal conditions in which human and non-human agencies intersect, often through fragmented narratives and simulated environments. Within these spaces, identity is not fixed but continuously rendered, negotiated, and destabilised.

Tu holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been shown internationally, including Kyiv International Short Film Festival (2025), Reclaim The Frame at BFI Southbank (London, 2025), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (New York, 2025), Salón ACME (Mexico City, 2025), and Reykjavík International Film Festival (2024). She was featured in The One Minutes Series: Mirroring (Netherlands, 2024), received an honourable mention at New Renaissance Film Festival (London, 2024), and has also been selected for the British Council International Touring Programme and has been funded by Arts Council England, Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei City Government, and  National Culture and Arts Foundation. She was awarded for Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery 2025.

Upcoming:
Aug     Ming Wei Arts Award Exhibition, Arts and Culture Center, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei (Taiwan)

Mar    Born Out Upside Down, AMP gallery, London (UK)
Feb    Screening - WIP Screening Night, Richard Hoggart Cinema (UK)

2021 - 2023
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London (UK)
Tranquil Vale SE3, Blackheath, London (UK)
Taste the Difference, Loess Collective, Hypha Studio, London (UK)

Awards, Grants and Residencies
2026
Honourable Mention for Unauthorised Emotion, Ming Wei Arts Award, Ming Wei Education Foundation (Taiwan)
National Lottery Project Grant (Research and Development) for Training an Artificial Body: A Feminist Dataset, Arts Council England (UK)
Shortlisted, Apolan Residency, Foundation Fiminco (France)

2025
International Culture Exchange Grant (Visual Arts), National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan)
Visual Art Grant (Creation) for Unauthorised Emotion, Taipei City Government Department of Cultural Affairs (Taiwan)
Award, Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery, Taiwan Ministry of Culture. National selection for Taiwanese artists under 40 without gallery representation.
International Culture Exchange Grant, Taiwan Ministry of Culture
Shortlisted, MeetFactory Residency, Prague (Czech Republic)

2024
Honourable mention (Best Animation Short) for Quantised Bits of Light till It Added to a Whole, New Renaissance Film Festival (UK)
2023                                          
Hypha Studios Residency, Loess Collective, London (UK)

Talks, Panels & Workshops
2026
Art/Work Association Programme 2026, Auto Italia, London  (UK)
MFA Fine Art Professional Development Talk, Goldsmiths University of London (UK)
2025
Reading session, SET, London (UK)
2024
Reading session, Kupfer, London (UK)
Reading session for Misha Milovanovich’s solo exhibition Pollination, J/M Gallery, London (UK)
2023
Anonymous Avatars, Screening and discussion, Goldsmiths CCA Residents’ Space, London (UK)

Selected Press
Artuu, 'Un nuovo indirizzo a Milano: FRENCH PLACE, non solo galleria ma luogo di incontro e dialogo,' 2026.
ART EMPEROR, ‘News in Focus & Art Review: The Body Under Hybrid x Glitching Grammar: The Dialectic of Viewing Within Riley Tu’s Out Of Code - Taipei Art Fair 2025 ,’ 2025.
Art Taipei Live Talk Podcast, featured guest, 2025.
PRESTIGE, ‘Speeches between body, space and material: Riley Tu,’ 2025.
CoolhunterMX, ‘Salón ACME 2025: Una experiencia inmersiva en el arte contemporáneo,’ 2025.

Fairs
2026
One Art Taipei 2026 (Taiwan)
2025
Solo, Out of Code, Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei 2025, Taiwan Ministry of Culture
Salón ACME No.12, Mexico City (Mexico)

Education
2022 - 2024  MFA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2021 - 2022   Graduate Diploma in Art, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2014 - 2018    BA in Linguistics and Language, Chuang Yuan University (Taiwan)