Riley Tu is a London-based artist 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 moving image, 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 the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei City Government, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. She was awarded for Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery 2025.
Upcoming:
May CPEPA Rio Guadalupe, Spain
Mar Torremolinos Cinema Festival, Malaga, Spain
Mar Istanbul Photography and Cinema Amateurs Association Festival, Turkey
Current:
British Council International Touring Programme
FNAC Portugal cultural space, Lisbon, Portugal
Corale, French Place, Milan
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 moving image, 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 the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei City Government, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. She was awarded for Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery 2025.
Upcoming:
May CPEPA Rio Guadalupe, Spain
Mar Torremolinos Cinema Festival, Malaga, Spain
Mar Istanbul Photography and Cinema Amateurs Association Festival, Turkey
Current:
British Council International Touring Programme
FNAC Portugal cultural space, Lisbon, Portugal
Corale, French Place, Milan
Selected Exhibitions, Screenings & Festivals
2026
Feb Festival de Málaga, Spain
Jan Corale, French Place, Milan
Jan One Art Taipei 2026, Taiwan
2025
Oct Solo, Out of Code, Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery Award Exhibition, Art Taipei 2025, Taiwan Ministry of Culture
Sep Kyiv International Short Film Festival
May 2025 - May 2026 British Council International Touring Programme
May International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’, Germany
Apr Between a Frame and a Soft Place, Millennium Film Workshop, New York
Mar Reclaim The Frame presents: Reframe and Rejoice. International Women’s Day Shorts Showcase + conversation with Filmmakers, BFI Southbank, London
Feb Salón ACME No.12, Mexico City
2024
Oct New Renaissance Film Festival, Close-Up Cinema, London
Sep Reykjavík International Film Festival, The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’, Iceland
July MFA Fine Art Degree show, London
June Ruthin International Arts Festival 2024, Wales, UK
May Screening - The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’, De Uitkijk, Premiere + Q&A, Amsterdam
De Sloot, Amsterdam
May - June Mirroring Touring Screenings, Theater Bellevue; HAL 25 (Alkmaar); Kampen Public Library; NDSM Fuse; Remise; Tap je bankje walking route, Netherlands
Mar Superhuman Expedition, Art Hub, London
Mar Born Out Upside Down, AMP gallery, London
Feb Screening - WIP Screening Night, Richard Hoggart Cinema
2021 - 2023
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London
Tranquil Vale SE3, Blackheath, London
Taste the Difference, Loess Collective, Hypha Studio, London
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
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2026
National Lottery Project Grant: ‘Training an Artificial Body: A Feminist Dataset’, Arts Council England
Shortlisted, Apolan Residency, Foundation Fiminco
2025
International Culture Exchange Grant (Visual Arts), National Culture and Arts Foundation
Visual Art Grant (Creation) : ‘Unauthorised Emotion’, Taipei City Government Department of Cultural Affairs
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
2024
New Renaissance Film Festival 2024 - Honourable mention in Best Animation Short
New Renaissance Film Festival 2024 - Nominee for Best Animation Short
2023
Hypha Studios Residency - Loess Collective, Stratford, London
Panels & Workshops
Upcoming
2026
Art/Work Association Programme 2026, Auto Italia, London
Professional Development Talk, MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London
2025
Reading session, SET, London
2024
Reading session, Kupfer, London
Reading session for Misha Milovanovich’s solo exhibition Pollination, J/M Gallery, London
2023
Anonymous Avatars, Screening and discussion, Goldsmiths CCA Residents’ Space, London
Education
2022 - 2024 MFA in Fine Art - Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
2021 - 2022 Graduate Diploma in Art - Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
Feb Screening - WIP Screening Night, Richard Hoggart Cinema
2021 - 2023
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London
Tranquil Vale SE3, Blackheath, London
Taste the Difference, Loess Collective, Hypha Studio, London
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
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2026
National Lottery Project Grant: ‘Training an Artificial Body: A Feminist Dataset’, Arts Council England
Shortlisted, Apolan Residency, Foundation Fiminco
2025
International Culture Exchange Grant (Visual Arts), National Culture and Arts Foundation
Visual Art Grant (Creation) : ‘Unauthorised Emotion’, Taipei City Government Department of Cultural Affairs
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
2024
New Renaissance Film Festival 2024 - Honourable mention in Best Animation Short
New Renaissance Film Festival 2024 - Nominee for Best Animation Short
2023
Hypha Studios Residency - Loess Collective, Stratford, London
Panels & Workshops
Upcoming
2026
Art/Work Association Programme 2026, Auto Italia, London
Professional Development Talk, MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London
2025
Reading session, SET, London
2024
Reading session, Kupfer, London
Reading session for Misha Milovanovich’s solo exhibition Pollination, J/M Gallery, London
2023
Anonymous Avatars, Screening and discussion, Goldsmiths CCA Residents’ Space, London
Education
2022 - 2024 MFA in Fine Art - Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
2021 - 2022 Graduate Diploma in Art - Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
Selected Press
ART EMPEROR - News in Focus&Art Review: [Taipei Art Fair 2025] The Body Under Hybrid x Glitching Grammar: The Dialectic of Viewing Within Riley Tu’s "Out Of Code”
Podcast: Art Taipei Live Talk
PRESTIGE - Speeches between body, space and material: Riley Tu
CoolhunterMX - Salón ACME 2025: Una experiencia inmersiva en el arte contemporáneo
L’Essenziale Studio goes to CDMX
ART EMPEROR - News in Focus&Art Review: [Taipei Art Fair 2025] The Body Under Hybrid x Glitching Grammar: The Dialectic of Viewing Within Riley Tu’s "Out Of Code”
Podcast: Art Taipei Live Talk
PRESTIGE - Speeches between body, space and material: Riley Tu
CoolhunterMX - Salón ACME 2025: Una experiencia inmersiva en el arte contemporáneo
L’Essenziale Studio goes to CDMX