Artist, filmmaker and researcher
Riley Tu is a London-based artist working with moving image, music, and installation. Her practice explores body politics, self-representation, and algorithmic resistance within digital spaces. Drawing on feminist theories, she examines cyborg identities and the ways technology mediates and constructs gender.
Through 3D animation, Tu sculpts bodies as sites of tension—negotiating internal experiences of pain and transformation against the external forces of surveillance, social structures, and digital control. Her work engages with speculative fiction, reimagining how language, intelligence, and communication are recoded in an era shaped by artificial systems. By reconfiguring digital bodies, she questions the ways identity is rendered, fragmented, and reconstructed in virtual spaces.
Tu holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2024) and continues to explore the intersections of technology and embodiment, questioning the boundaries between the human and the non-human, the organic and the artificial, and the possibilities for resistance within these liminal spaces.
Riley Tu is a London-based artist working with moving image, music, and installation. Her practice explores body politics, self-representation, and algorithmic resistance within digital spaces. Drawing on feminist theories, she examines cyborg identities and the ways technology mediates and constructs gender.
Through 3D animation, Tu sculpts bodies as sites of tension—negotiating internal experiences of pain and transformation against the external forces of surveillance, social structures, and digital control. Her work engages with speculative fiction, reimagining how language, intelligence, and communication are recoded in an era shaped by artificial systems. By reconfiguring digital bodies, she questions the ways identity is rendered, fragmented, and reconstructed in virtual spaces.
Tu holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2024) and continues to explore the intersections of technology and embodiment, questioning the boundaries between the human and the non-human, the organic and the artificial, and the possibilities for resistance within these liminal spaces.
Selected exhibitions and screenings
Upcoming
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
2025
Mar Reclaim The Frame presents: Reframe and Rejoice, 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 Online Premiere + Q&A The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’
Ruthin International Arts Festival 2024, Wales, UK
May Screening - The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’
De Uitkijk, Premiere + Q&A, Amsterdam
De Sloot, Amsterdam,
De Appel, Amsterdam
Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
HAL 25, Alkmaar (NL) ongoing May-June
Kampen public library (NL) ongoing May-June
NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam, ongoing May-June
Remise, Amsterdam, ongoing May-June
Tap je bankje walking route, Kampen (NL) ongoing May-June
Upcoming
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
2025
Mar Reclaim The Frame presents: Reframe and Rejoice, 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 Online Premiere + Q&A The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’
Ruthin International Arts Festival 2024, Wales, UK
May Screening - The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring’
De Uitkijk, Premiere + Q&A, Amsterdam
De Sloot, Amsterdam,
De Appel, Amsterdam
Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
HAL 25, Alkmaar (NL) ongoing May-June
Kampen public library (NL) ongoing May-June
NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam, ongoing May-June
Remise, Amsterdam, ongoing May-June
Tap je bankje walking route, Kampen (NL) ongoing May-June
Mar Superhuman Expedition, Art Hub, London
Mar Born Out Upside Down, AMP gallery, London
Feb Screening - WIP Screening Night, Richard Hoggart Cinema
Jan Fata Morgana, Goldsmiths University, London
2021 - 2023
Screening - TIDES, Caracol Olol Jackson, Vicenza, Italy
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London
Performing for Anouk Verviers’ work ‘Level again’, ____ in Flux, RuptureXIBIT, Kingston upon Thames, England
Performing for Anouk Verviers’ work ‘Building, destroying, and rebuilding cob columns as high as our bodies’, Goldsmiths University
MFA Interim show, Deptford, London
Tranquil Vale SE3, Blackheath, London
Taste the Difference, Loess Collective, Stratford, London
Graduate Diploma in Art, Degree show, London
Graduate Diploma in Art, Interim show, London
Awards, Grants/Funding and Residencies
2025
Awarded a grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture to facilitate cultural exchange and promote international artistic initiatives
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
Education
2022 - 2024 MFA Fine Art - Goldsmiths, University of London
2021 - 2022 Graduate Diploma in Art - Goldsmiths, University of London
2014 - 2018 BA in Linguistics and Language, Taiwan
Community and Curatorial Project
Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group (2022 - Ongoing)
exhaustedfeministhybridspecies@gmail.com, @exhaustedfeministhybridspecies
Feb Screening - WIP Screening Night, Richard Hoggart Cinema
Jan Fata Morgana, Goldsmiths University, London
2021 - 2023
Screening - TIDES, Caracol Olol Jackson, Vicenza, Italy
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London
Performing for Anouk Verviers’ work ‘Level again’, ____ in Flux, RuptureXIBIT, Kingston upon Thames, England
Performing for Anouk Verviers’ work ‘Building, destroying, and rebuilding cob columns as high as our bodies’, Goldsmiths University
MFA Interim show, Deptford, London
Tranquil Vale SE3, Blackheath, London
Taste the Difference, Loess Collective, Stratford, London
Graduate Diploma in Art, Degree show, London
Graduate Diploma in Art, Interim show, London
Awards, Grants/Funding and Residencies
2025
Awarded a grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture to facilitate cultural exchange and promote international artistic initiatives
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
Education
2022 - 2024 MFA Fine Art - Goldsmiths, University of London
2021 - 2022 Graduate Diploma in Art - Goldsmiths, University of London
2014 - 2018 BA in Linguistics and Language, Taiwan
Community and Curatorial Project
Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group (2022 - Ongoing)
exhaustedfeministhybridspecies@gmail.com, @exhaustedfeministhybridspecies
Tu is the co-initiator of ‘Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group’ in 2022 at Goldsmiths MFA. This reading group is based on their mutual interests and research in feminist, species, hybridity, exhaustion/rest and technology. It aims to engage with audiences both in the artistic and local community, and to hold events such as workshops, film nights, panel discussions, performance.
2025
Feb Reading session, SET Social, London
2024
Nov Screening and Reading session, Kupfer, London
Jan Reading session for Misha Milovanovich’s solo exhibition Pollination, J/M Gallery, London
2023
Nov Anonymous Avatars, Screening and discussion, Goldsmiths CCA Residents’ Space, London
2025
Feb Reading session, SET Social, London
2024
Nov Screening and Reading session, Kupfer, London
Jan Reading session for Misha Milovanovich’s solo exhibition Pollination, J/M Gallery, London
2023
Nov Anonymous Avatars, Screening and discussion, Goldsmiths CCA Residents’ Space, London