Artist and researcher
Riley Tu is a London-based artist working with moving image and sound. 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—between internal experiences of pain and transformation, and the external forces of social structures, surveillance, 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.
With an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, she 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 and sound. 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—between internal experiences of pain and transformation, and the external forces of social structures, surveillance, 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.
With an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, she 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
Jan French Place, Milan
Jan One Art Taipei 2026, Taiwan
2025
Oct Solo, Out of Code, Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery, 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 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)
Kampen public library (NL)
NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
Remise, Amsterdam
Tap je bankje walking route, Kampen (NL)
Upcoming
Jan French Place, Milan
Jan One Art Taipei 2026, Taiwan
2025
Oct Solo, Out of Code, Made In Taiwan Young Artist Discovery, 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 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)
Kampen public library (NL)
NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
Remise, Amsterdam
Tap je bankje walking route, Kampen (NL)
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 - TIDES, Caracol Olol Jackson, Vicenza, Italy
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London
MFA Interim show, Deptford, 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
2025
International Culture Exchange Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation
Visual Art Grant, 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.
Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize
International Culture Exchange Grant, Taiwan Ministry of Culture
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 (Distinction)
2021 - 2022 Graduate Diploma in Art - Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
2014 - 2018 BA in Linguistics and Language, Taiwan
Feb Screening - WIP Screening Night, Richard Hoggart Cinema
2021 - 2023
Screening - TIDES, Caracol Olol Jackson, Vicenza, Italy
Screening - If splash as your whistle vol.2, IKLECTIK, London
MFA Interim show, Deptford, 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
2025
International Culture Exchange Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation
Visual Art Grant, 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.
Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize
International Culture Exchange Grant, Taiwan Ministry of Culture
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 (Distinction)
2021 - 2022 Graduate Diploma in Art - Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
2014 - 2018 BA in Linguistics and Language, Taiwan
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