Artist statement/CV

Artist and researcher
Riley Tu (1995) is an artist based in London, working with moving image, music and installation. Tu’s current practice explores themes of body politics, the complexities of self-representation, and algorithmic resistance within the digital landscape. Drawing on feminist theories, her work examines cyborg identities in relation to how digital technology constructs gender. Using 3D animation as a medium to sculpt bodies, she looks into the coding of the body and interrogate gender constructs.

Tu emphasises the body as an experiential entity, conveying the intimate realities of living within a body, addressing both the internal experiences of pain and the external influences of social structures. Through speculative fictions, she investigates how language is used as a tool for recoding communication and intelligence, employing dialogue that navigates the dynamics between digital and physical realities.

Selected exhibitions and screenings
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, 5 May 12.00 CEST
De Sloot, Amsterdam, 5 May 14.00-16.00 CEST
De Appel, Amsterdam, 5 May 17.00-19.00 CEST
Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam, 5 May 20.00-22.00 CEST
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

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’, ongoing performance and video installation, feminist science fiction experiment, 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

Prizes/Awards and Residencies
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 - Chung Yuan University, Taiwan

Ongoing project/research
Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group (2022 - Ongoing)
exhaustedfeministhybridspecies@gmail.com
@exhaustedfeministhybridspecies

Tu co-founded ‘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. It holds meeting bi-weekly which individuals could attend on location and virtually.

2024
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