RILEY TU
WORKARTIST 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,
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

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


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.

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

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







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