Xin Gao is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, and performance. Born and raised in China, she has lived and worked across Asia, North America, and Latin America. Moving between cultures, geographies, and social systems is not only a biographical fact in her life, but a core condition of her artistic practice.

Xin’s work consistently explores inner emotion, memory, spirituality, and shared human experience. Despite cultural and historical differences, she believes there is an underlying consistency within collective human experience. Her work often begins with the question: How can invisible forces be made present? Working with found objects, ceramics, video, and her own body, she creates installations, sculptures, and performances that translate intangible experiences into material and spatial form. For her, material carries intention, the body acts as a vessel for perception, and installations temporarily hold emotion, relationships, and lived experience.

Her practice is deeply shaped by long-term engagement with people in public and social contexts. Over the years, Xin has continuously initiated and operated artist-led community platforms, creating environments where artists and participants gather, exchange, and work together.

Xin’s interest in healing emerges through this sustained engagement with community. It exists as a state of shared perception—alongside presence, awareness, and collective experience. Within her practice, she carries and transmits shared human experience through body, ritual, material, and space. Her work encourages people from different backgrounds to sense, remember, and recognize parts of themselves through shared human experience and collective memory.