ANTHEA XĪN
Anthea Xīn is a contemporary Artist of Chinese and Italian descent.
Her works emerge through a deeply physical, embodied practice of expressionist painting, combined with an inner discipline informed by non-dual eastern traditions. Exploring the interplay of body, cosmos, and technology, Xīn positions the human form as both primal archive and evolving interface, where biotechnology and astronomy converge in a play of inner and outer symbolism.
Her practice often compares the carnal, microscopic nature of the body to the infinite event horizons of the cosmos, mapping connections between the earthly and the universal.
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Her mission is to create artworks that prompt the reintegration of the sacred into everyday modern society, offering spaces where tradition and innovation, body and technology, the ancient and the evolving, can converge and find harmony rather than tension.
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Beyond the studio, Xīn engages with sacred sites worldwide, drawing especially from her Chinese Taoist and Buddhist lineage, to document and translate ancient spiritual traditions while critically positioning their resonance within contemporary culture.
She also creates ceremonial installations in community and ritual contexts, and facilitates creativity and meditation-based workshops in galleries, universities, and charities. Her works have been presented internationally at galleries, cultural festivals, and academic institutions, including Fine Art Basel HK and more recently, the Indonesian Institute of Art. She is also a published poet and writer, with works appearing in Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology and The Hopper Magazine.
Exhibitions & Features
2025: Divide Magazine, Issue 13
2024: Body Echoes, Natta Citta Art Space, Indonesian Institute of Art
2024: Visionary Pollinators Gallery, Medicine Festival
2024: Visionary Art Gallery, Soul Revolution Festival
2023: Connected Consciousness Solstice Event, Love Earth Farm, Ireland
2020: Fine Art Asia & Art Basel, Hong Kong
2018: Picked & Preserved IB Art exhibition, Li Po Chun United World College, Hong Kong
2017: Outstanding Student Artist Award Exhibition, Hong Kong Visual Arts Center
Trainings & Certifications
Stanford University Compassion Cultivation Training
BSc Pyschology, Univeristy of London (in progress)
4 months of Silent Retreats under Tibetan Buddhist instruction in North India & Nepal
1 month Theravada Buddhist Silent Retreat, Burma