JinJin Xu is a poet and artist based in Shanghai and New York.

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Xu’s inter-disciplinary work is birthed from poetry, realizing itself in various forms of docu-poetics: unheard soundscapes, unspoken memories, the taboos in our most intimate relationships, the tensions between mothers/daughters— seeking to hear what lies beneath ordinary reality, creating a poetics of witness through echoes and stutters and dialect.

 

Her installations, films, and performances have/will be exhibited at Shanghai's How Museum, the 13th Shanghai Biennial, Berlin’s Harun Farocki Institute, and the Immigrant Artist Biennial.

 

She received her BA from Amherst College and traveled for a year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow recording docu-poems with women dislocated cross nine countries. She received her MFA in Poetry from NYU, where was a Lillian Vernon fellow, and taught hybrid ballet-writing workshops through NYU Tisch's Art of Future Imaginations Grant.

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She is the 2020 winner of the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award and was named 100 Most Influential Chinese in 2023 by Forbes China.