徐子奕的个展与个人项目包括：“化石宴”（想象力学实验室、天目里美术馆，杭州，2023）；“夜间拍卖”（中间美术馆，北京，2024）。近期参展的群展包括：“附近映像季”（广州，2023）；“无法回击”（大气层空间，南京，2023）；“燃冉艺术季”（上海新天地，2023）；“腹地脉动：第四届新疆国际双年展”（新疆美术馆，乌鲁木齐，2024）；“西岸艺博会影像单元”（西岸梦中心，上海，2024）；“液态乡愁”（中央美术学院美术馆，北京，2025）；“Open Frame”（英国国家美术馆，伦敦，2025）；“超对象——陌生访客”（Click Ten Gallery，北京，2025）。
2023年，他入围由UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心与新天地联合发起的“燃冉”青年艺术家奖。
Xu Ziyi, born in 2004 in Hangzhou, China, is currently studying at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His artistic practice emerges from a sustained exploration of natural history, grounded in a long-term interest in the collection of natural specimens and material remains. Xu investigates narrative discontinuities occurring when objects are separated from their original historical and cultural contexts, and explores the concealed interrelationships among disparate entities. Employing spatial installations, performance, and moving image, he seeks to re-activate the latent kinship hidden beneath surface appearances. His works deliberately liberate objects from conventional historical narratives and cultural frameworks through contextual displacement, creating open-ended and polysemous perceptual structures that remain receptive to new and undefined states of interpretation.
Xu’s recent solo exhibitions and projects include: Fossil Feast (Imagokinetics Lab, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, 2023) and Night Auction (Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2024). Recent group exhibitions include: 4th Nearby Images Festival (Guangzhou, 2023); Unplayable (Atmosphere Space, Nanjing, 2023); Ranran Art Season (Shanghai Xintiandi, Shanghai, 2023); Hinterland Pulse: The 4th Xinjiang International Biennale (Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, 2024); West Bund Art & Design Fair Video Section (West Bund Dream Center, Shanghai, 2024); Liquid Nostalgia (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2025); Open Frame (National Gallery, London, 2025); Hyperobject: Strange Visitors (Click Ten Gallery, Beijing, 2025).
In 2023, Xu was shortlisted for the “Ranran Young Artist Award," jointly initiated by UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and Xintiandi.
