Shen Xin practices empowering alternative histories, relations, and potentials between individuals and nation-states. Their interests lie in understanding culture on its own terms. Seeing it as an active commitment to the learning, teaching and engaging with relating to places as land, it opens up to inhabiting the multitudes of the selves through the lens of time. Engaged with moving image, video installation, public event and collective process, Shen Xin imagines and creates affirmative spaces of belonging that embrace polyphonic narratives and identities. Their solo presentations include ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (The Earth Turned Green) (Swiss Institute, New York, 2022), Brine Lake (A New Body) (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2021), Double Feature (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2019), Synthetic Types (Stedelijk Museum, 2019), To Satiate (MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019), Warm Spell (ICA, London, 2018), and half-sung, half-spoken (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017). Their group exhibitions include Language is a River (MUMA, Melbourne, 2021), Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning (Gwangju Biennale, 2021), Sigg Prize (M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2019), Afterimage (Lisson Gallery, London, 2019), and Songs for Sabotage (New Museum Triennial, New York, 2018). They received the BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) and held the Rijksakademie residency in Amsterdam (2018-19). Shen Xin practices on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the land of the Dakhóta Oyáte, as well as on Lënapehòkink (New York City), the land of the Lenape peoples.

沈莘創作的影像裝置和行為表演，賦權力予個人與民族國家之間的另類歷史，關係和可能。他試圖創造包含多重敘事和身份的肯定性空間。他的個人呈現，表演和放映包括ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (大地轉綠）(紐約瑞士學院，2022），鹽水湖》（新身體）（沃克藝術中心，明尼阿波利斯，2021），Double Feature （錫恩美術館，法蘭克福，2019），合成類型（阿姆斯特丹市立博物館，2019），使飽和（沒頂畫廊，2019），溫暖期（倫敦當代藝術中心，2018），半唱半說（蛇形畫廊，倫敦，2017）。他近期的群展包括 Language is a River（莫納什大學美術館，墨爾本，2021），Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning（光州雙年展，2021），忍不住轉身（中間美術館，北京，2020），希克獎（M+博物館，香港，2019），AfterImage（里森畫廊，倫敦，2019），破壞之歌（新美術館三年展，紐約，2018）沈莘曾獲得2020 Jerome Production Grant和2017年波羅的海藝術家獎，並於2018至2019年在阿姆斯特Rijksakademie駐地。沈莘目前工作於原住民Dakhóta Oyáte的土地Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, 和原住民Lenape的土地Lënapehòkink (紐約市)