Yilu Xing

Last Monday’s Celebration for the Arts hosted by Jeromy Farkas, was such a lovely and memorable evening 💛 Virginia Sparvier-Wells and I received the Rozsa Foundation Emerging Arts Manager Award as part of the 2026 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards. This award celebrates emerging arts managers committed to supporting and advancing the work of Calgary’s artists, collectives, and arts organizations, and being a recipient means a great deal to me at this point in my career. It feels like a meaningful affirmation of the direction I’ve been growing toward alongside an expanding team, as we rethink what education programming can look like both inside and beyond the gallery space while Contemporary Calgary moves toward a larger transformation. A big thank you to my colleagues at @contemporarycalgary for your support, collaboration, trust, and care over the years. I feel very lucky to be part of this team. Thank you as well to all the artists, educators, collaborators, and students I’ve had the chance to work with and learn from. And thank you to the Campus Calgary / Open Minds team @yycccom for your support and mentorship. To my friends and family — thank you for continuing to support and encourage me. And last but not least, thank you to Rozsa Foundation @rozsafoundation and Calgary Arts Development @calgaryartsdev for this recognition and encouragement to keep going in this field. 🥳✨A huge congratulations to all of the recipients of the 2026 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards! Very grateful! 🌱 Filmed and edited by Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi at NUR Films

2 years of Hulu 🐾🩶 #happybirthday #goodboy

🕳️💧We’re very excited to share that ING will be joining as panelists at the Work-In-Progress Conference at @albertauarts this Friday, April 24, sharing our ongoing research project. 📍Panel E · Session 3 11:50–12:40 Collaborative Making (Room 532) 🙌Hope to see you there! Work-In-Progress Conference offers a critical opportunity to share and engage in discussion of research that is in process rather than completed. The conference aims to bring together faculty and graduate researchers, as well as artists, designers, and cultural workers from across Calgary. It seeks to advance new and emergent research that engages with art, craft, design, and/or the creative industries—whether in a historical, contemporary, practice-based, or theoretical capacity. Thematically open, contributions come from researchers and practitioners working across disciplinary and professional fields, including but not limited to: Studio Art, Craft, Design, Art History and Visual Culture, Cinema and Media Studies, English/Literature, Curatorial/Museum Studies, Education. Visit the conference website for a full schedule and presenter abstracts: https://in-progress.ca

ING is an artist collective by Yilu Xing and Phoenix (Kefei) Ning, creating joyful, tactile, and colourful works through collaborative, community-focused practice that celebrates connection, play, and everyday moments since 2025. ING works at the intersection of communication design, printmaking, and public engagement. We’re excited to share our new research project, “Reading Chinatown’s Water System Through Print”. Stay tuned for interactive print sessions, exhibitions, and upcoming performances. An ongoing project in development, with support currently being sought from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. @helloyilu @phoenixning

spring with my sister 🌸🍃👯‍♀️ ☺️sunlight & sunset after the rain

🌻Want to share the biggest project I worked on this year — the Chinatown Garden Mural 🥳Incredibly grateful to have worked on this project with my dear friend @helloyilu . Due to our schedules (I’m a full-time student, and Yilu works full-time) and the scale of the project, we worked from late summer all the way into winter, from day to night (Cold and dark, so crazy 😅) but I learned a lot from all levels. 🐰Very happy to build up the connections with the community in this long time frame. The three main themes explore Alberta, Chinatown, and this beloved garden itself. (The rabbits were regular supervisors while we were painting — yes, they’re part of the artwork now) 🍻Together with the Dim Sum Window project from this summer, this is a large and interconnected community project, supported by Calgary Arts Development @calgaryartsdev and created in collaboration with @hidiversecities

Another year around the sun, feeling grateful for all that I’ve found ❤️🥰🎂 🎈“Birthdays are good for your health. Studies have shown that people who have more birthdays live longer” ~Minions Dec 24th, 2025 🪿

A little weather diary from the week — sun, wind, rain, snow, clouds, and all their beautiful moods, shared with good company as always💕☀️💨🌧️❄️🌥️🌊✨

✨️💤 Deep Dream Superstructure Artist 7 of 10 // Phoenix Ning & Yilu Xing Final Year AUArts Student & AUArts Alumni 2020 @phoenixning @helloyilu "We started with a simple act: changing the bedding in the gallery. This bed invites visitors to lie down, rest, or reflect, and over time we noticed it could become worn or dirty. Replacing the sheets became a way for us to think about care — care for the space, care for others, and care in everyday life. Through the repeated, almost ritualistic act of changing the bedding, we explored the labour involved in maintaining both private and shared spaces, the comfort and hygiene it provides, and the quiet responsibility we carry toward those who interact with it. At the same time, we reflected on how these small, everyday gestures carry meaning, shaping how people experience and connect with spaces and one another." Materials: performance, video documentation, bedding See more of Phoenix Ning’s work here: phoenixning.myportfolio.com See more of Yilu Xing’s work here: yiluxing.ca ~~~ 🏘 Deep Dream Superstructure is a collaborative sculpture providing the architecture for collective dreaming. We're guiding AUArts students and alumni as they slowly alter the artwork over the exhibition at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary/Mohkinstsis. 👀 Visit now until Nov 22, 2025! 📸 Caitlind Brown 🎥 Phoenix Ning & Yilu Xing We gratefully acknowledge the support of @calgaryartsdev  ✨@ikg_auarts  @albertauarts . . . . . . #DeepDreamSuperstructure #collaboration #illingworthkerrgallery #auarts #phoenixning #yiluxing #art #artists #yycart

And some grayscales over the days. 🖤🤍💙🌊🌧️🐳💦🦭🌫️ #jökulsárlón #dyrhólaey #blacksandbeach #hverfjall #dimmuborgir #hengifoss #dettifoss #húsavík #whalewatch #akureyri #ytritunga #sealbeach #ingjaldshólskirkja #icelandicsheep #reykjavikartmuseum #hallgrimskirkja

🚙🗺️🌿💚Some green moments from our Ring Road adventure in Iceland.

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