Xin Lian is a Chinese-born artist based in New York. Her practice examines the physical and temporal costs embedded in acts of care and repair. Stitching, mending, and marking become gestures that refuse closure, insisting on damage as ongoing rather than past. Lian’s work has been exhibited at Old Stone House of Brooklyn, the Museum at FIT, CICA Museum, THE BLANC, M. David & Co. Gallery and Amos Eno Gallery. Her work will be included in Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image, Issue #8 (Harvard University Press, 2026). She is a recipient of the Joseph J. Amato Joseph J. Amato / Mary A. Mills Memorial Award and the FIT Global Scholar Award. She holds a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology.