Xin Lian is a Chinese-born artist based in New York. Her practice examines the physical and temporal costs embedded in acts of repair. Stitching, mending, and marking become gestures that question the relationship between harm and repair, intimacy and abrasion. Lian’s work has been exhibited at Every Woman Biennale, Old Stone House of Brooklyn, the Museum at FIT, CICA Museum, THE BLANC, M. David & Co. Gallery and Amos Eno Gallery. Her work is 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.