ESTHER/ ZHILIN XIANG 向芷琳

estherhendx@gmail.com |instagram: @blueeyelili | +44 7450963219


EDUCATION

2024  Emerson College, Boston, MA, US. BA in Filmmaking, Photography. 


PUBLICATION/FEATURE

2026 T’art magazine, Winter Edition

           Fisheye Magazine

           Fotoslovo 

           Clast Magazine, issue 6, Jan

           Suboart Magazine, issue Jan

2025 Divide Magazine, issue 16

            Zone Magazine, Editor’s Pick 

           JustArt Newspaper club, issue 3

           CURB, Spec Collective, Brooklyn, US

2024  Immemory Magazine October issue, New York, US

             Issue ‘Inhalation’ Em-Magazine, Boston, MA

2021  Longing, Developed Image, Boston, MA


Grants

2024 Spotlight Scholarship, Emerson College, Boston, MA

2021 Traiblizar Scholarship, Emerson College, Boston, MA


Awards

2026 Photopolis  Home-S,Editor’s Pick

              Envision Kindness
Photo Contest, Finalist

2025 1839 Awards, Art of Storytelling, Honorable mention 

            The Brian Lehrer Show / Photoville “The Best Photo Sitting on Your Phone”,Top 3 Winner

            Fotoslovo, editors pick, FS awards,  London, UK



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2026 Collective Voice, v.2 London, UK, (curated by Jenny Ping Lam Lin)

          Collective Voice, Edinburgh, UK, (curated by Jenny Ping Lam Lin)

          A New Feeling, London, UK, Four Corners Gallery (curated by Jake Walters)
 
          New Beginning, New York, US (curated by Aline Smithson)

          Too Tired of 2025, New York, NY, (curated by too tired project)

          Thehechyeomoyeo 13, Chiang Mai, Thailand, (curated by thehechyeomoyeo, Farther Collective)
 
          White, Banshan Gallery (online), Tokyo, Japan, (curated by Yu Zhang)

          Diptych/triptych, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK (curated by Michael McCann)

          Favorite Photo 2025, Lenscratch (online), New York, US (curated by Aline Smithson)

2025 What I’m Thankful For (online), Lenscratch, New York, US (curated by Aline Smithson)

            White Noise: Dripping in Registration, KCL Exchange Bush House, London, UK (curated by QueerPatch and the Wishing Fountain Project)

           Drifting Selves, London, UK (curated by XiaoHui Wu)
 
           Vault, Bushwick Gallery, New York, US 

           Field of Clarity, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK (curated by Hongqian Zhang, Huan Zhou, Jenny Ping Lam Lin)

           Sqaure and self-portrait, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, US (curated by Holly Hart)

            Room Vol2, Gallery room 305, Osaka, Japan (curated by Kyokin Nakamura)

2023 To be Seen, To be Heard, To be Known, Huret&Spector Gallery, Boston, MA, US (curated by Lauren Shaw)


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

2025 JustArt Collective  Junior Art Writer, London, UK

            Photographer  Freelance, New York, US

            Pro Image Photo           Lab Technician, New York, US

2024 Emerson College          Digital Post-Production Assistant, Boston, US

2023 The 5th ‘Bonjour Art book fair     Exhibitor, Changsha, CN



PRESS

2026 “The Room That Remembers: Zhilin Xiang and the Architecture of Displacement” Review by Joana Alarcão, Insights of an echo artist