Echo Xie
Echo Xie is a Vancouver-based visual artist and curator. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Manitoba. Her work has been collected by academic institutions—including the University of Manitoba—as well as by businesses and private collectors, and she has received multiple art awards.
Working across painting, installation, and video, Xie explores how internal states—especially those related to consciousness and emotion—can be translated into perceptual form. Her practice is an ongoing experiment in transforming intangible experiences into sensory-based visual language.
She uses oil, natural pigments, and mixed materials in her painting to explore the flow and accumulation of feeling. In installation, she works primarily with fiber, light, and moving image to examine how perception moves through space and body, constructing forms that allow inner states to surface and resonate.
Through long-term engagement with diverse communities, Xie has observed a common tendency to avoid or suppress emotional awareness. Her work aims to reactivate that awareness—inviting viewers to confront what has been overlooked and reconnect with deeper emotional structures.