X.S. Hou (b. Beijing) is a New York-based artist whose installations, drawings, and sculptures often incorporate ephemeral materials and living systems. Hou collaborates with Physarum polycephalum slime molds to explore conceptions of agency and constraint. Drawing from the DaoDeJing’s principles of transformation and flow, Hou creates sculptural works and immersive environments using bioplastics and foraged metals, materials that decay over vastly different time scales, to reflect entangled relationships between nature, technology, and the sacred.

They have exhibited at Jewett Art Center, Offline Gallery, Plexus Projects, Fourth World Festival, and _p_a_l_l_a_s. Their work has been featured in Artnet, ArtNews, Whitehot Magazine, and more.

CV available upon request

Inquiries: houxsheng@gmail.com

Press

OFFLINE: Prototyping the Future Gallery by Ken Krantz, Whitehot Magazine