Riley Tu

Riley Tu is a London-based artist working with moving image, sound, and video installation. Her practice explores body politics, self-representation, and algorithmic resistance within digital spaces. Drawing on feminist theories, she examines cyborg identities and the ways technology mediates and constructs gender.

Through 3D animation, Tu sculpts bodies as sites of tension—between internal experiences of pain and transformation, and the external forces of social structures, surveillance, and digital control. Her work engages with speculative fiction, reimagining how language, intelligence, and communication are recoded in an era shaped by artificial systems. By reconfiguring digital bodies, she questions the ways identity is rendered, fragmented, and reconstructed in virtual spaces.

With an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, she continues to explore the intersections of technology and embodiment, questioning the boundaries between the human and the non-human, the organic and the artificial, and the possibilities for resistance within these liminal spaces.

Her work has been shown internationally, including Kyiv International Short Film Festival (2025), Reclaim The Frame at BFI Southbank (London, 2025), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2025), Millennium Film Workshop (New York, 2025), Salón ACME (Mexico City, 2025), and Reykjavík International Film Festival (2024). She was featured in the touring program The One Minutes Series: Mirroring (Netherlands, 2024) and was nominated for Best Animation Short, receiving an honourable mention at New Renaissance Film Festival (London, 2024). Her work has also been selected for the British Council International Touring Programme and has been funded by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei City Government, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. She is a finalist for Made In Taiwan – Young Artist Discovery, the Taiwan Ministry of Culture’s national selection for emerging Taiwanese artists.