Kit Xiong
Speculative fiction writer, critic, and curator based in Buffalo, NY. My work tends to focus on placemaking and migration, post-industrial ecologies, and science fictions in techno-capitalist development.I joined BICA School at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art in 2024 and work on BICA's Project Space's curatorial team. I graduated from Brown University with a BA in Comparative Literature.
Selected Work
Selected Curation
- Arts for Something: It should be possible (BICA Project Space, June 2026)
- Mise-en-Abyme (BICA Project Space, March-April 2026)
- Do Not Go Out of the Door (Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA), July-August 2025)
- Asian Racialization in Media and Beyond (collaborative digital exhibit, Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage Tiny Exhibits, December 2020)
Criticism and Scholarship
- "A System of Objects in Space: Nando Alvarez-Perez, The Dead Hand of the Past" (Rivalry Projects Exhibition Catalog, 2/2026)
- "Walk on Water: Jenine Marsh's Microcosm" (Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalog, 09/2025)
- “But Still - the River: Dana Murray Tyrrell’s Love Canal” (AICA-USA Magazine Art Critics Fellowship, 03/2025)
- “Privatizing Childhood: Nostalgia, Anti-capitalist Survival, and the Inner Child in Kids’ Table” (Cornelia #16, 09/2024)
- “Post-apocalyptic Body World(ing): Transpacific Racial Capitalism, Coloniality, and Queer/Asian/Female Speculative Futures” (Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 05/2023 - by request)
- “A Precarious Present and Potential Future for North American Freight Rail“ (The College Hill Independent 46.5, Spring 2023)
- "The COVID-19 Pandemic, in Eight Million Tons of Plastic" (The College Hill Independent 44.9, Spring 2022)
- “Kick Ass, Go to Space, Represent the Human Race” (The College Hill Independent 44.4, Spring 2022)
Fiction & Narrative
- "Suggested in the Stars: A Personality Quiz" (Nocturama, BICA Project Space, Jan-Mar 2025)
- "Lin Daiyu Goes to A Funeral" (Sine Theta #19, 2021)
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