About Emily Xie

Emily Xie is a visual artist living in New York City. She works with code, computation, and textiles, drawing on physical media such as fabric, collage, and wallpaper. Her work examines how materials and patterns intermix into cohesive compositions infused with themes of mythology, memory, tradition, and heritage.

Xie's generative systems balance chance and control, the organic and the systematic, and the traditional and the modern. Since 2024, her computationally composed visuals have also been realized as hand-embroidered pieces on linen and canvas. At the intersection of code and textile art, Xie's work brings human touch into conversation with machine processes.

Xie's pieces are collected and shown internationally. Recently, she has exhibited at the Toledo Museum of Art, Untitled Art Fair, the United Nations Headquarters, Singapore ArtScience Museum, Kunsthalle Zürich, Unit London, and the Armory Show.

A former software engineer, Xie taught herself creative coding on the side before turning to art full-time. Her engineering work spanned devtooling, visualization, and machine learning.