Xingyan (b.2002, Qinghai) is an anthropologist and an artist. She lives and works between New York City and Mexico City with her dog Pacha. 

She is currently a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia Univeristy, and holds a BA from Wesleyan University (2025).

Her academic project lives with the movement of people(s), goods, and money(s) from China through Mexico to the United States. She indulges in the ephemeral and unexpected encounters within transnational processes, and the conjuncture of shadow infrastructures that make them possible.

Contact: xg2473@columbia.edu