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

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

Her ongoing academic project lives with the movement of people(s), goods, and money(s) from China through Mexico to the United States. More interiorly, her research and artistic interests meet at the poetics of ephemeral and unexpected encounters within transnational processes. 

Contact: xg2473@columbia.edu