Xin Liu received a BA and BEng from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2013, an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. She is an artist-in-residence at SETI Institute, a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech (2024-25), an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab, and the founding Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT Media Lab.

Her recent institutional solo exhibitions include Seedings and Offspring (2023) at Pioneer Works, New York, and At the End of Everything (2023) at ARTPACE, San Antonio. Her work has been exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale, the Thailand Biennale, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, Ars Electronica, the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.