Xie Rong
Artist Profile
Xie Rong (also known as Echo Morgan) is a Chengdu-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, film and print. Her practice confronts systems of power through the body, often placing herself in physically and psychologically vulnerable situations to interrogate race, gender and cultural identity.
Drawing on her lived experience between China and the UK, Xie Rong examines how identity is constructed, projected and constrained. Performance becomes both exposure and resistance — a means of destabilising stereotypes and reclaiming agency.
Xie Rong completed a BA at Central Saint Martins before graduating with an MA from the Royal College of Art. Her work has been presented widely in Europe and Asia, reflecting an international trajectory grounded in action, testimony and ritualised gesture. She has exhibited or performed at SOAS Gallery, London; Museum of Music, Bologna; the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, Odense; and performances during the Venice art season at VIVAAR VENEZIA. Recent projects include The Red Drum at Way Out East Gallery, London (2024) and The Red Body: Art as Activism (2024).
Across media, Xie Rong uses vulnerability as strategy — transforming personal exposure into political critique.
