Art is the body’s rebellion against the tyranny of logic—a primal dance where wounds grow wings and intuition becomes our mother tongue.

Mirror Huang Jingxuan
Artist | Actress | Hypnotherapist

Mirror Huang Jingxuan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work intertwines the primal energy of the body with the labyrinth of the subconscious. Through performance, photography, poetic language, and therapeutic art, she invites audiences to shed societal frameworks and reconnect with the raw beauty pulsating beneath life’s surface. 

Born in Inner Mongolia (1991), Mirror’s practice emerges from a lifelong dialogue between her Mongolian heritage—rooted in dance since childhood—her scientific exploration of the mind, and a relentless interrogation of reality. Trained in contemporary performance (MA, Royal Holloway, University of London) and cognitive behavioral hypnotherapy (UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy), she creates liminal spaces where strength meets softness, absurdity dances with poetry, and material reality is reconfigured to reveal hidden truths. She views the body as both a vessel and a language—a medium to translate the whispers of the subconscious into visceral performances. Mirror weaponizes vulnerability, turning fragility into a scalpel that dissects power structures.

In her Dream Sequence series (2024), performed from the public squares of Belfast to the galleries of London and Dublin, she dissolves the boundaries between waking life and dream logic, inviting audiences to witness the alchemy of this deliberate exposure. Here, as in all her works, she demands: Can we surrender control to intuition? Can destruction be an act of rebirth?

Mirror views art as alchemy: a ritual to transmute personal shadows into collective light. Through immersive workshops and boundary-defying creations, she aspires to awaken the dormant healer within each participant—inviting them to touch the sublime in the mundane, embrace paradox, and find their own language of liberation.

Performance Works

• <Dream Sequence 5>

  2024 Performance venue: Open Art Space, Xiayu village, Quzhou city, China  Length:15 min

   

• <Dream Sequence 4 - Art is not a mirror it’s a fucking hammer>

  2024 Cement Park Live Art Festival, Performance venue: Yell Art Space, Shanghai, China  Length: 30min

   

• <Dream Sequence 3>

  2024 Performance venue: Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK Length 20 min

   

• <Dream Sequence 2 - Live Upon Death>

  2024 Performance venue: Kirkos Art Space, Unite 44, Dublin, Ireland  Length 20min

• <Dream Sequence 1 - Snails’ Transporter>

  2024 Performance space: Writer’s Square, Belfast,  UK  Length: 50 min

• <Breathe and Hear>

  2024 Performance venue: Redeemer Central, Belfast, UK  Length: 20 min

• <Giving up Free Will is another Kind of Free Will>

  2023 Long Duration Performance, Length: 12 hours

• <Lean>               

  2023 Performance venue: A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China  Length: 20 min

   

• <Public Intimacy>             

  2023, Performance venue: A4 Art Museum, Chengdu China,  Length: 15 min

• <Murder That Tomato>  

  2023, Performance venue: FeiChuan Art Space, Chengdu, China  Length:15 min

Experimental Theatre Works

• <If I Were Yours>      

   2020, Performance venue: Tianmuli Square Fountain, Hangzhou, China  Length:30 min

• <Artificial Loneliness>  

  2019, Performance venue:Macao Bok Festival Commission Work then tour in theatre festivals,  Length: 60 min

• <Breathe to the Silence>

   2016-Till Now, Performance venues: Debut in London then tour in theatre festivals,  Length: 30 min

Directing Works

• <Underground>

  2024, Co-director, Experimental Theatre, Huichang Theatre Town

• <Why Do You Beat Him UP?>    

  2022, Director, STA New Experimental Space, YouGe Theater Group 

• <Sound Of The Silk Road> (Musical)

  2022, Assistant Director, ShaanXi Grand Theather,  Nederlander Worldwide Co.(Broadway)

• <Bra>

  2019, Director, Festival Tour, YouGe Theater Group

• <Gold Fish>                   

  2017, Director,  PengHao Theater, Penghao Prod

Acting Works

Theatre

• <Hamlet>

  2024, Role: The Queen Gertrude, Dir: Gocha Kapanadze, Shanghai Grand Theatre

   

• <Gianni Schicchi> (Immersive Theatre)

  2022, Role: Zita, Dir:Sun Chenxing, Asia Mansion Theater,YHH Theatre Prod  

• <LIES> (Interactive Theatre)          

  2019-2023, Role: Croupier, Dir:Alexander Devriendt, BoHua Square, CDE Live&OG Group(Belgium)

• <I Disappear>             

  2018, Role: My Friend’s Daughter Dir:Victoria Merrick, PengHao Theater

   

• <Doubt>                    

  2017, Role:Sister James, Dir:Chen Jie, DongGong Theater

Film

• <Woman by the sea>

  Role: Mother(Lead Role), Dir: Mengyuan Li

• <Intimacy> 

  Role:Qin (Lead Role), Dir:Jiang Yi Chun 

  2020 Madrid International Film Festival Best Actress Award Nomination

  2021 Asian Film Festival (Rome)

• <Asian Brass>

  Role: Li Ping (Lead Role), Dir:Ma Gu Yuan 

  2021 Cannes Court Metrage Selection

  2022 BISFF Selection

• <The Bright Fire>  

  Role: Mom (Supporting Role), Dir:Zoe Zou 

  2021 Cannes Court Metrage Selection

  2021San Jose International Short Film Festival

  2021 LA Femme International

• <Aboveboard Peepers>

  Role: Aline (Lead Role), Dir:Jiang Yi Chun 

Healing Praxis

Since 2017, Mirror has facilitated therapeutic workshops combining hypnotherapy with artistic methods. Notable collaborations:

• Shanghai Drama Arts Center: Meet Me in the Theater series workshops in self exploration.

• Inner Mongolia University of Technology: Depression-to-Light workshops, transmuting despair into devised performance The Opposite of Loneliness (2017).

• Public Rituals: Live collective hypnosis at The Good Work Festival, transforming civic spaces into temporary sanctuaries.

Recognition

Grants & Art exchange

2024 British Council Funded Artist Exchange with Bbeyond (Belfast)

2023 KERING Women in Motion Selected Female Artists

2022 & 2019: Shanghai Cultural Development Fund-supported directing projects

2019 Macao Bok Festival Commissioned Artist

Film

Intimacy | Lead Role: Qin – 2020 Madrid International Film Festival Best Actress Nominee; 2021 Asian Film Festival (Rome)

Publication
Co-authored novel Mirror in A Mirror (2024), a surreal narrative blending personal dreams and autobiography, published in the book <城市絮语>