Cina (Xinran) He 何欣然

Cina (b. 2001) is an artist and educator from Liuzhou, China, raised in Argentina and currently based in Boston. Working across film, printmaking, installation, and weaving, she often brings together layered and found materials intuitively. Her practice is rooted in slowness and care, shaped by close attention to quiet details—a flower blooming out of season, an endangered bird, the way memory lingers in a place.

Her art often begins with open-ended questions: What does it mean to belong? How do we carry stories that are fading? Can art create space for learning, healing, or transformation?

Cina approaches art-making as a learning process—as a way of noticing, relating, and making meaning: being “fully awake.” She’s especially drawn to materials that hold memory but are meant to be discarded. Through this lens, she explores themes of ecological loss, cultural inheritance, and the way relationships are built and maintained in everyday life. She is also curious about how education can be reimagined through creative practice and collaborative storytelling.

Cina is currently finishing her senior year at Boston College, where she studies Studio Art and Transformative Education. She’ll soon pursue a master’s in Learning Sciences and Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she hopes to explore how design thinking can support more hands-on, creative approaches to learning and curriculum design. Outside the studio, she finds joy in wandering, cooking and people watching.