Shuyi Cao is a New York-based artist whose practice explores alchemical approaches to material, matter and knowledge osmosis. Through archeological speculation and ecological fiction, she contemplates the porous plurality of relations between sciences, technocultures, mythologies, and cosmologies. Her multi-medium sculpture and installation traverse enormous and microscopic scales, involving more/less/other-than-human worlds. Her making methods synthesize dynamic spatiotemporal configuration and material transformation, from ceramic and glass making with wild clay, sand, mineral, and earth elements to digital fabrication such as 3D printing and virtual environment simulation. Combining hand-crafted objects, technological artifacts, and moving images, she creates paradoxical fossils - tangible and intangible - as portals to meditate geotrauma, transcorporeal ecology and prehistoric futurity.
Her work has been shown internationally, including recent solo show “And when the sea was open” (2024) at Island, New York, Ardor for Unconformity” (2024) at 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec, “Undercurrent Softness” (2023) at Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, duo show “Strange Stranger” (2023) at Para Site, Hong Kong; and group exhibitions at acclaimed institutions, such as He Art Museum, Foshan (2023), TAG Museum (Qingdao), Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe (2023), Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing (2023), Chronus Art Centre, Shanghai (2022), Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2021), Today Art Museum, Beijing (2021), NARS Foundation, New York (2021).
She is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and founder of Transmaterial Lab, and held position as artist-in-residency at Guangdong Times Museum, Banff Cetre for the Art, New Museum NEW INC, Power Station of Art Shanghai, and The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She received a Bachelor of Laws, an M.A. in Public Administration from Fudan University in Shanghai, and an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York.
contact@shuyicao.com
Her work has been shown internationally, including recent solo show “And when the sea was open” (2024) at Island, New York, Ardor for Unconformity” (2024) at 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec, “Undercurrent Softness” (2023) at Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, duo show “Strange Stranger” (2023) at Para Site, Hong Kong; and group exhibitions at acclaimed institutions, such as He Art Museum, Foshan (2023), TAG Museum (Qingdao), Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe (2023), Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing (2023), Chronus Art Centre, Shanghai (2022), Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2021), Today Art Museum, Beijing (2021), NARS Foundation, New York (2021).
She is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and founder of Transmaterial Lab, and held position as artist-in-residency at Guangdong Times Museum, Banff Cetre for the Art, New Museum NEW INC, Power Station of Art Shanghai, and The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She received a Bachelor of Laws, an M.A. in Public Administration from Fudan University in Shanghai, and an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York.
contact@shuyicao.com