Shuyi Cao is a New York-based artist whose practice explores alchemical approaches to material, matter and knowledge osmosis. Spanning sculpture, installation, and moving images, her archaeological speculation and ecological fiction contemplate the porous plurality of relations among sciences, technocultures and cosmologies. Combining hand-crafted objects and technological artifacts, she creates paradoxical fossils - tangible and intangible - as portals to meditate geotrauma, transcorporeal ecology and prehistoric futurity.
Her work has been internationally exhibited, including a recent duo exhibition at UCCA Clay Museum, China (2025), solo presentation at the 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec (2024); and group exhibitions at Orange County Museum of Art, California (2025), He Art Museum, Foshan (2023), Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe (2023), Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2021), among others. She is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and founder of Transmaterial Lab, and held position as artist-in-residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA), New Museum NEW INC, Banff Centre for the Art, Guangdong Times Museum, Power Station of Art Shanghai.
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 internationally exhibited, including a recent duo exhibition at UCCA Clay Museum, China (2025), solo presentation at the 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec (2024); and group exhibitions at Orange County Museum of Art, California (2025), He Art Museum, Foshan (2023), Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe (2023), Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2021), among others. She is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and founder of Transmaterial Lab, and held position as artist-in-residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA), New Museum NEW INC, Banff Centre for the Art, Guangdong Times Museum, Power Station of Art Shanghai.
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