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 “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, New Museum NEW INC, Power Station of Art, 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
曹舒怡是⼀位驻纽约的艺术家，她的实践结合雕塑、装置、影像和写作，探索造物与知识的炼⾦术，以及技术⽂化和宇宙论之间的多元关系。她以思辨考古与⽣态寓⾔的形式，通过贯穿地质和微观尺度的多媒介叙事，冥想跨物种亲缘、离散物质与非⼈类的⾏星诗学。近期个展包括：“不合时宜的灼热”（第 11 届魁北克国家当代雕塑双年展，2024年），“软流”（蜂巢·⽣成，2023年）、双⼈展 “嬑形陌客”（Para Site，2023年）；参与机构群展包括：和美术馆（2023）、西海美术馆（2023）、阿那亚艺术中⼼（2023）、现代汽⻋⽂化中⼼（2023）、昆明当代美术馆（2022）、新时线媒体艺术中⼼（2022）、加拿⼤班夫艺术中⼼（2022）、明当代美术馆（2021）、今⽇美术馆（2021）、纽约国际艺术基⾦会等（2021）。她现任普瑞特艺术学院访问助理教授，并曾于广东时代美术馆，纽约新美术馆NEW INC，上海当代艺术博物馆，马萨诸塞当代艺术博物馆等担任驻留艺术家。她在复旦⼤学获得法学学⼠学位（2013年）及公共管理硕⼠学位 （2016年），在帕森斯设计学院获得纯艺术硕⼠学位（2018年）。
Her work has been shown internationally, including recent solo show “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, New Museum NEW INC, Power Station of Art, 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
曹舒怡是⼀位驻纽约的艺术家，她的实践结合雕塑、装置、影像和写作，探索造物与知识的炼⾦术，以及技术⽂化和宇宙论之间的多元关系。她以思辨考古与⽣态寓⾔的形式，通过贯穿地质和微观尺度的多媒介叙事，冥想跨物种亲缘、离散物质与非⼈类的⾏星诗学。近期个展包括：“不合时宜的灼热”（第 11 届魁北克国家当代雕塑双年展，2024年），“软流”（蜂巢·⽣成，2023年）、双⼈展 “嬑形陌客”（Para Site，2023年）；参与机构群展包括：和美术馆（2023）、西海美术馆（2023）、阿那亚艺术中⼼（2023）、现代汽⻋⽂化中⼼（2023）、昆明当代美术馆（2022）、新时线媒体艺术中⼼（2022）、加拿⼤班夫艺术中⼼（2022）、明当代美术馆（2021）、今⽇美术馆（2021）、纽约国际艺术基⾦会等（2021）。她现任普瑞特艺术学院访问助理教授，并曾于广东时代美术馆，纽约新美术馆NEW INC，上海当代艺术博物馆，马萨诸塞当代艺术博物馆等担任驻留艺术家。她在复旦⼤学获得法学学⼠学位（2013年）及公共管理硕⼠学位 （2016年），在帕森斯设计学院获得纯艺术硕⼠学位（2018年）。