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.
Shuyi’s work has been exhibited internationally, including recent solo shows at Surplus Space, Wuhan (2026); Gathering, London (2025); Island Gallery (2024); 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec (2024); duo exhibitions at UCCA Clay Museum, Yixing (2025); Para Site, Hong Kong (2023); and group exhibitions at Orange County Museum of Art, California; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Uffner & Liu, New York; He Art Museum, Foshan; Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe; Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai; Today Art Museum, Beijing; NARS Foundation, New York; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, among others. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and visiting artist at Cornell University. She has held positions as artist-in-residence 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
Shuyi’s work has been exhibited internationally, including recent solo shows at Surplus Space, Wuhan (2026); Gathering, London (2025); Island Gallery (2024); 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Quebec (2024); duo exhibitions at UCCA Clay Museum, Yixing (2025); Para Site, Hong Kong (2023); and group exhibitions at Orange County Museum of Art, California; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Uffner & Liu, New York; He Art Museum, Foshan; Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe; Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai; Today Art Museum, Beijing; NARS Foundation, New York; A.I.R. Gallery, New York, among others. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and visiting artist at Cornell University. She has held positions as artist-in-residence 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