Shuyi Cao (USA / China)

Artist Statement/ Biography

Shuyi Cao’s practice explores alchemical approaches to object making and knowledge production. Her latest works seek models of reorienting a more-than-human world with intertwined social and ecological uncertainties. Interested in the complex relationship between geological, biological, and technological matters, she creates objects as physical manifestations of this dynamic material reality. They are speculative specimens and archeological fictions with reconfigured natural objects and hand-made artifacts, incorporating chemical and organic processes, moving images, and sound. Her sculptures synthesize multiple mediums including glass, ceramic, metal, silicone, and resin, and evoke transition and metamorphosis through both material and form.

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Shuyi Cao (b.1990, China) is a New York-based artist. She has shown works at Ming Contemporary Art Museum (CN), , Power Station of Arts (CN), Gallery Weekend Beijing (CN), Chengdu Times Art Museum (CN), Shin Gallery (NY), 490 Atlantic Gallery (NY), A.I.R. Gallery (NY), GRIDSPACE (NY), SLEEPCENTER (NY), Westbeth Gallery (NY), among others. She has been a member of NEW INC in the Creative Science track at the New Museum, and has held positions as Artist-in-Residence at Power Station of Art in Shanghai, MASS MoCA in North Adams, and Bioart lab at School of Visual Arts in New York. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design.