CAO SHU

CAO Shu (b. 1987, Shandong Province, China) lives and works in Hangzhou, China. His working interfaces include but are not limited to, 3D digital moving image, sound installation and interactive games. Cao Shu often constructs narration in a restrained way, offering the audience a new perspective of things, and through his transdisciplinary practice,a multi-branched network of meanings is formed. His works are often based on a specific place and space and ask open-ended questions. He hopes to reactivate historical events or personal memory at the perceptual level through experiments with different materials and media. In addition, he is also interested in the notions misreading and dislocation based on different cultural and technological environments in history.In recent years, Cao Shu has been residency artist for atelier Mondial in Basel, Switzerland(2017), Koganecho Bazzaar Art Festival, Yokohama (2019) , and Muffatwerk the venue for international art and culture in Munich (2020) .His works have won such awards as Exposure Award 2021 of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, the New Narrative Award from the Long Week of Short Films, and the Beijing International Short Film Festival Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Recent exhibitions include Cao Shu Solo Exhibition-GO TO ROME，B1OCK@Ooeli，Hangzhou，China；Cao Shu Solo Exhibition-The Ocean of Solaris（Zhejiang Museum，Hangzhou，China，2019；Cao Shu Solo Exhibition-Flux(Shanghai Tech University，Shanghai，China);Solo Program-Monster outside the windows(Koganecho，Yokohama，Japan,2019); Solo Program-“Before and After the Future” CAO Shu and Yournel(SalonMondial, basel, Swizerland,2017); Slowly Arriving (Kunsthausbaselland,Basel,Switzerland,2021); Space Oddity(UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, China,2021); Multi-Prismatic Mutual Views – International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition(Macao Art Museum, Macao, China,2021);The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China (Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2019); “Fiction Art” (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen ,China, 2018); “Pity Party” (Sleep Center, New York, USA, 2017); Hamburg “China Time” International Art Festival (Die Sammlung Falckenberg Hall, Hamburg, Germany, 2016).