2023 CAOSHU Portfolio.pdf

CAO Shu (b. 1987, Shandong Province, China) lives and works in Hangzhou, China, teaching at China Academy of Arts. His working interfaces include but are not limited to, 3D digital moving image and interactive games. He focuses on the complex production mechanisms behind computer graphics technology, searching and perceiving memories trapped in historical time and space through fictional writing targeting a specific location and interweaving between different 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  won such awards as 2022 OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Award，2024 Chengdu International Photograph Week Artist award，2021 Exposure Award of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai,and 2017 BISFF Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.He has been residency artist at Atelier Mondial in Basel(2017), Yokohama Koganecho Bazzaar Art Festival (2019),Muffatwek Munich and Goethe Institute(2020). The Works are collected by KADIST Art Collection, Australian White Rabbit Art Gellary, Blue Mountain Contemporary Art Foundation, Zhejiang Art Museum.And which have been exhibited in art Museums around the world,such as Kunsthausbaselland, Matadero Contemporary Art and Culture Center,UCCA Dune,White Rabbit Gallery Sydney,X Museum Beijing, BY ART MATTERS Hangzhou, Macao Art Museum, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, OCAT Shanghai and Shenzhen , Sleep Center New York, Die Sammlung Falckenberg Hall Hamburg.etc

Solo Exhibitions

2021，Solo Exhibition，GO TO ROME，B1OCK@Ooeli，Hangzhou，China

2019,  Solo Exhibition，The Ocean of Solaris，Zhejiang Museum，Hangzhou，China

2019，Solo Exhibition，Flux，Shanghai ShanghaiTech University，Shanghai，China

2019，Solo Programme，Monster outside the windows，Koganecho，Yokohama，Japan

2017，Solo Programme，“Before and After the Future”CAO Shu and Yournel，SalonMondial，basel，Swizerland

2015，Solo Exhibition，Nameless，Opencast Space，Hangzhou，China

Group Exhibitions

2023

Vortex in Beijing:Five Moments at Nightfall，Macalline Art Center, Beijing，China

I Am The People, White Rabbit Gallery，Sydney，Australia

Motion is Action：35 Years of Chinese Media Art，BY ART MATTERS，Hangzhou，China

Contains it like lines of a hand，Tang Shaoyi former residence，Shanghai，China

X Museum Triennial 2023: Home Is Where the Haunt Is，X Museum ，Beijing，China

Coding for the people，Qingdao，China

Rising Flags，Museum in Progress，Austria，Vienna

If the trouble was money, Pfeuferstr. 38, Munich, Germany

Invisible Maps: Give space，BY ART MATTERS，Hangzhou，China

Hide and Seek - The Photographic Vision of Childhood,Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2022

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2021, 798Art Center, Beijing, China

Thinking Through Ocean, Topred Center for Contemporary Art , Xiamen, China

9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture,GDH City,Shenzhen,China

Memory hurts me, Matadero Madrid Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Madrid, Spain

In Solidarity with ____? | 2022 "OCAT × KADIST  Emerging Media Artist Program" Exhibition, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Art's language , Artists' Game,OCAT Shenzhen,Shenzhen,China

Shape the Future - The 8th Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

"Body and Cosmos" the art of living together, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China

2021

Slowly Arriving, Kunsthausbaselland, Basel, Switzerland

Multi-Prismatic Mutual Views - International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Macao Art Museum, Macao, China

#TGIF (thank God it's funny), Brownie project, Shanghai, China

The Timing of Drifters, Martin Goya business, Hangzhou, China

The Long Cut，Feral File Exhibition Online

Mcisture，Riverside，Hangzhou，China

Archives of Possible World，Xiangshan art commune，Hangzhou，China

HD world unit, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China

Guerrillas in Flatland: Unite! Digital Voyagers，PSA Shanghai Museum of contemporary art，Shanghai，China

New drive: the collision between art and technology, Shenyang K11 Art Center, Shenyang, China

Pad Dimension:Visual Art Form Graph to Virtual, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

Space Oddity, UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, China

2020

Cyprus International Animation Festival, salamiu, Cyprus

"Cut keyframe" Chinese Animation Art Invitational Exhibition, Wuhan K11 Art Center, Wuhan, China

Hangzhou "best design", Baimahu International Convention and Exhibition Center, Hangzhou, China

"One day world" vlog, PSA Shanghai Museum of contemporary art, online

Hua Niao Island International Animation Festival, Hua Niao Island, Zhoushan, China

Back to reality, martingoya business, Hangzhou, China

2019

PPPP and Friends，Fiber Space，Beijing，China 

Koganecho BAZAAR 2019，Koganecho，Yokohama，Japan

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018，Minsheng Art Museum,Beijing,China

 21st Cairo International Animation Forum,Cairo，Egypt

Lighthouse International Charity Film Festival,Museum of CAFA,Beijing,China

CHAI film festival,Leipzig,Germany

25. Film Festival della Lessinia,Verona,Italy

2018

The 4th Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale,OCT Contemporary Art Terminal,Shenzhen,Shenzhen,China

“Cross Domain”Sino-Japanese Youth Art Exhibition,Jin Ji Lake Art Museum,Suzhou,China

Metamorphosis-International Dynamic Visual Creative Art Exhibition,Red Cube Museum,Shenzhen,China

Shanghai Flash Exhibition,PSA Public Art Projects,Shanghai,China

China-Canada Experimental Animation Exhibition,Tongniu Movie Industry Park,Beijing,China

Leipzig International Documentary and Animation Festival,Leipzig,Germany

One-sided fable？,Superfluous Art Gallery,Shanghai,China

Post Southern Song Dynasty,KWM Art Center,Beijing,China

23rd Milano Film Festival,Milano,Italy

XXVIII Message to Man International Film Festival,Saint-Petersburg,Russia

Artecinema international festival of contemporary art film,Naples,Italy

Fiction Art,OCAT Shenzhen,Shenzhen,China

2018 Annecy Animation Film Festival,Annecy,France

Invitation Screen of Shanghartgallery 1st time,Shanghartgallery,Shanghai and Bejing,China

Pity Party,Sleep Center,NewYork,America

Wormhole project | Documenta of Contemporary animation art Nanjing,China Contemporary Animation Art Archive,Nanjing,China

Blue Dream,Yell Space,Shanghai,China

Blue Dream Animation Festival,Nuremberg,Germany

TED 2018 Conference Video Screen,Vancouver Convention Centre,Vancouver,Canada

OUT OF SERVICE, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, China

Presence -Young Artist Exhibition,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou,China

2017

Atelier Mondial Exhibition 2017,Solon Mondial,basel,Swizerland

EXiM2017 Cross-Straits Experimental Animation Festival,EXiM,Macao,China

Beijing International Short Film Festival,Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA),Beijing,China

15th International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries,Vladivostok,Russia

13th Korea independent Animation Film Festival,Seoul COEX Convention and Exhibition Center,Soel,Korea

New millennium airport Animation Festival,New millennium airport Theater,Hokkaido,Japan

39th Clermont-Ferrant International Film Festival,Clermont-Ferrant,France

2016

33. Kasseler Dokfest,Weinkirche Wine Cellar,Kasseler,Germany

Jimei Arles International Photography Festival,C-Art Plat,Xiamen,China

International animation Biennale,Shanghai,China

Hamburg "China Time" International Art Festival,DieSammlungFalckenberg Hall,Hamburg,Germany

2016 Whistler Film Festival,Whistler,Cannada

Competition for Manchester Animation Festival 2016, Manchester,England

Ottawa International Animation Festival 2016, Ottawa, Canada

International Competition of 36th edition of the Brussels Animation Films Festival, Brussels, Belgium

2016 Taichung International Animation Festival,Taiwan

2016 Annecy Animation Festival,Annecy,France

VIS Vienna Independent Shorts Festival,Vienna,Austria

33rd Busan International Short Film Festival(BISFF),Busan,Korea

2016 Holland Animation Film Festival competition shorts HAFF 2016,Louis Hartlooper Complex,Utrecht,Holland

2015

Tenerife Shorts 2015,Tenerife Theater,Canary Islands,Spain

Hannover film festival,Hannoner Theater,Hannover,Germany

"Mythology" contemporary art exhibition, white box art museum, Beijing, China

31st International Short Film Festival Berlin,Berlin Babylon Theater,Berlin,Germany

“Animatou”International Animation Film Festival,Geneva Theater,Geneva,Switzerland

Anibar Animation Festival, Pristina,Kosova

Concorto short film festival,Panorama Piacenza,Italy

International experimental short film competition,St. Petersburg, Russia

Long Week of Short Films,Minsheng Art Museum,Shanghai,China

International Short Film Festival 20min|max,Ingolstadt,Munich,Germany

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,Beijing,China

Drawing·Art of Re-Zuo,Nanjing Art Academy Museum,Nanjing,China

Deconstruction Aesthetic Forms and Their Opposites,Beijing,China

2015 Holland Animation Film Festival,Utrecht,Holland

2014

Animation & Digital Image in the Time of Interactive Media,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou,China

Endless1 contemporary art exhibition,nomad gallery,Hangzhou,China

Top 15 China Academy of Art,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou,China

The edge of nature|Hangzhou Experimental Video Artists Exhibition,Hangzhou,China

Hiroshima International Film Festival,Hiroshima,Japan

International artists detention project,Inna Art Space,Hangzhou,China

2014 Holland International Animation Film Festival,Utrecht,Holland