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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. 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 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 at Atelier Mondial in Basel(2017), Yokohama Koganecho Bazzaar Art Festival (2019),Goethe Institutes(2020). His works have won such awards as 2022 OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Award，2021 Exposure Award of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, 2015 New Narrative Award from the Long Week of Short Films, and 2017 BISFF Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Recent solo exhibitions include Cao Shu Solo Exhibition-GO TO ROME, B1OCK@Ooeli, Hangzhou, China；The Ocean of Solaris, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China, 2019；Flux, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, China; Solo Program-Monster outside the windows, Koganecho, Yokohama, Japan, 2019; His works has been exhibited in art Museums around the world,such as Kunsthausbaselland, UCCA Dune,Macao Art Museum,Beijing Minsheng Art Museum,OCAT Shanghai and Shenzhen,Sleep Center New York,Die Sammlung Falckenberg Hall Hamburg. Works are collected by Kadist Art Foundation, Australian White Rabbit Art Gellary, Blue Mountain Contemporary Art Foundation, Zhejiang Art Museum, 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
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