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Cao Shu primarily works with narrative 3D digital moving image, video game, and site-specific installations. His works are based on research and sensory experiences of specific locations, intricately weaving the complex production mechanisms and mythical metaphors behind computer graphics technology with historical archives and social issues. His recent series of works revolves hauntology narratives related to collectivism in personal family histories. CAO Shu is the recipient of the OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Award(2022), Exposure Award of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai (2021), and BISFF Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement(2017).In 2024,he has been the Finalist of E.A.T.Prize. Cao Shu has been the artist-in-residence at multiple institutions such as the Atelier Mondial Basel(2017), Yokohama Koganecho Bazzaar (2019) and Muffatwek Munich and Goethe Institute(2023). He has held solo exhibitions in art Institutions such as HOW Art Museum Shanghai 2024, Muffatwerk Munich 2023, Imagokinetics Hangzhou 2021, Zhejiang Museum Hangzhou 2019, Koganecho Yokohama 2019, Salon Mondial Basel 2017. He has exhibited in art museums around the world, such as Kunsthausbaselland, Matadero Madrid Centre for Contemporary Creation, White Rabbit Gallery Sydney,M+ Museum Hongkong,Power Station of Art Shanghai(PSA),UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Dune, BY ART MATTERS Hangzhou, Macao Art Museum, OCAT Shanghai, Sleep Center New York,etc.
Solo Exhibitions
Afterglow and Theremin, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2024
Go to Rome, Imagokinectics, Hangzhou, 2021
Hotel Smoke and Ash, Munich Muffatwerk, Munich, 2023
The Ocean of Solaris, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, 2019
Flux, Shanghai University of Science and Technology Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, 2019
Monster Outside the Windows, Koganecho, Yokohama, 2019
Group Exhibitions
2024
The Perfect Path——La Biennale di Venezia Special Program,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou,2024
The Gazing lens,M+ MUseum,Hongkong,2024
Place and Narration-Annual Exhibition of 2023 Chinese Contemporary Video Arts, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai, 2024
Three-Body Art Project · Prologue: First Contact,SUHE HAUS,Shanghai,2024
Dunhuang Museum of Contemporary Art Opening Exhibition, Dunhuang Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2024
Tangent Experiments, Gravity Field Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2024
Sparking into Sparkling, No.1 Xintiandi, Shanghai, 2024
Night Pieces,Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre,Xiamen,2024
Encoding Phenology: The Cosmic Rhythm of Digital and Biological Interweaving,Times Art Museum, Beijing, 2024
Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan, Wuhan Art Museum, 2024
Conjure: Backstage Performances in a Simulated World, Power Station of Art( PSA), Shanghai, 2024
Study 2: Nature History, Alternative Knowledge and Deep Learning, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing, 2024
Cosmic Archaeology, Shanghai Astronomy Museum, Shanghai, 2024
Asia Walk, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Dialogue in the Dark": Cloud Wondering, Positive Art Research Center, Hangzhou
Chengdu International Photography Festival, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu
2023Vortex in Beijing:Five Moments at Nightfall,Macalline Art Center, Beijing
I Am The People, White Rabbit Gallery,Sydney
Motion is Action:35 Years of Chinese Media Art,BY ART MATTERS,Hangzhou
Contains it like lines of a hand,Tang Shaoyi former residence,Shanghai
X Museum Triennial 2023: Home Is Where the Haunt Is,X Museum ,Beijing
Coding for the people,Qingdao
Rising Flags,Museum in Progress,Austria
If the trouble was money, Pfeuferstr. 38, Munich
Invisible Maps: Give space,BY ART MATTERS,Hangzhou
Hide and Seek - The Photographic Vision of Childhood,Being Art Museum, Shanghai
2022
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2021, 798Art Center, Beijing
Thinking Through Ocean, Topred Center for Contemporary Art , Xiamen
9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture,GDH City,Shenzhen
Memory hurts me, Matadero Madrid Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Madrid
In Solidarity with ____? | 2022 "OCAT × KADIST Emerging Media Artist Program" Exhibition, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
Art's language , Artists' Game,OCAT Shenzhen,Shenzhen
Shape the Future - The 8th Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
"Body and Cosmos" the art of living together, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha
2021
Slowly Arriving, Kunsthausbaselland, Basel
Multi-Prismatic Mutual Views - International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Macao Art Museum, Macao
#TGIF (thank God it's funny), Brownie project, Shanghai
The Timing of Drifters, Martin Goya business, Hangzhou
The Long Cut,Feral File Exhibition Online
Mcisture,Riverside,Hangzhou
Archives of Possible World,Xiangshan art commune,Hangzhou
HD world unit, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong
Guerrillas in Flatland: Unite! Digital Voyagers,PSA Shanghai Museum of contemporary art,Shanghai
New drive: the collision between art and technology, Shenyang K11 Art Center, Shenyang
Pad Dimension:Visual Art Form Graph to Virtual, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
Space Oddity, UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao
2020
Cyprus International Animation Festival,Salamiu
"Cut keyframe" Chinese Animation Art Invitational Exhibition, Wuhan K11 Art Center, Wuhan
Hangzhou "best design", Baimahu International Convention and Exhibition Center, Hangzhou
"One day world" vlog, PSA Shanghai Museum of contemporary art, online
Hua Niao Island International Animation Festival, Hua Niao Island, Zhoushan
Back to reality, martingoya business, Hangzhou
2019
PPPP and Friends,Fiber Space,Beijing
Koganecho BAZAAR 2019,Koganecho,Yokohama
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018,Minsheng Art Museum,Beijing
21st Cairo International Animation Forum,Cairo
Lighthouse International Charity Film Festival,Museum of CAFA,Beijing
CHAI film festival,Leipzig
25. Film Festival della Lessinia,Verona
2018
The 4th Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale,OCT Contemporary Art Terminal,Shenzhen,Shenzhen
“Cross Domain”Sino-Japanese Youth Art Exhibition,Jin Ji Lake Art Museum,Suzhou
China-Canada Experimental Animation Exhibition,Tongniu Movie Industry Park,Beijing
Leipzig International Documentary and Animation Festival,Leipzig
Post Southern Song Dynasty,KWM Art Center,Beijing
23rd Milano Film Festival,Milano
XXVIII Message to Man International Film Festival,Saint-Petersburg
Artecinema international festival of contemporary art film,Naples
Fiction Art,OCAT Shenzhen,Shenzhen
2018 Annecy Animation Film Festival,Annecy
Invitation Screen of Shanghartgallery 1st time,Shanghartgallery,Shanghai and Bejing
Pity Party,Sleep Center,NewYork
Blue Dream Animation Festival,Nuremberg
TED 2018 Conference Video Screen,Vancouver Convention Centre,Vancouver
OUT OF SERVICE, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts
Presence -Young Artist Exhibition,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou
2017
Atelier Mondial Exhibition 2017,Solon Mondial,Basel
EXiM2017 Cross-Straits Experimental Animation Festival,EXiM,Macao
Beijing International Short Film Festival,Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA),Beijing
15th International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries,Vladivostok
13th Korea independent Animation Film Festival,Seoul COEX Convention and Exhibition Center,Soel
New millennium airport Animation Festival,New millennium airport Theater,Hokkaido
39th Clermont-Ferrant International Film Festival,Clermont-Ferrant
2016
33. Kasseler Dokfest,Weinkirche Wine Cellar,Kasseler
Jimei Arles International Photography Festival,C-Art Plat,Xiamen
International animation Biennale,Shanghai
Hamburg "China Time" International Art Festival,DieSammlungFalckenberg Hall,Hamburg
2016 Whistler Film Festival,Whistler
Competition for Manchester Animation Festival 2016, Manchester
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2016, Ottawa
International Competition of 36th edition of the Brussels Animation Films Festival, Brussels
2016 Taichung International Animation Festival,Taichung
2016 Annecy Animation Festival,Annecy
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts Festival,Vienna
33rd Busan International Short Film Festival(BISFF),Busan
2016 Holland Animation Film Festival competition shorts HAFF 2016,Louis Hartlooper Complex,Utrecht
2015
Tenerife Shorts 2015,Tenerife Theater,Canary Islands
Hannover film festival,Hannoner Theater,Hannover
"Mythology" contemporary art exhibition, white box art museum, Beijing
31st International Short Film Festival Berlin,Berlin Babylon Theater,Berlin
“Animatou”International Animation Film Festival,Geneva Theater,Geneva
Anibar Animation Festival, Pristina
Concorto short film festival,Panorama Piacenza
International experimental short film competition,St. Petersburg
Long Week of Short Films,Minsheng Art Museum,Shanghai
International Short Film Festival 20min|max,Ingolstadt,Munich
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,Beijing
Drawing·Art of Re-Zuo,Nanjing Art Academy Museum,Nanjing
Deconstruction Aesthetic Forms and Their Opposites,Beijing
2015 Holland Animation Film Festival,Utrecht
2014
Animation & Digital Image in the Time of Interactive Media,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou
Endless1 contemporary art exhibition,nomad gallery,Hangzhou
Top 15 China Academy of Art,China Academy of Art Museum,Hangzhou
The edge of nature|Hangzhou Experimental Video Artists Exhibition,Hangzhou
Hiroshima International Film Festival,Hiroshima
International artists detention project,Inna Art Space,Hangzhou
2014 Holland International Animation Film Festival,Utrecht