• 2025CAOSHU Portfolio.pdf


    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


    2023

    Vortex 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 2021798Art 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

     


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