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Cici Wu, *Foreign Object #2 Umbra And Penumbra (Dolphin)*, 2023
Bamboo wire, paper, Raspberry Pi 4b, USB webcam, neopixel ring LED, cable, memory card
73 x 29 x 99 cm

**Cici Wu**

*Foreign Object #2 Umbra And Penumbra (Dolphin)*, 2023

Bamboo wire, paper, Raspberry Pi 4b, USB webcam, neopixel ring LED, cable, memory card

28 3/4 x 11 3/8 x 39 in
73 x 29 x 99 cm

Cici Wu, *Re:Mothlight (Changing Brightness 04, One Minute, Epilogue)*, 2024

Ink, mineral pigment, rice paper
60.3 x 57.1 x 5.1 cm

Cici Wu, *Travel Star between Ceasing and Arising*, Scheusal, Berlin, 2024.

*Tsaiyun (Rosy-Cloud) Bridge / Forget Each Other in the Rivers and Lakes*, Cici Wu with Chan Hau Chun & Chui Chi Yin, Taro Masushio, Xiaofei Mo, Park Xun, Fai Wan, Emilia Wang. Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2023. Curated by Mathijs van Geest.

*Tsaiyun (Rosy-Cloud) Bridge / Forget Each Other in the Rivers and Lakes*, 2023, exhibition view, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen

*Unfinished Return of Yu Man Hon*, 2019. Installation view, 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: One Escape at a Time, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), 2021. Curated by Yung Ma.

Cici Wu, installation view of ‘Unfinished Return’, Empty Gallery, 2019

Cici Wu, installation view of ‘Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness)’, 47 Canal, 2021
Courtesy of the artist and 47 Canal, New York
Photo: Joerg Lohse

Cici Wu, installation view of *Upon Leaving the* *White Dust*, 47 Canal, 2018
Courtesy of the artist and 47 Canal, New York

Cici Wu (b. 1989, Beijing) is a New York based artist who grew up in Hong Kong. Reducing filmmaking to its most humble and elemental components, she creates drawings, objects, videos, and installations which extend the imaginative and structural premises of cinematic language across a wide range of media. Often taking local microhistories or archives as a point of departure, she uses the cinematic frame as a means to negotiate and reflect on the ways in which transpersonal narratives of social, cultural and historical belonging structure our experiences of self.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2025), Scheusal, Berlin (2024), Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2023, 2019), 47 Canal, New York (2021, 2018); a collaborative exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway (2023); and has participated in group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo (2025), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2024), Outside Art Space, Beijing (2024), the Drawing Center, New York (2023), CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (2022), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2021), Para Site, Hong Kong (2020, 2018), Artists Space, New York (2020), among others. She has participated in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025), Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2024) and 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021).

CURRENT:

36th Bienal de São Paulo
September 6, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Echo Delay Reverb
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
October 22, 2025 – February 15, 2026

Recent Press:
Qu Chang, “星行“, Qilu Criticism
Sun Jialing, “新艺见 | “来自未归还的灵灯”：一次忧郁的悼念”, The Art Journal China
Yu Yongze, “Lanterns from the Unreturned“, Artforum China

Cici Wu_Bio CV
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Cici Wu press October 2025
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2025-10-21	Cici Wu in Echo Delay Reverb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
	On view from October 22, 2025 through February 15, 2026, the group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. The exhibition features works by several generations of artists, from the 1970s to the present day: some attest to a direct dialogue between theory and practice, others are sometimes subversive tributes, and still others are more allusive correspondences. Key historical artists such as Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Renée Green, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon feature alongside younger artists such as Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Char Jeré and Cici Wu. The exhibition revisits some of the major figures in American art of recent decades from a fresh perspective. Archival materials throughout the exhibition meanwhile highlight individuals, institutions, and publishers that played a crucial role in disseminating these ideas in the United States. Read more …
2025-10-14	Chan Hau Chun at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing
	Breakdown Playlist is on view from October 12, 2025 until March 1, 2026 at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing. Artistic Director: Carol Yinghua Lu Curators: Clara Chavan, Na Rongkun Exhibition Coordinators: Rory Guan, Juri Mischler Exhibition Assistants: Li Huiyi, Cao Liyao, Li Zejun Breakdown Playlist brings together works by sixteen artists from China and Switzerland. The exhibition is part of the 2025 cultural exchange projects commemorating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and grew out of the Embassy of Switzerland in China’s CH><CN Studios program. Beginning in August 2025, nine Swiss artists undertook residencies at six Chinese art institutions, namely in Beijing, Chongqing, Dehua, Yantai, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, creating new works based on local observations. Under the guidance of Carol Yinghua Lu, Director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, The exhibition was co-curated by young Swiss curator Clara Chavan and Inside-Out assistant curator Na Rongkun. Building on the selection of Swiss artists, they invited seven Chinese artists to participate, fostering a dialogue between emerging contemporary artists from both countries. Read more …
2025-10-08	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork in Ocula
	Jonathan Griffin has interviewed Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork for Ocula magazine. “For nearly two decades, Los Angeles-based Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has used sound as a sculptural and architectural medium, as well as sculpture and architecture as acoustic structures to support and manipulate sound. After an early career in noise music, she sidestepped into making installations that incorporate her complex sound works to powerful and atmospheric effect.” Read more …
2025-09-23	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork wins Gold Art Prize
	The Gold Art Prize, a series of five awards given biennially to AAPI and Asian diaspora artists, has named this year’s batch of winners, including Dan Lie, Stella Zhong, Morehshin Allahyari, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and Kenneth Tam. The prize awards each winner an unrestricted $25,000. This is the third iteration of the prize, which was launched in 2021 by adviser Kelly Huang and Gold House, a Los Angeles–based organization with a focus on the AAPI community. As with the 2023 edition, the 2025 prize is funded by the Kahng Foundation. In a statement, Huang said, “I’m proud that the Gold Art Prize has, since 2021, championed artists from the Asian diaspora, and its mission feels more vital than ever today. This year’s awardees reflect an even broader range of diasporic backgrounds, and it’s an honor to celebrate each artist’s contributions to shaping the future of contemporary art.” Read more …
2025-09-18	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork at Chicago Architecture Biennial
	The 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, takes place from September 19, 2025 – February 28, 2026. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork will be participating with her installation work Variations in Mass Nos. 5, 6, 7, 2024, vinyl, blowers, electronics, and speakers. Collaborators: Viola and violin, Daniel Jacobs; Cello, Zack Reaves; 3D design, Rhett LaRue. Read more …
2025-09-18	Doris Guo at Lagune Ouest
	Little Fluffy Clouds is on view at Lagune Ouest in Copenhagen, Demark from September 19 through October 18, 2025. Participating artists include: Rachel Fäth, Doris Guo, Mathias Toubro, Pol Wah Tse, Mille Qvist. Read more …
2025-09-12	Vunkwan Tam at Loong Mah, New York
	Vunkwan Tam’s solo exhibition, Clear Rivers, is now on view at Loong Mah, New York. Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6PM and by appointment. Read more …
2025-09-06	Cici Wu in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo
	Cici Wu is participating in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo with her 2023 film Belonging and Difference. The exhibition will take place from September 6, 2025 to January 11, 2026 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, with free admission. This year’s theme, Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice is inspired by the Afro-Brazilian poet Conceição Evaristo, and this year’s edition includes 125 artists and collectives. Read more …
2025-09-05	Raha Raissnia in There Is a Crack in Everything, Jewish Museum of Belgium
	There Is a Crack in Everything, on view from September 5 – December 14, 2025, brings together more than twenty-five international artists whose practices intertwine emotion and form with questions of belonging, identity, and memory. From visible violence to imposed silences, from damages to life to the vulnerability of surrounding environments, these artists explore the human condition in its tensions as well as its possibilities, transforming these realities into imaginings of resistance, displacement, and reinvention. This exhibition is a project of the Jewish Museum In/Out, led by its director Barbara Cuglietta, in collaboration with guest curator Martin Germann. Raha Raissnia is participating with her film installation Solaria 2022, as well as new paintings. Read more …
2025-09-05	Tishan Hsu in Bio Morphe, Moody Center for the Arts
	The Moody’s fall 2025 exhibition focuses on the topic of biomorphism—artistic styles that use occurring patterns or shapes inspired by nature— as seen through the lens of seven international artists. Their respective work highlights the impact of new technologies and industrial manufacturing processes on ever-changing relationships between the human body and the natural world. This presentation offers a pluridisciplinary approach to the concept through works that engage with a broad range of topics, from the application of scientific research to the role of gender in society. Bio Morphe allows visitors to explore parallels between experimental artworks and contemporary issues prompted by research in science and technology. Read more …