CAI SHEN
Artist
Cai Shen is an artist who teaches in the design department of the Central Academy of fine arts. Cai earned her B.A. degree from the design department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (CAFA) in 2019 and continued her MFA study at Parsons, The Newschool, New York, from 2020, funded by China Scholarship Council. In her practice, Cai uses multi-media methods to examine the relationship between man and machine. Her main research field is the man-machine relationship dominated by the human in art. And this observation point is in a gray area, between human nature and machine nature, establishing and expressing the new order and relationship between man and machine through video, installation, and other forms.
Cai's works have been exhibited at the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Shenzhen He Xiangning Art Museum, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, the Aronson and Kellen Gallery, New York, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Ethan Cohen Art Center, New York, Daimaru Art Museum, Shanghai, and The Victorian Artist Society, Melbourne. The Artist Society, Melbourne, and other galleries and art institutions in China and abroad. He has also been selected to participate in domestic and international art projects, including the 2019 Elite Young Artists Program, the Edinburgh CAI Young Artist Laboratory Project in the UK, and the finalist of the 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
Education
September 2015–June 2019, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing(abbr. CAFA), China;
September 2019–June 2021, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2023
In the Mood For Love, VillageOneArt, New York, NY, U.S
Images In Flux, HIFA Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Time Medium, CAFA Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezheng, China
“Harmonious Symbiosis”---- The 3rd China Xinjiang International Art Biennial, Xinjiang Art Museum, China
2022
The Night When Comet Came, Lan Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2021
Women in Art Practice, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
New Momentum, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
No Vacancy, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY, U.S.
2020
MFA Fine Arts exhibition, the Aronson and Kellen Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.DARKEST BEFORE DAWN, Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY, U.S.THE REVEALING, ARTECHOOO MUSEUM, Shanghai, China
2019
Elite Young Artists Program
Tutte le strade Sino-Italian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Changsha, China
Solo Exhibition, 1n, The Victorian Artist Society, Melbourne, Australia
2018
The CAFA Graduation Design Panel Exhibition, at the Design Gallery, CAFA, Beijing, China
“Diary” included in the “CAI Young Artist Laboratory Project” in Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh, U.K.
Future Unknown Global Education Plan: Exhibition for Practical Stage, at the Design Gallery, CAFA, Beijing, China
Annual Excellent Artworks Exhibition, at the Design Gallery, CAFA, Beijing, China;
2017
Group Exhibition 2117+, Gauguin Gallery, Beijing, China
Annual Practical Artworks Exhibition, at the Design Gallery, CAFA, Beijing, China
Publications
Assistant Designer for A Hundred Patterns of Plum Blossom by Zhu Songfa, published by The Commercial Press, Beijing, China in October 2018, ISBN 978-7-100-16259-3;