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/BIO
Shu Wang is an interdisciplinary artist born in China and currently based in New York. She works across sculpture, installation, and wearable art, focusing on the body as a site where emotion, structure, and social tension intersect. Her practice explores how interaction, movement, and proximity can transform an object into a living medium that connects people and evokes shared perception.

She initially studied Nonmetallic Inorganic Material Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing before transferring to the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she earned her BFA in Jewelry and Metal Design. She later received her MFA in Fashion, Body, and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under artist Nick Cave. Her diverse background informs her interdisciplinary approach, encouraging her to merge material experimentation, digital fabrication, and emotional resonance. Her work has been exhibited in Portal: Rockaway (by 4heads at Rockaway Artist Alliance, New York, 2025), Pause·Sip·Breathe(Flowing Space, New York, 2025), Dream Machine (UrbanGlass, New York Jewelry Week, 2024), By Degree III (Project Space of Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago, 2024), Romanian Jewelry Week 2022 represented by ArtsThread, etc



/Artist Statement My work originates from reactions, emotions, and expectations, reflecting the ambivalent relationship I have as a woman and as an individual with the world around me. From an early awareness of how one is expected to behave, to the quiet negotiations of what it means to be perceived as “good,” I became sensitive to the unspoken rules that shape visibility and acceptance. While society operates within its own rigid forms and expectations, my personal shape does not always align, creating a tension between expression and conformity.

The emotions and thoughts born from this tension transform into responses that take form through my art. The body becomes the center of this process, both as a vessel of emotion and as tangible evidence of presence. It allows me to translate what cannot be easily spoken into movement, touch, and material form.

I am drawn to interaction because it allows the work to breathe. When a person wears, touches, or simply approaches a piece, the object begins to respond. The wearable, for me, is not an end but a beginning. It is the simplest way for an object to encounter a body, to invite awareness, to generate intimacy. Through these encounters, the boundary between self and other, maker and viewer, begins to dissolve, and the work becomes a shared moment of perception.

I am interested in how structure and emotion coexist, how materials are activated through proximity and touch rather than by their substance alone. My creative process is an ongoing calibration between control and release. I am learning to trust intuition, to let chance and vulnerability shape the work. What I seek is the moment when gesture becomes connection, when the act of wearing or touching transforms both object and person, and presence itself becomes the art.










^{Link to the backdrop video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_l3iple9U}