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/BIO
Shu Wang is an interdisciplinary artist born in China and currently based in the United States. She initially majored in Nonmetallic Inorganic Material Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. After two and a half years, she transferred to the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2017 to study Jewelry and Metal Design. While pursuing and after completing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Body, Fashion, and Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Shu explored wearable sculpture and installation art. Her diverse background informs her practice, which encourages her to continuously experimenting with and incorporating different mediums in her artworks. She excels in using mixed materials and integrating 3D modeling and printing. Most of her work draws from her experience of coming to terms with herself in relation to the world.



/Artist Statement
My work consistently originates from reactions, emotions, and expectations since I often feel that I have an ambivalent relationship with the world.

While the world and society have their own shape, as an individual with consciousness and a distinct silhouette, my personal shape doesn't always align. When encountering differences in shape between self and society, I often find myself compromising, changing aspects of myself to become an integral part of it, which in turn causes me to feel lost and stimulates resistance. The process of resisting reinvention elicits my emotions and thoughts, which were then transformed into reactions and answers expressed through my art works. They turned out to be the balance I have found to coexist as an individual in this world.

Geometry always plays a pivotal role in my work. Emotions and reactions are complex and subjective, while geometry, comprising points, lines and surfaces, is reliably simple and objective. I create sculptures in various sizes and scales, striving to develop a visual language that transforms complicated emotions and concepts into something more accessible. My body provides objective evidence of my presence in the world, and carries my emotions, expectations and reactions at the same time, so most of my works are wearable, from body or interact with the body






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