Email: qianwenyuy@gmail.com
Instagram: @qianwenyuyu
@musicofweaving
Education
Master of Fine Arts- School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 2018-2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts- China Academy of Art Shanghai Institute of Design | 2013-2017
Festivals & Exhibitions
2024
Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Compound Yellow, Chicago, IL, USA | TBD, 2025
Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA | November 9 to December 15, 2024
Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Ignition Project Space, Chicago, IL, USA | October 4 to 26, 2024
{Re} Happening 12, Annual Arts Event, Black Mountain College Museum+ Art Center, Asheville, NC, USA | April 20, 2024
Dizzy Tv screening Season 2, Dizzy Magazine | Feb 4, 2024
2023
5th Evanston Experimental Video Showcase, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, USA | Sep 22, 2023
6th Midwest Open - Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA | Sep 2 to 30, 2023
Supertoon International Animation and Comics Festival, official selection, Šibenik, Croatia | July 24 to 28, 2023
Moonlighters Screening, Chicago, IL, USA | July. 13, 2023
Malt Adult Music Viddy Mixer, Chicago, IL, USA | March 21, 2023
2022
Australia Animation Film Festival, Sydney, Australia | March 18, 2022
'Meta Metaverse in A Black Box' virtual exhibition, Cryptovoxels, online | Jan 31 to Feb 28
2021
Anibar International Animation Festival, official selection, Peja, Kosovo | July 23 to 30, 2021
Supertoon International Animation and Comics Festival, official selection, Šibenik, Croatia | July 19 to 23, 2021
AniFilm Festival Liberec, official selection, Czech Republic | June 22 to 27, 2021
Austin Lift-Off Film Festival, Lift-Off Global Network, UK | May 4th to June 1st, 2021
"Ground Floor"- Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA | February 22 to April 3, 2021
4th Midwest Open – Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA | January 22 to February 13, 2021
Lift-Off New Year Extravaganza 2021 Official Selection, UK | January 4 to February 1, 2021
“Perspectives 2021”- CICA Museum, South Korea | January 2021
2020
2020 Interactive Online Exhibition, King House Fine Art | December 24, 2020
‘Obition’ exhibition, online, Seoul, South Korea | November 3, 2020
Shanghai Young Art Fair 2020, Shanghai, China | November 12 to 15, 2020
Launch - Alumni Work from the SAIC Graduate Class of 2020 | October 19 - November 24, 2020
International Underground Music Video Festival, Paris, France | October 31, 2020
“My home is an island” – Arthousehaus, Vauxhall, London | September 24- October 3, 2020
The future of our plan: SAIC Graduate Class of 2020, online | August 5, 2020
‘Uncanny Reconstructions’- Abstract Lunch, online | April 2020
“Perspectives 2020”- CICA Museum, South Korea | January 2020
2019
ExTv channel in School of the Art Institute of Chicago | September 2019
‘2059 Regeneration ‘- Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival, Hangzhou, China | May 2019
2019 Music Short Film Festival | April 2019
2018-
NEOSFEST Encuentro Interbacional De Experimentacion Audiovisual— Puebla, Mexico | November 2018
“Spatial Flexibility” — China Academy of Art | May 2017
“Return to the Nest” - the Affiliated Art High School of China Academy of Art | April 2014
Features/Press
Sixty Inches From Center - Review | January 15, 2024
Women's Song Forum - Feature | November 20, 2023
Bold Journey - Interview | Aug 29, 2023
Nowness Asia - Instagram Feature | June 11, 2023
Fiverr - AAPI month - Instagram Feature | May 24, 2023
Voicer - Playground - Interview | April 11, 2023
CanvasRebel - Interview | April 6, 2023
LA Post - “AACYF Top 30 under 30” list | March 28, 2022
Voyage LA- Shout out series - Interview | June 2021
Booooooom tv - Feature | May 5, 2021
Aesthetica Magazine, April/May issue | April 2021
'2020 GAMMA Young Artist Competition', Access Cultural Platform, Special Issue 2020 | April 2021
Al-Tiba9 Magazine - issue 7 | February 2021
Art China 艺术中国 - Press | January 15, 2021
APERO - Fine Art Publication | January 2021
芝加哥时报 - Press | January 11, 2021
Art China Uk - feature | November 30, 2020
King House Art Magazine – issue 1, “The Year 2020” | December 2020
House Letters, issue 3 | November 25, 2020
Girlsclub Asia - Interview | September 2020
Art Hole Magazine | August 10, 2020
Collection
Shanghai Young Art Fair 2020, ‘7 days in Taobao’, digital drawing
Artist talk
4th Midwest: In Conversation, panel discussion, Woman Made Gallery | February 11, 2021
Artist talk at Arthousehaus, online | October 10th, 2020
FVNMA Grad talk- ‘Textile Landscape’, School of the Art Institute of. Chicago | February 17, 2020
Work & Volunteer
Animator/ artist/ director | July 2020 till now
Teaching Assistant- Early College Program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago | June 2020-August 2020
Art advisor - Cornerstone Education | January 2020- September 2020
Teaching Assistant- School of the Art Institute of Chicago | January 2019- May 2020
Directed and animated music video ‘LCR’ | December 2019- January 2020
Online videos producer - Adults Continue Studies- School of the Art Institute of Chicago | June 2019- September 2019
Volunteer- Conversation on The Edge in Gene Siskel Film Center | October 2018- November 2018
Graphic Designer- Zhangtai Group | February 2018- August 2018
Volunteer- The “Not Treasure, Not Trash” Exhibition | November 2016
Clients
the Art Institute of Chicago, Sony Music Classical, Adult Swim, Fiverr, Armada Music, Warner Chappell Production Music, Carpark records, Conner Prairie Museum, Fashion brand ‘Ports1961’, song writer/musician Bryan Away, Canadian band Blue Rodeo etc.
Awards
2022 AACY (All America Chinese Youth Federation) Top 30 under 30, LA Post, Los Angel, CA, 2022
Semi-finalists, 2020 Art Competition, King House Art Competition, Stradford-Upon-Avon, UK, 2020
First Prize, Best Young Artist of the Year, 2020 GAMMA Young Artist Competition, Seoul, South Korea, 2020
Best Animated Music Video, International Underground Music Video Festival, Paris, France, 2020
Winter Merit Scholarship for OX-Bow, 2019
Scholarship for excellence in social practices, 2015-2016
Scholarship for excellence in academic performance, 2015