CHAI MIIssuing time:2021-07-20 12:45
Personal website www.chaimiart.com EDUCATION 2007 Bachelor of Arts, the Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China SOLO EXHIBITION 2017 Drifting from nothing to something, HONYO Art space, Beijing, China 2016 Between Round And Square, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, France 2013 Test Field, La Bande Vidéo media art center, Quebec City, Canada 2012 觅｜Me, Open Youthology, Qing Gongguan Space, Beijing, China GROUP EXHIBITION 2017 China experimental animation season, the only art gallery, Changzhou,China 2017 Independent Interaction, the drama aesthetics of contemporary art, star center for contemporary art, Beijing, China 2016 Beyond Noumenon, international experimental animation forum and exhibition, ChongQing, China 2016 UP-YOUNTH Young artists experiment field, Beijing Times art museum, Beijing, China 2016 ANIMAMIX BIENNALE, China short artistic animation program, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2015 HELSINKI ART FESTIVAL, Focus China, 25x25-Close Encounter, Helsinki, Finland 2015 CHINESE WOMEN ARTIST VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, Circo Volador, Mexico City, Mexico 2015 SPECTACLE ZOO-SCAPE, Zhengdai Art Gallery, ShangHai, China 2015 ARTISANSHIP REVIVAL art and design exhibition, Nan houjie exhibition space, Fuzhou, China； Quangyechang exhibition hall, Beijing, China 2014 SHENZHEN INDEPENDENT ANIMATION BIENNALE, Official competition, Shenzhen, China 2014 BYOB｜BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER, projecting video art exhibition, Beijing, China 2013 FORUM OF CHINA INDEPENDENT ANIMATION, Multi Media Installation exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China 2013 C-HERE EXHIBITION, World Culture Open Beijing MOMA Office, Beijing, China 2012 SHENZHEN INDEPENDENT ANIMATION BIENNALE, The Will of the Youth, OCAT art center, Shenzhen, China 2011 SILENT HEROES, Beijing Design Week, Da Shilan street, Beijing, China 2011 FROM THE EYES OF WOMEN, Chengdu A4 Independent Animation Research Project, A4 contemporary art center,Chengdu, China 2007NATIONAL FINE ART EXHIBITION, Animation exhibition, national art museum, Beijing, China FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Beijing International Short Film Festival, Resonance program, CHAO Art center, Beijing, China 13th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, the India International Centre, New Delhi, Indian 2016 6th StopTrik International Film Festival, out-of-competition program, MARIBOR Slovenia Linoleum International contemporary animation and media-art festival, out-of-competition program, Kiev, Ukraine Andorra Kid’s Film Festival, Official competition, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra Biennial DC Chinese Film Festival, Official competition, Washington DC, USA Festival Images Contre Nature, PR. ANIME / ANIMATED program, Videorome2, Marseille, France Out ToSee Festival, Animation Night, South Street Seaport, New York City, USA Reel Teal Film Festival, best international selections, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia (Animac), PETIT ANIMAC sessions, Lleida, Spain 2015 St. Louis international Film Festival (SLIFF), experimental program, St. Louis, USA The Quebec City Film Festival, official selection, Quebec city, Canada HAVERHILL International Experimental Film Festival, official selection, Haverhill, USA HELSINKI ART FESTIVAL, FOCUS CHINA, 25X25-CLOSE ENCOUNTER screening program, Helsinki, Finland ANIMASIVO Mexico City Animation Festival, Young animator from China program, Mexico City, Mexico Annecy International Animation Film Festival, official selection, Annecy, France In Motion Animation Festival 2015, Peacock Visual Arts（center for contemporary art）, Aberdeen, UK Athens ANIMFEST International Animation Festival,Official Experimental Section, Athens,Greece Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film,‘ANIMAGORIA’ program, Stuttgart, German Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF), Official competition, Utrecht, Holland 2014 Underwire Women's Short Film Festival 2014, DVDBANG (East Asian film program), London, UK Les Rencontres Internationales (New cinema and contemporary art), video library, Paris, Berlin St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), Official competition, St. Louis, USA Animatou international animation film festival, International competition, Geneva, Switzerland Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, Official Selection, Seoul, Korea ANIMEST international animation film festival, Creepy animation program, Bucharest, Romania Biennial DC Chinese Film Festival, Official competition, Washington DC, USA China Woman Film Festival, Official competition, Beijing, China (Best Film Award) China independent film festival (CIFF), Experimental film program, Xiamen, China China independent animation film forum (CIAFF), Official competition, Beijing, China 2011 Chongqing Independent Film and Video festival, animation program, Chongqing, China Beijing Independent Film Festival, animation program, SongZhuang，Beijing, China OTHER SCREENINGS 2015 Toronto Animated Image Society's annual Showcase, screening at Cinecycle, Toronto, Canada 2015 Chinese film festival, Lei Lei and Chai Mi animation screening program, hold by the Confucius Institute and centre intermones, La Rochelle, France 2015 New Direction in Chinese Animation screening program and speech, ICA (The institute of contemporary art), Boston, USA 2015 LEILEI and CHAIMI screening program and speech, Northeast university, Boston, USA 2014 Special Comics - German and China independent comics exhibition, independent animation screening program, Shanghai people art museum, Shanghai, China PERFORMANCE 2017 Audio-visual theater 《Spacetime illusion ｜Captured Creatures》，performed withChinese dancer Guorui，at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China Audio-visual theater《《《氵》》》｜Resonance Of Water, performed with American musician thruoutin and Chinese musician Pan Li at HONYO Art space, Beijing, China 2016 Audio-visual theater 《Spacetime illusion ｜Captured Creatures》，performed with American dancer Jennifer Macavinta，in the 'student house' theater, La Rochelle University (France) Audio-visual theater《《《氵》》》｜Resonance Of Water, performed with American musician thruoutin and Chinese musician Pan Li at the Frontier art center, Beijing, China Audio-visual theater 《Spacetime illusion ｜Captured Creatures》，performed with Malaysian musician Ng Chor Guan , and Malaysian dancer Nurul Akmal Abdul Wahid at Space.Toccata, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Audio-visual theater《《《氵》》》｜Resonance Of Water, performed with American musician thruoutin and Chinese musician Pan Li at Beijng Times museum, Beijing, China Audio-visual theater 《《《氵》》》｜Resonance Of Water, performed with American musician thruoutin and Chinese musician Pan Li at Hao Space, Beijing, China 2015 Audio-visual theater 《Spacetime illusion ｜Captured Creatures》，Performed with Chinese dancer GuoRui at centre intermondes, La Rochelle, France (Non-public) Audio-visual theatre ‘Resonance Of Water’, performed with American musician thruoutin and Chinese musician Pan Li at MUYE Space, Beijing, China A Live set‘45dB city’, performed with Chinese musician Stars Lee, at Shanghai flim museum, Shanghai, China Performed a live set Sea, Memories, eternal with Chinese musician Stars Lee and Trius at Qiu Jiuhui live house, Hangzhou, China 2014 Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with American musician thruoutin at OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Xi’an, Xi’an, China Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with Swedish musician Christian Berg at the 16th China Shanghai international arts festival, Power Station Of Art (PSA-the first state-run art museum), Shanghai, China Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with Korean musician Jeon Kwang Pyo and Japanese musician Tamura Ryo at W stage Seosomun, Seoul, Korea, organized by World Culture Open. Improvisational performance at World Festival of Animated Film (ANIMAFEST), Zagreb, Croatia Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with Swedish musician Christian Berg at Sino-Swedish Sounds (an event organized by the Swedish Embassy in Shanghai), QianShuiwan art center, Shanghai, China Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with Swiss musician Christian Berg at the Rock Bund Art Museum, Shanghai, China Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with Swiss musician Christian Berg during Animamix Biennale 2013-2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shangahai, China 2013 Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with Canadian musician Frederic Lebrasseur at the opening Ceremony of the 12th Sommets du cinéma d’animation, Antitube, Quebec, Canada Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with American musician thruoutin at BEME (Beijing Electronic Music Encounter), MOMA the Post Mountain Music Festival, Beijing, China Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with American musician thruoutin at Experimental Animation Season, Zhejiang Museum of Art, Zhejiang, China Performed the Sparrow and the Raven with American musician thruoutin at the 2nd Forum of China Independent Animation, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China Improvisational performing project: Second Hand with American musician thruoutin, Beijing and Hangzhou, China 2011 Artistic cooperation with multimedia musical The Whale, Beijing Youth Drama Festival, Beijing China RESIDENCIES 2016 Residency artist, organized and support by the Centre intermondes, one month, at La Rochelle, France 2016 Residency artist, organized and support by the CAN SERRAT art center and New Century Art Foundation, three weeks, at Barcelona, Spain. . 2015 Residency artist, Odyssee program, organized by Centres Culturels de Rencintre, Association and supported by the ministry for culture and communication, one month residency at the Royal abbey of fontevaud, France 2015 Residency artist,Artist In Residency program,support by Vienna Independent shorts, Quartier 21 and MuseumsQuartier,one month, at Vienna,Austria 2014 Residency artist,’Recreation of Chinese traditional handcraft ’ project, support by Homeland magazine and ZhengRong foundation, three month, at Fuzhou, China 2013 Residency artist, organized and support by La Bande Vidéo(media art center), one month, at Quebec city, Canada OTHER EXPERIENCE 2016 Jury member of select finalists, 5th edition of China Independent Animation Film Forum, competition program, Beijing, China 2015 ART & ASIA JEJU 2015 exhibition and forum, Conference on East Asian Art Vision, participants，the event happened at ICC exhibition and conference venue, JEJU island, Korea 2015 In the Style of William Kentridge:Flip-Book Animations, specially invited workshop, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China 2015 Monsters - animation workshop,Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou. China 2014 Monsters - animation workshop,Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA),Beijing, China 2014 Volunteer experience: Teaching children of Zhufang Village at the local community library, Bejing, China 2014 ‘The Monster Who Has a Name’ children’s art workshop, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China 2013 ‘Performing Workshop – Music Animation’ art workshop, Animation Season – Experimental Animation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 2013 ‘Summertime Art Week: The Action and Inaction of Animation’ children's art workshop, Little Artists Studio, Beijing, China 2012 Charity project Invisible Painting: a short film for visually impaired children, animation director 2007-2010 Multimedia designer, Lenovo, Innovation Center, Beijing, China SELECTED PRESS BOOK | Karen Smith (UK),《As seen 3》, Published in 2015, Page 210 to 211. (China) IGITAL ARTICLE | Zheng Wenfeng, “A Young Artist's Re-discovering Tradition — CHAI MI” , China Radio International (CRI), Voices From Other Lands channel, 2015 (China) IGITAL ARTICLE | Jiang yanfang，“CHAI MI—Return to the traditional, find the missing in modern life”, ARTISANSHIP REVIVAL subject, HOMELAND Magazine , 2015 (China) IGITAL ARTICLE | Haitao, Haoke，Oriental Everyone magazines, Today Art Museum, paper gallery project, Verloren Krankheit topics, 2014 (China) ARTICLE ABOUT ARTIST｜Josianne Desloges， ‘Arts visuels: l'amorce d'un temps nouveau’ , Le Soleil, December 28,2013 (Test Field mentioned as one of the most memorable shows of 2013) (Canada) ARTICLE ABOUT ARTIST｜Josianne Desloges, ‘Chaï Mi à la Bande Vidéo: envolée jusqu'aux nuages’’, Le Soleil, November 16th, 2013 (Canada) ARTICLE ABOUT ARTIST｜Wan Yan, “L’exposition «test FieLd» de Chaï Mi Quand la Chine fait rêver le Québec”, Les immigrants de la Capitale, December2013 (Canada) IGITAL ARTICLE |Jing Chen, “CHAI MI: I try to paint a world”, Ming Magazine, November, 2013 (Germany) IGITAL ARTICLE |“New Generation Animator – An Autobiography”, M-Zone Magazine, January, 2013 (China) IGITAL ARTICLE |Max Xu, “Stop the world: CHAIMI, Stop- Motion Animator”, The Beijinger, July, 2012 (China) RECOGNITION AND AWARDS 2016 Visual artist Fellowship of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency Grants, Can Serrat Art Center (Spain) Youth Artist International Residency Travel Grants, New Century Art Foundation (China) 2015-2007 Best Film Award， China Woman Film Festival Animation Shorts Sliver Award，Biennial DC Chinese Film Festival Young Director Award，China Independent Animation Film Forum (CIAFF) Best Film Design Award, China (Beijing) Student Animation Festival Best Producer Award, China Animation And Comic Competition Golden Dragon Award Shortlisted For Best Short Film Award, The 7th Academy Award Of Beijing Film Academy |
Born in 1985, Chai Mi currently lives and works in Beijing as anartist. Chai Mi’s fine art practice involves a range of media, including painting, installation, video and performance. Her works have been shown at many art museums, cultural organizations, film festival and music festivalnationally and internationally.