Chai Mi graduated from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. Her artistic practice revolves around individual identity, personal experiences, and nomadic thoughts, using various mediums to explore visible clues and hidden relationships in everyday life, revealing their ambiguity and fluidity. She pays attention to the dilemmas of individuals or groups across different time and space. Her artistic creation integrates multiple mediums such as moving images, photography, painting, installation, text, performance, and curation. Chai Mi's work consistently reveals explorations into the ways objects, living organisms, and consciousness are related, as well as reflections on entrenched concepts and established rules. Her recent explorations focus on the hybrid areas between new values and cultural heritage against the backdrop of rapid technological and internet development.
Chai Mi's major solo exhibitions include: The Stars Outshine the Moon, Gallery Where, Beijing, CN (2024); Spacetime Illusion, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA (2019); Between Square and Round, CENTRE INTERMONDES Art Center, La Rochelle, FR (2016); Experimental Field, LA BANDE VIDEO Media Art Center, Quebec, CA (2013).
Her major group exhibitions include: The Near, The Far, Gallery Where, Beijing, CN (2024); 22nd Donggang International Photo Festival, Donggang Museum of Photography, Seoul, KR (2024); Resilience: 2024 the 13th Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, CN (2024); "Unfinished" Chinese Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, CN (2023); Stories as Mirrors, UCCA, Beijing, CN (2023); Heading to Dunhuang, Dunhuang Contemporary Art Center x Gravity Space, Shanghai, CN (2022); Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, Experimental Preservation" Unit, Diriyah JAX Art District, SA (2021); Departure/Arrival, 7th Singapore International Photography Festival, SGP (2020); "Duration & Archive" Nanjing Contemporary Animation Art Documentation Exhibition, Nanjing, CN (2020); Crossing the Bridge, MUSEO DE LA CANCILLERÍA Art Museum, Mexico City, MX (2019); SEE-ING, Storrs Gallery, Charlotte, USA (2018); SPECTACLE ZOO-SCAPE, Zendai Himalayas Art Center, Shanghai, CN (2015); Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, CN (2014); From the Eyes of Women, A4 Contemporary Art Center, Chengdu, CN (2011).
Her recent work "Fables of A" received the Jin Hongwei Collection Award at the Three Shadows Photography Award, and her dual-screen video work "1993-1994" is collected by the Ministry of Culture (MOC) of Saudi Arabia.
CHAI MI, HAN QIAN, LI WEIYI, POCONO ZHAO YU
8 SEPTEMPER - 9 OCTOBER 2024 GALLERY WHERE, BEIJING
CHAI MI: THE STARS OUTSHINE THE MOON
A solo exhibition of Chai Mi
3 MARCH - 7 APRIL 2024
GALLERY WHERE, BEIJING