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Chen Gao is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Detroit and Chicago Metropolitan Area, USA. She received her MFA degree in 2D Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gao is currently teaching graphic design at the School of Art + Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Her work has taken many shapes, including free drawing, film photography, poetic writing, installation, and performance. She explores the fantasy of ideal freedom that extracts from the real world and asserts the power of unconsciousness and dreams. This is all about her emotional life of being.
She is not creating a form but building an atmosphere to convey a sense of void. Gao’s work has been celebrated in several exhibitions and (group) projects nationally and internationally, including the Library Mural Project at Toledo Museum of Art Reference Library and An Inspired Age at Toledo Museum of Art. She was selected to exhibit work in VAN GOGH Art Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Holy Art Gallery in London, and the Jackson Junge Gallery in Chicago.
Gao is interested in continuing her professional studio practice in association with art education.
School of Art + Design - UIUC
Drawing Imagination Back to Grass
Columbia Global Centers|Beijing Jun 2021 - Sept 2021
Curatorial Assistant - ANOBO International Children’s Tech and Art Traveling Exhibition
UToledo Online - Instructional Design
Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Event Assistant - The First International Life Science Summer Summit (Beidaihe)
MFA in 2D Design (elective in Architecture)
BFA in Graphic and Interactive Media (minor in Art History)
