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ARTIST STATEMENT
Wuchao Feng (b.1998, Ningbo) is a Chinese artist based in London with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research-led practice engages with fluidity, identity, and materiality through natural metaphors—particularly water, salt, and pearl—situating them within feminist, ecological, and posthuman thought. Influenced by visual anthropology, Feng investigates how trauma, memory, and language sediment in matter. Her notion of “oceanic identity” reframes diasporic subjectivity as mutable, relational, and materially entangled. Through sculptural installation, performance, and poetic text, she develops a hydrographic vocabulary—one that resists borders, embraces permeability, and offers space for embodied forms of knowing and belonging.
冯吴超，1998年出生于浙江宁波，研究生毕业于英国皇家艺术学院摄影专业，本科毕业于芝加哥艺术学院，作品主要包括摄影、装置、行为艺术等。作品关注全球化及人类纪时代的个体归属与媒介的可能性，通过去标签化的自然喻体提出流动的身份认知概念，以山川海流为诗，砂石盐渍为谱，在一系列人与自然产生交互过程中，展开了一场持续的自我和解之旅。
CV
Education
2021 — 2023
MA Photography, Royal College of Art
2016 — 2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts, the School of Art Institute of Chicago
Experience
2023-2025
The Way to You, Co-Founder
2020
The Art Institute of Chicago, Publishing Department Internship
2019
Jiazazhi Press, Graphic Design Internship
Selected Exhibitions
2024
The Moon Rising Paradise, Zhi Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Take Matsutake as Slice, Meisha Art Center, Shenzhen, China
My Room is Another Fishbowl, Westbourne Grove Church, London
Nomadism, Roof Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2023
ReA! Fair 2023, Milan
Mercury’s Tail, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
SCENT-SIENT, Galerie Joseph, Paris
Thermal Relaxation Effect, Roof Art Center, Guangzhou, China
Paris, Texas, SOKA Art, Beijing, China
Brink, 2030 Collective, Hangar Gallery, London
Background, Huimei Gallery, Zhengzhou, China
Backstroke, Batsford Gallery, London
The Fading Spaciousness, OXO Tower, Barge House, London
On the Land of Ningbo, Jiazazhi Press, Ningbo, China
2022
Artworks Open 2022, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
EXPO Chicago 2022, Chicago
8th International Marianne Brandt Award: Connectedness - Experiments for New Relationships with Nature, Industrial Museum Chemnitz, Chemnitz
Icebreaking Art Project Annual Exhibition 2022, LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang
Maritime Asia, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Another World or Not, Brent Willesden Gallery, London
Home⎜Away: Narratives of Dislocation and Estrangement, MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London
Duty-Free Art School, Chelsea College of Arts, London
An Art Experience with C• LAB, Koppel Project, London
2021
Art Nova 100 Annual Exhibition, Guardian Art. Center, Beijing
Global Conversations: CRASSH 20th Anniversary Exhibition, University of Cambridge, Online
Cladogram: 2nd KMA International Juried Biennial, Katonah Museum of Art, New York
An Afterparty, SS Gallery, Shanghai
泄密的心, Hereon, Shanghai
疼痛之痛, Huten Gallery, Shanghai
Infinite Finiteness, Restart International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
Alchemy Series Exhibition: Arsonist's Fallacy, No Space Gallery, online exhibition
2020
Backyard Stories，062 Gallery，Zhou B Art Center，Chicago, United States
Luck Art Festival, Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou, China
2019
Camera USA® 2019: National Photography Exhibition and Award, Florida, United States
The Second MEIHODO International Youth Visual Media Festival,Fukuoka, Japan
Uniqlo USA Fashion Photography Exhibition, Chicago, United States
2018
Art Book Fair, Fou Gallery, New York, United States
Plastic Comet Art Exhibition, Babycastles Gallery, New York, United States
Visions For Himeros, AC Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Selected Bibliography
2023
Public Offerings, Interdisciplinary Practices: Photography and Writing
2021
假展览⎜冯吴超：My Saltiness in the Land, Jiazazhi Press, March
Raging Magazine Vol.002
2019
Chrome⎜冯吴超《In-Out-Sider:天下为公》, Chrome Photographic Arts Space, March
色影无忌⎜冯吴超《活水来》, October
Awards
2023
Bath Open Art Prize 2023, Finalist
2022
8th International Marianne Brandt Award, Nominee
2019
Tencent: Next Idea National Cultural and Creative Industries Design Competition, China, bronze prize
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit scholarship, 2016–2020
2018
ND Awards Photo Contest- Neutral Density Photography Awards, Honourable Mention