Manyu Gao
Born in 1990, Fuxin, Liaoning, China
Currently live and work in Los Angeles, California, United States, and Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
Manyu Gao is a multimedia artist, who creates game-like works involving painting, sculpture, architecture and interior design elements. The philosophical and cultural thinking of play and game has been the main theme for her work. Her interests in the malleability of space and how the body relates to, inhabits and interacts with it come from her experiences as a former professional basketball player and a model in China. Because she has lived away from home and consistently moved since the age of eleven, her work focuses on interior spaces and fantasies of home, and how multicultural, multiracial environments foster awareness of personal identity. She uses elements in games and her cross-cultural experience to make artworks that are both fun for the “viewers/players” and challenge their assumptions about what play can do in art.
EDUCATION
2020 MFA ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
2015 MBA University of La Verne, La Verne, California, U.S.A.
2012 BA Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2022
T Time. Gattopardo Gallery, Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
2020
There’s always a game. Goodan Family Graduate Art Gallery, Pasadena, California U.S.A.
2019
Bowl and Pool, Goodan Family Graduate Art Gallery, Pasadena, California U.S.A.
2018
Three-second Zone, Sage 2.0 Gallery, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2020
Fell for Everything, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
GLAMFA 2020: Double Play, CSU Long Beach Art Gallery, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition, The Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, California, U.S.A.
2019
Beyond Language, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain
2018
Caminos de Seda y Oro, El Instante Fundación, Madrid, Spain
2017
SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition, The Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, California, U.S.A.
2016
China-U.S. Culture Exchange Exhibition, American Chinese Gallery, Diamond Bar, U.S.A.
AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP
2018-2020 ArtCenter College of Design Scholarship
2010 Xiamen University Chen Zhang‘e Scholarship