#15 Cici Wu

STUDIO PROGRAM 2024

We are excited to welcome Cici Wu, our latest studio program artist at 99 Canal, who will be using STUDIO 2 to produce work for an upcoming exhibition at Scheusal in Berlin, which opens at the end of October.

Cici Wu is an artist who creates complex, sensory and dreamlike investigations into our cultural and material environment using drawing, video, sculpture, writing and installation. Combining historical research and material experimentation with an acute sensitivity to sociopolitical structures, Wu’s works aim to explore and interrupt dominant narratives on a multitude of subjects, including memory, cinema, history, nationalism, belonging and identity, and relationships between humans and non-humans.

About the Artist

Cici Wu has had solo exhibitions at 47 Canal, New York (2021, 2018); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2023, 2019); a collaborative exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway (2023); and has participated in group exhibitions at Outside Art Space, Beijing (2024), the Drawing Center, New York (2023), CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (2022), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2021), Para Site, Hong Kong (2020, 2018), Loong Mah, New York (2022), Artists Space, New York (2020), among others. She has participated in the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021). She will participate in the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan (2024) and a commission project with the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai (2025). She is also a participant of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (2024-2025), New York. 

From 2015 to 2021, she worked at non-profit library, archive and research platform Asia Art Archive in America where she assisted digital archiving project Joan Lebold Cohen Archive and spearheaded Betsy Damon Archive: Keepers of the Waters. Both collections of material bring to light under-examined narrative in the history of recent Chinese art and include rare documents about performance art and environmental activism in Chengdu and Lhasa in the mid-1990s.

Studio Program | 99 CANAL

The Studio Program is a one to four-month program open to emerging and mid-career artists based both within and outside New York City.

Individuals are invited to work at 99 Canal based on their necessity for studio space and their potential impact on the neighbourhood and our community. A key feature of the studio program is its strong focus on peer-to-peer engagement, recognizing the transformative power of collaboration and knowledge exchange.