YIYANG CAO
www.yiyangcao.com
eyoung.cao@gmail.com
Born Hangzhou, China
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design
2015 BFA Film/Animation/Video
NYU Tisch
2023 MA Interactive Media Art
SELECTED AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES
2024 CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany
2022 Going In with Vito Ricci, The Bunker, New York, NY
2021 Funneled Smoke & Voluminous Arts, H0L0, Queens, NY
2021 Lost Soul Enterprises, H0L0, Queens, NY
2020 Funneled Smoke, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Unsound New York, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Costar, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Interzone Festival, Good Room BK, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Uncompressed, 3LD Art & Technology, New York, NY
2017 Live Visuals, Centro ADM, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Uns Gefällt Alles, Galerie Bipolar, Leipzig, Germany
2017 3D Sound 360° Show, Wisp Lab, Leipzig, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Spiel, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2017 Time Installment, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2016 A Collection of Slow Happenings, The CLUSTER Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Fairy Fountain, Co-Making Matters & Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany
2023 Fourth World, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2021 Foreign Correspondence, Manhattan Public Access Channel 4
2020 Real Gallery Hours, Twitch
2019 Solar Flashback, South Street Seaport, New York, NY
2018 Zip, 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York, NY
2018 Five More Seconds, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY
2017 Buttersäuer-SENF, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Freiraum Festival, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Uns Gefällt Alles, Galerie Bipolar, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Leipzig Singles Club, Salon Similde, Leipzig, Germany
2016 Hotel Europa, Concordia, Enschede, Netherlands
2016 NYC Pron Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2016 InsideOut, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2016 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2016 Running Sushi Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2015 Aalborg Surreal 3, Aalborg, Denmark
2015 Cinema in Live in its two Senses, RISD, Providence, RI
2012 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner, Cannes, France
PERFORMANCES (SELECTED)
2020 Funneled Smoke, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Unsound New York, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Costar, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Interzone Festival, Good Room BK, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Uncompressed, 3LD Art & Technology, New York, NY
2017 Live Visuals, Centro ADM, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Uns Gefällt Alles, Galerie Bipolar, Leipzig, Germany
2017 3D Sound 360° Show, Wisp Lab, Leipzig, Germany
RESIDENCIES
2019 Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2017 Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
2017 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Brooklyn Art Cluster, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
WORK EXPERIENCES
2019-current Director, Phorm Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2015-current Videographer, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2017-current Freelance Animator & Motion Graphics Designer, VICE Media, Brooklyn, NY
2017-current Freelance Videographer & Editor, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Freelance Videographer, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2017 Director, Daddy(James Franco & Tim O’Keefe) Music Videos
I’m a Sword Swallower Concret Remix
Lime Green Dress Martin van Etten Remix
2016 Cinematographer, Motherland by Cecilia Corrigan, New York, NY
2016 Freelance Videographer, Artists Space, New York, NY
2016 Freelance Videographer, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, NY
2016 Assistant, Miriam Simun, New York, NY & China
2015 Intern, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
2014 Production Intern, Verisimilitude, New York, NY