Cao Fei (Chinese: 曹斐; born 1978 [1]) is a Chinese multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Her work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution. Her work explores China's widespread internet culture as well as the borders between dreams and reality. [2]

Nov 30, 2024 · Cao was recently voted one of the most influential artists in the world. Born in Guangzhou in 1978 and based in Beijing, she has documented China’s rapid urbanisation and digital revolutions for over two decades.

Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) is an internationally renowned Chinese contemporary artist currently living and working in Beijing. She mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations.

The films, videos, photos, digital projects, drawings and complex multimedia installations of Cao Fei (*1978) explore far-reaching social changes in our era of globalization, urbanization and digitalization.

Cao Fei (Chinese: 曹斐; born 1978) is a Chinese multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Her work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution.

Feb 26, 2025 · Cao Fei’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of “Second Life.”

Dec 12, 2024 · Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to disorient and overstimulate the...

Cao Fei is a contemporary Chinese artist. Working in multimedia installation and sculpture, her chaotic, inventive work explores the day-to-day life of Chinese people as they navigate a rapidly changing social and technological landscape.

Mar 12, 2021 · As one of China’s most prominent contemporary artists, Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) uses multimedia formats—film, video, virtual reality, and installation—to surreally depict the dramatic social changes of a globalizing China and the state of the individual under such conditions.

Sep 28, 2021 · Digital artist Cao Fei reflects on the impact of the rapid and chaotic changes in Chinese society on the sense of self, human relationships and the world through various media: 3D films, films multilayered with VR and AR and photography, blurring the lines between human reality and virtual fantasy.