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New York University 23'
MPS Interactive Telecommunication Program

Bard College 21’
BA Studio Art and Computer Science

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From Arrangement to Engagement: shuang’s Curation as Art Practice

March 2025

Howard Zheng

The Art Insider

The feature explores how shuang cai reimagines curation as an active, collaborative, and emotionally engaged practice. Moving beyond traditional arrangement of artworks, shuang integrates the creative process into exhibitions, fosters dialogue between artists and audiences, and transforms gallery spaces into immersive forums for connection and reflection. Through projects like Labels? Labels! TBD, Useless Machine, and Anchored, shuang blurs the lines between curator and artist, expanding the boundaries of what an exhibition can be.

At New York’s LATITUDE Gallery, Artist Shuang Cai Has Found Her Community

Jul 2024

Aorui Pi

RadII

Published July 1, 2024 by Aorui Pi on RADII, this feature highlights how shuang cai—artist, curator, and creative coder with roots in computer science—has established a vibrant community in New York. As the Curatorial Director at LATITUDE Gallery, she champions emerging artists of the Asian diaspora and draws inspiration from a diverse creative network, including programmers, designers, educators, and nonprofit professionals. Shuang embraces a multi-layered identity and sees the city as her “village,” where Eastern and Western perspectives converge to inform her art and curatorial vision.

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Doki Doki Tutu’s Delivery at Tutu Gallery

Mar 2025
Will Kaplan

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--- Aesthetics with Asian roots and global reach nettle and nuance the inherent flattening of the descriptor “Asian American.

Tutu’s domestic space serves the show’s narrative setting. In mounting works like the trophy-trout parody “Bass Super Grand Slam Club” over the living room hearth, Cai lets the show’s implicit themes of stability and comfort—or the lack thereof—come to life.

Doki Doki Tutu’s Delivery at Tutu Gallery Highlight

Mar 2025
LITANG Editorial

LITANG

(Brooklyn, NY) As one of Tutu’s annual V-Day tradition exhibitions, Doki Doki Tutu’s Delivery Service!! features 9 new media sculptures by Amos Kang and 9 paintings by Yizhi Liu, continuing the gallery’s discussion of the complexion of love beneath a docile, domestic, Asian-centric appearance and implicit critique of politics by emerging international artists with Asia connections. Both artists creates imaginary characters to tell stories of diaspora and self-discovery under the greater backdrop of political and economical upheavals.

More Than a Label
-- LABELS? LABELS! TBD EXHIBITION AT :IIDRR GALLERY

Mar 2024
Ciaran Short

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This review covers Labels? Labels! TBD, a group exhibition at :iidrr Gallery co-curated by Tong Wu, shuang cai, and Shuwan Chen. The show turns the humble art label into the artwork itself, presenting labels for unfinished or unrealized pieces as playful, self-contained objects. By collapsing the distinction between label and artwork, the exhibition removes the pressure to “decode” meaning, offering a warmer, more accessible gallery experience. Featuring contributions from artists including Eden Chinn, Julia Margaret Lu, and Xinyi Li, the project invites viewers to rethink value, context, and the rituals of art-viewing.

Canned Creativity: Unveiling the Layers of SPAM in SPAMtember

Dec 2023
Yimeng Sun

Juke Box

This article explores SPAMtember—a playful, SPAM-themed art hackathon that invites creative reinterpretation of SPAM’s symbols. Through this festival, SPAM becomes a lens to examine broader cultural narratives, inviting reflection on identity, consumer culture, and the unexpected artistic potential within everyday objects.

SPAMtember Unveils Playful Creativity: A Humorous Exploration of Cultural Identity at All Street Gallery

Dec 2023
Kate-Pride

H udson Weekly

This feature spotlights SPAMtember, a quirky, SPAM-inspired art hackathon curated by shuang cai at All Street Gallery (Chinatown, NY). Inviting 18 artists to transform creative anxiety into humor, participants reimagined the iconic canned meat—sometimes using SPAM directly, other times riffing off its symbolism. The event playfully tackled themes of cultural memory, post-war colonialism, resistance, and reclamation through collaborative art-making.

Yanyan Huang:
Time Feast

Oct 2022
HU LINGYUAN

White hot Magazine

This feature reviews Yanyan Huang’s solo exhibition Time Feast at LATITUDE Gallery (New York). Yanyan Huang’s work evokes memory, time, and cultural hybridity through soft, rococo-like color fields layered with subtle disruptions—smudges, ink drips, and gestural texture. Pieces like Time Feast #05 reveal glimpses of figurative forms, while Nebula employs blurred strokes and immersive color blends reminiscent of traditional Chinese ink techniques. Overall, Huang’s paintings offer visually rich and emotionally resonant abstractions that invite viewers into temporal and cultural dialogue.

Artron Art: Latitude Gallery: “Conceive: Cultivating the Moon” - Eight-Person Group Exhibition
纬度画廊：“Conceive: 怀耘构月”八人群展

Feb 2022
羅一

Artron.net 雅昌新闻

Held at LATITUDE Gallery in New York’s Chinatown during Lunar New Year 2022, this group exhibition brought together eight Chinese artists based in the U.S. The title plays on the dual meaning of “conceive” — both artistic creation and gestation — blending personal memory, fantasy, and everyday life. Featuring seven abstract/figurative paintings and one sculpture, the works balanced humor, warmth, and cultural hybridity, reflecting each artist’s unique vision while resonating as a cohesive whole.

Exhibition Review at Sina: Late Days Festival 新浪 | 展览回顾 | 迟日摄影节

Oct 2021
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Sina 新浪新闻

Hosted at Yue Gallery in Beijing’s 798 Art District and curated by Chishe, this multimedia festival (opened October 1, 2021) showcased over 300 works—spanning photography, moving images, installations, experimental performances, photo books, and conceptual painting. Divided into five interactive units (Exhibition, Book Fair, Performance, Talks, Experimental Zone), the event blended playfulness with seriousness to invigorate young image art and redefine photography’s role in contemporary urban culture