Bio
Anqi Gu (b. 1998, Suzhou, China) is a New York-based artist working across painting, installation, and sculpture. Drawing from somatic archaeology and Traditional Chinese Medicine, her practice materializes the body as an animate landscape—where qi stagnation transforms into pigment, and meridians trace cosmic rhythms. Gu’s work has been exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York), the RISD Grad Show (Providence), the Granoff Center at Brown University, the Old Library at Rhode Island School of Design, Woods Gerry Gallery (Providence), and SVA’s MFA show. She holds an MA in Teaching (2022) and a BFA in Sculpture (2021) from the Rhode Island School of Design, and will graduate from the School of Visual Arts, New York, with an MFA in Fine Arts in May 2025. Her artist’s book, Unknotting, 解, was published by ZugPress in 2025.
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Education
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA, 2023-2025
Master of Fine Arts
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA, 2017-2022
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture
Master of Arts in Teaching Learning in Arts and Design
Awarded with RISD Fellowship
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 2018-2022
Courses studied in Comparative Literature Department, Contemplative Studies, East Asian Studies, Music Department, and Theater and Performance Arts Studies.
Exhibitions
Pulses, 2025, SVA MFA department, New York, USA
Fragments of Beings, 2025, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, USA
RISD Grad show, 2022, Providence Convention Center, Providence, USA
Shifting, 2021, Granoff Center, Providence, RI
Sculpture Thesis Show, 2021, Woods Garry Gallery, Providence, USA
Rococo rocks, 2018, Old Library, Providence, USA
Experimental Foundation Triennial, 2017, Woods Garry Gallery, Providence, USA
Publication
Zug Press, New York, NY, USA 2025
Unknotting, 解, a drawing and writing collection of Anqi Gu
Gong Press, New York, NY, USA 2023-2024
Translator for the artist book, Lu Zhang ≈ HuaiErDeMan (Wildman) Clab.
Trigger Art, Providence, RI, USA, 2018-2021
Online publication director and Event manager
Community
穿越麦地 AcrossRye Art Education, Yunan, China, 2022-2023
Fund-raiser, Organization development assistant, and Summer Art Teacher
十日谈 The Decameron, Providence, RI, USA, 2022-2023
Co-founder
Touching the Earth, Marlboro, VT, USA, 2022
Retreat member