Snow Yunxue Fu is a Chinese born New Media Artist, Curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts based in New York.
With Snow’s grandfather being a well-known Chinese traditional painter and sculptor and her parents being both art educators, Snow was surrounded by an atmosphere that encouraged learning and art from a young age.[1] She started originally as a painter at a young age exploring Chinese ink painting, acrylic, and oil pastel. She remains to be the youngest artist collected by the National Art Museum of China. She made the transition from a young artist to professional by her own decision as she journeyed to the US to continue her higher education. Going through a rebellious phase in her teenage years, Snow stepped away from art and focused on her English studies. This paid off for her in the end as she came to America to study in college where she began to paint again and majored in oil painting in college. Her transition to digital media happened by chance as she enrolled in a Intro to Experimental 3D course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This opened up the door for her to make what she couldn’t bring into her paintings. Snow’s painter influence though is still very prevalent in her work as she made her work transition from the paintbrushes to software.[2]
With her painting background, Snow is currently the youngest artist collected by the National Art Museum of China. With her work transitioned into the 3D digital realm, Snow’s work has been shown all over the world in festivals, solo shows, screenings, and group exhibitions. A few of these include: Duende Art Museum, New York Gallery of Chinese Art, New York; Ars Electronica, Austria; Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; Pioneer Works, New York; NADA Art Fair, New York; Sedition, Hong Kong; Arebyte Gallery, London, UK; Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China; Current Museum of Art, New York, Thoma Art House, Santa Fe; Currents Santa Fe New Media Art Festival, New Mexico; The Wrong Biennale, the Internet, and etc. Her work has also been collected by the Currents Museum of Art in New York, Duende Art Museum in Guangdong China, Richard and Ellen Sandors Family Collections, and many more.
Snow Yunxue Fu was ranked as one of the top five contemporary artists of 2018 by The.Up.Life Magazine and NOOW Switzerland. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Arebyte on Screen, Sedition, the St. Louis Magazine Art Review, Guangzhou Today’s Focus in China, and etc. Snow was First Place in the Digital Art Category of the Art Rights Prize in 2020.
As an educator she has been awarded the New York University’s Curricular Development Challenge Fund Grant in 2021 for The Post-Photographic 3D Imaging Curriculum she has been developing in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she is currently an Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging. Her previous teaching experience includes The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The University of Illinois at Chicago, China Academy of Art, Ox-bow School of Art and Artist Residency, L-Art University in Shanghai, and North Central College.
Snow’s approach to her work is a painterly exploration of the natural sublime. After making the transition to digital art, Snow’s work is inspired by the concept of infinite nature and digital space. Connecting the digital landscape to its artificiality, Snow connects the human physical world to the technological culture we live in now offering a metaphor of a human being’s existential relationship to the larger world.
2014, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A. in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation)
2011, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A. in Studio Fine Art)
2010, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China (B.A. in Visual Arts)
2009, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO (B.F.A. in Studio Fine Art)
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Snow’s approach to her work is a painterly exploration of the natural sublime. After making the transition to digital art, Snow’s work is inspired by the concept of infinite nature and digital space. Connecting the digital landscape to its artificiality, Snow connects the human physical world to the technological culture we live in now offering a metaphor of a human being’s existential relationship to the larger world.[3]
2021 Selected as one of the finalist artists and also Awarded the First Place in the Digital Art Category of the Art Rights Prize, the first International Virtual Art Award
2021 Selected by the Center of Contemporary Artists (COCA) as one of the candidates for the COCA PROJECT 2021
2021 Bask and Conjoin, collected by the Duende Contemporary Art Museum, in Shunde, Guangzhou,China
2020 Conjoin One, collected as Crypto Art on SuperRare with CODAME Art + Tech Galley by the Collector Matrix
2020 Karst, selected to be included in the British Museum Research Project on Virtual Exhibitions with Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA) and University College London (UCL)
2019-20 Side, shortlisted among the best works of the Niio x AI Art Prizes
2018 Gorges, selected for the Best Work Award in the Mykonos Multi-Media Festival in Greece
2018 Side, Permanent Collection at the Current Museum of Art in New York
2018 Honorable Mention for All Women Art Exhibit by Light Space & Time Gallery
2017 Nominated for school wide Excellency in Part Time Teaching Award by the chair of the Film Video New Media and Animation department (FVNMA) of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
2016 Awarded Merit Raise by the Dean of Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014-15 The 20th ifva Awards Media Art Category Finalist
2009 Student of the Year Award, Southeast Missouri State University Art Department
2006-09 Dean’s List each semester, Southeast Missouri State University Art Department
