Cici Wu

Cici Wu (b. 1989, China; based in New York) is an artist working with light, found cinematic material, and handmade kinetic objects to explore memory, displacement, and the “proto-cinema” of lanterns and projected light. She studied at City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media and earned an MFA from MICA, and co-founded the New York artist-run space PRACTICE. She is represented by 47 Canal and Empty Gallery.

Approach. Wu's pieces often act as homages that reanimate lost or unfinished films and histories, translating cinematic memory into objects, light, and motion.

Selected. Upon Leaving the White Dust (2018, 47 Canal), reanimating Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's unfinished film; Lanterns from the Unreturned (2025), her first institutional solo, at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Greater New York 2026, MoMA PS1. She took part in Ontopo's 2019 Catskill Zendo retreat.

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