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Celeste Viv Yun Ly 厲奫
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b. 1999, Coast Salish land (Seattle, WA, United States)
London, UK
Education
2021 - 2023 MA Contemporary Art Practice, Critical Practice, Royal College of Art
2018 - 2021 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class Honours), Goldsmiths, University of London
Solo | Duo Projects
2021 -321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri, Info, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Group Exhibitions, Film Screenings & Performances / Forthcoming
2023 Subterranean Organ, Curated by Daisy Wang & Celeste Viv Ly, The Crypt Gallery,
London, UK | 14 - 18 April
2023 Recombinator, Staffordshire St, London, UK | 6 April
2023 Beyond Surface // Tactile Presence: Film Screening, Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London, UK | 31 March
2023 O7 | A Gesture ?¿, Curated by the Æon Project, AMP Gallery, London, UK | 30 March - 1 April
2023 " " Quote Unquote, Info, Curated by Uchercie & A Phantom City, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2023 Riposte 17th February, Curated by Ola Hincapie, Riposte London, Electrowerkz, London, UK
2022 Interassemblages ⎏ Nodal Relay, Curated by the Æon Project, ACUD Galerie,
ACUD Matcht Neu, Berlin, Germany
2022 Prelude to Space, Curated by Anastasia Chugunova, Jiayu Sun, Yue-Ning Lee & Yiwen Li,
Stokeypopup, London, UK
2022 Hybrid Realities | RCA Contemporary Art Practice・Silicon Valet・Offsite Project・
Moving Image Artists・Montez Press Radio | Royal College of Art, London, UK
2022 CAP Salon, Curated by Gaby Jonna, Tony Jacobs & Yuetong Yang, Dyson Gallery, London, UK2022 Royal College of Art Work in Progress Show 2022, London, UK
2021 tête-à-tête | Glasgow School of Art・Royal College of Art | Stereo, Glasgow, UK
2021 Goldsmiths Fine Art Studio Interim Show with HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg ASA Exchange
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2020 Goldsmiths Fine Art Studio Interim Show, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2020 13festivalen 2020 | Konstepidemin | Hus 8, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden
Schlachtlaus, Tübingen, Germany
2019 Mexico City, Group Show, Art Number 23, Ovalo Galeria de Arte, CDMX, Mexico
2019 13th June, Group Show, Safehouse, London, UK
2019 Exchange, Co-curated by UAL x GOLD Collective, Goldsmiths Visual Cultures Society and
Curation Society UAL, Deptford Does Art gallery, London, UK
2019 Goldsmiths Fine Art Studio Interim Show with HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg ASA Exchange
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2018 End of Year, Group Show, St. James, New Cross, London, UK
2018 Sound and Language, Library Special Collections & Archives,
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Writing
Jun 2022 Mutinous Bodies and Speculative Mythopoesis
Jan 2021 Art in Dialogue with Posthuman Becoming and Fictioning
Curation
2022 Interassemblages ⎏ Nodal Relay, ACUD Galerie, ACUD Matcht Neu, Berlin, Germany
2021 -321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Grants & Awards
2023 Scholarship Awarded, Art & Curatorial Practice Programme, The New Centre for Research & Practice
2022 Dissertation Distinction Recipient, Board of Academic Concessions and Discipline, Royal College of Art
2022 Grant Awarded, Continuation Fund, Royal College of Art
2022 Grant Awarded, Back on Track Fund, Royal College of Art
2019 Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize | Poetry | 'complicity_12.3.9.exe'
2018 Scholarship Awarded, Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts New York City
Public Talks | Teaching | Workshops
2023 Artist Talk at BA Fine Art Mixed Media, University of Westminster, London, UK
2023 Lecture for BA Fine Art Mixed Media, University of Westminster, London, UK
Residencies
2023 (ongoing) Foreign Objekt Sound Laboratory | New Art City, Foreign Objekt,
Posthuman Art Network | TheSpace.Gallery x ROSALUX Gallery, Berlin, DE
Collaboration Projects
2022 (ongoing) 'Vortex' site-specific performance and research project with Templex Inc., London, UK
— shown at 'Faerie Rampage' Performance Programme, Curated by Yicong Soon, Milan, Italy, 2023
(forthcoming)
2022 (ongoing) 'Babel' open source architectural initiative with Yvonne Wang, Sylvia Deng & Mori Zhou,
Architectural Association & Parsons | The New School, London, UK & New York, US
Press
Jul 2021 Artisle | Goldsmiths Fine Art Degree Show | '-321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri'
| Poetry 'complicity_12.3.9.exe
Publications
Apr 2023 Staffordshire St | Glimpse | Beyond Surface // Tactile Presence (forthcoming)
Mar 2022 Hybrid Realities | Pliable Tools | Poems 'Thesis of Instrumentality' 'Snow Angel' 'Dark Amusement'
Nov 2021 Sticky Fingers Publishing | FDBNHLLLTTF Nocturnal | Poems 'Senecio candicans' 'Sepire'
Aug 2020 Abby Lloyd & Alyssa Davis Gallery | Chapter 5: "Behind the Times" [I, II], organised by
Underground Flower and Rhizome Parking Garage | Poetry 'Thesis of Instrumentality'
Dec 2019 Lungs Project | Poetry Anthology 'New Landscapes' 2019 | 'of Traversing Interspaces'
'∷' 'complicity_12.3.9.exe' '{Singular Deference}' '1, 2, 3, 4 En pointe et pirouette'
Oct 2019 Pressing Matters | Poetry 'Spindrift'
Sep 2019 Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize Winners' Anthology 2019 | Poetry 'complicity_12.3.9.exe'
Jun 2019 Tangle Magazine | Issue 1 | Poetry 'Spindrift'