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Celeste Viv Ly
they/them
b. Coast Salish land (Seattle, WA, United States)
London & NYC
Education
MA Contemporary Art Practice, Critical Practice (Distinction on Dissertation), Royal College of Art, London, UK
BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class Honours), Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2024 Shortlisted, Creative Technologies Fellowship MMXXIV, Somerset House Studios
2024 Fellowship Awarded, Season III Residency Partial Fellowship, NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US
2023 Shortlisted, Creative Technologies Fellowship MMXXIII, Somerset House Studios
Grant Awarded, GB Sasakawa Foundation, as part of RCA Liminal Bodies Research Group
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
Grant Awarded, Continuation Fund, Royal College of Art
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
Selected Exhibitions, Film Screenings & Performances / Forthcoming (* Solo & Duo Exhibitions)
2025 exe.hail, Curated by Under the Roof, Candid Arts Gallery, London, UK | 10 May
I Would Rather Be Horizontal, Curated by Catherine Li, Siobhán Lynch, Alice Sun & Ana Teles,
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Marylebone, London, UK | 15 - 22 February
Gnostic Induction, Coupling Interosmosis, ACID®, Shenzhen Art Week 2025, Shenzhen | 1 - 24 Mar
2024 Allure of the Land {Info}, NARS Foundation Season III Residency Exhibition + Open Studios,
Curated by Dylan Kim, NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US
Linked Out: Logged In, Curated by Nina Wong, Gossamer Fog, Enclave Projects, London, UK (Collab)
Posthuman Topologies | Intelligence Unbound | 0Ocean Collective, Curated by Sepideh Majidi
New Art City, Foreign Objekt, Posthuman Art Network, Berkeley, CA, US x Digital (Group)
Operation RHo1: Film Screening, Organised by Operation Theatre Purplebl0od Lab, System Shanghai
2023 Ground Zero, Co-Program 2023, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, Japan | Supported by
Kyoto Arts and Culture Foundation, Sasakawa Foundation & Kuma Foundation, and Cooperation by
Tokyo University of the Arts | Panel Talk with Haruka Iharada, Guest Talks by Taro Igarashi,
Intelligence Unbound | 0Ocean Collective, Curated by Sepideh Majidi | New Art City, Foreign Objekt,
Posthuman Art Network, San Francisco, CA, US x Digital (Group)
Proxy - Roman à clef, Online Virtual *
Sound Laboratory & 0Ocean Collective, Curated by Sepideh Majidi | New Art City, Foreign Objekt,
Posthuman Art Network, San Francisco, CA, US x Digital (Group)
RCA2023 MA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London, UK (Group)
RCA2023 Online Show, Info, Digital | Featured in Curatorial Collections
'Paranoid Androids' & "In Between' (Group)
Abbas Zahedi: Holding a Heart in Artifice | Open Mic: Performance, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Subterranean Organ, Curated by Daisy Wang & Celeste Viv Ly, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK (Group)
Recombinator: Film Screening & Audiovisual Sets, Staffordshire St, London, UK (Duo, Collaboration)
Beyond Surface // Tactile Presence: Film Screening, Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London, UK
Beyond Surface: Live, Montez Press Radio, London, UK
O7 | A Gesture ?¿, Curated by the Æon Project, AMP Gallery, London, UK
" " Quote Unquote, Info, Curated by Uchercie & A Phantom City, Ugly Duck, London, UK (Group)
Riposte 17th February, Curated by Ola Hincapie, Riposte London, Electrowerkz, London, UK (Group)
2022 Interassemblages ⎏ Nodal Relay, Curated by the Æon Project, ACUD Galerie,
ACUD Matcht Neu, Berlin, Germany (Group)
Prelude to Space {info}, Curated by Anastasia Chugunova, Jiayu Sun, Yue-Ning Lee & Yiwen Li,
147 Stoke Newington High Street, London, UK (Group)
Hybrid Realities | RCA Contemporary Art Practice・Silicon Valet・Offsite Project・
Moving Image Artists・Montez Press Radio | Royal College of Art, London, UK (Group)
CAP Salon, Curated by Gaby Jonna, Tony Jacobs & Yuetong Yang, Dyson Gallery, London, UK (Group) Royal College of Art Work in Progress Show 2022, London, UK
2021 tête-à-tête: Film Screening | Glasgow School of Art・Royal College of Art | Stereo, Glasgow, UK
-321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri, Info, St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK*
Goldsmiths Fine Art Studio Interim Show with HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg ASA Exchange
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (Group)
2020 Goldsmiths Fine Art Studio Interim Show, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (Group)
13festivalen 2020: Performance | Konstepidemin | Hus 8, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 Ex Vivo: Performance, Monogram, Hong Kong, HK *
Schlachtlaus, Tübingen, Germany
Mexico City, Art Number 23, Ovalo Galeria de Arte, CDMX, Mexico (Group)
13th June, Safehouse, London, UK (Group)
Exchange, Co-curated by UAL x GOLD Collective, Goldsmiths Visual Cultures Society and
Curation Society UAL, Deptford Does Art gallery, London, UK (Group)
Goldsmiths Fine Art Studio Interim Show with HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg ASA Exchange
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (Group)
2018 End of Year, St. James, New Cross, London, UK (Group)
Sound and Language, Library Special Collections & Archives,
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (Group)
Writing
2022 Mutinous Bodies and Speculative Mythopoesis (Awarded with Distinction on Masters Dissertation)
2021 Art in Dialogue with Posthuman Becoming and Fictioning
Curation
2023 ____ in Flux, Curatorial Advisory, RuptureXIBIT, London, UK
O7 | A Gesture ?¿, Co-Curation, AMP Gallery, London, UK
" " Quote Unquote, Research & Curatorial Advisory, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2022 Interassemblages ⎏ Nodal Relay, Co-Curation, ACUD Galerie, ACUD Matcht Neu, Berlin, Germany
Professional Experience | Public Talks
2023 Artist Talk with Guest Lecturer Susan Schuppli | Ground Zero, Co-Program 2023,
Kyoto Art Centre {link}, Kyoto, Japan
Artist Talk with Guest Lecturer Lucia Pietroiustri | Ground Zero, Co-Program 2023,
Kyoto Art Centre {link}, Kyoto, Japan
Opening Artist Talk with Guest Curator Haruka Iharada | Ground Zero, Co-Program 2023,
Kyoto Art Centre {link}, Kyoto, Japan
Ground Zero, Co-Program 2023, Research Advisory, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, Japan
Posthuman Research Sound Laboratory Panel Talk | New Art City, Foreign Objekt,
Posthuman Art Network {info, link}, San Francisco, US x Digital
2023- Co-founder, O-O-Operation Theatre Purplebl0od Lab
2023 Artist Talk at University of Westminster | BA Fine Art Mixed Media, London, UK
Visiting Lecturer at University of Westminster | BA Fine Art Mixed Media, London, UK
2022- Co-founder, Æon Project
2019 Exhibition Production for Song Dong's solo show 'Same Bed, Different Dreams', Pace Gallery London, UK
Residencies & Programmes
2024 Conditions Studio Programme 2024-25, London, UK & Digital
Season III Residency {info}, NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US
Kuma Foundation, and Cooperation by Tokyo University of the Arts |
Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, Japan | Nov - Dec
Posthuman Research Sound Laboratory | New Art City, Foreign Objekt, Posthuman Art
Network {info} | TheSpace.Gallery x ROSALUX Gallery, Berlin, DE x Digital | Mar - Sep
Collaborative Projects
2024 Narrative Collaboration for the game 'Brain Rot', Supported by Arts Council England, Gossamer Fog, Alt_r, Enclave Projects, London, UK, Dec 2024
Performance for Jérôme Chazeix's installation at 'Time for Yourself', Residency Exhibition at The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Goethe-Institut Shanghai, Abteilung Kultur und Bildung, Nov 2024
Angelicism Film01: Paradise Cut (Honor Levy Nightcore Cut) | 9:16 Video Feature
— Premiere in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Brussels, Prague, Tokyo, Pittsburgh (PA), Florence (OR), Boston, Athens (OH), Goiânia, Toronto, Manila, Chicago, Belo Horizonte, Beijing, Shanghai, Dhaka, Mexico City, Kuala Lumpur, Lisbon, Bologna, London, Athens, San Francisco, Berlin, Miami, Melbourne, Costa da Morte, Riga, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Leipzig, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Vilnius, Ossès, Tenerife, Madrid, Kansas City (MO), Dublin, Malta, New Delhi, Istanbul, Montreal, Paris, Braunschweig, Stockholm, Aug 2024
2023- Music Composition for the game 'Bug Mod' by George M. Kuhn and Song Xin
— Art & Game Design Research Residency 'Queering Nature : The Quest', Random Kingdom {Info} x Deathless Flowers & LIOS Labs | Laureat of the Perspektive visual art 2024 fund, Funded by European Union, Supported by Goethe-Institut, Bureau des arts plastiques of Institut français Berlin, OFAJ / DFJW, | L’Esquisse, Berlin, DE, Aug 2024
— Gameplay at ‘Kaugummi im Motherboard’, Erratum Gallery, Escaspismus, Kunstpunkt Berlin Galerie Für Aktuelle Kunst, Berlin, DE, Apr 2024
— Screening and Gameplay at 'Digital Daydream', Curated by Nina Wong, ArtSect Gallery, London, UK, Nov 2023
2022- 'Vortex' site-specific performance, film and research project with Templex Inc. (Bea Xu & Co.)
— Screening at Viddy Horrowshow (VHS), Curated by Nina Davies,
Tracy Ain't Coming Out (TACO!), London, UK, April 2024
— Screening and Performance Lecture at Performance Programme 'I Thought of Going for a Walk',
Mandy Zhang Art, September 2023
— Screening and Performance at 'Fluid Cosmologies', Forma Arts & Media, London, UK, August 2023
— Screening and Performance at LungA Festival, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland,
as part of the Long Distance Residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), July 2023
— Premiere at Performance Programme 'Faerie Rampage', Curated by Yicong Soon,
Milan Art Week 2023, Milan, Italy, April 2023
(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
Hyperallergic | Interview by Maya Pontone on Art Activism and the US Election Season
Art Monthly | No. 475 | 'Linked Out: Logged In at Enclave Projects' Review by Jamie Sutcliffe
MOUart | 42°03'28.9"N 138°12'25.0"E by Celeste Viv Ly
MOUart | Proto-Proxy by Celeste Viv Ly
Artisle | SYSTEM: Operation RHo1 | Proto-Proxy
Artribune | Issue No. 76 | 'Subterranean Organ' The Crypt Gallery curated by Daisy Wang & Celeste Viv Ly
2023 Tokyo Art Beat | [Year-end special project] "2023 Best Exhibition" selected by 15 people. Selections
from critics and curators with comments | 42°03'28.9"N 138°12'25.0"E
Artscape | 'Ground Zero' Review by Taro Igarashi | 42°03'28.9"N 138°12'25.0"E
Nissha Foundation & AMeeT | 'Ground Zero' at Kyoto Art Center | 42°03'28.9"N 138°12'25.0"E
Clot Magazine | ‘Insight: Neo China creates London, apolitical poetics of Chinese nomadic artists’ by Piotr Bockowski | “ “Quote Unquote | 'in sarcophago vivum aeri'
Clot Magazine | ‘On deep ecology of Chinese femborgs’ by Piotr Bockowski | 'in sarcophago vivum aeri'
2021 Artisle | Goldsmiths Fine Art Degree Show | '-321 °F | in sarcophago vivum aeri'
2019 University of Tübingen Festival TV Live Interview | Generate! Festival for Electronic and Performance Art:
Performance | on 'in vitro [ _ ] |{ _____ }', art practice, computational art & performance
| Poetry 'complicity_12.3.9.exe'
Publications
2025 Ethics.pdf | Issue 03 | Short Fiction 'Six and a Half Floors — on Venus Acid, Elf Bars, Empirical Research, and Rorschach Stains'
2023 Staffordshire St & Liquid Gold Studios | Glimpse | Beyond Surface // Tactile Presence | in saecula φ saeculorum: Poems 'Sepire' 'Arc (prosthetic) shooter JH37(29)F-TR:0185' 'Senecio candicans'
2022 Hybrid Realities | Pliable Tools | Poems 'Thesis of Instrumentality' 'Snow Angel' 'Dark Amusement'
2021 Sticky Fingers Publishing | FDBNHLLLTTF Nocturnal | Poems 'Senecio candicans' 'Sepire'
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'
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'
Pressing Matters | Poetry 'Spindrift'
Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize Winners' Anthology 2019 | Poetry 'complicity_12.3.9.exe'
Tangle Magazine | Issue 1 | Poetry 'Spindrift'