Caroline Niu
Animation
The AlphabetOrganic Machine
Painting
Organizing ChaosOne more wish before bed
Experiments
Digital
IllustrationEditorial
Bio
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Contact: niuxinyi2003@gmail.com
Current Studio
Watson Hall 316
Columbia University612 W 115th St, NY 10027
Education& Residencies
2025 BA in Art History and Visual Art, Columbia University
2024 Yale Norfok Summer Program
Bio
Caroline Niu (b. 2003, Shanghai, China) is a New York-based artist currently completing her BA in Art History and Visual Art at Columbia University. Besides her independent painting practice, she works as a freelance animator and illustrator. This interdisciplinary interest is evident in her art, which seamlessly merges photo collage, moving image, and painting to convey a poetic and playful fluidity. Her achievements include distinction from RISD Pre-College, the Scholastic Golden Award in Illustration, and participation in the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2024.
Artist Statement
Two-hundred-year-old cavity at The Met, hair on a long-unworn coat from a dog that passed last year, suspicious sidewalk cellar doors of NYC, and your distorted face reflected in the glass bottle. In Caroline's works, delicate, fleeting fragments of everyday life are intricately arranged in a sporadic yet organic manner. Like a comic book, or a cabinet of curiosity, the frame structure organizes the chaos of whimsical, scattered moments collected in her own mental diary. She believes that it is within these sensitive and intimate moments that the essence of authenticity crystallizes, acting as a tiny, tiny mutual ground where individuals, weary from growing estrangement, can find solace and rest.