Artist Statement

Mingze is a new media artist whose practice centers on the human pursuit of love and connection in the face of contemporary loneliness and social alienation. His work carries a deeply idealistic and romantic worldview, an artistic ideology that stands as a poetic resistance to the growing detachment of modern life.

He approaches technology with both fascination and critique, upholding the principle that "technology must serve narrative." His practice seeks to fuse emerging technologies with humanistic storytelling, using digital systems as instruments of emotion rather than domination.

Working across digital media, interactive installations, immersive experiences, and video sculpture, Mingze constructs interactive systems and sensorial environments that ask audiences not only to witness but to participate—to make choices, shape relationships, and author their own meaning within the work. They become spaces for rediscovering intimacy, vulnerability, and presence: a reminder that even within a hyper-connected world, the longing for genuine connection remains profoundly human.

Projects

Exhibitions

2025

Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) - Here, If You Stay

Solo Exhibition, FL, USA

2025

Ariston Theatre - Arte Mercato Prize

Group Exhibition, Sanremo, Italy

2025

Memor Museum - Spring Sprouts

Solo Exhibition, NY, USA

2025

ARTECHOUSE NYC - Submerge

Group Exhibition, NY, USA

2025

ArtsWestchester - Relations and Being

Duo Exhibition, NY, USA

2024

The Penn Museum - On the Critical Point: Wanderlust and Nostalgia in the New Age

Group Exhibition, PA, USA

2024

John Molloy Gallery - Synthetic

Wilderness

Group Exhibition, NY, USA

2024

Racket NYC - International Student Arts Incubator Showcase

Group Exhibition, NY, USA

Press & Publications

2025

MSN

Mingze Gao on Building Emotional Experiences Through Art

2025

Who Design Today

Mingze Gao: tracing the invisible threads of “Relation, Being”

2024

New York Weekly

Mingze Gao & Azure Zheng Shine at On the Critical Point Exhibit

2025

Bold Journey Magazine

Meet Mingze Gao

2025

Medium

Perceiving the Bloom of Contemporary Chinese Art in Sanremo through the Lens of International Cultural Exchange

2025

New York Theater

Immersive Storytelling at Tribeca Festival: “In Search of Us”

Awards

2025

International Design Awards (IDA)

Honorable Mention - Ophrys Apifera

2021

Chinese Creative Design Annual (CCDA)

Silver Award - Mingze Portrait

Bronze Award - Shape

Contact

Greetings.