何卉奇的创作与研究位于当代艺术与实验民族志之间，根植于在地经验、仪式与记忆。她试图让流动的生命经验与跨文化实践在隐微的空隙中弥散、触碰并连接，从而形成如水雾般氤氲蔓延的感知场域。她曾学习传统中国绘画与书法，后转向非物质性的当代艺术创作。在视觉人类学的训练后，她的创作结合地方神话传说，鬼故事，中国传统绘画，视觉档案，网络材料等等不同时间与空间，试图构建一组云雾洞穴之间的游戏，在其中，视觉、感受、经验、知识与情绪等等相互交织、碰撞，勾勒出动态的联结路径。她的长期研究和实践项目-猗魂異志，基于她在中国湘西和贵州等地的田野调查，聚焦于中国南方山地的巫术实践。她将民族志式的田野考察与具身性的感官调动相结合，创作涵盖影像、水墨装置、行为表演及工作坊的跨媒介作品。她本科毕业于广州美术学院中国画系，硕士毕业于纽约视觉艺术学院(School of Visual Arts)艺术实践系(MFA Art Practice)，金史密斯(Goldsmiths) 视觉人类学系(MA Visual Anthropology)。
Huiqi He’s practice and research at the porous intersection of contemporary art and experimental ethnography. Rooted in the local rituals, myths, and memories, her practice allows fluid experiences and cross-cultural encounters to disperse, touch, and connect within subtle interstices, as a mist-like sensory field. Originally trained in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, Huiqi later shifted towards non-material contemporary practices. Following training in Visual Anthropology, Huiqi’s work synthesizes diverse temporalities and spaces—combining myths, ghost stories, traditional ink motifs, visual archives, and internet found footage. She attempts to construct a playful interplay between fog and caverns, mapping a dynamic trajectory where bodily affects, daily experiences, and epistemological critique intertwine. Her recent ongoing long-term project- O! Great Ghost Tales (2024-) is based on field research and visual ethnography conducted in Xiangxi and Guizhou, focusing on the shamanistic practices and rituals of the southern mountainous regions in China. By merging ethnographic fieldwork with embodied sensory engagement, her transdisciplinary work spans video, ink installation, performance, and workshops, creating a sensory terrain that allows the ghostly and the marginalized to permeate the contemporary. Huiqi holds a BFA in Chinese Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Huiqi He’s practice and research at the porous intersection of contemporary art and experimental ethnography. Rooted in the local rituals, myths, and memories, her practice allows fluid experiences and cross-cultural encounters to disperse, touch, and connect within subtle interstices, as a mist-like sensory field. Originally trained in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, Huiqi later shifted towards non-material contemporary practices. Following training in Visual Anthropology, Huiqi’s work synthesizes diverse temporalities and spaces—combining myths, ghost stories, traditional ink motifs, visual archives, and internet found footage. She attempts to construct a playful interplay between fog and caverns, mapping a dynamic trajectory where bodily affects, daily experiences, and epistemological critique intertwine. Her recent ongoing long-term project- O! Great Ghost Tales (2024-) is based on field research and visual ethnography conducted in Xiangxi and Guizhou, focusing on the shamanistic practices and rituals of the southern mountainous regions in China. By merging ethnographic fieldwork with embodied sensory engagement, her transdisciplinary work spans video, ink installation, performance, and workshops, creating a sensory terrain that allows the ghostly and the marginalized to permeate the contemporary. Huiqi holds a BFA in Chinese Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Eduction
MA in Visual Anthropology( 2021.9 - 2022.9 )
School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
MFA in Art Practice( 2016.6 – 2018.9 )
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
BFA in Traditional Chinese Painting ( 2012.9 – 2016.6 )
Exhibition
2017 - Quality Time, Group Exhibition, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2017 - Artist as Survivalist, Group Exhibition, Satellite Art Show, Miami Beach, FL
2018 - Cocoon， Group Exhibition， Annazorina gallery，Brooklyn，NY
2018 - The Mysterious Island,Solo Exhibition, Sleep Center, New York, NY
2018 - Sour MILK 2018, Group Exhibition,Sour MILK Space, Greenwich , CT
2018 - Bad Code， Group Exhibition，Power Station of Art ，Shanghai，China
2019 - Soft, Group Exhibition, Snap Art Center, Shanghai, China
2019 - New Star Top Artist, Group Exhibition, Jiangsu Grand Theater,China
2021 - Draughts, Group Exhibition, Chengdu Times Museum, Chengdu, China
2021 - Do Not Black out, Group Exhibition, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
2023- Untitled, :idrr gallery, New York
2024- Home, Reassembled, Accent Sister, New York
2022-HiShorts! Film Festival-Beijing, China, selected for Best Experimental Shorts
2023-Social Impact Film Festival-Los Angeles, US, selected for Emerging Filmmakers
2023- Shanghai International Short Week-Honorable Mention for Best Experimental Short Film
2025-KONTEKST Film Festival, London, UK, Official Selection
2019 - Studio Kura Residency， Fukuoka， Japan
2025-Baopu FELT Residency, Kaili, Guizhou, China
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