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Gwenyth Chao’s research-creation praxis takes the artist’s studio as multi-part and simultaneous workshop, kitchen, portal, library, and lab. By design impermanent, her sculptures and installations—singular forms or complex composites frequently made of composted pulps or peels that have been stabilized, bound, or hardened into new and often estranged and astonishing forms—cycle and are recycled from soil to studio to exhibition and back again.

Gwenyth received an MFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2023, and previously completed undergraduate studies at the University of Guelph, and her interdisciplinary practice has been developed and shared in contexts of—or pairing—art and science, including as a contributing artist to Leaning Out of Windows (LOoW), a four-year project co-investigated by Ingrid Koenig and Dr. Randy Lee Cutler (2016–2020). In 2024–2025 Gwenyth was an AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow, Foundation, at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, working out of the Material Lab, a research and programming centre with a circulating library of natural and created object samples. On her return to Vancouver in fall 2025, a solo exhibition, /stāj/ 3.0, briefly transplanted Gwenyth’s lab-kitchen-studio—and practice-sharing workshops—to the former library space of Fort Langley Community Hall, organized by Fort Gallery, a mobile artist-run centre organizing site-specific projects across the Fraser Valley.

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