Mark Chu
Mark Bo Chu (born May 12, 1989) is an Australian artist, writer and complexity scientist. His artwork ranges from murals to portraits and streetscapes, often depicting the everyday[1][2][3][4][5][6]. Chu's 2013 debut solo show exhibited specimens of his own dandruff[7]. As a scientific researcher, Chu has co-authored papers in journals such as Nature (journal)[8] and Cognition (journal)[9]. He is a graduate of the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School[10] where he co-founded the aesthetics research collective Comp-syn[11] who were 2021 European Commission STARTS Prize semifinalists.[12] Chu is a past restaurant reviewer for The Age Good Food Guide[13] and integrates hospitality into his art practise.[14] At thirteen years old he recorded as a piano soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra[15] and was a 2005 keyboard finalist in the ABC Young Performers Awards. He is a fiction graduate of Columbia University's MFA and past winner of the engineering school's interdisciplinary design challenge.[16] In 2022, for a candid portrait of his partner author Nell Pierce, Chu received a Highly Commended prize for the Lester Prize.[17]
Mark Chu is the son of Chinese-Australia composer Chu Wanghua, and grandson of Chinese scholar and dissident Chu Anping. He lives in Melbourne with his partner Nell Pierce, and their children.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ Rosenberg, Amy S. (11 December 2018). "Can art save Atlantic City, this time?".
- ^ NJ.com, Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for (26 May 2019). "Artists transformed Jersey Shore town. See how their murals were made in 7 days". nj.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Cotter, Holland (3 April 2014). "Where Blue-Chip Brands Meet Brassy Outliers". The New York Times.
- ^ "This Melbourne Artist's Latest Show Is All About Painting You and Your Mates". 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Romancing the Streetscape". 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Seeking the Sublime with Mark Bo Chu". Incu. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "Mark Chu's SKIN". Broadsheet.
- ^ Guilbeault, Douglas; Delecourt, Solène O.; Hull, Tasker; Desikan, Bhargav Srinivasa; Chu, Mark; Nadler, Ethan (14 February 2024). "Online images amplify gender bias". Nature. 626 (8001): 1049–1055. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07068-x. PMC 10901730. PMID 38355800.
- ^ Guilbeault, Douglas; Nadler, Ethan O.; Chu, Mark; Lo Sardo, Donald Ruggiero; Kar, Aabir Abubaker; Desikan, Bhargav Srinivasa (August 2020). "Color associations in abstract semantic domains". Cognition. 201: 104306. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104306. PMID 32504912. S2CID 219528972.
- ^ "Mark Chu | Santa Fe Institute". www.santafe.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ "Chromatic Identities - Appetite". appetitesg.com.
- ^ "The semifinalists of the STARTS Prize for Social Good". Nesta Italia. 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Aesthetics for Civilization via Food and Art". www.europenowjournal.org.
- ^ Wingco, Tyler Dane (22 May 2025). "Five Fits With: artist Mark Bo Chu". Esquire Australia. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "Fiction, Faces and Fine Art - Writer and Artist Mark Chu". 13 February 2018.
- ^ "Interdisciplinary Design Challenge Targets Opioid Crisis". Columbia Engineering. 6 February 2018.
- ^ "The Lester PRize".
- ^ "'Compelling and original': unanimous decision on Vogel award".