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Beile Hu is an Chicago-based artist working across performance, sound, moving images and installations. Their practice often revolves around ritual repetition, and intimate interactions with people and non-human entities, expanding toward the soft touch of one-to-one relationships. Their works explore the potential of the human body as a vessel for easing pain and a culture dish for resistance and rebellion. Through examining how technology can both extend and constrain the body, they translate the personal into the political, and investigate fluid forms of intimacy between humans, non-human entities, and social-ecological environments. Through sensory interplay and the navigation of vulnerability within intimacy, their practice examines how emotions are retained, transformed, and echoed through human presence physically, culturally, and historically.

BIO:

Beile Hu (b. 2002) is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, sound, video and installations. Their practice distills everyday sensations into repeated gestures, seeking meaning and moments of transcendence within the mundane. In doing so, they seek intimate interactions with human and non-human entities, expanding toward the soft touch of one-to-one relationships. They hold a MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (U.S.) with the Visionary Scholars Award. Previously, they received a BA in International Communication Studies from University of Nottingham (China/U.K.). They have exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, U.S,), Manhattan School of Music (NY, U.S.), CVPR 2026 Art Gallery (Colorado, U.S.), 2026 Symposium of the The New Media Caucus (Mesa, U.S.), the 4C Gallery (Los Angeles, U.S), Marta Czok Foundation (Venice, Italy), The Wrong Biennale (Virtual), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, U.S.), Voltaje Art and Technology Salon (Bogotá, Colombia), Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (Asheville, U.S.), Asian Improv aRts Midwest (Chicago, U.S.), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, U.S.), and Fried Fruit Art Space (Wilmington, U.S.).