About

Chaoying Rao 饶超颖 (b. 1991, Hubei, China)
Glasgow, UK

Chao-Ying Rao is a visual artist whose creative practice involves negotiating the complexities around objectification and narcissism, often using humour as a tool to disarm and charm the viewer. She is interested in the absurdity of desire, excessive consumption, racial and bodily fetishisation, and abject femininity. Her background in dance comes from years of working as a stripper in Edinburgh and London.


SELECT PRESS:

Fringe Review / The Effervescent / National Galleries of Scotland / Dazed Digital / The List / The Skinny / BBC Loop / The Herald / STV News / The National / The Daily Star


This website was made in collaboration with my dear friend and fellow artist Rodrigo Nava Ramirez. It draws inspiration from early MySpace and GeoCities sites to humorously play with notions of hyperfemininity and narcissism. Rodrigo (he/him) is an artist and web programmer from Mexico City currently based in Geneva.