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]
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