梅飞雪 Feixue Mei is a designer, artist, illustrator, and educator from China, based in Virginia, US. Her creative practice has received awards from the International Design Awards (IDA), Graphis, American Illustration, 3x3 International Illustration Awards, JIA Illustration Award, and Indigo Design Awards, among others. Her clients include Lux Capital, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and others. She has chaired and presented at numerous international conferences including CAA and SECAC. Her research has been published in various international peer-reviewed journals such as Source: Notes in the History of Art and Transformative Works and Cultures. Collections featuring her self-initiated publications include the Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as at Printed Matter. She and her work have been featured in various media outlets, including Creative Boom, Aesthetica, e-flux, and other press. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with shows at the Fanny Fox Decker Gallery at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Palazzo Bembo in Italy, and Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore.
She holds an MFA in Design with a concentration in Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University, and a BFA in Visual Communication Design from Central China Normal University.
My creative work and research examine cultural production as a means of questioning and challenging social norms. I employ diverse methods, including languages (writings), print and digital publications, videos, and interactive platforms. I am particularly intrigued by the influence of social media, online platforms, and shared spaces on individuals’ cultural identities and their potential to facilitate community building and share the voices of marginalized groups. I create conceptual, iconic imagery and incorporate rich narrative details. Influences such as internet culture, animation, comics, Surrealism, and Chinese folk art have shaped my intricate style. Cultures and visuals migrate across geographical boundaries through the internet and social media. Themes of the Asian diaspora, fluid identity, otherness, mistranslation, and the struggle to find one’s own community are essential aspects of my practice. Through adaptation, appropriation, and reproduction, I liberate symbols and visuals from their original contexts, weaving them into new narratives. Embracing Maximalism, I believe in “more is more,” navigating the complexities of multiple online and offline identities. These identities and labels interact, struggle, and coalesce, ultimately defining who we are.
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