Ruoyi Shi

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Alhambra, CA

Year at Millay: 2025

Awards/Honors: Anderson Ranch Artist Residency (2024), ACRE Residency Program (2022-2024), Hambidge Center for Art and Design (2022), (M)Art (2022), the Welcome Project by Wave Pool (2022), REEF Residency (2022), Residency 108 (2021), Tiny Birch AIR (2021)

Website: https://www.shiruoyi.com/

Ruoyi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Drawing inspiration from ancient tales and rituals intertwined with language, habits, and societal norms, she blends humor and fiction to construct poetic narratives. In her works, Ruoyi invents figures, tools, myths, and memories, viewing them as fragments she collects to build an alternative reality. Her practice explores the intersection between nature and artificial existence, as well as the notion of truth and its fabrication. Ruoyi is a recent MFA graduate from the California Institute of the Arts (2021) and received her BFA degree in Sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2019. She has exhibited her work at prominent galleries and museums, including GOBI Los Angeles, Human Resources LA, Tin Flats, Beijing Times Art Museum, MoCA Beijing, and the National Art Museum of China.