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Mingqi Shuai '26
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
2022
doodle
By Mingqi Shuai '26
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
2018
Oil Paint on Canvas
I was inspired by the stillness of this moment, the warm light, and the beautiful shadows created by the trees. This was based on SF Japantown.
2020
gouache on paper
A collection of 8 poetic pieces that pull from, build upon, and draw inspiration from the Brown queer experience of a drag artist at a PWI. Link to Artwork Link to Website
2024
Collection of Poetry
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
2021
Water Color on Paper
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
This print came from a colored pencil drawing I made for a friend. I thought it’d be sweet to make a sort of postcard from it.
Four color Riso print
Continuation of After Class Hours.
Digital Illustration
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
Oh! The Puppet Show begins! Here I am the puppet master presenting the BOSP Poland Overseas Seminar with my puppet show I made entirely from scratch!
Link to Website
2017
Photograph of Performance
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
Watercolor and black ink
The feet of my former roommate are greeted by the warm light that streams in through the blinds.
Oil on canvas
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
The cellphone becomes a monumental, invasive aspect of experiences (especially in nature), yet is so integral in shaping memories.
iPhone photographs, collaged on Photoshop
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
Photoshop