photo by Stellina Stampouli
Amy Chiao is a multimedia artist, performer, designer, and director working in site-specific performance installation, collage, and video. From Cerritos, California, Chiao comes from a family of Cantonese musicians and composers, Opera singers, and mannequin manufacturers.
She holds a BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Scene Design at the California Institute of the Arts.
She currently resides in Austin, Texas, designing CMF (color/material/finish) stories for industrial robotics.
Her work has been shown at Automata Theater, Human Resources (LA), The Elysian Theater, Fuller Rosen Gallery, REDCAT Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theater, the LA State Historic Park, Walt Disney Modular Theater Lobby, the Portland Art Museum, and the RISD Museum.