Cai Minhao (b. 1998, Guangzhou) is an artist based in Rotterdam and Shanghai, working primarily with image-based and moving image media. His recent practice focuses on intimate relationships and the infrastructure of communication — the delay, materiality, and displacements of synchronous media and postal systems, and the objects they materialize into: screens, photographs, postcards, and stamps. It is through these displacements that we might temporarily transcend the limits of language. He sets these alongside the elusive phenomena that light leaves behind: clouds, rainbows, the belt of Venus, anticrepuscular rays, and the shadow of the Earth. Planetary in scale, they shape the everyday, marking the rhythms of sleep and evoking unnameable emotions at dusk. The sky is the interface all these systems of transmission share.


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/Education/
MFA, Lens-Based Media(2025 - 2027)
Piet Zwart Institute, 
Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), 
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

BA, Media & Communication Design(2016 - 2020)
Tongji University, Shanghai, China


/Residency/
Aranya Art Center Winter Residency 
(Contemporary Art) (2025. Feb - Mar)
Chengde, Hebei


/Exhibition/
Anticrepuscular (Solo)2026
Imaginary Z, Hangzhou

Everytime the Screen Goes Black, Time Cracks (Screening)Feb. 14th,  2026
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

rewire, door to door - Spring Meet up Festival2025
Jiazazhi Library (JZZP), Ningbo

Ped ped (Duo)2024
Imaginary Z, Hangzhou

Polyphony Signature #32024
Wuhan Photography Art Centre (WPAC), Wuhan

NEW CONNECTION2022
Fujifilm X-Space, Shanghai

Building Illusions 
 - Sanlian City For Humanity Season2021
Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum,
Chengdu

Spacing - D&I BA Graduation Show2020
College of Design and Innovation, 
Tongji Univ, Shanghai

Wonder Foto Day2020
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei

UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair2019
Antenna Space, M50, Shanghai