Tianyi Sun

Biography

Tianyi Sun explores the re-creation of embodied experience and its inevitable failure. Through sculpture, painting, time-based media, poetry, and software, she composes responsive environments where materials perform authenticity while quietly betraying it, examining how memory, time, and knowledge are preserved, fabricated, or rendered incomplete within systems shaped by technology, culture, and value.

Tianyi Sun is an artist and researcher based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at Artists Space (New York), Haus der Elektronischen Künste (Basel), Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), Helena Anrather (New York), and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Los Angeles), among others. Residencies include 99 Canal (New York), Eyebeam (New York), and most recently she was awarded the Backslash Artist Award at Cornell Tech.